Monstrosity: Apartment Complex on Deadman Lane Episodes 9–12 Box Set by KJ Walt continues the adventures of Yoska Draper and the residents of the apartment complex on Deadman Lane. When Essie’s supernatural instincts warn her that something is terribly wrong in apartment number eight, she...

Life is full of new beginnings. A mother bird tells her young bird it’s time to leave the nest in The Bird Song by Willie Beesley. The news makes him feel very nervous. The world feels so big, but his mom offers some encouraging advice....

Part character study, part medical mystery, part legal drama, Always Hope by Heather Frimmer is a difficult novel to classify. In it, three flawed people are brought together by the birth of a child gone wrong. Kendall Carlson’s uneventful pregnancy turns into a harrowing delivery...

Reading can be so much fun, and it helps you learn a lot. In Terrie Sizemore’s Look at Me! I Can Read!, a little girl explores the wonderful possibilities found in books. First, she enjoys pictures that inspire her to learn more. Then she learns...

Daniel Royer’s Aben Almighty follows Aben, an Astroknight returning from the Rift war, as his squad is sent to Planet Taggert to secure an alliance with a people who judge outsiders through ordeal. To pass among them, Aben and his team accept mutations that turn...

In Coda Blue’s The King of Happy Valley, a young Recon Marine returns from Okinawa to Camp Talega, the isolated Camp Pendleton outpost that becomes home. He is a skilled Point Man whose appetite for the next experience takes him from dangerous training into a...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter’s memoir Since You Weren’t There & Other Memories charts her personal path through the social landscape of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. She recounts explicit moments such as her teenage uncles shooting rats from a Kenilworth dining-room window, buying Little Golden Books at...

Daniel J Wright’s Bounty follows Soryn, a Dark Crystal Elf bounty hunter living in demon-ruled Ethorel. A human tracker leads him to Neriana, a woman who has survived fifteen years since the Demon King ordered humanity’s extermination. A living human is worth one hundred million...

Rejection is Murder by Carol E. Ayer is the first book in the Cat and Mowse Mysteries. Catherine Lynley is a cozy mystery writer, writing under the pen name of Cat Summers. Her stories are always neatly tied up – her life, not so much....

Love Her Blind and Other Poems, an anthology by David Somerfleck, has deep philosophical themes and is rich in symbolism. Several poems see the unattainable fair woman take center stage, ever eluding the author, in which life can often be unforgiving and somber, but for...

What Will I Be Today? This question activates Sailor’s superpower every day. Sailor is a young girl who lives a pretty normal life. She goes to school, watches TV, reads books, picks her nose, and plays with her toys. But when she is in her...

Blood of the Founding by B.A. Chapman is a paranormal romance with a bite to it. Dr. Elena Vance, PhD, works at the Jeffersonian researching obsolete Eastern European cultures, but something strange is happening to her. She thinks she might be turning into a wolf....

There Be Dragon by Michael Tars follows Kwe, a highly trained agent, whose final mission ends in disaster when he's caught in an explosion and seemingly dies. Instead of waking up in a hospital, he finds himself in the snowy kingdom of Kalador, where three...

What if your entire life, with every regret, every triumph, every ordinary Tuesday, were already shelved in a library? In David Samuel Allen’s A Free Will Manifold, this question haunts Edom Thompson, a pure mathematician stuck on a proof he calls the “Die lemma,” when...

In Benjamin Abravenel’s The Past, Again, Judah Cohen is a Santa Barbara boy whose childhood changes after he finds Holocaust photographs in his father Brian’s study and begins answering to James instead of his given name. As James grows older, he sets his sights on...

Brenda Murphy’s Kindling of a Firebrand is set in Boston, where Fran Sweeney grows from a Charlestown dockworker’s daughter into a Catholic woman drawn toward labor politics during the Depression. After illness damages her heart, her parents send her to Mount St. Joseph Academy, where...

Toby the Big Little Yorkie by Judy Haveson is the story of Toby, a fifteen-pound Yorkshire Terrier living in a New York high-rise with Mom, Dad, and his best friend, Charlie. Most Yorkies weigh seven or eight pounds and get carried around in purses or...

I Am Me by Felicia L. Kenny is a lovely children's picture book. Jared is a young boy who shares the joy of being cool in his own way. He comes from a loving family of two parents of different backgrounds. Jared sees the world...

So You Want To Be An Activist by Linda Soules is part of her larger career-exploration series for young readers. This entry tackles a subject most career guides skip entirely: the work of refusing to accept things as they are. The book walks young readers...

The Character Route Tree is a self-help memoir with author Marc R Schneider’s account of growing up in a household shaped by his mother Kiki’s anger, his father’s silence, and the fear rituals Schneider used to feel safe. His memoir traces the effect of that...