Listed by Keith E. Leger is set in a time where parents have the option to list their unborn babies, allowing the market to invest money in their lives. The list in question has an initial share price, which increases if the child proves to...

Lilah the Flower Girl for Hire by Isi Emefieh is a thought-provoking and fun read. Lilah, a seven-year-old girl, is a hardworking entrepreneur; her flower girl business is very popular. She can perform her duties no matter what the size or theme of the wedding....

In Tatsuro Tanigami’s Digital Golf Club, Japan’s late-1980s golf boom creates Hozan Country Club on a mountain once considered sacred. After a fatal accident involving a lost ball, the course is linked to a problem that follows golfers for decades. Years later, Tetsuo Kurihara, manager...

In Danny's Ten Dollars by Nathan Lacos, a kid named Danny is spending his summer working very hard. One hot day, he mows his neighbor’s lawn. The elderly man gives him ten dollars for the job. Danny is so excited. He tells Mr. Bennet there’s...

Daniel Ellrick's Interstellar Refugees Omnibus combines the three books in the trilogy into one. It follows poker-playing telescope jockey, Miharu Nakayama, who is thrust into a role she never imagined, becoming one of the most important people in the solar system. An arkship delivers 500,000...

In Andie Holman’s first book in The Laughter of the Sun series, The Mermaid's Wrath, a warrior mermaid named Scyphozoa “Jelly” discovers that she is made for greater things when the coveted Vetula Pearl awakens in her. Her rage triggers an explosion and makes her...

The Piper's Wake by Sierra Storm follows Carmen, a young woman living a lonely, rigid life out in the soggy, fog-laden woods of Batriva. While her very strict witch-hunting grandmother raises her with careful intent, Carmen secretly dreams of escaping her tedious chores to build...

Nubia Johnson is a disciplined, principled USCIS officer who discovers that her case files and digital badge are weapons in a hidden war in David L. Wadley’s Passport Bro. She has always believed in justice and fairness, even if it is difficult to find justice...

That McKenzie Girl by Jesse Gordon is a fun, lighthearted, slice-of-life story. Twenty-one-year-old Victor Navarro lives with his best friend, a gamer who livestreams in his underwear, called Brand. Victor isn't at a great stage in life, but Brand needs him—he's in free fall after...

A beautiful flower farm is the setting for Willow Tales by Joni Franks. Granny Bloom has grown and sold flowers for as long as anyone can remember. Helping her is a Welsh corgi named Sebastian. The two are inseparable and make a great team running...

Robbie Shell’s Bees on the Roof, as the title and beautifully designed cover suggests, is a children’s book about a colony of bees being cultivated by children on the roof of a building. The venue is the Meadow Hotel, where Nick the Head Pastry Chef...

Tenebroso is the Midnight Rider, a fearsome supernatural being with a thirst for justice. In this new collaboration between C.S. Kading and Tony Fuentes, Alguacila Rosa Delgado is an officer of the law who tracks the monster to avenge his killing of her partner. Also...

Radical Ray: No Greater Love by Bobbi Chegwyn is about a young boy whose ordinary childhood is suddenly upended by family tragedy. The story opens with warmth and humor as Ray spends time with his mother, Shirl, and his grandmother, Leila, in their lively Sydney...

In John Wesley Wilson’s Straight to Hell: Memoir of an Ex-Evangelical Pastor, Wilson grows up in rural Alabama inside a world shaped by Pentecostal religion, family violence, poverty, and fear of divine punishment. After becoming a pastor, husband, and father, he spends years trying to...

In the 1830s, settler-colonists passed laws to enforce the mass removal of Native Americans from their land. The Chickasaw tribe in West Tennessee was among the many tribes displaced, but before leaving, they cursed their ancestral land. In 1940, a wealthy land developer purchased land...

When Althea “Thea” Woodruff, a hotshot attorney at Hartford Pharmaceuticals in Philadelphia, quits her job after secretly driving the whistleblowing on the company’s illegal activities, she moves back to Patton Springs, her hometown in Woodruff Mountain. However, her colleagues are left curious about the way...

M. E. Lange’s Pause... and Effect follows Lyndsey Barnes, a fifty-two-year-old Oregon engineer who no longer recognizes what her body is doing to her. A sudden office outburst ends her thirty-year tech career. When she finally tells her husband Connor, the conversation exposes how far...

So You Want To Be A Professional Athlete by Linda Soules is a well-written book that will inspire children aspiring to be athletes with the necessary information about what the profession entails. Linda begins by describing who a professional athlete is and what they do...

So You Want to Be an Explorer by Linda Soules continues the So You Want to Be series. The world we live in is amazing, but so much of it has never been seen. If you’ve ever dreamed of being the next big explorer, this...

In Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches by David L. Wadley, after fleeing Los Angeles under federal pursuit, former USCIS officer Nubia arrives in Atlanta and discovers that her identity has been used to authorize deportations, child removals, and surveillance operations targeting immigrant families across the...