Anna Lamnari’s The Last Labor is set in the legendary Mycenaean age, when Herakles returns to Mycenae believing ten years of punishment have bought back his life. King Eurystheus has other plans. After rejecting two completed labors, he orders his cousin to steal Hera’s golden...

In Sean Esson’s The Flour Girl, Frankie Jones wakes up in an alley with searing pain, a corpse for company, and no memories. An unblinking, smirking stranger called Salvius delivers the verdict: Frankie is dead, and purgatory is not a place for mindless waiting. Salvius...

The Last Missioner by John Paul Russo is set in a future Earth transformed by catastrophe. Humanity survives on Divine Manna, a supernatural food produced during a ritual in the walled city of Atalan Jur. Twelve-year-old John Micah Leers XIV has just entered training in...

After completing their first assignment, the six candidates of the Order of the Steel Rose—Mr. Carnby, Dr. Whitehall, Axel, Percy, Emma, and Jane—are accepted into the Order. However, they have many questions about the evil they encountered and the culprits in their custody. They soon...

Growing up brings plenty of questions, especially when your body begins to change. Gentle Growth Studio’s Gentle First Period: Know Exactly What to Do for Girls 9–12 is a resource that supports girls through their first period. It emphasizes confidence, not fear. Instead of following...

Puberty Book for Girls 8-12 is a guide and workbook published by Gentle Growth Studio. It helps young girls deal with the changes during adolescence so they don't get overwhelmed. It has six organized modules that include practical tools, self-reflection tasks, and explanations meant to...

In Mendy Sobol’s The Eternal Blue Sky, humanity has left Earth and built colonies on distant planets, where people regain the dreams lost elsewhere in space. Elderly war veteran Eric Stratton lives outside Noahstown until Jenny Harvard arrives, asking him to explain the Dream Wars,...

E. Hughes’s A Clockwork Universe presents Unified Rotating Universe Theory as a cosmological model built around rotation as the organizing principle of physical reality. Hughes begins by rejecting space as an independent container, defining it instead as distance created after matter gives location meaning. From...

Magnus Baikie’s The First Law is Survival (We Have a Few More) follows Marcus d’Ostia, a former orphan who now leads the XIX Legion in an empire modeled on ancient Rome. After imperial armies conquer Wyddfce, Emperor Tertius orders Marcus to marry Isolde, the Celtic...

Richard Cutler’s Carbon Neutral follows Admiral Neil Dodson, who commands four enormous colony ships on a thirteen-year voyage from humanity’s first settlement outside the solar system to Tau Ceti. His crew must locate a habitable planet and build a wormhole Gate that will connect the...

School Search and Find by Fei Zheng-Ward is a bright and lively picture book that takes children through a full school day while inviting them to look closely at everything happening around them. Each of the twelve scenes shows a different part of school life,...

Sol by DiVitto Kelly follows Sol, a stubborn senior citizen who has recently retired from running a Queens deli to enjoy his golden years in Miami Beach. A family vacation to his wife Myrna’s ancestral home in Romania disrupts this peaceful retirement when a vampire...

A. M. Linden’s The Valley is a spellbinding and imaginative work of historical fiction set in early medieval Anglo-Saxon Britain. The Valley begins in the 8th century, when Herrwn, a Druid priest, teacher, and bard, is an old man in his eighties. Herrwn recalls his...

In Tessa Kinsela’s An Unconscious Choice of Chaos, fourteen-year-old Ashley Kelly starts Year Nine certain that every small decision can set off a much bigger result. She trusts the routines of her Queensland home and expects Landon State High School to feel just as familiar....

In Opal by Jo Ann Kiser, Opal Beauleigh grows up beside Sarvis Creek in Kentucky with one ambition: becoming an artist. At fifteen, marriage to Wendell Ferguson takes her away from the home she knows, while his search for work carries their family farther from...

In Mohammed Zahid’s What Can Not Be Said, thirteen-year-old Arjun loses his mother Kaveri suddenly, leaving him and his father Ashok Kumar to rebuild their daily lives around one another. The return to school restores routine, yet ordinary outings remind Arjun of the home they...

Telling Dixie Goodbye by Scott Oglesby opens a window into the author’s turbulent, wandering life as he tries to distance himself from his conservative Southern upbringing. Growing up in a strict household in the shadow of a demanding father, Oglesby has a profound sense of...

Koa and the Nebulous is a children's sci-fi adventure by T.I. Avens. At the Bellflower Ranger Station on the planet of Galauthus, Koa Sapspark and the rest of the crew of Zephyr's Oath from the North Sector are fully prepared for their next mission. However,...

Author R. J. F. has combined a real setting with a horror story in The Keynes Game. Six people, two men and four women from different walks of life, are summoned to take part in a game. They don’t know the rules nor the endgame....

Janet Wertman’s What Love E’er Meant opens in 1558 as Elizabeth Tudor waits at Hatfield House, her residence, for proof that her half-sister Queen Mary I has died. The message places the twenty-five-year-old princess on England’s throne, where choosing how the kingdom will worship affects...