Obesseus: Feast of Legends, The Slam-Fu Edition 1 by D.T. Tucker takes young readers on a journey through Buffetland, a world where food is not only sustenance but also a source of power, conflict, and identity. The story centers on Obesseus, a larger-than-life hero whose...

Math is the engine of every scientific and technological marvel. It’s also behind many decisions that affect us all the time through algorithms, metrics, statistics, and the like. We understand this rationally, but it still feels disconnected from our lives, especially because of how we...

Jerry for President 2024 by Michael and Danny D’Agostino is about Jerry, a chicken whose life has been shaped by overwhelming burdens, relentless setbacks, and deep emotional turmoil. Jerry had nightmarish sadness and bouts of self-doubt as he struggled to understand his purpose in life....

When four teenagers, Leah, Vincent, Ava, and Noah, are stranded in a remote cabin during a snowstorm with Camille, an isolated writer, they believe they have found shelter. Instead, they have walked into something sinister. Camille is helpful at first; she offers them food and...

Dying With a Secret by Tj O'Connor is about Detective Oliver Tucker, better known as Tuck, who is dead, but comes back as a ghost and lives with his wife Dr Angela Hill Tucker, helping her and his friend Captain Theodore “Bear” Braddock to solve...

Quiichaar: The Adduco Ventum by Reed Sturm follows the survival, concealment, and eventual pursuit of a single forbidden weapon that was meant to be erased. During the final years of the Great Wars, the world devastator Priagrandis is secretly disabled by Djudg Clemmoth to prevent...

Crow: The Luck of Charm by Surya Prakash Shrivastava is a short story about the connection between a boy and a crow. Yash lives in an urban environment, with chaotic traffic and construction noise just outside his window. Inside, chaos comes from his arguing parents....

After a bloody raid on Golacia by an alliance of the three houses of Daar—Morura, Requuan, and Cafreyn—Tuenor, the high ruler of Morura, wins Pilaer, a beautiful Golacian warrior. Over seventeen years, Pilaer bears Tuenor two children, Mikal and Mirriae. At twelve, Mirriae wishes to...

Perched on Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, is a clandestine military base and a school where the National Security Agency keeps its unmatched Artificial Intelligence and Sophitria, a mysterious alien girl captured after seizing InfinET, Sophitria’s alien mother. Soren, frustrated with his progress in sourcing information...

For musicians interested in performing on cruises, Notes that Float: The Ultimate Musician’s Guide To Getting Paid To Play On Cruise Ships by Nancy Soulé is a complete guide to preparing for the experience. As a musician, I view this book as an extremely practical...

Insidious Six is the fifth book in The Sorcerer's Guide Series by L. Scott Clark. Trapped in a mountain in Congo, Jet Black was beginning to think he and the Echoes were done for good this time. But they are unexpectedly rescued by the Predilectors....

Echoes of Destruction by W. K. Gorbet takes place in the mysterious world of Ettia, where a single moment changes everything. When a high-risk experiment involving the legendary CoreLight relic goes horribly wrong, it shatters more than just the powerful artifact. What should have been...

Monkey Morales: The True Story of a Mythic Cuban Exile, Assassin, CIA Operative, FBI Informant, Smuggler, and Dad by Sean Oliver and Ricardo Morales, Jr., is an expansive biography that follows the extraordinary life of Ricardo “Monkey” Morales, a figure who moved through some of...

A Wooden Heart in Plotlands by Dawn Knox is a historical novel that follows the intertwined lives of Miriam and Rebekah, two Jewish sisters, as they navigate the challenges of survival during World War II. The story begins in Nazi Germany, where the sisters face...

On the land of Ersa are four mages—Fionn, Orin, Elias, and Primus—who, apart from having been raised together, were bound by an oath to protect the peace of Dunya, their homeworld. However, it had been no secret to the mages that Primus, also the Prince...

In 1521: The Defiance by Charleston Lim, Captain Ferdinand Magellan sails into the central Philippines after crossing the Pacific under the Spanish flag and anchors near the island kingdom of Cebu. Gaining a foothold in Southeast Asia, he forges an uneasy alliance with Rajah Humabon,...

In Lizzie Mac’s Family Secrets, Ben, an American in Brussels who's preparing to relocate to England, meets Nina, a British woman who refuses to share her real name or the details of her work. Intrigued by a sense of recognition, they invent aliases and agree...

Tasha He’s Caenogenesis, book one of the science fiction Gemini Files series, is set in the fractured city of Ignis, where a Synthetic weapon known as Project Gemini escapes the laboratory that engineered her and begins moving through the districts under the name Yin. Genetically...

Evangeline Emmanuel’s Bills, Bosses & Big Dreams takes a hard look at how career decisions and money habits mold themselves into true long-term independence. It presents a structured approach for evaluating whether your work aligns with your abilities and priorities, then shows how deliberate positioning...

Bad Americans: Part II by Tejas Desai continues the bold and unflinching exploration of American life that made the first volume so memorable. This time, the narrative unfolds through Olive Mixer's unusual pandemic getaway in the Hamptons, where twelve very different guests are brought together...