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The Future Isn't Ready: Must-Read Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books

The Future Isn't Ready for You: Must-Read Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books

The future is closer than you think. These sci-fi reads explore genetic breakthroughs, rogue AI, and fractured societies on the edge of collapse. Smart, intense, and deeply human, they’ll leave you questioning what’s next.



Augury of Blood (Legacy of Urmanghor Book 1)

by Michael R. Schultheiss

Release Date: July 5, 2025

Wandering gods and forces of darkness vie for control. Their plots entangle the destinies of a warrior defending his tribe, a king’s daughter with a terrible secret, and a great lord desperate to protect his son. As armies march to war, men and women in disparate lands must navigate the schemes of gods, Titans, and shape-shifting Dweyari if they hope to survive…

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DeWulf's Twins

by Ulysses Namon

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Identical twin sisters Logan and Alex DeWulf were looking for an escape from the tedium of their modeling career when they got more than they bargained for when they were abducted and taken into space. Being taken on such an adventure is only the beginning. Now that they have been taken away from the life they know, how do they get back?

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Pim's Peculiar Passion (Hand Hunters Book 1)

by Marc B. DeGeorge

Release Date: July 7, 2025

Danny Lecker, Hand Hunter extraordinaire, is the best. No matter how allergic to love or bullets a future partner may be, Danny Lecker will always get her skip. But when business gets slow, a Hand Hunter can’t be choosy with her clients. Her next case may be far from union-approved, but it’ll do, as long as her client gets her allowance this week...

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Obsidian (Shadowbound Fae Book 1)

by K.F. Breene

Release Date: July 8, 2025

The Dark Fae never told me his name. Not when he tried to seduce me, and not before he purposely botched one of my jobs and stole what was mine -- a dangerous relic with unlimited power. It has the ability to break kingdoms… and tear down the wall that separates the human world from the dangerous, wild magic of the fae.

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City of Smoke and Brimstone (House of Devils Book 4)

by Kayla Edwards

Release Date: July 8, 2025

For the past six months, Loren Calla's life has consisted of one simple objective: stay alive. With the help of her new friends and the love of a ruthless Darkslayer, she has defied the odds. But with the Veil rapidly falling, and swarms of bloodthirsty creatures invading Yveswich, survival has once again stepped beyond her reach. Pushed into a war between worlds, she must ask herself a question: what—or who—is she willing to sacrifice for victory? For love?

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A Vow of Embers (The Eye of the Goddess Book 2)

by Sariah Wilson

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Lia is always prepared for battle, but being blackmailed into marriage by Prince Alexandros is a challenge too far. She has no choice. He’s holding her sister hostage to force her hand. But with this union built on betrayal and rage comes a contract. By the goddess’s law, the marriage must not be consummated. A relief to Lia. She’d rather commit regicide than fall into bed with a man she loathes.

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Becoming Who You Are: Young Adult Books That Hit Deep

Becoming Who You Are: Young Adult Books That Hit Deep

From identity crises to quiet revolutions, these stories are about teens becoming their truest selves. Some fight the system, others fight their own fears, but all come out braver on the other side.



The ADHD Advantage

by Yvonne Joseph

Release Date: June 10, 2025

'The ADHD Advantage' is your empowering guide to thriving with ADHD. Using science-backed strategies, quick rituals, and relatable tools helps you boost focus, set boundaries, and embrace your unique brain, without shame or burnout. Just 20 minutes a day can change everything.

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Pretty Girl County

by Lakita Wilson

Release Date: July 1, 2025

Girls like Reya Samuels always come from Prince George’s County. Reya is rich and she’s not afraid to show it—she wears designer clothes, drives a custom pink Audi, and lives in a neighborhood tucked behind a fancy cast iron gate. She works hard, but she can get anything she wants with a snap.

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The Duchess

by T.J. Starc

Release Date: July 4, 2025

Duchess Azolaria "Zola" Thalassa Varnai has everything-status, privilege, power. And none of it feels like hers. At twenty-one, she's in line for Lysvenia's throne, but all she dreams about is freedom. Until freedom arrives in the form of Commander Reya Stravik: the King's most stoic, disciplined soldier assigned to be her personal bodyguard. Older, sharp-eyed, and impossible to read, Reya is everything Zola isn't, and everything she can't stop wanting.

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Rogue Witch of Havenwood

by Theresa Field

Release Date: June 26, 2025

He called her his little star. Then he burned her world to ash. Elara was seven when her godfather Silas, the man her parents trusted above all others, arrived with torches and zealots to purge their village of "unworthy" magical bloodlines. She watched from the woods as he personally set fire to her home, her parents' screams echoing through the night while he smiled. Everyone she loved. Everyone who ever mattered. Gone because their magic wasn't "pure" enough for his twisted vision.

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Vesuvius

by Cass Biehn

Release Date: June 10, 2025

The end is coming. The gods are watching. This thrilling historical fantasy set in the days before Mount Vesuvius destroys Pompeii is a meet-cute with an explosive fallout. Clever thief Felix slips from city to city to survive the present and escape a past he can’t remember. When Felix steals a divine artifact—Mercury's helmet—from a temple in Pompeii, pieces of his forgotten past begin to surface.

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The Truth About Fireflies

by Sasha Hibbs

Release Date: July 4, 2025

Seventeen-year-old football player, Brayden Anderson has his entire life planned out. He's going to work with his dad's construction business after graduation, support all the local sports teams, and maybe even go on to coach some of them. What did he never expect? To collide with peculiar, music-savant, Laurel Bennett.

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More Than a Name: Biographies & Memoirs That Redefine Legacy

More Than a Name: Biographies & Memoirs That Redefine Legacy

What we think we know isn’t the full story. These biographies go beyond headlines and highlight reels to explore the hidden truths, private struggles, and defining moments that shaped public lives. Through raw, revealing accounts, they challenge our assumptions about fame, power, and the legacies we leave behind.



The Days I Didn’t Break: How I Stayed Standing When Life Tried to Crush Me

by John Walker

Release Date: June 23, 2025

Some stories shout. This one bleeds. The Days I Didn’t Break is for those who kept going with no applause, no rescue, just quiet strength. It’s not a comeback story. It’s a survival one. For every silent battle, every tear no one saw—if you’re still standing, this book is for you.

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On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports

by Christine Brennan

Release Date: July 8, 2025

A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female team-sport athlete in history—by award-winning USA TODAY columnist and television commentator Christine Brennan.

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The Jailhouse Lawyer

by Calvin Duncan & Sophie Cull

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Calvin Duncan was nineteen when he was incarcerated for a 1981 New Orleans murder he didn’t commit. The victim of a wildly incompetent public defense system and a badly compromised witness, Duncan was left to rot in the waking nightmare of confinement. Armed with little education, he took matters into his own hands.

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The Road Less Worn

by Erin Flynn

Release Date: July 8, 2025

In her debut memoir, The Road Less Worn, Flynn sorts through snapshots of her life—from her roots as an athlete in a small Midwest town to her career as an entrepreneur and author—discovering that much of what she held onto, both in her wardrobe and life, was never truly her own.

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Because This Is Texas

by Clara Sneed

Release Date: June 17, 2025

Written by a family descendant with exclusive access to private archives, Clara Sneed’s non-fiction account of the Sneed-Boyce feud—now published for the first time in book form—tells of a love affair so passionate it blinded the lovers to any mere commonsense concerns, of three families and a society consumed by the fallout, and of a marriage that ultimately survived adultery.

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Radical Tenderness: The Value of Vulnerability in an Often Unkind World

by Gisele Barreto Fetterman

Release Date: July 8, 2025

An inspiring manifesto from philanthropist and advocate Gisele Barreto Fetterman that explores her surprising source of power and strength—vulnerability—and how we can all harness it to effect meaningful change.

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How It Starts: Romances That Catch You Off Guard

How It Starts: Romances That Catch You Off Guard

Sometimes love begins with a crash into someone’s car, someone’s plans, or someone’s heart. These swoony stories remind us that falling is the best part.



Defending Love

by Aleatha Romig

Release Date: June 23, 2025

“Defending Love has all the ingredients of a romantic thriller. Suspense, intrigue, danger, and spice. The characters were very well developed, and the banter between Dani and Eli was exquisite." - 5-star review

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Pretend I Do

by Misha Bell

Release Date: July 8, 2025

What if the person destined to complete you… has the same name as you?

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A State of Maine

by Clementine Rowe

Release Date: June 22, 2025

What happens when a privileged political heir collides with a convenience clerk who's done waiting for life to change? A State of Maine is a sharply observed literary debut in which two strangers from opposite worlds cross paths in a late-night D.C. gas station—and neither walks away unchanged.

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Hearts Of The North: A Collection of Three Novellas

by Alex Wayland

Release Date: June 16, 2025

Three women in 1970s northern England dared to reach for love. Lizzie challenges the steelworks bosses. Pauline discovers freedom with a dangerous musician. Margaret faces her past when her ex returns. Will they find the courage to fight for love?

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Claimed by the Deputies:

by Kai Lesy

Release Date: July 7, 2025

One moment, I’m alone, fantasizing about the grumpy silver fox next door. Next, my vibrator explodes. Then... He. Shows. Up. Sheriff Lucas Riggs. My next-door neighbor with a hero complex and a jawline made for sin.

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These Summer Storms

by Sarah MacLean

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Alice Storm hasn’t been welcome at her family’s magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking death of her larger-than-life father changes everything.

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The Future of Work: Books Every Modern Leader Should Read

The Future of Work: Books Every Modern Leader Should Read

Redefine hustle. These books show you how to build smarter systems, protect your time, and create sustainable success without burnout. Learn how to lead with clarity, communicate with impact, and navigate high-stakes challenges with resilience and confidence.



9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning

by Rick Walker

Release Date: July 5, 2025

If you are a man in your 20s, 30s, 40s, or 50s and know - deep down - that you were built for something you should be doing but are not, well... I wrote 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning just for you. Make sense of the chaos; the mental map you've been missing. You're 9 steps away from 900X meaning.

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Changing the World: Through Small Business Stewardship

by David Grau Sr. JD

Release Date: June 22, 2025

A practical guide for small business owners who want to lead with purpose, build with care, and make a lasting impact. This book teaches and explores how to operationalize good stewardship to create meaningful change. Stewardship isn’t charity or kindness—it is good business.

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How To Do Boring, Tedious, Difficult, but Necessary Things

by Peter Hollins

Release Date: June 30, 2025

Look, anyone can binge Netflix or rewatch cat videos. But scrubbing toilets, sorting taxes, slogging through workouts, or having that uncomfortable conversation? That’s advanced-level adulting. And it’s exactly what separates people who quietly win at life from those who keep circling the drain.

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The Happiness Experiment

by Carl B. Barney

Release Date: July 8, 2025

A near-death experience changed everything for Carl Barney, sparking a groundbreaking idea that would redefine happiness forever. His concept of pre-quests—Happiness Grants given during life instead of through a will—ignited The Happiness Experiment. By sharing his wealth with twenty friends, Carl didn’t just transform their lives; he uncovered a new understanding of joy, fulfillment, and legacy.

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Wealthy and Well-Known

by Rory Vaden and AJ Vaden

Release Date: July 1, 2025

Do you feel called to share your story, inspire others, and make a greater impact in the world? If so, you are what we call a “Mission-Driven Messenger.” The challenge, however, is that we live in a world that’s saturated with information and chock-full of “influencers,” making it nearly impossible to stand out from the crowd. Everyone from students to CEOs are scrambling for likes, views, followers, and the ever-elusive “viral breakthrough.”

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The Strategic Customer Success Manager

by Chad Horenfeldt

Release Date: June 30, 2025

“You need to be more strategic.” Those dreaded words from your manager leave you frustrated and unsure of what to do next. But what if you could stop reacting to problems and instead become a trusted strategic partner who commands respect from both your customers and colleagues? Chad Horenfeldt—who has spent over two decades as a customer success manager (CSM) and building out high-performing customer success teams at Eloqua (Oracle), Kustomer (Meta), and other companies—shares a battle-tested approach to elevate your impact and advance your career.

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Who’s at the Door? Thrillers & Mysteries That Build and Break You

Who’s at the Door? Thrillers & Mysteries That Build and Break You

If The Watcher or You kept you up at night, these stories will too. With mounting tension, creepy vibes, and a killer always just one step away, these reads don’t let up.



A Cat's Guide to Danger (Forgotten Village Magical Mysteries Book 3)

by Jacqueline Diamond

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Magic is spilling from an enchanted village into the outside world! Can librarian Chess and her talking cat prevent disaster while solving a murder? A once-scorned orphan, she developed special powers and inherited an ancient library in a hidden sphere. Chess never imagined she’d have to return to her former California home on a dangerous mission: catch a killer and recover a stolen notebook containing the secrets of magic.

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The Woman in Suite 11

by Ruth Ware

Release Date: July 8, 2025

When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago.

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Beneath the Grove (Maddie Castle Book 7)

by L.T. Ryan & C.R. Gray

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Maddie Castle has taken on plenty of tough cases as a private investigator, but nothing could prepare her for this. When a desperate mother begs Maddie to find her missing daughter, she expects to track down a runaway. Instead, she uncovers the dark heart of Willow Grove—a secluded community tucked deep in rural Pennsylvania.

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King of Ashes

by S. A. Cosby

Release Date: June 10, 2025

When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together.

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The Pastor's Wife

by LynDee Walker

Release Date: June 16, 2025

“Welcome to Church!” Pastor Tim flashes his brilliant white teeth around the congregation. He doesn’t notice me, but I can see that every woman is hypnotized. Except one. His wife. I watch as worry clouds her violet eyes. She’s hiding something. And I’m going to find out what…

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Death at a Paris Hotel (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Book 22)

by Verity Bright

Release Date: June 30, 2025

Newlyweds Lady Swift and Detective Hugh Seldon are honeymooning in the most romantic city on earth. Clifford, her butler, has come along for the trip to make sure everything goes to plan for the happy couple. And Gladstone, the mischievous bulldog, to make sure it doesn’t!

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Quiet Revolutions: Literary Fiction That Transforms

Quiet Revolutions: Literary Fiction That Transforms

Change isn’t always loud or dramatic. Sometimes it’s the quiet decisions, the small moments of courage or doubt, that ripple through our lives and alter the course of our futures. These stories capture those subtle shifts, the unexpected turns, the inner reckonings, and the gradual transformations that shape who we become.



Indifferent Universe

by Joseph Blackhurst

Release Date: June 24, 2025

An all-knowing A.I. was asked: How did our universe begin, how will it end, and what is the meaning of life? The answer follows the life story of Aldo Go, an artist living in a hilarious alternate universe from our own. The reader watches as Aldo is transformed by the ugliness of the modern-day zeitgeist.

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Making Sense of it: Living for Peace (The Sense of It Book 3)

by Linda DeGree

Release Date: April 29, 2025

Margie has a dilemma. She is certain she loves William, but she has doubts about joining his farming dream. She dreams of teaching, writing, and working for social justice. William believes their faith in God and each other will help them have a strong marriage. Watch as they combine their dreams by welcoming children into their homes.

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The Gathering of Clan McFee

by Karen Baugh MENUHIN

Release Date: July 3, 2025

Spring 1924. Scotland. The ancient halls of Clan McFee’s castle echo with the whispers of history—and now, the stirrings of ambition and rivalry. The old Laird has passed away, leaving no will, no children, and no clear heir. The task of naming a successor falls to Lady Peggie, the widow of the reclusive Laird.

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Smoke on the Wind

by Kelli Estes

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Struggling with the tragic end of her marriage, Keaka Denney is on a bittersweet adventure in Scotland with her son, Colin. She’s joining him on a weeklong hike along the West Highland Way before he enters university in Glasgow. Soon into the journey, Keaka’s disquieting visions begin—a woman from ages past reaching for Colin, a burning cottage, and violence.

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The Master Jeweler

by Weina Dai Randel

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Harbin, China, 1925. Fifteen-year-old Anyu Zhang discovers a priceless Fabergé egg in the snow and returns it to the owner, Isaac Mandelburg, a fugitive and former master jeweler for Russia’s imperial palace. In gratitude, he leaves her his address in Shanghai and a promise of hospitality, forever altering her fate.

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The Retreat

by Eoin Dempsey

Release Date: June 30, 2025

Hiding out in a cave in the Austrian Alps with three others, Monika runs into trouble. Pursued by vengeful forces of the Wehrmacht and the Gestapo, she and her three companions undergo an arduous journey over the mountains to safety in a Catholic monastery outside the town of Hallein, near the German border.

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Interview with Aleatha Romig, Author of Defending Love

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Defending Love?

Our heroine, Dani Sinclair, first made an appearance in the Sinclair Duet, a story about her brother. I loved her devotion to family, intelligence, and spark. I knew Dani had a story that needed to be told.

If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Defending Love, what would they be?

I will always love you - Whitney Houston.

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

I mostly read thrillers. I love it when an author can surprise me. That is why I have a lot of story and suspense in the romances that I write.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

The Robin on the Oak Throne, by K.A. Linde, is sitting on my bedside stand. I can't wait to start it!

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

The scene is when readers learn about Eli's past, his heartbreaking reason for his rules, and his vow to move on with Dani.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

Quite... so I can listen to the voices in my head.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

Each day is a choice. I choose to be happy.

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

I'd like them to remember their feelings while reading and hopefully want to experience more.

 

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Interview with Joseph Blackhurst, Author of Indifferent Universe

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Indifferent Universe?

I had found myself growing more and more bitter about the state of the artist's experience in the face of social media noise and artificial intelligence. I deeply wished to find a book to help me through my feelings of being an unappreciated artist—but there really wasn't one. So I wrote one.

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

I've never been a loyal fan of any particular genre. For fiction, I purposely, exclusively, read literature that is considered canonical/classics (Hemingway, Joyce, Nabokov, Woolf, etc.). Otherwise, I primarily read nonfiction—namely books about writing. The nature of what qualifies as "good" writing is a major theme throughout my novel and is frequently poked fun at.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

I'm currently reading a grammar textbook and a book about the logging industry in the 1800s. I don't know why.

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

The ending. It ties up the story of the main character's sister whom the reader comes to realize was the true artist of the story all along.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

The more experienced and disciplined I've become, the more I've shed any sort of external habits. I just sit down and my brain shuts off for an hour and a half. Then I get up for ten minutes and then I do it again.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

Not really. However, I've always had a specific sentence that has guided my writing and inspired my own voice. It very much inspired my entire style. It's from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov: "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning)." It tells an entire story while deftly combining humor with sadness in a matter-of-fact tone.

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

It's a privilege to believe the purpose of art is to heal others. It's a privilege for those who are already successful to tell themselves to feel superior. It is not the experience of 99% of artists. The purpose of art is to heal its creator. Artists' quest for validation more often goes unfulfilled and cannot be the focus of one's life.

 

Joseph Blackhurst is the author of the new book Indifferent Universe

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