Loyd Searle — The Cost of Authenticity Trilogy LOYD SEARLE COST OF AUTHENTICITY Individualists of the World Unite
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Third Places Lost

A Novel of Displacement

Margaret Collins has run her North Carolina bookstore for forty years. Sarah Morrison — Oscar winner, Hollywood refugee — joins the fight to save it. What she discovers is larger than one bookstore: a systematic campaign to destroy third places across the country. Every harmful technique used against Margaret's bookstore is legal. Every one of them is standard digital marketing practice.

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Understudies: Expectations

A Novel of Performance

They saved the bookstore. Built a network of fifty-three sanctuaries. Now Vivian Morrison and her three closest friends face something harder: the pressure to perform their own authenticity.

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Gravitas Shrugged

A Novel of Reckoning

Sarah Morrison versus Rashid al-Rashid. A former actress who fled performance versus a billionaire who believes performance and isolation saves lives. What breaks down forty years of certainty is a twelve-year-old girl asking one question.

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