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The following are this week's books from PW Select, Publishers Weekly's marketing program for indie authors. To sign up your book for PW Select, click here.
 The Waldensian Martyrs by Pam Vause |
 The Lunch Money Treasure: A Smoochie Adventure by Gary Rivera |
 Darwin Was Not There on That Day by Gerald Curran |
 Son of a Pun by Ninad Jog |
 Hope on the Border by Gil Gillenwater |
 Elfin Canine by Jabez Flint |
 The Hands that Were Dealt by Cathy Rummage |
 Paradise North by William D. Van Atta Jr. |
 Let The Whisper Take Flight by Susan Wagner Carter |
 Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home by Alisa Kennedy Jones |
 Fuchsia War by Gaia Kai |
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