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Recent Rugged Land titles from first-time authors:

Girl from Nowhere by Tiffany Rosenhan—Young Adult Thriller, Bloomsbury/Macmillan

“Rosenhan's debut is absolutely crammed with action, international name-dropping and intrigue.”
―Kirkus Reviews

“A fast-paced spy thriller with enough twists and turns to keep readers entertained.” ―Publishers Weekly

Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him by Laurence Ralph—Narrative Nonfiction, Grand Central/Hachette

“A readable, empathic portrayal of a hispanic teenager whose promising life was cut short because of failures in the criminal justice system.”
—The New York Times

“[A] gut-punch personal narrative with broader societal implications."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Georgie Summers and the Scribes of Scatterplot by Sid Mohasseb—Middle Grade Fiction, Greenleaf Book Group (Hybrid Publisher)

“[A] kidnapping impels the young slingshot expert to go from doggedly enduring vicious bullying at school to intrepidly plunging after his father through a portal to Scatterplot, an otherworldly realm.”
—Kirkus Reviews

Path to Power, Road to Ruin: The Dangers of Political and Religious Ideologies by Hank Shaeffer—Nonfiction, KDP/Amazon (Independently Published)

“Author John Kavanagh helps us to understand why these belief systems are so alluring and how they exploit our most heartfelt hopes, fears, and desires to accomplish their objectives.”
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"Web Stone has been a friend and criminal associate for some time.

He had the good taste to
be one of the first people in the universe to find me not entirely without prospects."

“Over time, he has involved me in any number of crackpot hare-brained schemes – usually involving bent cops, disgraced ex-intelligence officers, people with funny accents, special forces muscle-heads (the type of people who are apparently ALWAYS calling Web up in the middle of the night and breathing heavy over the phone) and a seemingly endless procession of Harvard pencil-necks.

But he dresses well and is always hanging around with really cute chicks. Everything we ever did together was an entertaining, flattering, fun – and ultimately futile exercise in alcoholic excess. I hope this publishing scam works out for Web. The cocksucker owes me big time.”