An Aspiration to Lie Flat by Stanton Fenwick is a hilarious story of a man with one big ambition in life: to be left alone. But when he wins a corporate sweepstake and is thrust into stardom on the internet, all his plans are shot...

Above Neil Rock: Stories & Poems by James Ross Kelly is a memoir that captures the rugged beauty and harsh realities of life in the Pacific Northwest. Through a blend of stories and poems, Kelly reflects on the environmental devastation caused by corporate silviculture, the...

Jonathan Sears’s Legend of the Last Star Knight begins in Winnipeg with Alex, a shy high school senior who simply wants to slide under the radar and maybe talk to his crush, Ally. Instead, an ancient artifact and a bizarre cosmic storm rip him away...

Simon McCall’s Mac Versus Monsters: The Cumbria Chronicles combines eight atmospheric volumes into one captivating story that follows a former Royal Military Police investigator called Connor “Mac” McClymont. He now lives and works out of a converted black-and-white Land Rover ambulance he calls The Badger....

Contentment: How to Attain Lifelong Peace and Well-being by an anonymous author is a candid, personal account of a childhood and young adulthood of great unhappiness, which continued across several generations of the author's family. From there, the book widens into something closer to a...

Join the Flock and Other Poems by David Somerfleck is a very interesting poetry collection. I quickly found myself drawn into David Somerfleck's world. The poems move through memories, family stories, relationships, work experiences, and encounters with nature. There is no single storyline holding everything...

Walls of Age by Clark Templeton is a riveting medical thriller that takes us to a region divided into the Elite and Commons Districts. Nate Walkins is a scientist working for an Institute in the Commons District on a cure for an aging virus. The...

Too many Americans see Washington, DC, as simply a political hot mess, yet there is so much more to our nation’s capital. Author Ken Wilcox makes this abundantly clear in Ultimate DC: Travel, Walk, Explore. In it, he shares his love and knowledge of the...

C.T. Moody has written a parental guide for children growing up in an AI world. Which Way to Smart? is not about whether AI is good or bad. It’s more about how children can flourish in an AI-driven environment. The same skills that are used...

Kaylon Bruner Tran brings us nostalgic historical fiction in Uncle Tom’s Granddaughter. When eighteen-year-old Jessica Dalton has to complete a combined assignment for both History and English class, she has no clue about the journey she is about to embark upon. Choosing the well-known Uncle...

Ingefaer vod Renku: Aere Warrior by Rene Vecka introduces us to Ingefaer, a tall, red-haired ten-year-old who vows to get justice after scale-skinned monsters kill her mother and father. Her new life with her uncle Thadir is a battle of wills, especially when his drinking...

I Am That Cat by Kathleen Welton is a delightful picture book that gently introduces young readers to mindfulness through the everyday adventures of a lively puppy. He is easily distracted by knocks at the door, a passing squirrel, a buzzing fly, or a rolling...

The story of Noah and the flood continues to fascinate, but many details are lacking. Opinions are divided, with some even regarding the story of Noah as some kind of children’s tale. In the process, they risk missing the deeper implications of divine planning and...

Hungry Things by Andy Corbett follows Tom Hunt, a machinist in Poquoson, Virginia. His everyday life is affected by an ancient evil in the Chesapeake marshes. In the first part, Tom collapses at work and then finds out he has terminal cancer. He spends many...

The Art of Losing to a Y-14 by Andrew Radu is a fascinating memoir that unmasks the psychological vulnerabilities of people who identify as high achievers. Drawing from his years as an elite Ivy League fencer and his current work as a psychiatrist, Radu explores...

The Big Picture by Pat Ferns follows the Canadian television producer from a childhood shaped by his family’s move from Winnipeg to England to his return to Canada in 1968, when a chance CBC appointment brings him into national current affairs broadcasting. Ferns learns television...

In Paul Martin Midden’s Simple People, Ahmed Winslow has built a quiet life as a Missouri truck driver, keeping his distance from family while secretly producing counterfeit currency in the basement of his rented house. When a plan to filter the money through banks in...

In The Awakening of Fear by Michael Decesare, six-year-old Michael Toscani experiences fear for the first time, and it comes peacefully, a thought he had never had before, slipping into his mind. He hears something whisper his name in the dark and realizes fear isn't...

The Secret of the Smiling Rock Man by Joe Cappello is a collection of 14 short stories that readers will enjoy. All the stories are built around characters his father used to describe as having “rocks in their heads,” people who refuse to settle for...

Author R. J. F. has combined a real setting with a horror story in The Keynes Game. Six people, two men and four women from different walks of life, are summoned to take part in a game. They don’t know the rules nor the endgame....