The Cheeky Capybara and the Emerald Boa by Kateryna Dronova centers on a quiet mangrove forest that gets turned upside down one afternoon. Ramiro, an elderly pelican, drops out of the sky in a complete panic to warn the animals about a big green presence...

"This wasn’t some lazy mist drifting in for a nap. It slithered, serpentine and intentional -- malevolent as a living thing with a grudge.” Malice and death arrive hand in hand in Itsy Bitsy Spyder: Evolution, a novel by J.R. Larriba. And when they do,...

Inside Henry Cato by Katharine English opens in present-day Manhattan, where a silver-haired man in a bespoke suit, Henry Cato, listens to the city’s footsteps from his studio, believing that his success story began in darkness. The story flashes back to 1960s rural Kansas, where...

Oliver’s Garden is a children's book by Evelyn A Fisher. At the edge of a redwood forest, there is a large house with a beautiful garden. And here comes Oliver, a cute white dog who lives in that house. Oliver is always happy to go...

Bloody Broadway: Plays of Menace, Murder, and Mystery, Volume II (1930–1960) by Amnon Kabatchnik is a sweeping reference work that traces three decades of Broadway's darkest stage dramas, from The Last Mile in 1930 through The Best Man in 1960. Kabatchnik, a theatre historian schooled...

Mercy Marlowe’s The Jesus Girl follows Jessica Sandoval, an eighteen-year-old Tampa high school senior whose Christian faith motivates every prayer she writes and every plan she makes for UF pre-med. Jess has spent five years calling David Michaels her best friend after a middle-school fight...

In The Pact of Exit by Her Majesty Of Ink and Exit Wounds, a thinned Queen has to find a way out of a toxic, minimizing relationship so she can finally reclaim her absolute sovereignty. She is stuck living a life of mediocre compliance and...

Katie Lou the Kangaroo Won’t Leave Mama’s Pouch by Andrea Hyatt tells the story of Katie Lou the kangaroo, who loves to stay in her mother's warm, cozy, and safe pouch. Every day of the week, her friends ask her to play, jump on the...

That Will Never Do! by Ralph V. Clayman, MD, is a thoughtful medical memoir that explores the unique career of a surgeon whose ultimate goal was actually to make traditional incisions obsolete. Shaped by a demanding childhood and a constant search for his father’s approval,...

At twenty-two, Carter and Christian, childhood friends turned lovers, are graduating from Northern Arizona University. Carter surprises Christian with a marriage proposal on the same day but is left shocked and devastated when Christian turns him down. He heads to Boston, where he had planned...

Literary Echoes: Short Story Analyses by Fiza Pathan is an educational study of short fiction that teaches readers how to examine the details authors put into their stories. Pathan considers Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” by looking at the village ritual as a social practice accepted...

Bones: A Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Brian Doe follows Brom Bones three years after Ichabod Crane’s disappearance, when life has become far from the victory he thought he'd won. His marriage to Katrina is strained, his home is full of tension, and he’s too...

Jasyn Turley’s Weeks follows Tim and Dakota, soldiers living in Alyeska thirteen years after the Great Calamity turned much of North America into the Dead World. Their latest mission in Colorado has left their brother Phil missing, sending Tim back to Alyeska as Dakota prepares...

The Throne of Deep Roots is the second book in the Worldhold epic fantasy series by Morven T.H. Borthwick. One year after the Black Sea rose and nearly destroyed the lands of the Worldhold, the Lord of the Dovarim, Sathor, and his council are still...

The Elegance of Decay by Stoney Brooks follows Dustin, a postgraduate bryologist who leads five companions into the Northern Arizona wilderness to study moss growing on a cliff face. Their camp rests on metal platforms bolted three hundred feet above the valley, leaving the group...

Dr. Fei Zheng-Ward’s Strong Like Me helps families understand the routine of Type 1 Diabetes in a very comforting way. It follows a child learning how the human body uses glucose, how insulin works like a set of helpful keys, and how that gives us...

In Kritanut Wattana’s Six Days Out, six days before his scheduled release from Ashford Correctional, structural engineer Ethan Cole watches a mysterious illness tear through the prison and escape into a country where systems have collapsed. He sets out for Harlow, two hundred and ten...

Twelve Days of Christmas Murder and Mayhem by Aaron T. Knight is a humorous and entertaining read with a fun mystery and a charming sleuth. Miss Marble is well-known for her sleuthing skills and detective work. Miss Marble is drawn into a murder mystery and...

Christine Triner’s The Demon’s Spawn begins in Salem in 1693, where Elspeth is carrying twins after an encounter with the demon Baleth. Condemned during the witch trials, she dies before giving birth, but the unborn children are promised another life. Centuries later, the twins return...

Bernard Doucette’s The Seasonal Killer opens with retired Brett Dubois agreeing to tell journalist Monroe Jackson what happened in New Valley during the summer of 1981. At twelve, Brett spent his days roaming the suburban woods with four close friends who called themselves the Subpar...