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Best Indie Books of April

CHILDREN'S

MY PAPA MY PRINCE

by Keegan Brown ; illustrated by Katya Tabakh

Offering graceful rhymes, this imaginative celebration of fathers and daughters dances across the page. Full review >

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TEENS & YOUNG ADULT

BEWILDERNESS

by Kevin Cox

This meticulously crafted YA journey will challenge readers’ expectations until the last page. Full review >

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FICTION

ORGY AT THE STD CLINIC

by Johnny Townsend

A richly textured saga that brilliantly captures the fraying social fabric of contemporary life. Full review >

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FICTION

PSEUDO

by Dorothy Speak

An impressive and luminous assemblage of artful and quietly devastating tales. Full review >

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FICTION

HUNTING FOR THE LAMB OF GOD

by Jamey O'Donnell Jamey O'Donnell

A fast-paced, dystopian tale of a near-future nuclear disaster told from a Christian viewpoint. Full review >

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FICTION

BROKEN VESSELS

by Trevor McCall

While somewhat uncategorizable, this dark gem of a novel is supremely gratifying. Full review >

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