May, a high schooler who goes by Garlic on the MMORPG Zenix Online, bumps into Finn, a high schooler from another school and a Rogue in the game, and they quickly become acquaintances. Garlic introduces Finn to Bodvar, an older player and Garlic’s friend, who...

Mina Rubenstein has been through her fair share of challenges. Seen as a freak by her peers at St. Benedict’s Catholic School, there is little to look forward to in her school life. Her only reprieve from the relentless bullying by the popular group is...

Rich Merritt grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, where racism and homophobia were equally rife. He was educated at Bob Jones University, the Fortress of Fundamentalism, where, except for meeting his forever best friend Gary, it ended up being a specter that showed up in...

Not all races end at the finish line. Zoey Wheeler introduces us to two highly competitive high school athletes in Why They Run. There is Jason Everett, a track star at New Wellis High School. Some might even attribute the term “sports god” to his...

The Siege of Mauldonion follows Kevin Dobbs, a seventeen year old travelling bard whose visit to the Mauldonion Province becomes part of a war for the kingdom’s survival. After Velmordian soldiers cross the border, Kevin joins Phill, the province’s Master Ranger, in warning King Gene...

Voices to Victories by Tara Peterson is a bruising, deeply personal memoir that traces one woman's path from a fractured Catholic upbringing through addiction, manipulation, and years spent inside the club scene, before achieving hard-won faith and recovery. The three words in the subtitle map...

The marginalization of Jews who are not of European origin is the subject of Interrogating Ashkenormativity by Sipporah International. For readers not familiar with the term, Ashkenazi Jews are an ethnic group that originated in medieval Germany and France during the 10th century. They spoke...

If the moment that broke you still defined every choice you made, what would it take—and who would it take—to finally set you free? That is the question 17-year-old Avery Warren needs to find the answer to in Kelly Pollard’s Shattered Streams. As she arrives...

A Yankee Airman and his Southern Belle by Rita Morrin opens at 3 A.M. on December 8, 1973, with a phone call in a cold Anchorage apartment that no military wife ever wants to receive. Rita's husband Ken, an Air Force man from upstate New...

The DREAMER Path: A Journey to Rest, Renewal, and Your Authentic Self by Susan Bruck is a deeply personal and warmly written guide for anyone who has spent their life caring for others at the expense of themselves. Bruck, a former Waldorf teacher, lawyer turned...