In Borderline Human: Persona by Oxsana Palatskaya, Lena Dyal works as an analyst inside Persona Tower, a corporate system that monitors cognition and behavior through an interface called Reflex. When her clearance is reduced after several unexplained legacy server accesses, she traces anomalies linked to...

Bad Americans: Part II by Tejas Desai continues the bold and unflinching exploration of American life that made the first volume so memorable. This time, the narrative unfolds through Olive Mixer's unusual pandemic getaway in the Hamptons, where twelve very different guests are brought together...

Secrets and Silk is the third book in the Delcinia Diaries series by Dania Voss. Growing up on her family's dairy farm in Orville, Ohio, didn't stop Natalie Wilson from becoming a runway model at Delcinia, one of the premier lingerie companies in New York....

Sugar Sand Land by Patricia Leavy is a love story for the ages. Emerson Blue is one of the most famous social media influencers in the world. She appeared to come from nowhere and announced her arrival with the question: “Who is Emerson Blue?” Her...

Choosing the right career, or making the right move, can be daunting, particularly in volatile times. Navigating Your Next by Julian Lighton describes the steps to decide, arrive, and prosper. A career is more than just earning money. It provides a sense of identity. The...

Elizabeth Kellam's Chopin’s Last Manuscript begins in 1971, when a Polish craftsman renovating Eugène Delacroix’s Paris studio discovers a hidden leather portfolio beneath the floorboards. Inside are a manuscript signed by Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin and a diary that appears to chronicle his private account of...

The Necessary Goodbye by Peter D. Banko is a well-written book that offers readers essential leadership tools for finding, developing, and nurturing talent; selecting the right people for their team, and firing team members who do not contribute meaningfully to organizational goals and fit the...

Aaliyah and Amelia in the Garden of Whispering Wings by Christel Finley-Harrell begins with two sisters playing in their backyard. The girls find Zoe, a friendly butterfly, who tells them about a hidden garden where the butterflies have faded colors. Zoe tells them that only...

The Cheeky Capybara is a children’s picture book written by Kateryna Dronova with illustrations by Dara Karei. It is the story of Tito—a capybara with a big personality and an even bigger ego. He struts around the marshes and green meadows, convinced he’s better than...

We Live in a Fallen World by Lance Dickson is a helpful guide that aims to help believers find ways to remain faithful to God in this world that is full of sin and corruption. The author reminds readers about the origin of sin and...

Shirley Murley is a little girl who loves her faithful dog, Trevor. In Su Murley’s Shirley Murley and Clever Trevor, the twosome is inseparable as Trevor is the ideal four-legged companion. There are many things that this clever dog can do: he is good on...

Arklight: Templar Underworld by J.M. Myrick is a deep dive into the secrets, myths, and mysteries left behind by the Templar Knights as well as the modern-day Templar Secret Orders that keep those traditions alive. It is 1990, and thirteen irreplaceable masterpieces are stolen from...

Robots, Please is an eclectic collection of loosely connected short stories by Jared M. Bentley. A newly created forestry robot unwittingly causes unrest among politicians, military strategists, and environmentalists alike, until it unexpectedly gets a promotion. After offering a ride to a hitchhiking andro sapien,...

Orlando Chavez's Portrait of a Hollow Man follows a man who ends up trapped in the same routines, glued to technology, and mentally checked out from the world around him. He wakes up early, goes through his phone, eats breakfast, takes care of his aging...

In Thomas S. Brown’s Echelon: The Cycle Stirs, Maria Kessler survives in the Lower East Spill by mapping patrol routes and drone cycles, until Dr. Elias Roth recruits her to Project Synthesis in Geneva, where her mind synchronizes with an artificial lattice called Echo-9. Through...

Momentum: A Memoir by Emily Brown opens with the author traveling to a memorial service for her Uncle Bib. As Emily listens to stories about her uncle’s warmth and generosity, she begins to compare them with memories of her own emotionally distant upbringing. She’s hoping...

Ancilla is the first book in a trilogy by Sera Maddox Drake. After a religiously constrained childhood, a young woman begins experimenting with sex and learns that she enjoys a wide range of partners and activities. With each lover, she becomes less inhibited during the...

Emotional Intelligence for the Busy Professional by Dr. A.M. Benjamin offers a practical guide to understanding and applying EQ in everyday life and work. The book starts by defining emotional intelligence as the ability to recognize, understand, manage, and influence one's own and others' emotions....

Sonja Dewing’s Daughter of the Black Flag reimagines the classic adventure novel Treasure Island with a focus on female characters and a dash of the fantastical. Isolated from her peers and trapped by her lack of options as a woman, Chen goes for a radical...

Achak of the Sequoia Tribe by Alex Coppin tells the story of a boy coming of age in an indigenous Native American tribe, right before outside forces began to alter their world. Achak is at the age where he has to prove he’s a man....