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,...

Reap the Whirlwind by Robert L. Sells is a techno-thriller that starts with one man’s bad day and then keeps widening the circle until the whole world feels shaky. Whit Emerson has a comfortable life, but that stability disappears fast. Through a rapid succession of...

What happens when the very foundational institutions that govern us no longer rely on human decision-making but on autonomous systems instead? What about our agency? Amos Behana covers this topic in the second installment of The Continuity Sequence trilogy, Machinehood. The author insists that autonomy...

A.M. Britwell’s book, Sitting by the Windowsill of Life with a Spiritual Friend, is a collection of poetry. Inspired by the soulful George Harrison, the poems include subjects from the Lord and peace in life and the afterlife. The poet’s voice is gentle, encouraging, and...

The Art of Being Let Go by Amulya Veldanda Vadali aims to comfort anyone who has ever lost their job. After an hour's drive to the office, a tired, hardworking woman is told she is being let go. She is given a generic layoff speech...

In Capitol Sins by Bill Halamandaris, evil people have gone after Theo Alexander. His life has been in danger, and they even abducted the girl he loves, Taylor. Theo was the director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, but the committee was disbanded after the...

The Quest for Calinore by Theresa Leyes is the first book in The Calinore Chronicles. It follows thirteen-year-old Dylan Edwards, whose ordinary birthday takes an extraordinary turn when his father brings home an antique box containing a seemingly blank journal and a glowing amulet. Dylan...