Keith Landry’s The Garden Detectives is set at Riverview condominium, where the annual rush for garden plots coincides with the arrival of Cletus Hughes, whose confident manner quickly secures him a place among the residents. Bridge nights, committee meetings, and seasonal gatherings knit the community...

Snakeroot & Cohosh by Cathy Schieffelin begins when Eva Hoskins leaves her husband, Luther, after years of escalating violence in mid-century Kentucky, disappearing into the hills near Creech. In Helton, she assumes a new identity and gets government work guiding researchers through Appalachian forests, drawing...

In The Boy with the Butterfly Mind by Lorelei Brush, readers meet Julie, a math teacher juggling her job, marriage, and the nonstop energy of her four-year-old son, Patrick. She feels deeply proud of him, but also worried. His moods range from exuberant curiosity to...

The C.L.A.R.I.F.Y. System: A Mindset Framework for Healing the Workplace & Elevating Productivity by Shae Pratcher offers a guide to transforming workplace culture and personal performance through intentional mindset shifts. The book presents a seven-phase framework: Clarity, Listen, Adjust, Reset, Integrity, Focus, and Yield, designed...

And Then He Pressed Play: Track One by Robert Halliwell is the story of Arlo “A.J.” Walker, a shy yet musically gifted Canadian exchange student at Glenbridge Secondary in Ireland. The cultural differences are overwhelming for him, and in addition to his unique accent, he...

In The Iron Tithe by Robert W. Riley, we meet Knight Commander Cedrik Theramond, who serves as the King’s Shield and has the grueling charge of collecting mandatory grain levies. The crux is that these come from famine-struck villages to supply the King's army of...

A Life Worth Living by Don Lehmkuhl follows the story of an eccentric professor and his young protégé over the course of two decades. Kameron Burkhardt attended Saint Augustine's University in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 1980s. With youthful vigor, Kameron delved into university life...

The Ragman by Don Lehmkuhl introduces Joey Schatz, who became an orphan after witnessing the murders of his parents. He was raised in the same home that gave shelter to his father, Our Lady of Providence Children’s Home. Here, he becomes friends with Tony Rosetti,...

The Shadow of Death: A Tragedy of Yellow Fever by McKenna Rowell is set in 1793 Philadelphia, where Deborah Allard becomes entangled in a dispute that threatens David Byrne’s family after Mr. Foster accuses his father of a ruinous debt. Just when Deborah uncovers a...

Old Friends and Other Broken Things by Leah Cohen is a collection of thought-provoking stories about fractured relationships, societal expectations, and psychological turmoil. Two friends who have been apart for 11 years discover how one’s life has changed while the other’s has remained stagnant; a...

It’s a sunny summer day, and the neighborhood feels happy, but Rover the dog doesn’t feel that way. He enjoys painting, but nothing he creates looks good to him. After messing up again and again, he starts doubting himself. He even wonders if there’s anything...

Izzie tries to be invisible every day during Reading Circle, and she succeeds until the day Miss Mira, the teacher, calls on her to read a passage. Izzie froze. Soon, the class was giggling, and Izzie pleaded that Miss Mira skip her on the grounds...

In It Happened at the Palace, Stewart F. Lane invites readers into the storied past of one of Broadway’s most treasured landmarks. Lane traces the Palace Theater from its vaudeville beginnings to its transformation into a Broadway institution that has hosted generations of legendary performers....

The Ups and Downs of Running a Small Business by James Fay Comley is an insightful guide that blends personal anecdotes with practical advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners. Drawing from over 95 years of life experience and decades of running a successful...

The Wisdom I Can't Teach by Paul Coyne is a collection of poems that explore the lessons life offers. Written during the first five years of his son’s life, the book is a heartfelt guide to navigating life’s complexities. Coyne draws on his personal experiences...

The Drowned Queen by Elspeth Gregorsdóttir introduces us to Myr’Caenith, a woman who survives a century of captivity in the deathless realm of the Duskhold. She goes into the Whispering Sea, where her body dissolves and reforms with command over shadow and starlight. She crosses...

In Sicko, Avril Grady tells the story of Jamie Katz, a queer man working as a scriptwriter for an adult film studio. Jamie’s life is complicated—he’s still intertwined with Paul, his twice-ex-husband who is also his boss and secret lover, and their repeated breakups and...

Tasha He’s Caenogenesis, book one of the science fiction Gemini Files series, is set in the fractured city of Ignis, where a Synthetic weapon known as Project Gemini escapes the laboratory that engineered her and begins moving through the districts under the name Yin. Genetically...

Born and brought up in London’s East End in 1952, Steven James Foreman longed for adventure and headed for Africa in 1992 to follow his dream. He was to stay for 30 years, returning to the UK in 2024. He recounts his experiences in From...

Boy, Refracted by Luke Stoffel opens in Luang Prabang, where a grieving writer uploads a photograph of a temple’s Tree of Life mosaic to an AI as a mirror. That simple act fractures reality. The AI, shaped by Luke’s heartbreak over a vanished lover known...