Storyteller's Market by Om Soni introduces us to Hari and his wife, Maya. Hari was a good-hearted man who had to leave his family at home in Peshawar during the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. He settled in the quaint Himalayan town of Rampur...

The townspeople of Leiko face another raid after just recovering from one. For Kilo and Shenrae, peace appears quite far-fetched in the ruins in which they find themselves. As a Shadow, Kilo has reasons to believe his superior has defected to people disguising themselves as...

So Long, John Wayne by Rick Ramsey is a coming-of-age novel with a unique twist. Set in Lima, Peru, it tells the story of the unusual friendship that develops between two teenage boys, one Peruvian, the other American. Set around the time of the military...

If stories involving Japanese mythology and folklore are among your favorites, grab a copy of Staff of Justice by Noelle Nichols. Ever since his father's death, Hayashi Kilo has trained as a Shadow under the tutelage of the three Phantoms of Vaiyene and vowed to...

Spirit Pass by Angela Ellen Grey is a collection of novellas involving tribal law enforcement and certain types of missing persons and murder cases. This collection examines the high murder rates and cases of missing Native American women. As the author highlights, this is a...

Soulful Return by Fidelis O Mkparu is a beautiful tale about change, death, life, renewal, and identity. Doctor Afamefuna Onochie Nwaku is a Nigerian-born, Harvard-trained medical doctor whose thriving medical practice is disrupted by a phone call from his sister in Nigeria. Adaku implores him...

The life of Ulysses Brooke is a complicated one growing up in the south on a prosperous plantation that used slaves for workers, and Ulysses is set to inherit it. Onlookers would say he had it all and much more. Ulysses, however, disagreed. How could...

Subtle Asian Slave by Xaviera Lee features Ella seeking approval from her critical mother. Ella feels overwhelmed while planning her wedding, working on a project without help from her coworker, and frustrated with her mother for always putting her down. She knows her family feels...

Years of trusted service as an understudy to Abu Yusuf Hasdai ben Ishaq ibn Shaprut, a strategic figure in the caliph of Cordoba's court, has elevated Yusuf ben Ezia to the level of a close friend and ally in his mentor's eyes. Hasdai's reputation as...

Shagoon by Victoria Ventris Shea is a sweeping historical novel of life in an Alaskan Tlingit village in the eighteenth century just as the scourge of indigenous people, the colonizers and priests, were first arriving in their lands to change their way of life forever...