Scott Brody’s Keeping Pepper follows Ed Silver, who visits his old college friend Michael Pepper, known simply as Pepper, at a Las Vegas assisted-living facility during a motorhome trip with his wife Stacey. Pepper is seventy-one and living with dementia, yet flashes of the man...

Pete Koziar’s The Book of John is a Messianic Bible commentary that walks readers through the Gospel of John verse by verse, using Yeshua throughout in place of Jesus as the author places the text within its Jewish setting. Opening with John’s declaration of the...

Jordan Hines' D.O.G. 2.0 is the third book in the Boy and His D.O.G. series. The story follows twelve-year-old Ben Summers, who likes to be called B.L.U. or Ben Level Upgrade, a superhero. He faces his most personal struggle when a record-breaking blizzard buries Dunhaven....

Chasing the Wind by William Isley is the story of three young men who learn the hard way that seeking happiness in the wrong places doesn’t equate to fulfillment or contentment. James, Freddy, and Bart couldn't be more different from each other, but when the...

In When They Came Home by Terri Lewis, we follow Milton, a standard American farm boy whose life is split in two after he gets shipped off to the battlefields of Europe in 1918. He survives the fighting, but the terrifying sights and sounds follow...

In 1981, six-year-old Penn Lockshire dives into Iroquois Lake and finds a mussel with the largest pearl in North America. In The Pearl Farmers by Stacey Gordon, the story begins with three sisters, daughters of James and Kate Lockshire, a third-generation family of pearl farmers....

In Dan O'Mahony’s Illumina, Ronnie Jackman is a small-for-his-age sixth grader starting at a new school after losing his parents in a devastating house fire. He grieves and struggles with recurring visions of a colossal golden dragon. He finds an unexpected champion in Mr. Griffin,...

In Alex Vandra’s Damián, a former CIA operative turned member of the elite Harknett 8 security agency, Damián Soto is a charming player who avoids commitment. When an old agency contact brings him a case against the world's most elusive trafficker, Elijah West, Damián infiltrates...

The Pirate Queen's Curse by E. H. Casteele is the first book in the Pirate Queen Trilogy. The story begins in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1717, where a brokenhearted Maria Hallett curses her pirate lover, Black Sam Bellamy, just as his ship wrecks off the...

Amanda Sung’s How to Break a Girl follows the unbreakable bond between three Asian-Canadian best friends—Elizabeth Park, Aurora Zhang, and Lily Kuo—as they face loss, love, and survival in Vancouver and other places, including Silicon Valley. The story begins as a graduation-day reunion and unfolds...

In Obesseus Operation Gravy Blockade by D.T. Tucker, the grand opening of the brand-new news building, Snackland Press, rapidly turns into pandemonium. The place splits into feuding factions, and everything is chaotic. The “No Fun Squad” is the stiff faction that barricades their territory and...

W. M. Leesman’s Xavier Bradshaw: Ghostwriter is set in Livingston, Alberta, where newspaper reporter Xavier Bradshaw is called to St. Luke’s church after Councilman Carlo Marscapello is found dead at the altar. Xavier once investigated Carlo’s political dealings, so the case quickly reaches into his...

S.E. Glen’s Invasive Species follows Steller, the leader of the Ferns, an underground environmental group targeting corporations blamed for environmental poisoning. After a meticulously planned operation against a Jacksonville packing company, Steller returns home expecting the silence that comes after a mission. Instead, KORA, a...

Kids and COVID by Dr. Elizabeth Mumper, MD, examines how pandemic policy affected children by asking who should decide what medical risks a child takes. Mumper argues that COVID vaccination recommendations should account for age because healthy children faced a low risk of the virus....

Can a near tragedy eventually lead to love? In Two Hearts’ Ambush by Tamara Ferguson, Lara Loughlin, a rising rock star who performs under a stage name, has returned to her hometown of Crystal Rock for a break from her busy life. She’s hoping to...

Resilience & Reinvention, compiled by Peace Mitchell and Katy Garner, brings together over two dozen memoir shorts about women rebuilding their lives after unexpected changes. In The Crossing, former corporate litigator Amy Laughlin establishes a San Francisco family law practice near her sons’ school, taking...

Martin Tiongson’s The Two Oceans is a philosophical non-fiction collection that turns lived experience into a study of how a person meets change. The author begins with moments drawn from daily life, then places each one inside a wider consideration of the meaning people create...

Gabi Robb’s The Color of Us is the story of Addie Calloway, a Chicago screenwriter still grieving the death of her mother, Emma, after years of devoted caregiving. She returns home to Chicago with thirty boxes of her mother's belongings and discovers hundreds of letters...

Begin It Now by Peace Mitchell and Katy Garner brings together 21 women from around the world, each sharing a personal essay about the moment they finally leaped at a dream they had been putting off. The book opens with Mitchell's own introduction, where she...

Two Hearts’ Christmas Mission by Tamara Ferguson follows Oliver Berenger as he relocates to a tight-knit Midwestern community to act as a guardian for his family. His sister, Mariah, is facing an aggressive medical battle, and Oliver is determined to shield his young niece, Amelia,...