Salt & Honey by Candi Miller is a well-researched historical novel set in South Africa in the 1950s and 60s. I knew very little about this piece of history, and it is exactly as sad as I thought it would be. The story follows Koba,...

In A Trail to Love by Joanne Kiersarsky, the story begins in the early 19th century with a young soldier named Rex who falls for Felicity, the daughter of a powerful and rather ruthless senator. After her father tries to force her into a marriage...

In Dottie Lee’s In the Mountain, a routine shift inside a secure mountain facility becomes a desperate fight for survival when a catastrophic collapse traps a small group of workers and visitors far below the surface. Forced into the darkness beneath the ruined structure, Paul...

In Blood and Gold, Christie Sikora makes the argument that the Munich Olympics are proof that political violence cannot be separated from history. The author says the hostage crisis grew from decades of Palestinian displacement after 1948, from Cold War rivalries, from Western intervention across...

The Performance Review by Adrian M. Mompoint is an unsettling short story that might just resonate with office workers. Francis has resigned himself to the fact that his migraines mean he will never be a theater actor again. After a series of failed temping jobs,...

Nurturing a love of writing at a young age enables children to become competent writers as they grow up. Debra A. Boyle is a veteran language arts teacher. With Bored At Home, Boyle presents a language arts workbook designed to help young students learn how...

All Billy drank when he was a baby was his mother’s milk. He loved to be cradled, and he also slept a lot. It was his mother’s milk that filled his belly and soothed him to sleep. It was the same milk that made him...

Ho Ho No! is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Derek Good. It follows Max, a young boy who is well-known by the people on Maple Street for being selfish and ungrateful, and they call him Little Scrooge because of his attitude. All...

In Finding Sutton's Choice by Brenda Haas, Charlotte Sutton returns to Lakeside, Ohio, after a phone call reveals her estranged father, former baseball writer Chuck Sutton, is developing Alzheimer’s disease. Charlotte plans to stay only long enough to help manage his medical appointments before returning...

In Geo Rogers' Olumian Gamble, after the dwarven king condemns Maglen for loving the elf Teriel, he escapes into the Wildlands, knowing that capture will condemn him to years of forced labor. While surviving pursuit through unmapped territory, Maglen discovers that the conflict surrounding his...

The Braided Prescription by Dr. Beth Ricanati shares the journey of the physician from stress-induced chest pain to wellness through the use of the ancient Jewish ritual of making challah. The author uses this ritual to teach invaluable practices for healing and well-being, bringing together...

Murder Under A Bitter Moon by Abigail Keam follows Mona Moon during what should be the busiest and most exciting week of her year—Kentucky Derby season. She’s organizing events at Moon Manor, welcoming guests, and enjoying the spotlight that comes with her social standing. Among...

Andy the Admiral and the USS Shipshape by Mark C. Fava follows the commander of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Shipshape and his crew. Admiral Andy and his crew are ready to embark on yet another voyage this morning. Andy is dressed neatly and...

The Russia-Ukraine war continues, but Russia’s progress is stalled, and victory looks distant. Keen on Russia’s future in the war, Colonel General Gennady Chuikov, officially declared deceased, summons Major Tomas Arshavin of Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) to propose a strategy dubbed the Barca Maneuver. Through...

Steven James Foreman presents a fresh take on the tale of Hansel and Gretel in The Witch of Treblinka. After the brutal persecution of the Roma people by the Nazis ended in 1945, many among them still found themselves starving and homeless. Siblings Gretel and...

Jeanne Blanchet's Rite of Passage tells the story of the 1620 Mayflower voyage through the eyes of ten-year-old Sara Ann Clifton, now an eighty-two-year-old woman, who was reluctant to undertake the journey from Leiden to the New World. The story traces the perilous adventures of...

In Is That DiMaggio? by Nick Brigeman, New York middle school student Dave spends his afternoons collecting baseball memorabilia at Triple Crown Trinkets, a neighborhood shop run by former Montreal Expos player Lenny Johnson. After purchasing a rare 1941 Joe DiMaggio baseball card, Dave becomes...

In Lesha Fite’s Alexandra, after surviving a devastating car accident, Alexandra Carter begins recovering memories that threaten the carefully managed life she presents to everyone around her. While her identical twin sister, Cassie, believes she is finally healing, Alexandra quietly revisits hidden secrets tied to...

In Gabriel F.W. Koch’s Drop Dead Cadillac, private investigator Marlowe Black travels to a polluted inlet in Brooklyn after a reclusive mystery writer reports a Cadillac sinking beneath the tide near his isolated house. Inside the trunk Marlowe discovers a woman beside a younger lover...

Youth of Planet Earth Are Rising is the sequel to Ben Storm's Youth of Planet Earth: Arise. It's been a year since Sean Dempsey and his family moved to the village of Eastport, Pennsylvania. Sean is a senior at Eastport High and has taken an...