A Buss from Lafayette by Dorothea Jensen is a historical fiction tale set over the course of a week in the early 19th century, as narrated by a fourteen-year-old girl named Clara Hargraves. She lives in a small town in New Hampshire with her father,...

A Good Lie by JL Bowers started with Anna Bradley waking up on the grass with clusters of trees around her. She has a terrible headache, with no idea where she is or how she got there. She started remembering passing a bright yellow house...

The Bush Clinic by Stella Atrium is a speculative fiction novel and the first book in Atrium's new Tribal Wars series. The Bush Clinic is unique in that it harnesses the powerful evocation of futuristic human off-planet space colonization against a social structure that has...

The political science fiction series The Tribal Wars is back with its second book, The Body Politic by Stella Atrium, which I was fortunate enough to read just a couple of weeks after finishing book one, The Bush Clinic. Women are burning themselves up in...

Layers is a collection of eight short slice-of-life stories by Zuzanne Belec. These imaginative stories put a lighter touch on the darker aspects of life. The book opens with "The Christmas Charge," where three elderly sisters jump at the chance to spend Christmas on an...

Scribbles from the Middling Cat is a collection of prose and poems by R.S. Vern. Inspired by the scribbles of Haee, a meddling cat, the author has written a thought-provoking book with captivating art. The book covers insecurities about having a crooked tail, ways to...

Home Rule is a work of fiction in the science fiction, interpersonal drama, and sociocultural writing subgenres, and is the third novel of The Tribal Wars book series. The work is best suited to the general adult reading audience. In this compelling and psychologically rich...

By day, Maj Newhouse is a proficient mechanic with a grateful list of clients. When she is not working on faulty vehicle parts, she and her friends Aimee and Kevin Cole, talented siblings, engage in some rather peculiar activities, challenging the authority of demons and...

Joel R. Dennstedt’s I, Robot Alien is a bold, immersive work of science fiction that echoes the spirit of the genre’s golden age while carving a path distinctly its own. The novel follows a robot designed by alien beings incapable of surviving Earth’s environment, whose...

Animal non-profit rescue centers, dedicated veterinarians, and passionate local volunteers continue to work tirelessly to preserve, protect, and rehabilitate wildlife despite the challenges posed by habitat loss and climate change. F. Stone's Wildlife's Second Chance features inspiring true stories of dedicated individuals who have selflessly...

The Galloping Snapper Confesses Everything: Tales of a Traveling Airbrush, Book 3, is Dave Letterfly Knoderer’s breathtaking memoir of life on the American circus and carnival circuits. When we meet Knoderer, he is grieving; he sells his six-pony liberty act and hits the road in...

In his memoir Kinker Circusing the Seventies, Dave Letterfly Knoderer describes growing up under his minister father’s authority, until a summer drummer’s job with a small circus gives him a different future to pursue. The book follows his attempt to make circus work permanent after...

Monsters Arise! by John DeGuire begins after a near-fatal attack in London, with Vlad Dracula III awakening with a transplanted human heart and discovering that his survival is part of a wider operation run by Dr. Moreau. Escaping confinement, Dracula follows a trail of stolen...

A Tale of Paris and Paris by Edmond Thornfield is set in fifteenth-century Cortona, where Lorenzo di Ranieri returns from Florence to a city under ecclesiastical scrutiny. Quiet warnings reach him that the Inquisition is preparing accusations meant to divide households and strip the town...

Edmond Thornfield’s novel, Asterios and the Labyrinth (Mythos of Knossos), is a reimagined, action-packed mythological and historical story, set in ancient Krete (Crete) during the period of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization. When King Minos dies, his son Asterios succeeds him as the ruler...

Nursing Her Fractured Family by Louis Tong is an enthralling novel. Penny's father has just died, and from now on, she has to take care of her mother and younger sister. Penny, at twenty-four, thinks more about her sister, how to protect her from their mother, who...

The Queen of Second Chances by Kam Karem is a brilliant blend of supernatural fantasy and crime mystery. The story unfolds in the whimsical Olde Town, Bolder County, Georgia. We meet eighteen-year-old Destiny, the sole employee and proprietor of The Sky’s NOT the Limit, Drone...

Piojos: The Little Spectacled Bear by Monica Vidalón is a picture book about a cub named Piojos. This spectacled bear has brown and cream fur, wears red glasses, and lives in the Peruvian Andes. He’s known for seeing the smallest details, like a tiny flower...

Edmond Thornfield’s Atalanta of the Wild follows Atalanta, an Arkadian huntress raised in the mountain wilds, after the father who abandoned her returns seeking forgiveness. Lord Iásios invites her into the royal house of Tegea, where she meets siblings she once believed she would never...

Plateau - Beyond the Trees, Beyond 2012 by Tina Frisco is a book with spiritual undertones. The protagonist is a 15-year-old tribal girl, W'Hyani. She is born as the keeper of the Crystal Heart which is the key to the Great Mosaic of Life. This...