Some Species of Outsider-ness by Angela Grey and Paige Peterson is a poignant coming-of-age novel for young adult readers. Piper Quesenberry and Slater Hartmann are two teens who feel like outsiders for different reasons. Piper is battling bipolar disorder, and Slater is recovering from Guillain-Barré...

Grover Wilcox Goes to the Circus by Martin Lastrapes is an urban fantasy about Grover Wilcox, an English professor who always dreamed of joining the circus but never had any real skills. Until a kitchen fire in which he should have died but didn’t. Grover...

Auto Antenna: An Enchanted Guide to Santa Fe & A Vague Blueprint to the Cosmos by Stavo Mustang Craft blends elements of memoir, fiction, and inspirational guidance into a captivating narrative. Set against the vibrant and mystical backdrop of Santa Fe, the story follows Cybilline,...

Mario Chávez Jovel’s 15 Disturbing Short Stories of Psychological Mayhem with Killer Endings is a collection of original tales, all with unique, unsettling, and completely unexpected arcs and even more surprising character fates. In The Survivor, a man wakes up buried alive, injured and disoriented,...

Savant: Book 1 of The Stream and the Void by Jason Aaron Cameron is a sweeping epic fantasy where we find ourselves with Talia, Sai, and Yang. These are three friends whose lives are torn apart by the forces of the Void. After Talia unknowingly...

Wolf of the Nordic Seas by Jennifer Ivy Walker is the second book of the Valiant Vikings series, preceded by book one, Dragon of Denmark. In the first installment, Skårde, the illegitimate son of King Harald Bluetooth, is a Viking warlord known as the Dragon...

Artesia by Kevin Karr is a magical children’s fantasy where siblings Lucas and Lucy go on an unexpected adventure. When they stumble upon a mystical painting by Leonardo Da Vinci during a school museum trip, they are transported to a fantastical realm filled with dragons,...

Alaska Bloodlust by J. L. Askew is a gripping thriller that follows private investigator Race Warren as he faces a vengeful enemy from his past. After barely surviving a brutal case in Alaska, Warren returns to Tennessee, hoping to leave the horrors behind. But when...

W.G. Williams's 20 Years of Internet Humor is a delightful anthology that combines a myriad of jokes, anecdotes, and humorous sketches collected over two decades of internet exchanges. The book's charm lies in its nostalgia, echoing the days when email chains and bulletin board posts...

Just Dying to Glamp by April Nunn Coker is a thriller with a difference. After losing her husband, Mamie West decided she needed to get on with her life. Buying a vintage camper, she sets off on a glamping trip to Magnolia Bluff with the...

In Henrietta Hopper's Big Secret by Cindy L. Shirley, Henrietta has been keeping something from her family and friends. Now that she is a teenager, Henrietta decides to tell them her secret: She is a vegetarian. She understands the natural order of things. Frogs are...

In Billy Joe Watkins' thriller, While Others Sleep, Tom Parson's mundane life is shattered when he discovers 'The Sleep'—inexplicable periods where time stops, the world pauses, people are suspended in mid-action, and an unsettling silence prevails. Tom realizes that he is awake. His body is...

Set in 1920s Oklahoma City, Genevieve Morrissey's Thea follows the story of a teenage girl trying to find her place in the world. Raised by an alcoholic mother, Thea Carter longs for a life of normalcy where she doesn't have to change homes frequently and...

When Noah saw the news announcing the death of Dr. Martha Ortega, the leading authority on Black Plague research, he was unaware that her death would upend his life. The year is 6992, and, as it turns out, aliens are not so bad. Although humans...

Jax and Laura Diamond, along with their dog, Ace, travel to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. As they cross the threshold of their exquisite hotel bedroom, they discover something strange on the bed. They find a skeleton, a nonsensical riddle, a gold cross, and a...

Supernatural thriller/mystery readers are going to love Ashley Fontainne and Andrea Emmes's Eternal Beauty. Bridget Higgins was seven years old when her parents tragically passed away. Raised by her loving grandmother, she developed a fascination for horror fiction and videos of herbalist and social media...

Ashen Light by Ian Young is a gripping sci-fi noir thriller that thrusts readers into a world of corporate corruption, artificial intelligence, and buried secrets. John Allenbeck is a jaded HR Investigator at the all-powerful Synthetic Corporation, spending his days dealing with malfunctioning machines rather...

In Translucent, Joey Paul delivers a gripping narrative set in a dystopian world where a virus has decimated the adult population, and those left behind face treachery and the struggle for survival. The story follows Zya Monk, a seventeen-year-old girl who, after an attack on...

Reading aloud to preschoolers not only helps them develop essential reading skills but also helps them love to read. I cannot think of a better way to encourage reading aloud than with rhyming picture books like Captain Troublemaker and The Belly Rub Avenger. In it,...

Silly Nana Meets Mr. Moose by Stacey Roberts is a delightful read that combines humor, warmth, and whimsy. Silly Nana went to visit her grandchildren for Christmas. While she sat on her chair and watched them decorate the Christmas tree, she remembered a special story....