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Man's Former Best Friend
Christina Thiessen
Ivan has spent years perfecting a device that will finally let him hear what his beloved bulldog Jeeves is really thinking—a breakthrough that could change everything. But when the experiment goes hilariously wrong and his priorities get scrambled between code and companionship, Ivan begins to discover that the deepest truths between humans and their best friends might already be perfectly clear. With a warmhearted blend of humor and quiet revelation, this novel explores what happens when a brilliant inventor learns that some of life's most important answers can't be decoded by machines—only felt by the heart.
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Found on the Road to Damascus
Robert Hornbeck
John Locklear has built a life around self-reliance—until a four-year-old abandoned by his ex-girlfriend shatters that carefully constructed solitude. Trapped between baseball, legal obligation, and a child he never wanted, John begins an unexpected spiritual unraveling across highways and small towns, where found family and hard-won faith emerge from genuine loss and grief. Hornbeck charts this transformation with unflinching precision, balancing devastating emotional depths with dark humor and the quiet miracle of redemption earned through reluctant grace.
Literary Fiction
The Nonnegotiable
Susan Gooch
Ella Santiago arrives in Malibu with nothing but a backpack and secrets, fleeing a past she's determined to outrun. When she collides—literally—with Ben Carrington, a man from a world entirely unlike her own, the careful distance she's built begins to crumble. As forced proximity turns into something neither of them expected, Ella discovers that some choices can't be unmade, and that sometimes the life you're running toward matters far more than the one you're running from. A tender, unhurried romance about finding home in the last place you thought to look.
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