The Creeping Darkness of Janaidar by Robert D. Holland begins in a hidden underground city called The Sleeping City, where an ancient dragon named YuLong wakes up the instant YunFei, the ruler he has been mentally linked to for thousands of years, dies. He expects...

Getting Ready for My Plane Ride: An Airplane Book for Kids by Dr. Fei Zheng-Ward explains to young readers what it will be like taking a flight for the first time. It follows a young child who is getting ready for their first plane ride....

In Peter Van Oossanen’s The Extraterrestrial, when an infant is left in a basket on the porch of a remote California farm, John and Mary Stanton raise him as their own son, naming him Sam and giving him an ordinary life in the Salinas Valley....

In J.P. Ramzy’s Marked: Game of Deception, after being expelled from St. Francis Catholic School, teenager Devyn Prescott is forced back to Avail, the institution she once barely survived, where old enemies and buried memories await her. Years later, Devyn lives an outwardly polished adult...

In Dangerous Books and the Magic Within Them by R. H. Buffington, twelve-year-old Michael loses his grandfather and is forced to live in a foster home with Perry and Linny. Once there, he stumbles upon a mysterious trunk with ties to his family. Inside, he...

A Faithful Companion by Kasey Stockton is a delightful example of one of my favorite genres. Emma Darling was deeply in love with her neighbor’s nephew, Owen Buckley. When he visited his aunt and uncle in Derbyshire, he and Emma experienced an idyllic summer filled...

Tall as the Sun by Stephanie Henson is a children’s picture book set at the beach, told from a little girl’s perspective. As she rides upon her father’s shoulders, she delights in the views of swimmers, surfers, and seagulls. But it’s the special feeling of...

In a wonderful and exciting new mystery from debut author Ranjini Iyer, The Colossus, readers will follow caterer Maxine (Max) Rosen as she stumbles upon a mysterious coded document of her father's, which seems to be a link to the Nazis, pharmaceuticals and medical research....

Henrietta, the Singing Ballerina by Christine Frisbee follows a young girl whose love of both singing and dancing shapes her journey toward self-expression. Henrietta is introduced as a joyful, imaginative child who treasures her ballet slippers and spends her days dancing through her home while...

Bayler Daniels: Trouble in the Glades by S.A. Lawrence is about a man whose life is as steady as the land he respects. Bayler Daniels’ life was clean and uncomplicated; he preferred straight talk, lived by the Bible, and honored the delicate balance of the...

A Symphony of Lies by Maria Monday is a psychological thriller about deception, betrayal, and greed. Emma, a very gifted investigative journalist, is regrouping in her apartment in the Swiss Alps when she receives a letter. Nicole, her stepmother, has died. Shocked and deeply saddened,...

Raised on Black and White TV by Carol Denise Mitchell is a reflective narrative that explores how early television shaped identity, culture, and perception through the eyes of a Black woman growing up in mid-20th-century America. The book opens with a nostalgic prologue that frames...

Ghost Hauler: Fifty Teeth by Stephen Van Olsen is part serial killer crime story and part psychological thriller. Stephen drives the American interstate as a freight hauler, and he has done so for 27 years. But he doesn’t just drive—he kills, too. And he takes...

Springtime is a magical time of the year. Everything is rejuvenated: new life is everywhere, and everything is clean and fresh. In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Spring Song, the poetic words bring to life the beauty and romance of springtime, all based on the words of...

Angela van Breemen’s Revenge Not Taken Lightly is a contemporary, gritty, and suspense-filled paranormal crime mystery set in New Egan, Ontario, Canada. Emma Jackson is a gifted psychic who works with her husband, David Harris, a lawyer and PI, on cold-case crime investigations, involving...

Recently divorced, jobless, and living in his sister’s house in Hollywood, California, thirty-year-old Robert Donegan was looking for any job to keep him afloat. When a friend refers him to a contact named Antonio, who is willing to pay him $3,000 to drive a removal...

Gershwin’s Bess by Lisa K. Winkler follows the ascent of Anne Wiggins Brown, a gifted soprano moving from Baltimore to the intense, competitive music world of New York. Starting with her childhood performances for WWI soldiers, the narrative tracks her through the 1920s as she...

“The boy was an unknown, but Claire thought unknowns could eventually make something of themselves.” Of course she did, because Claire Benson, the protagonist of The Dyer Legacy by Albert Sipes, is goodhearted to a fault. The story begins when Claire narrowly escapes two would-be...

When Jack Miller, a non-profit city lawyer in his late thirties, boards a flight bound for Eastern Europe, he plans to spend two weeks touring Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus, where he also intends to learn about the mysterious history of his Jewish family, who have...

The Nakamura Conjecture by Hitsumei Mitame defies classification even as it grips your imagination. What ties together anomalies like the disappearance of a farmer in colonial Virginia in 1709 with the massive species die-offs in our times? Konrad Crane is a small-town science journalist from...