The Baggers by James Hale is a story about the gangs in Saint Albans, Kanawha County. The streets of Saint Albans are ruled by the Baggers, most of whose members are young adults who commit theft and other petty crimes. An older generation of scavengers...

The Art of Being Let Go by Amulya Veldanda Vadali aims to comfort anyone who has ever lost their job. After an hour's drive to the office, a tired, hardworking woman is told she is being let go. She is given a generic layoff speech...

Tales from the Texas Timberlands, Volume 2 by J. Andrew Rice features five interconnected stories set in East Texas. It shows ordinary folks whose character, persistence, and everyday values end up shaping the next generation. The first tale, “Sawmill,” follows the dauntless Berry brothers who...

Deborah J. Brasket’s This Sea Within follows Lena, a young journalist who goes to San Balanque to connect with her heritage and to follow a story. What begins as a chance to learn more about the country soon brings her inside the world of the...

Chris Wind’s This Is What Happens is a rare gem. A fifty-five-year-old woman feels stuck, wasted, and wounded. All she wants is to return to a cabin on a lakeside one final September to go through journals written for thirty-five years and unravel the mystery...

“You can only sell your integrity once, so you better get a good price for it,” are the opening lines of Diana Colleen’s provocative, revolutionary, and speculative thriller, They Could Be Saviors. The most consequential news of the century is brought to the world by...

The Scent of Home by Marco Magiolo is a quietly moving novel told by the most unlikely narrator: a street dog named Dexter who once had everything and lost it all. The story opens in a busy city, where Dexter survives by his wits —...

When Georgia Thayer, a medical social worker in Columbia, South Carolina, urges her sixteen-year-old foster daughter, Tessa, to attend a nighttime party hosted by her classmate, she has no idea how much trouble awaits the kids. Working the night shift, Georgia is shocked when Sara...

The Secrets We Carry by Annette G. Anders is the first book in the Soul Sisters series that starts with warmth, depth, and real emotional intelligence. Four college friends, Rebecca, Caitlin, Ensley, and Hope, have arranged their annual girls' week at a rental house called...

The Golden Age by Alexander Exelmans is a thought-provoking philosophical play set in a future where artificial intelligence has transformed human civilization into a work-optional society. The story follows Zachary, a former Mars colonist who returns to Earth after years away only to discover that...