There is a sense of loneliness when reading Ana’s words as Confessions of a Female Dominant opens. Every page and every word reveals it in a multitude of ways. She is a woman desperate for something, which she cannot name, not while in Russia and...

Dolly Parton once said, “The magic is inside you. There ain’t no crystal ball.” In C is for Courageous by Shanita Liu, young readers are taken on a warm, upbeat A–Z journey that shows them how courage is something they already possess. They just have...

In Joshua Becker’s Soul Mission, Ephraim teaches Spanish in Milwaukee while living with mental health issues that detach him from his wife Rachel, their young son Ari, and the ordinary rhythm of daily life. After horrifying visions connected to the Holocaust death camps begin pulling...

Versology is an enthralling collection of poems written without using colons or semicolons. Taking inspiration from the nature of life, Avalok has crafted this collection seeking answers to some profound questions. Pursuing meaning and purpose, the author chooses to rely on question marks and exclamation...

Terry McNiff’s Why Breakups Are So Hard: How We Can Help explains how separation between parents can turn family life into a court-centered process that many people enter before they understand its consequences. Written for parents with children, the book presents one central message: adult...

The Trilogy of Time by Russ Cayer is a narrative featuring three poems that tell three different stories. These stories explore various aspects of the human condition. The first poem, "In Days of Yore," illustrates human conflict in a medieval setting, with opposing forces trying...

In Lana Stasek's Voices Within, Bella: Beyond the Bark, Bella, a purebred beagle, begins life when she's born inside a breeding barn. Sadly, this is what most will recognize as a puppy mill, where puppies are treated as property and survival depends on staying useful...

In Terry Birdgenaw’s Cyborg Contact, Dee, a giant cyborg ANT from the distant moon Bilaluna, arrives on Earth through an ancient wormhole with a warning about the environmental collapse that destroyed his original world. Stranded in a future North America shaped by drought, political violence,...

It is 1941, nine years after the devastating Holodomor in Ukraine. Two years earlier, fifteen-year-old Konstantin “Kostya” Lysenko had missed out on the mass recruitment of the Red Army for boys over the age of eighteen, unlike his older brothers, Petro and Grisha, when World...

Elizabeth Diane Adams' Fully Average is the story of Melissa Jolene Bonetti, who, in spite of her constant sense of dread, considers herself lucky. She has a long-term boyfriend and a steady accounting job, but her life implodes spectacularly when she discovers that her boyfriend...

Escape from Perihelion by Diego Tovar takes place in a scorched, climate-ravaged future, with Earth as a wasteland. The situation is worsened by environmental injustice and extractive capitalism. The people are divided into two classes: the privileged “insiders” of the domed Los Angeles and the...

Anette DeMattio’s Too Strong for Your Own Good: Success with Soul empowers readers on a soul-level rescue mission. Writing about her experiences of childhood trauma, six cancer diagnoses, and years of high-functioning burnout, the author delivers the AAA framework (Awaken, Alchemize, Ascend) that helps to...

In The Orphans of Nilad by Erich and Daniella Sanchack, driven by a sealed letter, EoC leads Kaida, the blue-eyed barbarian Dinger, and the half-elf Kekron ashore to Nilad, a mountain town shrinking under fear after miners vanish, and strange messages begin appearing in the...

In Michael W. Cook’s Faith in Flux, Cook takes a hard look at what happens when people begin censoring themselves long before anyone openly demands silence. Using Saint Augustine’s attempt to redirect Alypius after public entertainment disrupted his studies, the book follows a larger argument...

Springtime is a magical time of the year. Everything is rejuvenated: new life is everywhere, and everything is clean and fresh. In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Spring Song, the poetic words bring to life the beauty and romance of springtime, all based on the words of...

Maddy's Towers is a children’s picture book written by Inbal Alon with illustrations by Mandira Biswas. It follows Maddy, a young girl who returns home in tears after a sad betrayal. Her best friend, Mei, just revealed Maddy’s secret to everyone. While Maddy’s mother comforts...

In Anne M. Kennedy’s The Baku Inheritance, book one in The City of Winds series, in 1890, Anton Nikolayevich Sabroski arrives in Baku with tanker plans that could open a new route through the Suez Canal. He learns that his father has died, and the...

Life is so much more than caring for oneself: it’s really about caring for others. In Brandy Clark’s Vivian’s Perfectly Imperfect Picnic, young Vivian enjoys a day at the park with her Bubba. She rides the swings, enjoys a picnic, and walks around with Bubba....

Sometimes the people who seem the most guarded are the ones with the heaviest history, and in For You Always by Hannah Jordan, Cammie knows that better than anyone. She left her hometown in search of a fresh start and happened upon Peace Falls, where...

In Makerborn by Daymon Ashcord, a decade after her daughter Agnieshka vanished into the custody of House Lublinin, former Seal Warden Alandra Phoenyka discovers the ruling houses of Salvia are secretly enslaving Eastern Sonomancers to build weapons and failing storm shelters powered through torture. While...