When Gemma Ziegler's Ruby Rose: Coming Home begins, we meet Ruby Rose Russo traveling to her childhood home in rural Cornishville, Kentucky, a move necessitated by the loss of her husband and their wealth in the stock market crash. Returning home isn't exactly a pleasant...

In an age of greed and abuse of the environment, it is not unexpected to have drastic climatic changes. When these changes dramatically and irreversibly change the geographic and demographic make-up of one of the world’s most powerful nations, the United States, flooding most of...

Up Harvey's Creek by Karl L. Stewart is a mesmerizing, absorbing story of family, war, and a young boy’s struggle to make sense of life when his family becomes “wobbly.” Stuart Lee Roy Carter is young, just eleven, and he has been increasingly aware that...

The first tragedy in Morning Dove’s life was the death of her parents from smallpox, a devastating disease for Native Americans brought by the white man. Morning Dove, a twenty-year-old South Cheyenne maiden, and her eighteen-year-old brother, Black Beaver, were raised by the tribal chief...

A tightly packed story pits a cab driver, Cade, against irresistible economic forces for the next urban development of soon to be chic new townhouses, apartments, and upscale village-like dining and shopping. All just minutes away from the heart of Washington D.C. Cade's Rebellion takes...

It had been a long time since college, but Bobby Wade travels to Cedar Key to take care of business that he should have handled years ago in The Promise of Cedar Key by Rick Robinson. Playing catch-up is difficult though, especially when it involves...

Plant Hope: Harvest Love by R.H. Krämer tells the story of Aurora who suffers abuse in an unhealthy relationship. Her man, Adam, cheats on her, even with her best friend, the closest thing to a friend she has ever had. She has lost friends because...

Reichfield High is comprised of mostly white students and over the past years it has lost almost all the games played against North Prep, a school frequented by mostly Brazilians, Filipinos, and Mexican students. To turn the tide, Addie and his white supremacist friends hatch...

How We End Up by Douglas Wells is a contemporary drama that explores the relationships we form, the actions we take, and the consequences that flow from them. Jackson Levee is a Florida teacher who longs for recognition of his poetry. He considers poetry to...

Mall Hair Maladies is a young adult coming of age novel written by Kristy Jo Volchko. It was 1985 and, as far as thirteen-year-old Tanya was concerned, Pittsburgh was the center of the universe. She was in the eighth grade now, the last year of...