“We will never know the truth of his death regarding the motivation or circumstances. Yet we as people are designed to question and wonder, which in turn leads to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding about his culture and our own.” (Author’s Note, XIV). In...

Tumbleweed and Dreams is a slice of life novel by T. P. Graf centered around the lives of the inhabitants of an unincorporated community in Texas. Inspired by the movie Dancer, Texas, Jaime Cruz leaves his home in California and moves to find shelter in...

The Fifth Prophet is a work of fiction in the historical, coming of age, and thriller sub-genres, and was penned by author Lauren Lee Merewether. The work is intended for the mature reading audience and contains scenes which some reader may find upsetting, including reference...

Finding Father is an adventure novel about two men in search of their fathers' roots in Vietnam and discovering themselves in the process. Written by Peter S. Glick, Finding Father follows Y'Dun, an American lawyer of Vietnamese ancestry, whose discovery of his father's journals leads...

At the tender age of twenty-two, Rani Sada Kaur became a widow when her husband, Sardar Gurbaksh Singh, fell in battle. She had one daughter, Mehtab Kaur, and no son to succeed her husband. Her father-in-law, Jai Singh, needed an heir to preserve the integrity...

Maiden of Flowers is the first novel in The Flower Saga by Makayla Love. Princess Orchid and her brother Prince Jasper are orphaned and living under the care of Beauregard Claude, the Comte du Papilio. Now that Jasper is the King, Orchid’s only concern is...

It was the beginning of the nineteenth century and ruthless pirates ruled the seas surrounding China and South East Asia. Just as Europeans were trying to exert their naval and cultural power on the Chinese and others in the region, one group was determined to...

Primarily set in early eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of Tom Finch, Gentleman by Lucy May Lennox is a picaresque tale of a blind music master who triumphs over his disability to lead a thoroughly (dis)honorable life. It is a merry romp from start to finish....

In Ken Gordon’s Bad Dogs: A Black Cadet in Dixie, we first meet the protagonist Jon H. Quest as the CEO of a mega-successful company. He’s late for the monthly dinner get-together of his mega-successful Black family at their mega-amazing family compound. We will get...

Three Tamales for the Señor and Other Stories by James Tipton is a collection of the late author and former literature and writing professor's work. Tipton zeroes in on his retirement in Mexico as the inspiration for each of the seventeen pieces in this anthology,...