Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese technique for achieving balance and harmony. Contrary to the popular misconception, it is much more than rearranging the furniture, as Wendy Ellen Hanophy points out in Wind, Water and Wing: Feng Shui and the Nature of Home. It is...

A is for Apple. B is for Bum Bum: A Playful ABC Book for Silly Kids and Silly Grown-Ups by Brendyn Zachary is a well-written children's book that aids them in learning the alphabet in a fun way. Using a playful tone, Brendyn introduces the...

It is the first day after Christmas at Oakdale Middle School in Chicago, and pressure is already mounting on Grace, a seventh-grader. Her friend Andy is not happy about how his reunion with his absent biological mother, Angela, went. He wants Grace to help him...

A forty-five-year-old gambler named Joey Mumbai gets into big trouble with a sectid mobster, Fat Okko. Joey owes him one million Determinations of Official Worth, or dows. Fat Okko finds out that Joey inherited Space Station Halcyon from his billionaire father. The sectid sees an...

Alan Shayne's And It Only Took 100 Years... is his memoir from a Brookline boyhood into a public life built through acting, casting, producing, and studio leadership. Shayne enters the theater as a young man looking for a future beyond family expectations, then learns how...

In Mr. Robert's Hawaii: A Tale of Kamehameha, author Robert Bullock tells the story of the great Hawaiian monarch Kamehameha. In the eighteenth century, Kamehameha was determined to unite the islands of Hawaii. He planned a surprise attack on his neighboring islands. But to do...

American Gyro by Jim Zervanos follows eighteen-year-old Johnny Demos, the grandson of a Greek restaurateur in Kornfield, Pennsylvania, after a school play gives him a first taste of acting. Papou’s death leaves the Old Kornfield Inn in Uncle Nick’s hands, and Johnny is expected to...

In Pete Thomas’s The Christmas Will, John Roberts Jenkins has spent his life believing his father died in World War I. Then James Thompson, a Missouri attorney, finds proof that his father was John Roberts, the late owner of JR’s Department Store in Poplar Bluff....

Forged by Betrayal and Blood by Helen Garraway opens the Celestial Throne series, a fantasy that brims with ancient magic, political intrigue, and a gritty redemptive journey. Vael Tor Arne, also known as the Butcher of Leif, is a disgraced soldier who has lived on...

In Story of Distortion by X.E. Anomaly, Dash is a young Forest Villager on Deluuvius who has the Variant, a condition held back by a powerful Bracer that cannot cure him. After he seals the alien First inside a prison called a Vault, the Celestial...

Patriots in Shadows by Krishna Kumar is set in 1940s British India, where Les Filles en Jaune, a secret circle of wealthy Indian women, make use of their extensive privilege and social access to support Subhas Chandra Bose, the exiled independence leader commanding the Indian...

Grave Intentions by Lilith Daniels is book 2 in the Grave Affairs series. Kinsley has taken a step back into the world of private investigation thanks to the trauma of being taken by mercury dragons. And just in time, too, as the dead are getting...

Susan Copperfield’s The Prince of New York follows Ian Ambrose, New York’s royal heir, after Queen Rachel pulls him back into palace work that exposes how badly his own protection has been neglected. Ian is a powerful flameweaver with a history of shielding his siblings...

It’s an ordinary day at the police precinct for coffee connoisseur and adept magicker Detective Valor Lovell. The robberies of high-end homes in the district continue to stymie him and his elephant‑shifter partner, Paul. That is, until Lovell is assigned a new partner who shakes...

Dragon Her Heels by R.J. Blain is the twenty-third book in the series. Crystal Culling thought moving to Lake Hancock would be a fresh start. But now she wonders if she should have listened to her realtor, who tried to tell her the property was...

In Kerie Logan’s Becoming a Divine Messiah, on New Earth, Danica turns twenty-five and enters Becoming, the rite that begins adult life after humanity’s Great Awakening. Her guide, Paula, introduces her and her twin brother, Ryan, to the history behind their communal world, where money...

Ours by Laciann Delacroix is a literary, deliberately fragmentary work of fiction about the relationship between Rui, the narrator, and Franco, a salesman she meets online. Rui is an equestrian and a hyper-observant designer who captures experience through sensory details of touch, taste, and smell....

M.L. Condike’s The Doll from Dunedin: A Genealogy Mystery follows forensic genealogist RaeJean Hunter. A jogger discovers the body of Jill Harriet Hamilton in Central Park, with her loyal dog lying beside her. A lawyer hires RaeJean to locate the primary beneficiary named in Jill’s...

Love Travels With Mommy by Natalie Burns begins with the cutest scene of a mom and her two young sons building a racetrack together! Then—boom—she has to break the news that she’s going away on a business trip. To keep the tears at bay, she...

Have you ever had to start your life over again? In Forever Kind of Love by Susan Elizabeth Bagby, Willow Mason heads back to her small Ohio hometown to do just that. Once there, she’s forced to take a job managing a local bookstore after...