A Fragment of Chrome by Miikka Rautioaho takes place in Ocean City, a future city controlled by corporations and shaped by pollution and technology. Body modifications are common, and they create significant differences between the characters. Some benefit from them. Others don’t. The main character...

Riding the White Bull: The Making of a Navy SEAL by Jack Ratliff is a memoir shaped by experience and reflection, told in an unadorned voice that carries readers from college life in 1950s Texas through formative encounters that set the stage for military service....

In the children's picture book We're Going on a Space Adventure by Marie Nichols, a young boy named Bracken welcomes his grandmother to the front yard, where he shows her his very own homemade spaceship. Together, they get in and blast off, making their way...

A year after returning from a mission to the past to save Tempestria, Dreya the Dark, a powerful faery sorceress, and Catriona “Cat” Redfletching, a half faery druid, wed in a private ceremony. On their return from honeymoon, the Council of Mages summons the Guardians...

The March of Ink by Edgar Dixon Rodriquez is an informative and deeply moving account of the author’s war deployment to the Persian Gulf in 1991, including 43 letters between him and his new bride. The author was a member of the Army Reserve and...

Youth Truth: Engaging In Conversations That Can Change Lives by Carlamay Sheremata is a nonfiction parenting book rooted in real encounters between adults and young people navigating complex emotional terrain. Drawing on her experiences as a school resource officer, Sheremata shares a series of true...

In Ari Magnusson's Knights Without Ceremony: Insurrection, Gorum is just coming out of war, and the kingdom’s peace is shaky and uncertain. The king allows boys from all classes to train as knights, which is a new decree. Ettan, a poor thirteen-year-old who looks after...

The Thin Door by Rho Weber Mack is a coming-of-age story as Ramie discovers herself. Ramie is a 15-year-old high school sophomore living in poverty and just hoping to survive. She has an absent mother and a younger brother who is involved in street...

Nickname Your Emotions and Hug Them by Rui Bigmoon is a well-written book that offers readers a practical guide on how to overcome mental and emotional challenges, including anxiety, depression, anger, regret, and more. Rui writes about her mental and emotional struggles following the death...

“She knew she was good. And it appears the good are not rewarded. The good are damned.” This statement rings true in The Curses We Keep, a novella by Dakota J. Miller. The story begins in darkness as an old hag drags a rope...

Playing Blackjack Like an Engineer by David A. Janover, PE, presents blackjack as a structured decision-making system rather than a casual casino pastime. The book begins by reframing the game through engineering principles such as probability, optimization, risk control, and process thinking. Janover begins with...

Lenny's Big Baseball Road Trip by David A. Janover, PE, is a fun, illustrated story for kids. Lenny Miller’s dad has a surprise for him—this summer, he wants to go on a journey and visit all thirty Major League Baseball stadiums in the country. Lenny...

It’s August 2017, and Gabriel, a successful book editor living in Chicago, is on his way to Bogota, Colombia. He’s just suffered a personal loss and needs to get away. His decision to spend some time with his ex-boyfriend Diego proves to be a mistake:...

At twenty-one, Alice had left college behind and was working at a restaurant, trying to make sense of her life. Her father, John, has accepted her choices, but he worried that she was never going to be an independent and responsible young adult. Alice was...

Laura Ingalls Wilder once wrote, “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all,” a sentiment that gently weaves its way through The Diaries of a Teenage Pilgrim: The Early Journey by Lydia...

The Name and the Key by Kristina Elyse Butke is about Lily Bellamy, a teenage girl whose world slowly falls apart after her mother vanishes and is later found drowned in the marshlands near their home. Lily has grown up in the shadow of her...

Vesper by Evan Marks follows the titular Vesper, who lives in New York and works as a senior consultant. After a chance meeting overseas leads to a second encounter in the city, Vesper begins seeing Caspian, a man whose life operates on a scale far...

There is no time for rest for the Guardians of Time and Magic—Catriona, Mandalee, and Dreya the Dark. Reeling from the aftermath of the attack on Melrose Academy, it is now clear to the trio that their real nemesis is from the future. However, acknowledging...

It's a (Enter Difficulty Setting Here) Life by Anthony Moffett is a well-written book that enlightens readers on the importance of creating a balance in everything, even while indulging in hobbies and activities they are passionate about. Cody Redbond, a hardcore gamer, is beginning to...

In The Secret of Spirit Lake by Jane Haltmaier, the story moves between two girls living decades apart in the same lakeside house. In the present day, fourteen-year-old Amy struggles after her parents move the family to a small town in upstate New York to...