Black Cattle by John Meilink is a stunningly powerful, disturbing, and deeply moving story of the slave trade from West Africa in the seventeenth century, told from the Dutch perspective. In the late 1600s across West Africa, European nations, Muslim traders, and African kings were...

Russell Luyt's The Midnight Factory unfolds in New Albion, a world ruled by fear and control. After a political event—known as the Great Change—takes effect, the Bureau for Virtue becomes the governing body that regulates New Albion through surveillance, propaganda, and an addictive drug called...

Kercy Powell was born with a deformity, but thanks to her parents' wealth and access to the best medical resources, she was given a chance at an everyday life. The one place where she feels most alive is on the island paradise belonging to her...

When Silence Shatters by Mahitab Mahmoud is a collection of original short stories, all of which, in their own way, lean into societal pressures and personal agency in Egyptian life. In Stained, Mariam intervenes when a teenage girl is harassed, confronting public scrutiny and social...

Children of Nemia by Michael Goe follows fifteen-year-old Van as he prepares for the sacred Journey of Patronage. It is a rite of passage meant to prove his worth to his tribe and to his demanding chieftain father. Hoping to return as a blooded warrior,...

Over a decade into his reign as the supreme ruler of the Milky Way Galactic Empire, Abukar Kenessit plans to settle down and solidify his reign. He aims to marry, establishing his bloodline while adopting a very different approach from the norm to expanding the...

The Unwritten Rule is the first book in The Racing Line series by Anne Nikolaiken. The story follows Formula 1 driver Sydney McKinnly as he fights to secure a third world championship. After a rough season filled with mistakes and pressure, his team demands he...

The Christmas Squall: A Once-In-A-Lifetime Call by Shani T. Night is a superb, cheerful, and heartfelt children's picture book for winter and Christmas holiday fans of all ages. One Christmas, in a beautiful town, an extraordinary event took place that caught everyone by surprise. The grey sky warned...

Heidi Heisel's Gizmo Goes to Germany follows Gizmo, a lively young dog who attends Service Dog School but keeps getting in trouble for being late and distracted. His teacher, a strict and disciplined German Shepherd named Fritz, finally tells him that he is close to...

“You sit up in bed. This is where you’ve landed—fallen off the map, and no one seems to care. But that’s not new. You’ve felt invisible before. Now it’s just official.” That’s life in Eddie The KIng (the title is not a typo), a collection...

Bucket Lists and Walking Sticks by Emma Scattergood is the first of a series of travelogues that document the author and her husband Darryl’s adventures in travelling around the world by a variety of means. An inveterate blogger from Australia, the author has compiled a...

Haunted by a Broken Oath is the first book in Dee Armstrong’s new Haunted series. JD Wolfe, a talented private investigator, is pulled into a tough case when the body of a decorated military hero is found hanging. When two young boys go missing, she’s...

Gregory M. Carroll's 11 Minutes is based on the infamous Great Bookie Robbery in 1976 and the men behind it. The robbery at the Victoria Club is still the largest armed robbery in Australian history. In a coordinated strike, six masked men in overalls burst...

Garbage Squirrel by Megan Deliberto tells the story of Gary, a lonely squirrel living in a zoo with no home and very little food. Gary sleeps in garbage cans, takes what he needs to survive, and scratches the other animals; he is seen as a...

Exit Tickets by Kenneth Chanko follows Martin Jordanowski, a new writing teacher at a middle school on the Upper East Side, as his wish to reach students centers on Kandra McKissick, an eighth grader who turns his classroom into a refuge. Her visits grow longer....

We Are Legion by J.A. Kampton is set over one day in Thacker Pass, where reports from a lithium mine herald an exposed passage and missing miners as a solar eclipse nears. Wiley's work at McDonald’s shifts when two figures tied to the mine appear...

Building the Bridge by Melissa Baker is a thought-provoking memoir that follows her painful journey from a childhood shaped by family secrets, neglect, abuse, and debilitating trauma to finding purpose in nurturing new and meaningful connections, serving others, and pursuing healing. She sells her car...

Robin Lamont's "Wright For America" feeds the hunger for mystery, adventure, passion, and comedy in one extraordinary story. The action centers around the believable talk show host Pryor Wright, who spews venomous ultra-conservative tirades which our protagonist Maren believes contributed to the injuries inflicted on...

The Agent Runner by Simon Conway is a fascinating look inside the secret intelligence world operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Simon Conway's first act outlines the raid to kill Osama bin Laden, and speculates on the spy-craft involved. Ed Malik — Asian, British, Muslim, an...

In Another Summer by Rebecca Stevenson, Tracy lives and works in Boston and has not taken a vacation in a very long time. When her mother suggests renting a house in the seaside village of Wentworth Cove, Maine, where she spent some time many years...