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Vali’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Vali’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Vali Benson
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Blood and Silver
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WINNER - 2022 International Book Awards !!!
Proud to announce that "Blood and Silver" by Vali Benson won 1st Place at the 2022 International Book Awards !!!
"Blood and Silver" took home top honors in the Novella category.
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"Blood and Silver" took home top honors in the Novella category.
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"Traveling to Thailand!
This is a delightful and charming children's story featuring cats traveling halfway across the world to be with their mommy. The illustrations are absolutely terrific and the tale is one that can be read several times without b" Read more of this review » |
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"When Rachel discovers an old pamphlet detailing the history of Lane’s great-grandfather, she knows her best friend will be tickled pink. But then she reads a cryptic comment at the bottom of the first page. Lane’s great-grandfather was a well-known p"
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The Weight of Consequence: A Riveting Detective Novel of Family Secrets, Betrayal, and Murder:
"Outstanding Crime Fiction
Author K.D. McNiven’s ‘The Weight of Consequence’ is a realistically riveting novel which doesn’t limit itself to tediously developing leads to solve a heinous murder. Deep secrets, dysfunctional family relationships, and pas" Read more of this review » |
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Full disclosure: This reviewer was gifted a copy of this publication by the author. "Pioneer Scout John Helper" by Eugene Dicesaris is an absolute triumph! The story focuses on the Mormon exodus during the middle of the nineteenth century and features ...more |
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Full disclosure: This reviewer was gifted a copy of this publication by the author. "Pioneer Scout John Helper" by Eugene Dicesaris is an absolute triumph! The story focuses on the Mormon exodus during the middle of the nineteenth century and features ...more |
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Vali Benson
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Vali Benson
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The Line of Splendor: A Novel of Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution
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| The story of the American revolutionary war is factually told with pristine detail through former Rhode Island Quaker Nathanael Greene. The narrative beautifully focuses on his relationships with his wife Katy and those pivotal Patriots such as Antho ...more | |
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| Gives a gorgeous glimpse into the intricacies of the Gilded Age. A must read for any fan of American old money, especially New York City. | |
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“There’s the foolish green puppy love that we start out with, then at some later time there’s the common-sense, lukewarm sense of caring that keeps a husband and a wife together. Somewhere in between, there’s that deep love that comes once in a lifetime,”
― Livin' on Jacks and Queens
― Livin' on Jacks and Queens
“Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...”
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“Yes, there is a “secret to happiness”—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.”
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
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I want to thank everyone for being so supportive of my first novel, Blood and Silver, now available on Amazon! I sincerely appreciate it.
Love, Vali
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