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A New Political Thriller

Printed Word Reviews at ALA 2026

ABC 47 News: Courageous Clooney by C. Strassel

Simon & Schuster Relaunches 'Pocket Books'

GAB TALKS with R. Luce

Featured FALCON review by Printed Word Reviews

More Reviews

J. Chester Johnson, "For Racial Healing"

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Would you risk everything to save a country that never loved you back? A New Political Thriller "Are You a Patriot?" Reimagines the American Hero

https://www.printedwordreviews.com/articles/new-political-thriller-are-you-a-patriot%3F-reimagines-the-american-hero

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Printed Word Reviews Draws Crowds at 2026 ALA Conference with Award-winning Author Signings

https://www.printedwordreviews.com/articles/printed-word-reviews-draws-crowds-at-2026-ala-conference-with-award-winning-author-signings

Ted Olczak, Publisher of Printed Word Reviews, at ALA 2026

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Delaware Author Recognized for Story on Her Dog

"It’s tremendous. The more people [who buy the book, the better it is] because we’re taking half the profits from book sales and donating them back into our community...

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Simon & Schuster Relaunches 'Pocket Books' Romance Imprint

https://www.printedwordreviews.com/articles/simon-%26-schuster-relaunches-pocket-books-romance-imprint

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Featured Printed Word Review FALCON book review:

Signs of The Fall

Sean Price

Salacious secrets and unholy connections link ten stories that intersect with an abandoned chapel edging a dark forest, a city-center kugel fountain, and the deceptively serene Crucible Church.

https://www.printedwordreviews.com/bookreviews/9798897473007

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Hunger

Nihaarika Negi

Filmmaker Negi and artist Bocardo craft a grotesque colonial horror story set in 1896 Bombay, following a mutant test subject named Izna as she navigates a hallucinatory landscape of sadistic British experiments and embraces her own supernatural hunger.

https://www.printedwordreviews.com/bookreviews/978-1964226088

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Red Horizons

James Bultema

When a North Korean defector’s dying warning exposes a secret nuclear deception and a new Supreme Leader’s plan to force a strategic reset, a U.S. Navy pilot and his aviator wife are drawn into a spiraling Pacific crisis that erupts into a carrier-killing nuclear strike and a desperate fight to stop all-out war.

https://www.printedwordreviews.com/bookreviews/979-8988075103

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Leadership in Verse: Poems & Stories

John Baldoni

A leadership thinker uses poetry, reflection, and inspiring real-life stories to explore the heart, courage, humility, and grace needed to lead well in difficult times.

https://www.printedwordreviews.com/bookreviews/978-1969508226

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GAB TALKS with R. Luce

What happens when the past refuses to stay buried? I am thrilled to share the latest episode of The Gab Talks podcast, featuring a deeply compelling conversation with contemporary American author and poet, R. Luce.

https://youtu.be/VUpKYoYsYMc

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For Racial Healing #1: To Begin with. . .

Sixty years ago, Lerone Bennett, Jr., wrote: “There is no Negro problem in America; there has never been a Negro problem in America – the problem of race in America is

https://www.printedwordreviews.com/articles/for-racial-healing-1-to-begin-with

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For Racial Healing #2: 'Authentic Passion'

What exactly is it? We can’t go much further into racial healing without understanding its core meaning or meanings, as consequential in the discussion.

https://www.printedwordreviews.com/articles/for-racial-healing-2-authentic-passion

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