Mercy Leroux’s We Are Not Strangers follows two warriors engaged on opposite sides of the American Revolution in 1775 Boston. Matthew Wilcox is a British grenadier concealing his social identity, and Josiah Cairn is a young American patriot struggling to prove his worth and masculinity...

We Learned to Live in the Castle: Stories by Theresa Griffin Kennedy is an incredibly raw, unflinching look at a side of Portland that most people never see. Kennedy doesn’t hold back as she traces her life from a childhood spent in the foster care...

Luxuries and Lies by Long Temple is a thought-provoking story about the invisible labor and emotional endurance that often go unseen in the workplace. Mercedes is a hardworking woman whose work is taken for granted. When the company's leaders try to erase her name from...

Richard Robbins’ First Lady of the New World is about Felicite St. Maxent, a young woman trying to make her way in colonial New Orleans. After her husband dies young, she has to manage her life while politics and society around her are constantly evolving....

All young Artemis knew about her mother, Letoa, came from the stories her Aunt Sophia told her. According to Sophia, the two sisters had been sent to the court of King Ethelbert of Cantwareburh following the demise of their parents. But then, after Letoa gets...

Cold, Dark, and Silent by David C. Reed is set in the rural area of Seacord in Hurrt County at the end of the Covid 19 lockdown. Ashe has retired from police duties in the nearby Metro to nurse his father in his last days....

Unicorns Love Undies by Geoffrey Ward and Fei Zheng-Ward is a well-written book that educates children on potty training and personal hygiene. Urina is a cheerful unicorn ballerina who loves to dance; however, she has a problem that affects her dancing. Whenever her diaper gets...

In Melissa Mickelsen’s Tearfall, the titular Tearfall is the name survivors give to the instant an alien experiment fractures Earth’s atmosphere, and opens permanent portals that release predatory species into major cities. The beings responsible are the Grays, an extraterrestrial military civilization whose scientists miscalculated...

In Hans Brunner’s Forever Day, Felix Joseph–Maria Fuchs leaves his family’s Swiss hotel and boards a liner bound for Australia, expecting a season abroad yet encountering a decision that will not release him. On the voyage, he meets Janine, a schoolteacher returning to Victoria, and...

The Ugly Underneath by Carlos Rodriguez is a memoir that traces the author’s path from a restless childhood to a career with the Washington State Patrol investigating crimes against children. The book opens with his formative memories, including the sudden loss of his grandmother and...

Another Havana Hangover by Randy Richardson revolves around Tanner Ford’s attempt to bring down the treacherous political system he helped create. He is pulled into the world of espionage after becoming involved with Richard Swift, a powerful political strategist in Washington. Swift is not trying...

When Kash is offered a security gig by his cousin Steel, the owner of a security company, to be the live-in bodyguard of a rockstar’s father, Kash accepts despite the knowledge that the rockstar is Valon, his ex. The job was the perfect opportunity for...

The Beast, once a powerful and shiny car admired by all who knew it, sat abandoned for many years in an old shed behind Mr. Peter's garage. Johnny started working in Mr. Peter’s garage when he was 12; he did small jobs, such as sweeping,...

A Hollow Death by Colleen Dumaine is a historical mystery set in Adelaide, Australia, in the late nineteenth century. Bethany Durrani is a determined investigator trying to keepher Investigation Agency afloat while raising her young son and managing the challenges of daily life. Lydia Emerson...

Best Birthday Ever is the second book in the Axolotl Agency series. It is written by Adrienne Christin and illustrated by Kat Powell. Axolotl friends Amethyst, Aqua, Onyx, Pearl, and Jade run the Axolotl Agency, which solves mysteries in and around Fin Lake and helps...

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote, "Home is the nicest word there is." That’s exactly what Brownie, a stray dog, hopes for in Brownie’s Adventures: Island Tales of a Dog from Trinidad by Manuela Giger. Every day, she wanders the beaches and sidewalks of Trinidad, hungry not...

It had been three years of daring missions for Onsan Vorga as an agent of Skaperen the Creator, and now he was ready to step aside from his duties and look after his pregnant wife, with whom he lived in the Trannsa-Eaglais Citadel. However, the...

In Galactic Passages: Planet 6333 by Dean and Anson Vargo, when miners on Planet Muudia uncover a buried alien structure beneath the frozen crust, General Thomas Krevety is drawn into a chain of events that exposes a covert interstellar operation targeting resource worlds. A convoy...

Life is full of twists and turns, ups and downs. How do we manage unexpectedly anxious moments? Unexpected Aldars is written by a group of authors called Oakland Community's Unexpected Altars. One of the many contributing authors, Brian Greenfield, writes comparatively about how life is...

What does it truly mean to be alive? Does it mean being safe? Does it mean living in one place where everything is perfect, and the world is merely something you can watch through transparent walls? In Darya Ahmadi’s The Glass House on the Hill,...