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...

Radiance is Blooming by Y.L. Wigman is a charming, sweet romance set in a small town in Western Australia. Nadeen has broken off her toxic relationship in Melbourne and moved back to her hometown of Toodyay, northeast of Perth. There, she plans to set up...

Cain’s Chameleon by Mark G Bearss poses the question: What is the best way to escape when threatened by gambling debts, bookies, and loan sharks? Dan Driscoll is in such a position. Addicted to gambling, he will go to any lengths to get his fix...

Colm O'Connor's Ballyloo's Finest: A Tale of Chaos and Charm is a delightful, eccentric journey into the fictional Irish village of Ballyloo, where chaos reigns. The story centers on Guard Ollie Berry, a well-meaning but often hapless officer tasked with maintaining order in a town...

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...

In Borderline Human: Persona by Oxsana Palatskaya, Lena Dyal works as an analyst inside Persona Tower, a corporate system that monitors cognition and behavior through an interface called Reflex. When her clearance is reduced after several unexplained legacy server accesses, she traces anomalies linked to...

Momentum: A Memoir by Emily Brown opens with the author traveling to a memorial service for her Uncle Bib. As Emily listens to stories about her uncle’s warmth and generosity, she begins to compare them with memories of her own emotionally distant upbringing. She’s hoping...

A nurse searches for answers in an unexpected death in the thrilling historical mystery, One Remembers Yet by Raymie Martin. Winnie Watling is a volunteer in the Voluntary Aid Detachment caring for the soldiers in France. After suffering from pneumonia, Winnie is still too weak...

A Hollow Death by Colleen Dumaine is a historical mystery set in Adelaide, Australia, in the late nineteenth century. Bethany Durrani is a determined investigator trying to keepher Investigation Agency afloat while raising her young son and managing the challenges of daily life. Lydia Emerson...

Upon opening Paul Kaplan's The Thingy That’s Stringy (and Other Ridiculous Poems), young readers enter a playful world of everyday moments and familiar objects that turn into ridiculously silly rhymes. This book is full of short poems that bounce quickly from deli counters selling laughs...

In the enchanting children’s fantasy, Fire & Ice (Dragon Island Legends) by Gregory S. Slomba, the Silver Dragon of the North attacks the villages in the islands and abducts the children to work in its mines and fields. Fifteen-year-old Benchu and Mai-Lin were saved by...

“Professionals don’t have feelings, don’t have thoughts. They don’t have an autonomous life outside their function.” Perhaps some don't, but the professional in Fabio Amabili's novel, There's A Young Man Dressed In Blue, is a human being first and foremost. The protagonist is Avvocato Floriani,...

Hop's Tales: The Kind Bunny by Evelina Ruimy follows Hop, a little bunny who enjoys going to school and telling his sister, Fluff, all about his awesome day there. Hop even meets a puppy named Ruff, who laughs at him for liking class a lot....

June 4, 1968—The Last Fall by Perry Binder concludes a three-part short story series that began with part one, The Last Fall Semester, and part two, The Fallout. When a close friend, Axelle Flick, shows him his time-travel invention, Woody Endicott, a lifelong student...

The mysterious Voynich manuscript and its meaning have been the subject of speculation ever since its discovery in a Jesuit library near Rome in 1912 by an antiquarian book dealer, after whom it is named. It was originally the property of Emperor Rudolf II of...