In S.K. Michalowski’s Brave New Game, six-foot-two seventh grader Charlie Gold takes college calculus at St. Hildegarde’s University, yet basketball is the part of his life he understands best. His late father was a beloved St. Hildegarde’s star, leaving Charlie with a name everyone in...

In Orphan of Empire, author S. A. Melia tells the story of Guy Erma, a young undocumented teen raised in a fashion house who dreams of enlisting in the elite Dome Militant defense force. His life suddenly changes during a sparring tournament on Space Platform...

S A Melia’s Heirs of Empire (Dodecahedral) follows the boy-king Teodor, thought dead after being lost in the wilds of Sas Darona; he returns riding the Charliki, the black Queen of Spiders. He finds out his cousin Tomas Storm has seized command of the Dome...

Sometimes the hardest part of growing up is learning not to let someone else’s words change how you see yourself. In My Crown is Good by Sydney Hart, Tiara is beginning her loc journey and is excited about the tiny locs growing from her scalp....

Marq and the Queen Fish by Martha Cinader is about the stunning land of Mara and its beautiful people. However, their homes were stolen one day by Florkers from the inland, and from then on, they claimed everything was theirs. Years passed, and the poor...

The Magical Genes: Indigenous Peoples’ Day Activity Book by Susan Lorraine Kadera is an educational workbook. Rather than telling a story, the book offers hands-on activities and plain language to help children begin to understand and respect Native American culture. The activities are varied. There...

The Urban Legend of the Gold Key by D.K. Zier follows Cate Smith Cruz, who just wants to belong. Cate is a music-obsessed teenager who has moved around her whole life. Living next to one of California's largest cemeteries, Cate has always been drawn to...

Cracks, book one in the Saga of the Spheres, by L.A. Prendergast follows Travis Black, a twenty-two-year-old human who survives a fatal stabbing when an ancient incorporeal being called Marrow merges with him, giving Travis powers and casting them into another universe. There, Travis reaches...

A Debt Reforged by Bryan James Beck is the fifth book in the Ancestral Debt Anthology. Marie‑Yvonne Rousseau has spent her life refusing the mysterious chest that haunted her family for generations, but the moment she finally opens it, she’s pulled from everything she loves...

In the memoir Flavors I Carry, Emily Wei recounts her life as an American-born Chinese woman whose sense of home is shaped by movement between the United States and Taiwan. At ten, she leaves Houston for Taipei, where school exposes her to social hierarchies she...

Karma Cats to the Sea by Kathleen Kastner is an awesome children's picture book featuring two superhero cat brothers, Julian and Oliver, who are on a mission to keep the beach clean and safe for ocean animals. They are Karma Cats. However, trouble has occurred...

At forty-two, Reaner, a single father and former competitive gamer, can barely provide for his eleven-year-old daughter, Tealy. However, despite the pressure of bills and responsibilities, he streams video games with his daughter as a hobby. After a streaming session one day, Reaner receives a...

In her series The Arimathea Chronicles, Susanne Blumer’s Anna of Calvary is set in 33 AD, as Anna, a cousin of Jesus of Nazareth, travels with his followers to Jerusalem for the Jewish festival of Passover. Her husband, Andrew, is one of Jesus’s Twelve disciples....

Some turning points arrive when you least expect them. In Allison Turns the Page by Leslie A. Rasmussen, Allison has already achieved something most authors only dream about: writing a bestselling novel. Now she has to figure out what comes next. Writing another book proves...

In Gary A. Keith’s The Mansions on Woodlawn Boulevard, Google executive Ted Jenkins decides that the grand homes lining his historic West Austin street deserve single-digit addresses that match their stature. His proposal draws the neighbors together, yet a routine look at old property records...

In Jerry Bloom’s End of Everything, it’s the end of the world. It all began when everyone’s phone suddenly blared a warning of a ballistic missile threat inbound for California. Anyone caught outside when the bombs fell and toxic clouds drifted across the state never...

Steve Parks’s Butterflies of the Cosmic Chaos follows Scott Crockett, a Boston journalist traveling to California for a Rolling Stones concert with Abby Gail “Aggie” Wrightson, his first love and former investigative partner. Decades earlier, Crockett and Aggie became consumed by questions surrounding the Kennedy...

As the owner of the Windermere Hotel on St. Mary’s, Geraldine has a busy life, full of daily challenges. Her marriage seems to be falling apart, and she will soon be alone because her three children will all be away at school. Then there is...

In Confessions of a Closeted Clairvoyant, Kim S. Bantle recounts a life in which intuition arrives before explanation. Growing up in Larchmont, New York, in a large Catholic family, she learned early to keep some experiences private. College brings powerful dreams, followed by a career...

Katrina Ruse’s Hunted by the Silvermoon follows Eletta Lowell, a hunter raised inside Greyhaven’s Venatorum Order to defend human settlements from werewolves. Her latest assignment sends her into Black Hollow Ridge after an enormous black wolf with ice-blue eyes, yet the moment Eletta draws her...