Are you ready for a compelling deep dive into Scottish history? In Forbes: A Story of Scotland, B.R. Forbes chronicles the fortunes of the Forbes clan as it navigates the fallout of a turbulent relationship with neighboring England's rulers and its evolving religious structures. Claiming...

Daughter of Ash and Bone by S. Ramsey follows Alice Reed, a foster-care survivor who works at a lab. The law firm of Franklin, Maier, and Ziegler hands her a golden pendant from her shadowy ancestor, Campbell Graves, and it pulls her into a war...

Battle of Jericho 2038 by J. F. Elferdink is the best science fiction novel I have read this year. The story is set in a near-future in which Candyland, a consortium owned by Roman Starke, monopolizes a space elevator. Starke’s off-planet warehouses have the capacity...

In Brendan O’Meara’s Sculpted With Steel, book four of the Crafting Humanity series, Federation commander James crosses an engineered ocean into the BlankZone, an isolated territory ruled by the Order. His assignment is to destroy the Odyssey, a military mothership preparing to carry the Order’s...

In Looking for Henry Turner by W.L. Liberman, Mo and Birdie, Gold Investigations’ partners, have several tasks to complete. When the story opens, they have just located a card dealer, employed by a local racketeer, John Fat Gai, dead in an alley. Gold’s brother, Eli,...

Sailing Toward a Hopeful Future: Canadians Leading the Way by Gary Whiteley follows a diverse group of researchers, mariners, and leadership consultants as they travel along British Columbia’s coast aboard the research vessel RV Smart Ports. At the center of the story is the CAGIS...

The growing incidence of chronic disease has highlighted the need for palliative medicine and care facilities for the terminally ill, sometimes over an extended period. George J. Taylor examines what this means in A Caregiver’s Guide to Palliative Medicine. Caregivers can include family members, doctors,...

ReAwakening by Terrell Chafin is the second book in the Mother's Little Helpers series, and it delivers a nightmare that will appeal to fans of horror. Young Pippi, Rage, and Tim believe they have already destroyed Emile Navarro, or the skeletal remains that were left...

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...

Lexi's Tale is the first book of the Ghost Girls series by David Carl. Lexi is a ten-year-old girl living in the cozy little town of Haunted Hollow, where every inhabitant is a ghost. Lexi is nervous about her upcoming birthday because it will be...

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...