M K Boers’ Sleep follows Lizzy Dyson, a woman held in a psychiatric prison wing while a court considers her responsibility for killing her husband, Tony, and his lover, Sally Bryant. Lizzy has pleaded guilty, but the question before the court is how her state...

A little courage can fit inside a hug. In We Can Do Hard Things, Melissa Dupuis tells the story of a young child whose mother becomes seriously ill and needs to spend time in the hospital. Both are scared, but Mama reminds her they can...

The Third Man by Malachi King is a novella about two young men lost in the Alaskan wilderness in the winter, and a mysterious third man who guides them to rescuers. Tom and Jarvis are high school students with a taste for adventure, which frequently...

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,...

Bringing Butterflies Home: Gardening with Native Plants to Heal Our Yards and Ourselves is a wonderful environmental book by Elizabeth White Olsen. Elizabeth's passion is butterflies and how to cultivate her garden and living space to bring more of nature into her life. She teaches...

Opportunity Sought and Applied II by Owen Parr is a powerfully innovative book for anyone wanting to learn how to build something new. The author, Owen Parr, doesn’t promise success. His approach inspires others to have more faith in what they already know and teaches...

Owen Parr’s Opportunity Sought and Applied II brings together twenty-three imagined conversations with people whose work expanded what others believed possible. Beginning with Benjamin Franklin in 1789 Philadelphia, the author steps into each person’s world to ask how an opportunity first became visible and what...

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....

Heritage Road by Zelmer Wilson follows Henry Ray Daniels, a forty-year-old aspiring author who completes a memoir about his pursuit of authorship after decades spent seeking publication. The manuscript identifies novelist Jasper Walker as his biological father, exposing Walker’s past relationship with Henry’s mother, Isabel...

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...

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...

Grief can change a family, but sometimes the right person can help everyone begin finding their way forward. In Not My Child by Denise Jett, Charlotte is trying to figure out what comes next after losing her mother to cancer. The former first-grade teacher leaves...

The Algorithm of Us by S. Page is set in Deltara, a city where an AI called EVE matches every citizen with their supposed soulmate. No dating, no choice; people just get a name delivered straight to their vision feed. Zora is a data scientist...

A Black Magic by Joseph Stone follows Frances “Fran” Tarantino, a Barnard College student who can see Daedrian Crow, the ghost of an eighteenth-century Boston man bound to the women of her family. After discovering that contact between her blood and family writings can trigger...

"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,...

Do you ever wonder why things work the way they do? C.M. Harris celebrates all those questions children love to ask in What If We Were All Curious! Who, what, where, why, and how can lead to so many discoveries. There’s a little bit of...

Sayinisms: Southern Sayings, Literally Illustrated is a lighthearted look at the phrases that shape everyday Southern talk. Seth Meriwether grew up hearing these expressions from family and friends, and he brings them together here with illustrations that show exactly what the words describe. Each saying...

In M.J. Azinger’s Fae of Legacy and Lies, at twenty-three, Mary is the Maiden of the Triple Goddess on Avalon, a sacred island where she has spent her life secluded from men and convinced her half-fae blood has no magic. After her mother Caerllion dies,...

Science is Barnabee’s favorite subject, but for some reason in class he can’t stay still, and his mind is continually racing. In Barnabee Thrives with ADHD by Cazzy Zahursky, his excitement about waiting to experience the Hive Elementary Science Night and his impatience are causing...

Lawrence E. Maynard’s Inevitable: Democracy's Demise offers an alternative history that opens in 1972 when Nixon’s aide, Nicholas Matthews, adopts an infant girl, Yi Nuo, on a historic trip to China. He is unaware that the child is Mao Zedong's secret daughter and that her...