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Here is the Indie SciFi/Fantasy Bestseller List based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 9, 2025. 

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“Austen’s debut novel is a stunning portrait of community and hope, following the inhabitants of one apartment building in the nightmarish early days of the second World War. Each character is trying to do their best and hope for better, all while trying to make sense of a world that seems to have lost all rationality,” said Austin Carter of Pocket Books Shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

“I was gripping the pages while reading this book. You can feel the tension coming off the page. You know something is going to happen, you’re just not sure what. An interesting look at masculinity and male friendships,” said Kim Brock of Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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“Younis’ debut novel slices through the hypocrisies, corruption, and ineffectiveness of both academia and governmental organizations with wickedly dark humor and razor-sharp dialogue. Readers will hate to love and love to hate Dr. Nadia Amin as she works through her own savior narrative, first as farce and then as tragedy,” said Austin Carter of Pocket Books Shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.