Life Is an Upward Spiral by Ansar Yawar begins with the problem of human misery and the question his Nana placed in his mind: why do so many people fail to be happy? Yawar answers through the image of life as an upward spiral, where...

Dan Flanigan’s Tenebrae is a collection of original poetry that examines a marriage carried into widowhood through memory and confession. Among them, in the poem Quills, quoted speech and recurring porcupine imagery show spouses mistaking self-protection for devotion until sobriety alters their life together. Certain...

The Parchment Burns, The Letters Rise: One God, One Lord, One Life examines the Shema as a declaration that refuses to separate belief from obedience. Robert John Popoff argues that Scripture presents hearing God as an act proven through the shape of a person’s life,...

What if your heart were a cowboy racing through the body on an important mission? In Captain Cardio and the Heart Ranch by Dr. Ally Eruemulor, young readers are taken on a journey through Bodyville. Early on, they meet Captain Cardio, who works tirelessly to...

Devin Kornelsen’s The Pillars of Unity presents a New Age spiritual philosophy built around Unity, described as the origin of creation and the Divine heart to which all things return. Kornelsen defines the pillars as thirteen energetic laws that can be applied to ordinary life,...

Flamingo Express by Kenneth D. Michaels is a remarkable cozy crime mystery with touches of LGBT romance. Detectives Nick Scott and Norm Malone travel to Key West to help their friends Jojo and Lola, private detectives, to investigate a complex and high-risk case of fentanyl...

A Selection Of Poems And Short Stories by Maree Alaina Graham covers a wide variety of subjects that pertain to everyday life, from the author’s personal experience with marriage, divorce, and the pain of being at odds with her daughter to learning to live with...

Justice is not always neat. It can be quite chaotic. Melvin E. Edwards’ Nuremberg, Mississippi is set against the background of one of America’s most tumultuous times – the Civil Rights era. When Henry Logan is arrested for violating a local law about after-dark restrictions...

C. L. Richardson’s Reclaimers follows Robin Winters, an ex-soldier desperately clinging to the hope of a peaceful life. Just as she starts to let her guard down and make genuine connections, a major government secret shatters her hard-won stability. It’s a gut-wrenching look at what...

In the Beginning: The Early Days of Religious Beliefs is a fascinating work of fiction in the historical sub-genre and was penned by author Jaime Reyes. As the title suggests, we return to very early times of the human race, when Neanderthals are first learning...

Do you like playing with your pets? Do you think they are amusing? I absolutely agree with you, so I invite you to add a new furry friend to those you already have and have fun with him. Meet Frankie, the adorable protagonist of Frankie...

A spy is caught in a dangerous web of secrets in Into the Shadows by R.M. Jerome. The novel is set just before WWII starts, during the rise of Nazi Germany. It begins with Ella Vogel, a young Swiss teacher, being recruited for a mission...

In One Chance by James Chamberlain, Charlie Baker is a Chicago gambler running from a loan shark after a fixed fight goes wrong. When a stopped moment opens a doorway, Charlie steps into Wisteria and becomes Chance Arizona, a younger version of himself in a...

In The Byzantine Pineapple, Bill Poje takes a hard look at how complex and unfair our social, economic, legal, and political (SELP) systems have become. It actually offers a solution. Poje argues that the endless stream of new laws, tax changes, and welfare programs makes...

In Dan Tron’s Zerodopulos Saga opener, The Indigo Mage, John Sullivan is a centuries-old Indigo Mage training Karen Smith in the supernatural world hidden in ordinary life. On Karen’s first field day, John borrows her camera to record their assignments and show viewers how energy...

Karol Windsor’s Hypothermia follows Cassidy Blackburn, a Milwaukee travel writer whose life as an adventurer changes after a hunting accident leaves shrapnel lodged near his heart. A year after the accident, Cass writes close to home as anxiety over another cardiac emergency governs how far...

Every child must learn that not everything will go the way they want. Fearless Growth Mindset Short Stories for Boys by Toby Sparrow is a collection of short stories introducing readers to boys who face all kinds of challenges. It begins with Leo, who believes...

My Best Pal: The Awesome Ethan is a children’s adventure picture book written by Karlene Stewart and Jason Stewart, and illustrated by Safia Sharif. Jason’s best friend is his teddy bear, Ethan. The two of them go just about everywhere -- except to school. Jason’s...

In Sedona by J.F. McCarney, the two main characters are Randall Jenkins III, known as Colt, and Meredith Slayton. Colt used to be a bronc rider, but after a riding accident, he started working with abused and feral horses. Meredith is the breadwinner in her...

Reckoning! by David Vincent begins when Jim Saunders, an Atlanta orthopedic surgeon, survives a Zimbabwe elephant hunt that should have ended with every witness dead. The animal that leaves him alive has a red mechanical eye, a detail that reaches Dr. Stephanie Wolff, the new...