Dreidels and Dead Ends by award-winning author Nancy J. Cohen is a cozy mystery that calls for high acclaim. Marla Vail, a forty-year-old hairstylist, and her husband Dalton, a retired homicide detective, are attending the grand opening of an exhibition at the local history museum....

Hillbilly Monk’s Brisket Wisdom by Billy Monk brings us a really wild premise that perfectly blends rural American life with some heavy psychological exploration. The book follows Billy, an eccentric Oklahoma man who spends his days smoking meat, running an illegal still, and rambling about...

From Spark to Story: Vol. 1 is an eclectic collection of short stories by Tina Harden. It took just one night for the legend of a queen of a parlor house in Dakota Territory to be erased from people's memories. A young musician finds stardom...

In 1981, six-year-old Penn Lockshire dives into Iroquois Lake and finds a mussel with the largest pearl in North America. In The Pearl Farmers by Stacey Gordon, the story begins with three sisters, daughters of James and Kate Lockshire, a third-generation family of pearl farmers....

Justice is not always neat. It can be quite chaotic. Melvin E. Edwards’ Nuremberg, Mississippi is set against the background of one of America’s most tumultuous times – the Civil Rights era. When Henry Logan is arrested for violating a local law about after-dark restrictions...

In Mitch Goddard’s Beneath The Flame Azalea, Jeff returns to the western North Carolina trail years after his Appalachian Trail hike left him reeling from Beckham Sheridan’s unexplained death. During a storm cleanup led by Luna Kramer, Jeff finds a waterproof action camera buried under...

Sparrows by Rose Betit follows Isabelle, a young girl whose childhood is affected by poverty, family instability, and the difficult choices made by the adults around her. The story traces Isabelle’s early years as she and her older brother, Stevie, struggle with their Southern-born mother...

Widows & Children by Dori Ann Dupre is an intriguing tale of a matriarchal line spanning four different generations. Betty Clark meets and falls in love with Pino near the end of World War II. Years later, Pino unexpectedly dies, leaving Betty widowed with three...

In the book In Jake's Shoes by Andrew C. Phillips, when Jake Gatlin is killed while serving overseas, his family gathers at their home in Oakton, North Carolina, as winter rain falls and Christmas approaches. During the hours following the funeral, his father, Marshall, slips...

Song of Belonging by Michelle St. Romain is a mesmerizing novel with two timelines: 2019 and 1934. Alice has just moved into a new apartment in North Berkeley, and peculiar things start happening. First, she stumbles upon her great-grandmother's jewelry box, which she received as a child, and then finds a note at the bottom....