Heather Ogden brings us dystopian fiction for young adults in The Betrayal. In the city of Libertis, one man rules. Valerius Arabella is ruthless, holding the city in an iron grip. Break the rules, try to change them, and you will get caught and sent...

Companies are desperate for skilled workers, spending endless resources on recruiting and training talent. What’s more, the high turnover rates make these efforts look like pouring water into a sieve. Meanwhile, an entire segment of the population is desperate for a half-decent job, facing barriers...

Debora Masterson’s Freedom Quest: A Love Story begins with musician Michael Griffin and his band performing before a roaring crowd in San Diego, their song climbing the charts, and their future suddenly filled with possibility. From there, the novel moves backward to the San Fernando...

Independence, strength, courage, resilience, purpose – these are gifts we share with loved ones, old and young. In Devaunshi Mahadevia’s The World, For You, a mother shares her love for her child, beginning with the moment the child is born. The love is shared in...

Jonah’s Queer Journey Into the Magical Realm of Believing by James E. Reese revolves around a young man caught between the pressures of everyday life and a strange pull toward something he can’t quite name. When he slips into a magical world, the rules that...

Teach Me How to Die by Lisa Monde begins with the novella, the main story in the collection, which is a haunting, theatrical meditation on mortality in which Professor Scott Mirrormord holds a master class at the Shetler Studios in New York City for five...

Septimus Brown’s We’ve Come for Your Eggs follows Glimm, a small blue frost dragon familiar serving Jorvun Prattlethorn, a wizard who receives word that Frostvale’s King Trudera may soon name a successor. Jorvun believes he is Trudera’s secret son, so he sets out to cross...

In Getting Ready for My Brain Surgery by Dr. Fei Zheng-Ward, we follow a young child dealing with some very confusing physical hurdles—from stubborn headaches and dizzy spells to an arm that feels tingly. When the doctors explain that the brain needs a special kind...

Sand Rabbits Rest and Be Thankful by James Gerard is a children’s storybook that follows Professor Swift as he drives along a route called Rest and Be Thankful during a snowstorm. The professor is tired, sleepy, and unsure where he is, but through his window,...

Nicholas Campion’s The New Age in the Modern West is an intellectual history of the New Age as a modern expression of older Western hopes for a better world. Campion begins with millenarianism and utopianism, showing how Western culture repeatedly imagines a lost golden age...

Mike Dee constructs a powerful self-help guide in I Am My Biggest Stranger using Dante Alighieri’s Inferno as a psychological roadmap for understanding the darkest territories of the human psyche. The author invites readers to step into the woods where they are forced to confront...

Stephen James’ Trial by Conscience begins with a panicked choice that alters a person’s life forever. In 1964, an ordinary morning for a runner named Richard in Birmingham is shattered after a cruel family prank goes wrong. Believing he is responsible for a girl’s sudden...

Kimberly Fish's Parade of Secrets is set in 1948 Longview, Texas, where former wartime spy Lane Hayes accepts a private assignment from industrialist R. G. LeTourneau after cryptic messages begin appearing across the aircraft inside his company hangar. The inquiry into vandalism changes when teenage...

Alice McDowell’s Your Royal Nature: Inspiring Essays to Find Your Way Home is a wonderfully crafted guide to help readers connect more intimately and meaningfully with themselves. In an age when we drift further and further away from ourselves and our humanity, this book shows...

I Was Compelled by Ken Gorman is a psychological thriller that tells the story of Drew Baxter, a decorated Iraq War veteran. He struggles with survivor’s guilt and PTSD, and his compulsive need to help others. He is unable to get over the attack in...

Mayhem in the Mountains by Jane Loeb Rubin opens with eighteen-year-old Ella deciding to leave Brooklyn behind and head to the Catskills with her younger brother, Robbie, in search of relatives. It is set in the 1920s, a time that shapes so much of what...

A is For Amy by Steven Crandell is the delightfully sweet tale of Amy Dellaconta Franklin, an independent mother of three who, at 26, never knew her life would turn into such a train wreck. Drowning in debt thanks to her late husband, Amy tries...

In The Man Who Couldn't Dream by Sandra L. Huska, Paul Whitmore and his wife, Annie, appear to have the perfect life. Paul is a pragmatic biologist who believes in science, but Annie is the intuitive wife who believes in the supernatural and seeks answers...

Trying to reach the top Health Care Professionals (HCPs) is posing increasing challenges for those marketing pharmaceutical products. Harshit Jain shares the solution in The Next Marketing: From Molecule to Mindset. He reminds readers that HCPs are not ordinary consumers swayed by marketing hype. They...

What happens when duty forces two strangers together? In The Gamble by Karen Black, readers are taken to Texas in 1895, where Emily chooses to honor her father by agreeing to an arranged marriage, hoping to save his struggling ranch. She’s spent years working like...