Eafin Lokdore and the Altar of the Sun is the second volume in R.G. Edwards’ The Eafin Lokdore Trilogy. Master Magician Eafin Lokdore is fifteen years old and grief-stricken when he sets out on the impossible mission to overthrow Sorfin, the usurper, and restore the...

Nebraska Avenue by Vincent Rubino is a coming-of-age novel set during the summer of 1976 in North Bay Shore on Long Island. The story centers on Artie Mooney, Wally Tazowski, and Vinny Perino, three boys navigating adolescence in a neighborhood called “The States,” where streets...

After meeting for the first time in months, Taylor and his youngest brother, Marc Dunkin, have reconciled, and Taylor has even agreed to go home to Montgomery, Massachusetts, for Easter. And because Jordan Dunkin was also flying in from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana,...

In Eafin Lokdore and the Ancient Secret by R. G. Edwards, a teen sets out from his homeland on a quest to recover an ancient power meant to return light to a struggling world. Guided by the writings of his late father, our young hero,...

Indigo, The Deep by Kellye Abernathy introduces Condi, a determined 15-year-old surfer who buries her heartbreak in the adrenaline of surfing after the sudden departure of her first love. Her small beach town is completely falling apart between strange earthquakes and a shady corporate research...

Surfing on Dry Land by Sheryl Recinos is a searing story that documents the struggles of a mother and daughter in two timelines. Ixchel is just fifteen and with a baby when she escapes from her home village in Guatemala because of gang violence, traveling...

Phase by James K. West is an impressive novella for young adults. We are transported to the office of a Washington D.C. law firm and meet twenty-five-year-old Alison Riley, a conscientious, high-performing legal secretary who values her job and the living comforts it provides. Alison...

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...