Jacque Gorelick’s Map of a Heart begins on the Crystal Springs Trail in February 2007, where a planned family outing with her husband, Ed, and their newborn son, Elliot, turns into a fight to keep Ed alive. What starts with an armoire errand and a...

The Silent Takeover: Artificial Intelligence in Politics by L. Hanson is an innovative political thriller interlaced with satire, historical fiction, and sci-fi. In 2018, unbeknownst to the U.S. electorate, Hammond Trekker, an AI and the first non-human Democratic progressive candidate, entered the U.S. political scene....

Lisa Ryan’s Smart Plant™: Aligning AI, Automation, and People starts with the premise that a plant can hit every target and still be dying. That’s the flashing warning for a business book that reads like a thriller and lands like a timely intervention. The author...

Beyond Grimm by Alan S. Kessler is a collection of 25 short stories inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. After coming across a scary wolf in the woods, a young girl tried to offer her grandmother as bait. A Berkshire pig betrays others of...

Scott Fleuter’s Behind the Badge: From Police Chief to Opioid Addict follows Fleuter from a childhood where danger teaches his body to react before thought into a law-enforcement career that makes protection his public role. He starts as a street officer and eventually becomes a...

The Golden Age by Alexander Exelmans is a thought-provoking philosophical play set in a future where artificial intelligence has transformed human civilization into a work-optional society. The story follows Zachary, a former Mars colonist who returns to Earth after years away only to discover that...

Wisteria Winter by Ann Swann is the compelling story of two sisters who lose everything they love on Christmas Eve. Woken by a premonition, Sasha Everly wakes up her older sister Linzy, only to find that it’s too late to save their parents from the...

Salvation is the opening book in Frank Faustino’s Jonah Grady series, a dystopian novel that paints a harrowing portrait of a fractured, disintegrated, and utterly rotten America. The story follows Jonah Grady, a former SAS operative who left the Kentucky mountains with no desire to...

Larry Setren’s You Never Asked About My Medal follows the author, a Maryland boy from a Jewish family shaped by migration from Lithuania. The question behind the title begins with Uncle Seymour, a decorated veteran whose life teaches Setren that public silence can hide great...

Bunny, The Hidden Record by Her Majesty of Ink and Exit Wounds is set in Velinwood Court, where the Queen has withdrawn from the throne. Bunny shows us the strange world that's been formed, walking us through preserved hidden chambers and others in strange use....

In The Serpent Stirs by Ankusha Sutey, Indira is a young, cosmopolitan designer from Mumbai who wins an expenses-paid holiday to the eastern coastal state of Odisha, which has a rich historical and architectural heritage. The days pass in a whirl of sightseeing, temple visits,...

In The Unfolding: Mairee by S. Nyland, humanity is stranded on the Mairee, a world that is supposed to be a paradise, but the Fold collapses, the wormhole that connected them to Earth. Now three thousand souls are cut off from any hope of rescue....

Orange and White by Richard J. Reese is a short story about the Holocaust. In 1943, Reinhardt Schroeder was member of the SS, someone who took great pleasure in killing Jews for the Nazi regime. Schroeder was tasked by his superiors to dismantle "Chamber II"...

Thoughts Etched in Words by V. Koushika is a collection of poetry, personal observations, affirmations, and hand-drawn storytelling by a young writer who began composing and illustrating her ideas at just eleven years old. The book is organized into several themed sections that focus on...

This is a story of belonging as lifelong friendships continue to mature. In The Gray New Deal by Miriam Kuznets, Barry owns West House, where he and his family reunite. Doris, Ellen, Jane, Pearl, Tomas, Vihaan, and Barry have been friends since college, and now,...

Rory’s Not That Guy And Other Tales from Middle America by William E Burleson features what the author calls semi-autobiographical stories that capture middle America and middle Americans. This award-winning collection provides humorous stories from a decidedly male perspective. Yes, potty jokes and salacious comedy...

Leslie M. Scott-Jones’s Book Ends: Volume II follows novelist Quinn Miller and playwright Jacqueline “Jack” Scott, a couple rebuilding a relationship after years apart. Their life in Virginia changes when Jack discovers she is pregnant, giving them a chance at the family life they thought...

Scarlet Yearnings Beyond First Glance: Collector’s Edition by Scarlet Ibis James is a breath of fresh air. It’s a collection of short stories that includes popular romance tropes, like second-chance romance, fake dating, and marriages in trouble, but in a different and more emotionally satisfying...

Successful people always see failures as temporary hurdles that can be overcome through persistence and determination. Dr. Glen N. Robison's journey to becoming a podiatric surgeon and physician proves that. In addition, Glen is also a certified Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner and a myopractor who...

Leslea Wahl's The Ultimate Blindside introduces Olympic snowboarding medalist Jake Taylor and aspiring journalist Sophie Metcalf as they watch actors recreate their lives on a Colorado movie set. When Jake dives into a pond to rescue Abby Milford and her toddler, Lila, the footage from...