The Hidden Thread: From a Sicilian Archive to a Manhattan Revelation
by N. S. Gorman
Genre: Non-Fiction

The mythology of the American Mafia begins in poverty — the immigrant who arrived with nothing and clawed his way up through crime. It is a compelling story. It is also, in its most important respects, incorrect. The Thread to Manhattan: A Map of the Invisible is the capstone volume of The Hidden Thread series, and its central argument is as counterintuitive as it is thoroughly documented: the American Mafia was not improvised in the slums of Lower Manhattan. It was engineered in Sicily, refined over centuries, and transplanted to American soil as a complete, functioning institutional system.
The Cosa Nostra that arrived with the waves of Sicilian immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries brought with it something more sophisticated than criminal intent. It brought a governance structure — the cosca system — that divided authority and responsibility across a cellular network resistant to infiltration. It introduced an information-security protocol — omertà — that served as both a cultural norm and an operational necessity. It brought labor broker networks, tribute mechanisms, and dispute resolution systems that had been pressure-tested for generations before the first don set foot in Brooklyn.
This non-fiction novel traces that thread — from the villages of western Sicily to the neighborhoods of Manhattan — mapping the invisible institutional architecture that made the Five Families not just possible but inevitable. And it asks the question that makes this story most urgently contemporary: what happens to a blood-bound, ancient, secretive guild when the world it was built to navigate becomes digital, transparent, and algorithmically surveilled?
The answer is the final chapter of the series — and the beginning of a new question about the future of invisible power. This novel is the prequel to the Hidden Thread series.

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A Dress the Color of the Moon
by Jennifer Irwin
Genre: Women’s Fiction

Prudence Aldrich is a sex addict. Five weeks ago, she checked into the Serenity Hills rehab center to prevent that addiction from ruining every important relationship in her life. Now Prue must face the trail of destruction she left behind, including mending the broken bond with her teenage son, finalizing the divorce from her husband, Nick, and using a newly learned set of skills to ward off her insatiable cravings for male attention-a compulsion that puts her friendship with lifelong pal Lily to the test.
Adding further complications to the hurdles in her path is the arrival into town of Alistair Prescott, her in-rehab romantic obsession, and the one person in the world most capable of throwing Prue off her recovery. Meanwhile, Serenity Hills counselor Mike Sullivan is undergoing a crisis of his own-one that will drive him to the rediscovery of a lifelong passion . . . and cause him to cross paths again with Prue, his former patient.
A Dress the Color of the Moon tracks the rocky and sometimes disastrous path to recovery-a recovery that will require Prudence and her friends to face down the demons of their pasts while learning to accept the fearful uncertainty that comes with living life on their own two feet.

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The Wellness Score
by J. Letorney
Genre: Suspense / Thriller

THE WELLNESS SCORE
A Psychological Thriller by J. Letorney
Stay calm. Stay quiet. Stay compliant.
At Harbor Pines, every resident receives a bracelet at check-in.
You can’t take it off.
Just a pale blue number on your wrist—a score built from your biometrics, your behavior, your obedience. No one will tell you what happens when it drops.
Westwood came looking for a quiet place to start over. What she found was a wellness community that measures everything, conditions its residents through scent and sound, and uses grief as its perfect entry point. Those who comply grow quiet. Manageable. Empty. Those who don’t simply disappear.
She has seventeen days before the score decides her fate.
Harbor Pines chose her long before she signed the lease.
In a place that promises to heal you, compliance is the only cure.

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The Second Chance Inn
by Susan Hatler
Genre: Romance

An emotional small-town romance about second chances, healing hearts, and finding love when you least expect it.
When Wendy Watts inherits the family inn in Blue Moon Bay, she returns to the coastal town that once broke her heart. Determined to sell the rundown inn fast, Wendy is thrown off course when Max Huntington, a charming millionaire, offers to help with repairs—and maybe mend her guarded heart.
As they work side by side, Wendy discovers that sometimes love arrives when you’re ready to open your heart again.
From a New York Times bestselling author, don’t miss this heartwarming story of friendship, hope, and enduring love in THE SECOND CHANCE INN.

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Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Hidden Jewels
by Carrie Cross
Genre: Children’s and Middle Grade

A deserted mansion perches on a steep hillside, overlooking a rocky canyon. Tattered curtains hang behind broken windows, and a turret stretches toward the sky. Three years ago the wealthy owner disappeared suddenly, leaving behind a house full of secrets: A mysterious note, tantalizing clues, a hidden floor, one piece of a treasure map, and a missing fortune in diamonds.
Thirteen-year-old sleuth Skylar Robbins moves into the mansion with her parents and embarks on a new and dangerous mission. Armed with her detective kit, and with the support of her BFF Alexa and a team of secret agents, Skylar sets out to decipher the clues and find the diamonds. Can she outwit a gang of older bullies and find the hidden jewels before they do? Or will the perils of middle school–like battling ruthless Emelyn Peters for the attention of class hottie Dustin Coles–get in her way?
Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Hidden Jewels is an Amazon #1 Bestseller in Children’s Detective Books, was voted Book-of-the-Month by LASR readers, won a 5-star Reader’s Favorite award, and was a Top Ten Finalist for an Author Academy Award in the YA/Middle Grade category.

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The Final Winter
by Baldwin Rogers
Genre: Suspense / Thriller

The sky turns white. Every engine dies. And one family is scattered across a country that can no longer move.
On his remote Colorado farm, James has what most people don’t: food, animals, and a hand-pumped well that still delivers clean water. He also has four grandchildren depending on him, while his two daughters are stranded hundreds of miles away.
Ashley wakes in a shattered Los Angeles with dangerous men on her trail and eight hundred miles between her and her little girls. Georgia is trapped in Alabama, where a private menagerie has become a killing ground. Both women have only one destination: home.
But as desperate survivors discover James’s well, the farm changes from sanctuary to target. To reunite his family, James must hold the land. To reach it, his daughters must cross a country where mercy can get you killed.

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When the Power Died
by Carter Woods
Genre: Suspense / Thriller

Ninety miles. A dead phone. A ten-year-old boy waiting in the dark. When an EMP kills the grid and planes fall from the sky, one elite soldier ignores her orders and walks home through a country coming apart. They have no idea what a mother trained to kill will do to reach her son.

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The Second Chance Inn
by Susan Hatler
Genre: Romance

An emotional small-town romance about second chances, healing hearts, and finding love when you least expect it.
When Wendy Watts inherits the family inn in Blue Moon Bay, she returns to the coastal town that once broke her heart. Determined to sell the rundown inn fast, Wendy is thrown off course when Max Huntington, a charming millionaire, offers to help with repairs—and maybe mend her guarded heart.
As they work side by side, Wendy discovers that sometimes love arrives when you’re ready to open your heart again.
From a New York Times bestselling author, don’t miss this heartwarming story of friendship, hope, and enduring love in THE SECOND CHANCE INN.

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Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Hidden Jewels
by Carrie Cross
Genre: Children’s and Middle Grade

A deserted mansion perches on a steep hillside, overlooking a rocky canyon. Tattered curtains hang behind broken windows, and a turret stretches toward the sky. Three years ago the wealthy owner disappeared suddenly, leaving behind a house full of secrets: A mysterious note, tantalizing clues, a hidden floor, one piece of a treasure map, and a missing fortune in diamonds.
Thirteen-year-old sleuth Skylar Robbins moves into the mansion with her parents and embarks on a new and dangerous mission. Armed with her detective kit, and with the support of her BFF Alexa and a team of secret agents, Skylar sets out to decipher the clues and find the diamonds. Can she outwit a gang of older bullies and find the hidden jewels before they do? Or will the perils of middle school–like battling ruthless Emelyn Peters for the attention of class hottie Dustin Coles–get in her way?
Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Hidden Jewels is an Amazon #1 Bestseller in Children’s Detective Books, was voted Book-of-the-Month by LASR readers, won a 5-star Reader’s Favorite award, and was a Top Ten Finalist for an Author Academy Award in the YA/Middle Grade category.

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Conjuring the Hurricane: The Best Way to Save Your Life is Any Way You Can
by Sarah Hanson
Genre: Non-Fiction

When Sarah Hanson realized that she had to leave her abusive marriage, she didn’t have a plan. She had instinct, fear, a body that had learned to brace against danger, and a small, stubborn voice insisting she deserved more. This is the story of what it takes to leave a life that is killing you, and who you can become on the other side.

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