Make Up Your Mind, What Do You Want? by R.A. Dillow shares the life of Dillow's father, Donald, a Minnesota farm boy who learns adulthood through paid work after a childhood where major lessons were left unsaid. Raised as one of nine children on a...

Dogs are pretty smart. Though most of us dog owners already know that simple fact. In Bruce Miller’s The Science and Secrets of Dogs, dogs will reveal some of their clear-thinking methods, from sensing a chemical change in their owner’s body that might signify a...

Spiral by Randy Dean Noble is an action-packed, gory horror story about a man’s quest to save humanity from depraved game masters intent on murdering the innocent to further their warped worldviews. When he first wakes up in a strange car with a deformed creature...

In Patrick C. Notchtree’s The Two Pink Sheep, Ethan Robson grows up in Bilthaven with the memory of Mark Martin, a school friend whose death teaches him how dangerous secrecy can become. At Thirlham University, Ethan meets James Boyle, an Irish history student whose family...

Chris Neo’s third installment in The Love Secret series, Love Beyond Eros, continues the story of Aris, the American traveler who finally finds the “love secret,” and Angelica, the woman of his dreams. After a village festival throws their future into chaos, Aris goes missing....

How far would you go to help your child? In Gino’s Mom, Gary Markman tells the story of Rachel Carver, a woman devoted to her son, Gino. She's married to Anthony, a teacher and musician with a temper that sometimes causes problems for them. When...

Gaza: Tears of Rage, Tears of Sorrow by Richard J. Reese moves between Gaza and Israel, tracing lives shaped by conflict across decades. The story begins on the eve of October 7, 2023, as Khalid ibn Jibril Fawza prepares for a mission that will change...

A call for help unravels a plot to return native land to its rightful owners in R.L. Keck’s Absence of Mercy. The story features two explosive crises. In Wyoming, a radical “Professor” is said to be falsifying soil contamination reports, and E.J. Lonetree is dispatched...

In Kristen A. Peters's The Shape of His World, Holding Them Both, a mother fights for her boys because the world will not listen to them. Iris is a mother raising two autistic sons, Dylan and Jesse, in a home arranged around routine, sensory needs,...

Swimming Upstream: The Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative by Jerry Morton is a candid and absorbing memoir about one man's decades-long effort to build something that had never existed before in rural East Tennessee. In 1973, Morton, a freshly minted doctoral school psychologist, was hired...

North of Ordinary by Angela Grey is a collection of interconnected stories set in small northern towns where the landscape shapes the lives within it. The opening introduction establishes a world built from familiar places such as lakes, diners, bait shops, and bars, where repetition...

In Makerborn by Daymon Ashcord, a decade after her daughter Agnieshka vanished into the custody of House Lublinin, former Seal Warden Alandra Phoenyka discovers the ruling houses of Salvia are secretly enslaving Eastern Sonomancers to build weapons and failing storm shelters powered through torture. While...

In Cynthia L. Clark's Being Laramie Buchanan, after earning her art history degree in Boulder, Laramie Buchanan takes a gallery job while grieving the loss of her mother, Maggie, and the absence of Vick Varela, the man who vanished after asking her to follow him...

Dorothy Van Soest’s Until It’s Over is an enthralling thriller told through two distinct timelines that rise and ebb like the tides of a turbulent sea. Sylvia Jensen is an octogenarian activist who suffers a heart attack at a rally at the state Capitol when...

Dale Zurawski’s The Travel Bitch: Bouncing Across the Globe on a Bipolar High really begins after an Amazon trip sends her back to childhood, in a home changed by her father’s death. Later, a bipolar diagnosis gives a name to the behavior that had already...

The Crystal Apple by Thomas Stacey follows fourteen-year-old Steve Tikowski in 1980s Detroit, where a broken bicycle chain leads him to an object no one can explain. Near Michigan Central Station, Steve sees the black glass device appear from a small opening in the ground....

For a mother, seeing her children grow up is an experience that fills her with pride. Sometimes it’s hard to put all those feelings into words, because there are so many memories she’d like to capture. Danielle LaRosa shares that feeling and describes the joy...

Murder in the Dog Park by Robert J. Ristino is a cozy murder mystery that is perfect for anyone who enjoys the genre. Octogenarian friends Bob and George are proud ROMEOs (Retired Old Men Eating Out), who eat out every Tuesday. One of their breakfasts...

The Body on the Bricks by Leonard Krishtalka is a historical crime mystery that will have readers guessing throughout the narrative. When the small town of Lawrence, Kansas, experiences three murders in one day, local reporter and amateur sleuth Mary Fanning is pressed into service...

Sky's Wacky Raindrop Rescue is a children’s picture book written by Aizelle San with illustrations by Izabela Ciesinska. It is centered around Sky, a raindrop who lives in a garden hose with other raindrops. Sky’s parents have disappeared, and she isn’t about to sit around...