P. L. Mendoza's Stories In The Clearing is a fun and thoughtful collection of animal fables centered around the captivating exchanges between a clever wolf, Vargr, and a wise tree, Nemethea. Through five short yet thought-provoking stories, the author (along with Vargr and Nemethea) delivers...

Saving Cottonwood by Lisa Page follows a recently divorced middle school librarian named Iris, who was seeking a fresh start in an old adobe house near the bosque. This landscape of cottonwood trees and winding riverbanks seems to hum with its own quiet spirit. In...

The Preacher’s Son by T.R. Brown explores faith, family, and the complexities of relationships. Set in the Carolinas, the novel follows Caleb Boone, the son of a Southern Baptist minister, as he returns home after his father, Elijah Boone, dies. What begins as a journey...

The Seaside Sleuths and the Bridal Batter Blunder by Joy Michelle Austin follows young Lily, who wants her dad’s engagement cake to turn out right, but a jar of candied orange peel goes missing during a busy week at home and school. To figure out...

Treat yourself to a delightful Christmas story with Carter Amon's Gabriel the Brave. This picture book opens with a young boy asking his father the reason behind placing a star on top of a Christmas tree. Soon, his father regales him with the tale of...

Little Renee of Sunshine and the Everkind Tales is a children's short story collection by Gael J.B. Orr. In "A Recipe for Trouble," fairy sisters Peyton and Penelope are trying to make a whisperberry pie. When their mother starts humming her favorite cleaning day tune,...

Camila’s parents had left Guatemala for the USA in hopes of providing a better future for their daughter. After arriving in the USA, a woman called Jennifer helped them with the paperwork and to find shelter. She becomes not just their caseworker but a close...

The Shattered Weave: The Song and Forge Chronicles Book 1, by A.M. Lavender, is epic high fantasy with dark fantasy and mythic elements. Readers are brought into a world sustained by the mysterious Weave. But their reality is beginning to fracture. This leads scholar Elara...

Book of the Silenced by Gordana Smith tells the story of a mother, her son Mikey, and a long struggle that unfolds across continents and hospitals, spanning years of uncertainty. The narrative begins with the author’s early life in war-torn Bosnia. As the war reshapes...

In Everkind, Haven Ruth, the smallest fairy, is also known as the Biter Fairy. In Gael JB Orr’s The Itty-Bitty Biter Fairy, Haven Ruth has quite the temper, and she resolves it by biting anyone nearby. All the other fairies have bite marks from Haven...

Joy Michelle Austin’s novel, Half Agony, Half Hope: Dear Lily Edition, is a gripping psychological story of the survival of a father and his daughter under horrific circumstances. The shocking story emerges through letters that Rick Wentworth wrote to his daughter Lily over ten years...

Nursing Her Fractured Family by Louis Tong is an enthralling novel. Penny's father has just died, and from now on, she has to take care of her mother and younger sister. Penny, at twenty-four, thinks more about her sister, how to protect her from their mother, who...

Belle is only a little dog, but she’s full of curiosity. In A Christmas for Belle by Cindy J. Vanous, the little Yorkie begins to notice all kinds of changes when she goes out for a walk. There are men in red suits everywhere and...

The Night of Samhain: A Halloween Fairy Scary Story is part of The Everkind Tales by Gael J. B. Orr. It’s Samhain night, and there’s a full moon. Emlyn the tawny owl sits in the hickory tree. The fairy sisters Willa and Violet are tucked...

Waiting for the Kick: A Midwife's Grief and Rebirth in Africa by Sheila Kimble-Haas is a memoir that opens in the rawest place possible: the months after the sudden death of the author's husband, Ric, when grief becomes a constant, buzzing presence she can't outrun....