I’m Yours by Carolyn Menke introduces readers to Audrey, a young woman navigating love, ambition, and uncertainty in a world shaped by performance and desire. The story begins with Edward’s restless search for Audrey, who is torn between two paths, one grounded in her relationship...

In Baseball, Birthday, and Ten-Cent Beer by Gregg Sapp, Solomon Zuch loves baseball, and his favorite team is the Cleveland Indians. The Indians' management runs a lottery for home games to pick birthday boys to serve as honorary ballboys. Plans were made for the entire...

In Rob Phayre’s Reepaman, Jimmy Brown, known online as Reepaman, is a drone engineer with an illegal AI companion named Thalia and a hidden past at MIT that begins with Nathalia’s death. After a Pentagon demonstration draws Defense Department interest, Jimmy gains money, contracts, and...

Wisteria Winter by Ann Swann is the compelling story of two sisters who lose everything they love on Christmas Eve. Woken by a premonition, Sasha Everly wakes up her older sister Linzy, only to find that it’s too late to save their parents from the...

K. M. Cookie’s Song of Hummingbird Highway starts when Terri, a music lover, gets rid of her boyfriend. She refuses to shed a tear and cannot imagine that one impulsive night at a Santa Monica reggae club will change her life. Enter Reynold, a beguilingly...

In Encounter, Ian Reilly recounts the two years he and his wife Heather spent in Samoa after accepting volunteer teaching positions at Leulumoega Fou College. Arriving from Australia in 1990, the couple enters a country they know mostly through preparation before departure and soon discovers...

Catherine Meyrick’s And the Women Watch and Wait is a historical novel set in Australia during World War I. Kate Burke moves to Melbourne to help her Aunty Mary run the family shop while her cousins serve overseas. Before long, Kate’s sweetheart, Jack Sheehan, leaves...

W. M. Leesman’s Xavier Bradshaw: Ghostwriter is set in Livingston, Alberta, where newspaper reporter Xavier Bradshaw is called to St. Luke’s church after Councilman Carlo Marscapello is found dead at the altar. Xavier once investigated Carlo’s political dealings, so the case quickly reaches into his...

In Leave the Kid Alone: A Fractured Remembrance, author Steve Zettler welcomes readers into the chaotic childhood of young Stevie during an unforgettable year in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Growing up right above a family-owned saloon and country inn ensures that Stevie’s daily life looks nothing...

Jack R. Bialik’s Lost in Time examines a recurring pattern in human history, where knowledge can disappear for centuries before surviving evidence brings it back into view. The book begins by questioning familiar assumptions about when ideas first appeared, using early cataract surgery to show...

In John Cheyenne Wilbur's Grace Notes, Jerry Cradleman is a New Jersey athlete whose path changes after his best friend decides he no longer wants to live, and Jerry's own inherited faith begins to fail. He enters Princeton Seminary hoping the ministry will give him...

In B.A. Bellec’s Cobalt Lungs, after cobalt spores make outdoor air deadly, twenty-four-year-old Maddy lives inside Vancouver’s Rogers Arena, which has been converted into a crowded Safe Zone. Her father died there, her mother is gone, and her grandmother can no longer travel, so Maddy...

Echo of Atlantis: The Ūmdëdŭ Codex by KP Gillen is an enthralling YA fantasy with likeable characters. It has been sixteen years since Grand Elder Elijah Brightwater and his council successfully defeated Maximilian Obsidian, who wanted to open a dimensional gate. The next generation has...

Banks do not offer credit out of kindness. Paul Allsbrook examines this thorny question in How Banks Get Richer by the Poor. It is in the consumer’s interest to understand the system. The author explains how credit works, along with the advantages and pitfalls. While...

From Battlefield to Breakthrough by Kristina Gibbons is a well-written book for readers struggling with the feeling of emptiness despite efforts to fully experience all that life has to offer. It offers readers a guide to understanding the enemy's operations and to building a profound...

In Killer Secrets: Hudson Valley Series Book 3 by Bonnie Traymore, Victoria is struggling with the consequences of a deadly secret. Four years earlier, Timothy Sutton, a sexual predator, had victimized Victoria and several others. Sutton was shot to death, but his death ended up...

Rachel Elwiss Joyce’s Lady of the Castle is set in late 12th-century England, where Nicola de la Haye is Lincoln Castle's hereditary constable while raising a household formed through two marriages. When an earthquake destroys part of Lincoln Cathedral and kills her young son Tommy,...

In Asher Shines Bright: A Journey of Hope and Light by Kristina Gibbons, we are introduced to Asher, a young fox, who feels sad and lonely on the night of Oakmeadow’s Festival of Lights, while everyone around him is happy. Ary, his friend, notices this,...

In Mohammed Zahid’s What Can Not Be Said, thirteen-year-old Arjun loses his mother Kaveri suddenly, leaving him and his father Ashok Kumar to rebuild their daily lives around one another. The return to school restores routine, yet ordinary outings remind Arjun of the home they...

Literary Echoes: Short Story Analyses by Fiza Pathan is an educational study of short fiction that teaches readers how to examine the details authors put into their stories. Pathan considers Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” by looking at the village ritual as a social practice accepted...