As the World Burns by Aaron Ryan is a gripping sci-fi novel that follows fifteen-year-old Cooper Calloway, the most loved and most hated boy alive. A deep-core seismic experiment went catastrophically wrong when he was two. The result left Cooper with the power to unwittingly...

Always Here: Widowed With Young Children by Jesse Kuhn is a grief companion written specifically for parents raising kids alone after losing a spouse, a narrow, deeply specific audience that most grief books overlook entirely. The book unfolds across four parts, from understanding grief in...

C.S. Pascoal’s Accidental Tribes charts the unexpected path of eight isolated teenagers thrown into a strange disciplinary space known as Solitaria. This high-pressure environment in Room 359 at PS 555 unites several tech-loving rule-breakers overseen by school advisor Dr. Miryam. The moment a sudden theft...

Christie Del Vesco’s A Road Trip with God is a bold memoir with a subtitle that summarizes it perfectly: 11,800 Miles from Hoping to Die to Daring to Live. She is fifty-five and shut-in, with a life that revolves around food, nature-watching, Netflix, an extra...

Thirteen-year-old Sophie’s parents are getting divorced. Her mother, brother Aiden, and sister Logan have moved across town into a small two-bedroom apartment in a dodgy neighborhood because their father lost all their money in a questionable investment scheme. Without his financial support, their day-to-day existence...

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...

Amanda LaPera’s Allow in Light follows Nicole Wheeler, a girl who is forced out of her West Los Angeles childhood after her father’s business collapse sends the family to Lake Los Angeles, a desert town with no lake and no easy place for Nicole to...

Mark Guillerman pens a sweeping historical novel in A Heart That’s True, set in the aftermath of the 19th-century Indian Wars. The novel follows two Lakota children, twelve-year-old Joseph Cross, named Blue Thunder at birth, and his cousin, White Cloud, as they are ripped away...

Amoura Awakened by Meg Kramer follows sixteen-year-old Amoura Renly, who discovers she is a witch after she inadvertently performs an insane magical act at her human school. There is only one way out for her: to be transferred to the respected Elderwood School for the...

Achak of the Sequoia Tribe by Alex Coppin tells the story of a boy coming of age in an indigenous Native American tribe, right before outside forces began to alter their world. Achak is at the age where he has to prove he’s a man....