A Camping Conundrum by Stacy Walker is an investigation of robbery and murder on a camping trip. This is a fast-moving story that holds the reader’s attention from the first page to the very last. The main characters are Liz, who is an exemplary Certified...

The term “ghost in the machine” was first coined by Gilbert Ryle in 1949, and simplistically put, suggests that consciousness or the mind can exist alongside, but independently, within a physical entity. The Ghost in the Machine Reconsidered by Joshua Robertson revisits this and related...

Justin is a young sales rep living in New York City and desperately missing his family back home. On a long weekend, one of his colleagues, Trevor, sensing his loneliness, invites Justin to join him at a cabin in the Catskills. Justin has had a...

Petey Perfectpants and the Silly Sock Puppet Problem by Jimmy Vee is a children’s picture book about a boy named Petey, who seems to be perfect in every way. He keeps his room clean, he has good manners, and he tries to get good grades,...

Rejoice in the spirit of the upcoming holiday season with a dose of contemporary romance in Beth Carter's The Christmas Fib. Brooke Hamilton's workaholic lifestyle as a corporate headhunter has finally taken a toll on her after her father's unexpected passing. Seeking to recuperate, Brooke...

Look! There Are No Dinos Inside of This Book by Jimmy Vee is a playful and imaginative adventure hinting that some extinct animals might still roam the earth, just out of sight. It begins with Dangerous Dave, a self-proclaimed dinosaur wrangler, who’s insistent that no...

R. L. Hare's Boardroom Assassin: Executive Vengeance is the sequel to Boardroom Assassin, a thriller centered on CEO Rick Frown's pursuit of the perfect murder and detective Elena Kolonik's hunt for the killer. This time, the battle takes place in the courts: the court of...

Big Kid Night by Kira Wallette is a heartfelt children's book about a mother lovingly getting her toddler ready for bed. The little girl's room is calm as her Mama rocks and sings her to sleep, filling their space with comfort. The toddler is sweetly...

Joan Brooks Baker’s In the Swampyland is a collection of personal stories tracing her moments of discovery across childhood and adulthood. In The Burrito, eleven-year-old Joan defies her father’s warning and ventures to buy food from a nearby bodega, where a frightening encounter with local...

“Only much later do you realize that all the maturity forced upon you has robbed you of something precious.” In Martyn Burke's novel, The Gossip Columnist, many characters experience loss, with innocence being just one of the things taken from them. As the Weimar years...

Out of the Past: Collected Essays on World and American History by Michael Murphy covers different historical subjects in two parts. The first section discusses world history, including Plato's thoughts on democracy, Augustine's philosophy of history, Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism, and how the Nazis came to...

Fractured by Jason Melby follows Stewart “Stu” Harvey, a grieving father and struggling author, who is recruited by publisher Royce Vogel to write a biography of Simon Hollis, a country singer recently exonerated after twenty years in prison for a triple homicide. Stu visits Hollis’s...

In Astral Seeds: Eclipse of the Celestial War—Eternal Reign Edition, Jhani Mills opens with creation itself arguing its purpose. This prologue hums like a hymn to chaos and design. From this vast beginning, the story descends to a living world where bread fails to rise,...

Heavy Sky by Alex O. Harb begins with Toryn Skyheart of the Windclaw Tribe setting out to restore a failing islet, through skies and icy terrain, to recover a vital heartstone. On a separate course, Lina Ryven survives the destruction of her aircraft, forming a...

Passages of Peculiarity 2: A Collection of Dark Tales by Mark K. McClain is an anthology of individual short stories that lean into the unusual and unsettling, each reading independently. The Candle in the Crypt sees a woman return to Alderwick Manor after her father’s...

In Ponytail by Caitlin K. Murphy, Amanda Greene is the newest and only female detective in the Oakville Police Department. An assault incident in a local park prompts Amanda to investigate. The nature of the attack appears to be personal, as the victim’s ponytail was...

R. Morello’s Upside Down is a one-of-a-kind, beautifully layered work that merges grief, trauma, and redemption in a surreal mirror world setting. The story follows Caleb, a man shattered by the loss of his sister, who finds himself literally living beneath the world he once...

Qasida for When I Became a Woman by Huma Sheikh is a collection of original poetry on migration, loss, and inherited memory that links Kashmir to global landscapes of exile. In For a Woman on a Train, a subway ride and a father’s murder intersect...

Falling Out by Lucinda Brant begins when twelve-year-old Deborah Cavendish is forced into a mysterious midnight marriage to a drunken young heir, the Marquis of Alston. Years later, Deborah has grown into a strong, independent woman living in Bath with her orphaned nephew, defying society’s...

Harriet Keaton, a longtime resident of The Indie Retirement Village, is called to her family home in uptown Charlotte in the middle of the night. Her brother, Joey, out on parole after serving almost twenty years for a crime he didn’t commit, is in trouble...