Dividing Down the Sunlight by Jason Shearer is a Western in the best tradition of the brutal, hard-living existence of the Nebraskan Panhandle. Set in 1878, it follows the exploits of Charlie Aintree, a manhunter, considered the best in the business. Operating out of Fort...

Addie Needs a Friend by Andrew Lott is a beautiful picture book for young readers. A young girl named Addie starts her first day at school. She’s nervous and afraid. She just wants to make friends but doesn’t know how. She spends most of the...

Mike Krentz’s Dead Will: Dr. Zack Winston Book 5 is a chilling and riveting medical conspiracy thriller. Dr. Zack Winston is a well-respected ER physician, based at the Bethesda Metro ED. He is temporarily at the District of Columbia University Medical Center ER, in charge...

In You Are Amazing and Blessed by Anna Nowell, young readers meet a group of young girls who face very real worries, including feeling alone, struggling at school, being afraid to ask for help, and more. The short chapters tell a stand-alone story about one...

After losing his position at a major automotive design firm, Miles Walker retreats from his family and from himself in I Want To Go To Yellow by D.T. Liburd. When a childhood sketch titled A Road Map to Yellow suddenly ignites in his loft, he...

Three Letters by A.L. Mengel is a deeply personal memoir chronicling the author's journey with Phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare genetic metabolic disorder. The book opens with Mengel's early years, detailing the challenges his family faced after his diagnosis as one of the first PKU babies...

Mission 37 by Michael Berk begins in 1945, when Army flight surgeon Captain Jack Monroe is summoned from a quiet English hospital to observe an autopsy in Germany that is meant to confirm the death of Nazi official Martin Bormann. When procedural gaps and missing...

Getting a kid into bed is usually a mission in itself, so making it a literal space mission is a genius move. In Zoom to the Stars, Megan Erin Hamilton shows how Aaron turns a boring bath and pajamas into an astronaut’s adventure. I loved...

In Dan Rice’s The Bane of Dragons, Allison lives between two worlds because she has the blood of a human father and a skaag mother, a serpentine species that serves a vast dragon empire spanning many universes. When a rogue skaag appears in Japan, Dr....

In Olympus Dawn by Zoë Routh, Dr. Victoria Tang develops a cartridge capable of converting carbon dioxide into breathable oxygen, positioning Mars for rapid habitation and placing her at the center of a corporate power struggle. When she is seized by agents acting for Lincoln...

Fragments of Self: A Constellation of Being by Susan A. Knight is a collection of poems, short stories, and essays that explore identity and human connection. The book is divided into three main parts called Existence, Fractures, and Beautiful Encounters. In the first part, the...

The Shattered Weave: The Song and Forge Chronicles Book 1, by A.M. Lavender, is epic high fantasy with dark fantasy and mythic elements. Readers are brought into a world sustained by the mysterious Weave. But their reality is beginning to fracture. This leads scholar Elara...

Radiance is Blooming by Y.L. Wigman is a charming, sweet romance set in a small town in Western Australia. Nadeen has broken off her toxic relationship in Melbourne and moved back to her hometown of Toodyay, northeast of Perth. There, she plans to set up...

There’s a Robot in Our Class is a delightful children’s picture book written by Moataz Abo Mokh with illustrations by Yasser Elgazzar. Siblings Amir and Naya cannot wait to get back to school after a long break. They have got their uniforms ready, backpacks packed,...

The Waking Ark by T.N. Traynor is set eight centuries after Earth fell silent. Cal wakes inside Ark Twelve to failing oxygen and a containment purge already in motion. Rescued by Mara Nova, he joins a small group of survivors navigating a vessel damaged by...

Cain’s Chameleon by Mark G Bearss poses the question: What is the best way to escape when threatened by gambling debts, bookies, and loan sharks? Dan Driscoll is in such a position. Addicted to gambling, he will go to any lengths to get his fix...

The Brighter the Light, the Darker the Shadow is an intriguing story about spirituality and life by Verlin Darrow, in which a spiritual leader follows the signs from the universe that lead him through the challenges of being human. Kade Tobin is a mentor in...

In Jesse Whipple's On Emerald Wings, Andi is a girl raised in the Emerald Forest by her godmother. Her life is closely tied to the earth and animals around her. After some time, she begins to notice she can somehow connect with plants and animals...

The Gospel of Caiaphas by Nicole Diamond Austin is a fictional telling of Joseph ben Caiaphas, who has always been infamously portrayed as presiding over the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus. Austin recreates Caiaphas, from childhood in a priestly household, to his rise as the high...

Adrian Cox's The Fall follows Raymond Cutter, a former Los Angeles police detective in the 1920s. After being pushed out of the force because of his sexuality and buried in debt, his life falls apart. He ends up working as a private investigator, accepting rough...