A Testament of Steel is an epic fantasy by Davis Ashura. The story opens in a small village where Cinder Shade and his parents work as farmers. His parents are killed by an aether-crazed snow tiger. During the attack, he escapes death but loses his...

The Secret of Being by Scott Sutton is a young adult novel set in the near future where The Sea is slowly destroying the world. Alethea is a young nurse working in the last remaining functional hospital in an American city. When the hospital is...

Forged in Shadow by Megan Haskell is the first book in The War of the Nine Faerie Realms series. Curuthannor's dreams don't align with his family as he would rather forge weapons than hunt and turned the act of forging into his purpose. When the...

BFF: A Story About Bullycide by Lindsey G. P. Bell is the story of a young teenage girl named Abby Feldman. With her mother gone, Abby and her father unilaterally decide to leave the San Francisco Bay Area in favor of a massive house in...

What would you do if the person you admired the most was a criminal? Selo: The Mentor by Douglas Setter is the story of a boy who was going through the same dilemma. Les was not the best when it came to protecting himself. He...

Jessi, the protagonist of Exchanger by K. E. Brungardt, is an exchange student - but not the kind you'd find at any university on Earth; no, she's traveling to another planet on a starship to live among aliens, visit their university and get to know...

You Look Something: An Indigenous Coming-Of-Age Novel by Jessica Mehta is the story of a young woman who tries to rise above everything and prove her worth. Julia was looking forward to moving to Portland for higher education. She was eager to start a new...

Cobalt Chronicles by Kathryn Den Houter is the story of Esynama who has bigger dreams than just working in the cobalt mines. Living in the Katanga province of the Congo is not easy, but with a nudge in the right direction by her mother, Esy...

Hurrah For Liberty by Oran Brucks captures the heart of young America. In its infancy, America brims with settlers, all full of life, hope, and the pursuit of freedom. Independence had been won, yet war still looms over the country. The British, the Indians, and...

Winter Light by Martha Engber is a coming-of-age novel that gives us a stark reminder of the narrow line between success and failure, sorrow and joy, contentment and destruction that so many of our teenagers are forced to navigate in those dangerous and yet potentially...