A River Still Runs by Fran Coughlin is a memoir that unfolds through self-contained moments from the author’s childhood and early life in Lowell, Massachusetts. Rather than following a strict chronological arc, the book presents memories as a collection of snapshots, moving fluidly across time...

Two Spirits Here by Louise DeVito is a poetry collection that helps you face your tender spots when life is burdened by grief and personal struggles. Louise teaches us to process the significant or painful milestones in our lives by looking closely at the world...

Dirty Deeds by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid is a continuation of a series involving investigative radio journalist Sammy Greene. Sammy is currently hosting a talk radio show in New York City for Radio USA. In the period leading up to the 2008 elections, the...

Massawa by Pam Webber is set in 1942, when Kit Thomas leaves Washington for Eritrea as an OSS courier under Navy cover. American payroll money for civilian laborers at the naval base in Massawa has vanished, and serial numbers from that cash have surfaced through...

In introducing The False Paradigms of Today and the Timeless Truth of Tomorrow, John Bliss states that “We can never know what is true,” and that what we understand as truths are merely those things that most people can agree on. The book is a...

In Daniel R. Hersch’s The Laughter from the Dark, when Cain, the first son of the first human family, murders his brother, his bloodline is linked to a cursed laughter that spreads through the city. His descendants, later called the Ones Who Laugh, use forbidden...

In Life and How to Live It, Chaz Holesworth describes being seventeen in 1995 Philadelphia after CIBA, the born-again Christian school that shaped his days, expels him. The same week, Laura, the girlfriend whose future has become part of his escape plan, is forced by...

Author Kirsten Pursell concludes The Scarlet's Harlots Trilogy with its third and final installment, Amber Unscripted. After a messy divorce from her billionaire husband, Amber is back home in Sullivan's Island, trying to start her life anew. She sees that all her friends from the...

In Silver by Daniel Logue and Stephen Logue, danger arrives in Oak Bluff in the form of a mysterious stranger. Lucas, the sheriff of Oak Bluff, notices the stranger walking into the saloon. Jake, still carrying the trauma of a few years back, is drawn...

Walking Along the Ancient Tokaido Road: A Pilgrim’s Path: Adventures and Transformations, Vol. 1: Departure by Ichiro Asanuma begins in 2006 along Japan’s historic Tōkaidō route, stretching from Tokyo toward Kyoto. The narrative opens with the author setting out from Nihonbashi, motivated by recovery after...

Embodied Grace by Stacey Webb begins with a moonlit night in India, where Webb hears a call to stop withholding love from herself. From that moment, the author presents grace as something the body can receive before the mind has words for it. The guide...

Walking Along the Ancient Tokaido Road: A Pilgrim’s Path: Adventures and Transformations (Vol. 2: Insight and Memories) by Ichiro Asanuma continues the author’s journey through Japan with a thoughtful examination of history, culture, and modern society. Picking up where the first volume left off, the...

Walking Along the Ancient Tokaido Road: A Pilgrim’s Path: Adventures and Transformations (Vol. 3: New Beginnings) by Ichiro Asanuma follows the final stage of a long personal pilgrimage from Kuwana to Kyoto along Japan’s historic Tokaido Road. The book blends travel writing, cultural history, memoir,...

Dona Masi’s The Taking follows Vera Diparma, a girl in rural New England whose childhood is marked by lights in the sky and missing hours she cannot explain. Her father, John, raised her in an old house near Pangea after her mother, Suzy, disappeared under...

In The Price of Deception by Rita Mary Boehm, Anita Johns was brutally murdered. Anita had a complicated past and was not always the best mother to Pepper. Police Chief Donnie Smith is called in to investigate the murder. To complicate matters further, Pepper suddenly...

The Vatra Witch by G.V. Hext is a tale of love and demise that will draw you into the haunting world of Seraphina. Shunned by her mother and rejected by her coven, Seraphina has spent her whole life trying to prove that she belongs and...

Mark Nistor’s Surviving Karma follows Los Angeles detective Ray Rix after two police officers are abducted and murdered by someone who treats each killing as a message. At the same time, Ricky “Pin” Topin leaves prison after another man confesses to the murder that put...

In Douglas D. Meredith’s Food, the fourth Generation Mars novel, an artificial general intelligence named Athenai stops a nuclear war by destroying Earth’s electronics and surrounding the planet with lethal orbital debris. Luna is cut off from resupply, leaving twelve-year-old Keiron Byrne trapped at Metzger...

The Survival Squad is off on another adventure in Marcy Pusey’s latest installment of the series. It’s a perfect autumn day for Tiger, Owl, and Meerkat to go for a walk in the forest. However, the journey takes a surprising turn when the trio wanders...

Bremmer had never been one to follow the rules. His preference for carrying on at his own pace, even when duty called, was the precise reason why he had ended up picking through intergalactic waste. Now known as Junk Man by his artificial intelligence companion,...