She Was Here: The Marginalia of Rossana Averni by G. C. Marti is an exploration of the aftermath of a gifted teenager’s hospitalization following a suicide attempt. Set in Venice, the story unfolds over eight days, focusing on three of Rossana’s teachers as they...

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...

The Mis-Adventure of Pepper & Salt by Liz Fahey introduces young readers to Pepper, a thoughtful little elephant who experiences emotions as colors, and his lively best friend, Salt, a gold-crested crane. Their day begins with curiosity when Pepper asks a playful question about Salt’s...

“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,...

Where Our Stories Meet by Alizae Kurtzig and Thando Maluleke tells the story of two children living on opposite sides of the world whose lives gradually connect through curiosity and friendship. Daisy lives in San Francisco, where rainy mornings, school experiments, and time with family...

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....

“And when you've been immersed in the warmth of a passionate soul for longer than you can remember. The world turns an unbearable cold the moment they are gone.” The world is a strange place in He Who Lived on the Lethe, a novel by...

The principal section of “Meeting” Anne Frank: An Anthology, edited by Tim Whittome, is a collection of essays from twenty-three contributors who outline the impact Anne Frank and her amazing diary have had on their lives. Anne Frank left behind a legacy that has fascinated...

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...

Blood & Merrow is a supernatural romance thriller by J.J. Falconer. Ever since his creator, Embla, went into slumber, Ellet has been feeding on sinners to grow stronger with each passing century. For nearly a millennium, Ellet was in servitude to the vicious Embla. However,...

Rajat Chohda’s The Divine Flow of Satyuga is a philosophy built around the belief that peace is possible when a person stops surrendering emotional stability to outside judgment. Chohda tells us that a lot of forms of suffering begin when people confuse temporary craving with...

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...

Seduced by Promises is the first novel in The Deception Series by Kate S. Burns. This suspenseful romance follows Macy as she loses her job and her boyfriend on the same day. She thought she and Jack would get married, but things changed when Jack...

In Mikael Carlson’s Finding Santa, days before Christmas, Santa Claus disappears from his office inside Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, after three men force him onto a private jet headed across Europe. Wyatt Huffman, a former Washington political figure now living quietly in Vermont...

Cruise Fling is the story of Andrea, who has been a single parent since losing her husband three years ago. She needs a vacation and books one, but when her family backs out, she decides to go anyway. She’s been stuck in grieving for so...

The Raven and the Rose by Adra Mayfield and Leanne Blakemore is a tightly written and well-plotted historical romance set in 1840 in Northumberland, England. Lady Rosalind Englebright is a spirited woman who prefers breeches to ballgowns. She is fierce and untamed. Her father is...

Echoes of Time by Anthony P. Mauro Sr. continues the story introduced in the Silent Sounds series, following Wes Marino as he returns to Manhassett Beach at seventy to reflect on the life that shaped him. The narrative moves between present-day observations and memories of...

The Halls of the Shadow King by W. Tod Newman follows Amal, who takes command of a far-reaching network after the death of his mentor Bazir. With his sister Neffie maintaining operations, Amal investigates reports from Britannia describing open gatherings where fear once ruled and...

In Joel Canfield's Brain Worm, as far as the world knows, former CIA officer Max Bowman is dead. Really, though, he's in Long Beach with a fake name and modest life as the private investigator, Hank Sinatra. That facade collapses when a client complains about...

Laurence Hutson’s Shattered Faces is set during the First World War, when American sculptor Anna Ladd leaves Boston for Europe after learning that soldiers with severe facial injuries are hiding themselves from families and society. In London, she studies a new process that uses sculpture,...