The Second World is a brilliant satirical sci-fi fantasy by Jake Korell. The story takes us to Mars. It is the year 2117. Flip Buchanan is a 28-year-old native-born second-generation Martian of Earthlink descent. We follow Flip from age eight, when he made his lifelong...

Rooted in Christ's Identity is a short novella by Sallie Dawkins. All the little sunflower seed has ever known is the Gardener's workbench. It is fond of all the neatly placed pots and plants. The little seed sees that the Gardener likes to tuck a...

The game is rigged, and author Ujwal Arkalgud can prove it. In Invisible Rules: How to Outsmart the Entrepreneurial Game, the author, an anthropologist-turned-founder, exposes the unwritten codes that quietly decide whose ideas gain traction, who gets funded, and which paths to success are considered...

Lift Off (Omnibus 1: Grampa Was an Alien) by Elly Mossman offers a heartwarming, multi-generational story that begins with an elderly retiree sharing his spectacular past with his grandson, Lewis. Long ago, a kind alien scientist named Xerix traveled to Earth in a flying saucer....

The Parchment Burns, The Letters Rise: One God, One Lord, One Life examines the Shema as a declaration that refuses to separate belief from obedience. Robert John Popoff argues that Scripture presents hearing God as an act proven through the shape of a person’s life,...

In B.R. Kang’s Caput Mundi: The Head of the World, twelve-year-old Niil has spent a year on Umbra after Marcus and Mira Marcellus kidnapped him over a debt owed by his father, Hidemith Terra. When Niil discovers he can summon enarii, a liquid metal shaped...

The Asset Play is a memoir-style investing guide by Pradeep Singh that draws on a career spanning from scooter resales as a schoolboy to shipping fleets, real estate, and corporate acquisitions. The book opens with a small but telling story: a young Singh notices that...

Do you know the reason there’s no school on Memorial Day? In Remember Memorial Day by S. R. Murrell, children explore the answer to that question through rhymes and activities. They learn why that day matters and how families and communities remember fallen heroes. The...

In Marsell Morris’s Alien Offensive Book 1: Nanobot Storm, billions of ten-sided metal objects descend across Earth, reaching every continent and ocean. Each device rights itself before releasing a crystalline mist. Soon, animals of every species begin hunting people with coordinated aggression, leaving cities deserted...

In a world of instant messages, leave your mark by writing a letter. Handwritten Notes for Kids by Carrie Pierce is a workbook that teaches children how to write a variety of notes. It’s an interactive activity book that begins with a reminder to consider...

In Cecilia Kae's Eyes Shut, Robyn Hannah Yuen spends her teenage years drifting through Singapore after her family collapses and her closest friendship pulls her toward dangerous choices that leave her isolated from nearly everyone around her. Her life changes after she begins experiencing recurring...

In Robert Crompton’s The Dark Side of Gilead, cabinetmaker Vic Scanlon returns to Colinton after schoolmate Amy Rashid asks about the girl he saw locked inside elder Len Robinson’s junk room twenty years earlier. Vic reported the discovery as a child, but the Fellowship of...

The Substi-Tooth, written by Kristin Manty, is a picture book for young children. One day at the beach, Austin and his mom are soaking up the sun. Austin is flying his kite and building sand castles, whilst also working on an important task. He has...

When Lieutenant Caitlin O’Connor answers her phone in the early hours, the news is shocking. As Death in the End Zone by Lynn Slaughter begins, the reader is jolted along with her. Upon her arrival at the crime scene, two Franklin High football stars —...

Generation AI: The President’s Encounter by W R Hulkenberg is a speculative novel set in the very near future that will have readers thinking deeply about several constitutional and religious paradigms. Parahumans are artificial creations that can look, sound, and act like the real humans...

In Break My Bones by Michelle Ian, we follow Michael, a successful suspense fiction writer whose own life begins to mirror the dark stories he writes. Michael is returning to his small-town Tennessee roots to end his book promotion tour and take over a local...

Borrowed Tales by Michael Bowers centers on Sam, a broken man trying to hide from the world on a back corner barstool at Leo's pub. His simple routine is constantly interrupted by overwhelming mental shifts that drop him right back into the most pivotal and...

Artemis Taylor’s Strange Inheritance at River’s Edge opens with a break-in at the River’s Edge Magic Emporium. The building is so unsettling that locals cross to the other side of the street rather than pass too close to it. The shop has stayed closed for...

Nebraska Avenue by Vincent Rubino is a coming-of-age novel set during the summer of 1976 in North Bay Shore on Long Island. The story centers on Artie Mooney, Wally Tazowski, and Vinny Perino, three boys navigating adolescence in a neighborhood called “The States,” where streets...

Former FBI profiler Sam Wright balances domestic life with her daughter, Katie, and husband, Will Little Bear, and another pregnancy when devastating news reaches them in Theresa Janson's Longer Than a New York Minute. Their friend Tad Collins is dead, and the death is ruled...