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...

Long Temple’s When the Chat Paused follows the four women of the Ebony M. Elite, a friendship held together through a group chat built into the rhythm of their lives. Their time together moves easily from messages into nights out, where one video of them...

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...

In B. Marcus Walker's Spirit of the Plain, after Shield officers destroy House Truitt in Grayhaven, Collier Truitt flees into the Forest Plain, a dangerous territory ruled by Allouhuille, the power bound beneath the continent. Collier seeks the Yurbo, his father’s people, hoping they will...

Lonely When You’re Dead by Roy Chaney begins with journalist Claude “Murph” Murphy caught in a violent sweep following a riot at a Quebec City poetry festival, setting up a story that combines crime, politics, and cultural unrest. Murph arrives in Canada on an assignment,...

In Michael W. Cook’s Faith in Flux, Cook takes a hard look at what happens when people begin censoring themselves long before anyone openly demands silence. Using Saint Augustine’s attempt to redirect Alypius after public entertainment disrupted his studies, the book follows a larger argument...

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...

In Your Animal, Your Soul Mirror, Tammy Billups shares the connection between unresolved emotional pain in humans and behavioral reactions in animals. She argues that survival responses formed during early experiences continue shaping daily life long after the original harm disappears from conscious memory. Billups...

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...

Soft Obviousness by Alessandro Zanone is a heartbreaking memoir about loss and the process of coming to terms with what is left. Alessandro always loved his pet dogs. They gave him stability and comfort, and showed him a different perspective on relationships and connections. They...

Benjamin & Honka's Backyard Adventure is a children's picture book by Sergio Teodoro. Benjamin is a six-year-old boy. All he wants is to play by the pond in his backyard. After he comes across a cute woodland duck who has a quack unlike any other...

In Chasing Happiness, Not Chaos, Tanya McBean takes a hard look at why so many people continue searching for peace but still feel totally overwhelmed in daily life. She argues that happiness becomes unstable once personal worth depends upon outside approval or changing conditions that...

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...