Mayhem in the Mountains by Jane Loeb Rubin opens with eighteen-year-old Ella deciding to leave Brooklyn behind and head to the Catskills with her younger brother, Robbie, in search of relatives. It is set in the 1920s, a time that shapes so much of what...

UP! The Playbook for Every Woman on the Rise by Kelly Mooney and Katy Mooney is a frank, practical career guide written by two sisters who spent decades learning the hard way what nobody told them early enough. Kelly grew up in a small Ohio...

In Lana Stasek's Voices Within, Bella: Beyond the Bark, Bella, a purebred beagle, begins life when she's born inside a breeding barn. Sadly, this is what most will recognize as a puppy mill, where puppies are treated as property and survival depends on staying useful...

Kuni Ruto by Llewellyn Burgess is a political fantasy that follows the story of Arinko Xelha. This begins a decade after the Queendom of Xelha’s civil war with Arinko as the new queen. Young and inexperienced in politics, Arinka was passionate about rebuilding her damaged...

Jeanne Blanchet's Rite of Passage tells the story of the 1620 Mayflower voyage through the eyes of ten-year-old Sara Ann Clifton, now an eighty-two-year-old woman, who was reluctant to undertake the journey from Leiden to the New World. The story traces the perilous adventures of...

When Catalina Kennedy and her brother Robby are sent to Ireland to train to be Masters of Blades, they expect to be back home in Peru in a short while. Fifteen years later, and still not called back home, the pair is curious about why...

In Elizabeth Mowery’s The Unwanted Alliance, Adeline Bigsby is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives with her family. She unlocks a rusty gate behind her backyard and enters a hidden realm where time in her world stops. There, she trains with a fighter named Jesse under...

The Treasure of Askelon by Daren Hatfield is the first book in the Dragonrook series. It introduces orphan Arthur Cross, whose journey becomes a swashbuckling odyssey across desert wastes and pirate-infested seas. Marauders led by the brutal and fearsome Thaddeus Schark raid the orphanage, seeking...

In Retrouver: The Rotters Book Two, Jordan Elizabeth returns to the captivating world established in the first book of the series, delivering a narrative that immediately drew me into the chaos and intense world that Felicity and Jack must learn to navigate. I found the...

Misty isn’t too pleased when her family moves to Palmdale, California, far from the big city. Good news: she quickly grows to love the desert’s natural beauty and wildlife. Bad news: her home life is nowhere near as beautiful, despite the facade of a happy...