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...

Menticulous is a stellar techno-thriller by James Te Ronde. The story takes us to the state-of-the-art Markus Center, a high-tech research facility designed by Dr. Noah Markus, the mastermind behind the Menticulous, a highly advanced, most powerful computer system. But Dr. Noah Markus dies, and...

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...

Howard L. Dalton’s Four-Footed Sergeant is a beautiful account of a Marine armored unit officer and his fiercely loyal dog, Injector, who served beside him in the intense Pacific theater of World War II. Coming from a Texas farm background and holding a dairy science...

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...

Stormheart by Julia Makin is the story of Tan, a princess treated as a slave and locked in a tower. She dreams of freedom not only for herself but for the people of Elira. When pirates attack Anzara, she seizes the chance to flee, but...

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...

The Story of Louise: From $500 to Priceless by Leonard Smith III is a factual genealogical account of a black woman freed from slavery before it became a Civil War-era issue. She is first documented in the residence of Michel Richard in St. James Parish,...

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...

Pale Pink Roads by Joe Tarantino is the personal history of a cyclist looking back at a lifetime spent exploring North American highways. The author uses his old-school hub odometers and travel receipts to reconstruct seventeen epic rides that shaped his adult years. Starting as...

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...

Disconnected is an absorbing collection of short stories and poems by Vivian Herkes. An emotionally drained man who can only connect to his feelings by writing letters on behalf of others finds himself in the midst of a deadly lovers' quarrel. A bright young man...

FBI profiler Tom Milner has an uncanny knack for identifying criminals. His success depends not only on his deductive powers but also on a rare psychic ability. All this traces back to a traumatic childhood experience during his family’s stay at Betonville. Here, during a...

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...

Mina Rubenstein has been through her fair share of challenges. Seen as a freak by her peers at St. Benedict’s Catholic School, there is little to look forward to in her school life. Her only reprieve from the relentless bullying by the popular group is...

The Lost Claim is the second book in The Mercer Files series by S.F. Baumgartner. At the Longreach offices' 1974 lease register, Lori Callahan, a contract archivist hired by the district, found an altered date with ties to her father's claim. Someone had messed with...