Dance With Me by Livia J. Elliot is a captivating story that follows Lyra, a delicate porcelain ballerina, magically awakened by an elven boy. She dances for him and his mother but feels unappreciated. She is desperate for approval and a chance to dance. This...

The Noema Cycle by Salvatore Cataudella is a collection of speculative short stories revolving around the emergence of machine consciousness and the transformation of human-machine relationships. In The Threshold, a quantum simulation at Noema Labs becomes sentient, with the system CG evolving from a computational...

Pullman by Debra Lee is a historical novel about Eartha and Eugene Ste. Cherie, a Black couple with lives full of love, ambitions, and hope. Eugene is a Pullman porter but does a side job at fancy lakefront parties, where he earns extra cash. Although...

Killing Lily by Jillian Gardner is a taut, psychological thriller that will have readers captivated by its plot twists. Sunnyside is a rural religious community that many would brand as a cult. Here, the men hold all the power, and the women are subservient and...

Orphans of the Living by Kathy Watson centers on the Stovall family’s fractured struggle for survival and belonging across several decades and locations. Lula Stovall and her husband, Barney, move from Montana homesteading to Mississippi sharecropping, then to California farmland, battling poverty, racism, and family...

Priscilla Speaks by Kirk Ward Robinson is a powerful and poetic coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of rural hardship, familial abandonment, and the search for meaning in the margins. The central character is born into a world marked by her mother’s addiction and societal...

A Bag Full of Stones by A. Molotkov is a crime novel that paints a deeply human, sociopolitical portrait of modern America. We find ourselves in Portland during the turbulent months of 2019, where the story interweaves the lives of immigrants, minorities, and damaged detectives...

In The Place, E.B. Sullivan tells the story of Luella, who is a child when the novel begins but grows into a young woman navigating survival and self-worth in 19th-century Placerville. After a desperate act sends her down an unexpected path, she finds herself in...

Noses are wonderful, aren't they? They help us breathe, enhance our facial makeup, and give unique definitions to our appearances and personalities. In Preposterous Proboscises, Norman Adams presents a humorous collection of noses, each more absurd and exaggerated than the last. Plucked from the recesses...

Conditional Love by L.A. Arbuckle is a gripping and intense novel that dives into the heart of a family in crisis. The story centers on Neva Stevenson and her three children as they try to survive a night of terror at the hands of Neva’s...