Ayesha Dean: The Istanbul Intrigue is written by Melati Lum. Eighteen-year-old Ayesha Dean and her friends, Sara and Jess, are on their way to Istanbul for a ten-day holiday. Before boarding the plane, Ayesha expects to be singled out as a Muslim for a random...

Absolution is the first book in The Awakening series written by Ashley Lucero. Seventeen-year-old Alex Constance is running late for school. While she thinks her day is bad, she is oblivious to Nathaniel’s bad day which trumps hers, after his angel wings are reduced to...

Ashes at Grumble Bluff by Karen Bessey Pease is exciting reading for all ages, but particularly for the adolescent through young adult crowd. The novel keeps readers continually turning the pages to see what happens next to the main characters, Katherine Anne Kirby and Greta...

When Alice’s sister dies by her own hand and in the name of love, Alice finds herself lost to the possibilities of the future. The grief that racks the family and breaks the tightly woven circle of friendship draws Alice into that inner sanctum of...

And Other Sheep I Have Which Are Not of This Fold: Them I Must Bring Also: God's Plan to Save the Outcast by Brother Calvin Allen is a non-fiction book full of Brother Allen's thoughts and preachings on the final days of Earth before Jesus...

A Beholden Heart by M.L. Steinbrunn is a fresh and captivating YA story that gives credence to the old adage, “all is not as it seems.” About to head into her senior year in what’s been a somewhat sheltered life for reasons that aren’t...

A Firefly Life by Linda Shew Wolf is a novel set in the late 1960s that follows a girl named Melanie as she navigates the waters on her journey from twelve to thirteen. This age is a difficult time for nearly every child, and Melanie...

A Different Truth by Annette Oppenlander takes place in 1968, the year when the Vietnam War was at its bloodiest. Along with his best friend Tom, sixteen-year-old Andy Olson is banished to Palmer Military Academy. Oppenlander deftly weaves an insightful coming of age story in...

What does it feel like to be broken at one’s own early beginnings, neglected, and filled with untold setbacks? AntiHero by J.M. Fibelkorn is a wonderful story of an ordinary young boy whose adolescence is filled with all kinds of vicissitudes. The second year high...

A Place Halfway by K.C. Finn is the third book in the Synsk series. The book focuses on sixteen-year-old Josie who has a lot more to deal with than the average 1960s teenager. She is but one of a school full of psychic children who...