Talisman by Tom Catalano is not your usual time travel story. Archaeology student John Shaw is on a dig in Antigua with a team from the University of Chicago, led by the brilliant Professor Henri Rutherford. On the last day of the disappointing trip, they...

Daniel Ellrick's Interstellar Refugees Omnibus combines the three books in the trilogy into one. It follows poker-playing telescope jockey, Miharu Nakayama, who is thrust into a role she never imagined, becoming one of the most important people in the solar system. An arkship delivers 500,000...

No Climb Too High by Angela Haas starts with a woman running out of second chances. Roxanne Denning was struck by lightning in the Colorado mountains two years ago. It left her physically intact with some scars as a souvenir, but emotionally fractured. The accident...

Debora Masterson’s Freedom Quest: A Love Story begins with musician Michael Griffin and his band performing before a roaring crowd in San Diego, their song climbing the charts, and their future suddenly filled with possibility. From there, the novel moves backward to the San Fernando...

Independence, strength, courage, resilience, purpose – these are gifts we share with loved ones, old and young. In Devaunshi Mahadevia’s The World, For You, a mother shares her love for her child, beginning with the moment the child is born. The love is shared in...

In Getting Ready for My Brain Surgery by Dr. Fei Zheng-Ward, we follow a young child dealing with some very confusing physical hurdles—from stubborn headaches and dizzy spells to an arm that feels tingly. When the doctors explain that the brain needs a special kind...

What happens when duty forces two strangers together? In The Gamble by Karen Black, readers are taken to Texas in 1895, where Emily chooses to honor her father by agreeing to an arranged marriage, hoping to save his struggling ranch. She’s spent years working like...

What discoveries might await when Winnipeg is seen through the eyes of an owl? In W is for Winnipeg: A Little Architect’s ABC, Rae St. Clair Bridgman takes young readers on a creative alphabet journey through this Canadian city. With owls guiding the way, children...

In Charles Puccia’s Salt & Pepper Man, amateur PI Vinnie Briggs travels to Sicily hoping for a relaxing romantic getaway. The trip quickly spirals into danger before Vinnie checks into his hotel. A former best friend, now an FBI informant inside the mob, asks for...

Margaret Bryden’s How I Understand It: A Bad Poet’s Guide to Mental Health & Resilience blends poetry, personal reflection, psychology, and journal prompts into an exploration of emotional life. The book moves through subjects such as love, identity, trauma, grief, divorce, motherhood, aging, and self-worth,...

In Lance Jepsen's The Last Orbit, Nicole Gordon survives by salvaging wreckage from the dangerous debris fields that orbit Earth. Her mode of transport is the deteriorating banger of a vessel, Tethys. During a routine recovery operation, she discovers the ASV Mnemosyne, a missing arkship...

Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death by Dan Flanigan is a collection of emotional poems that speaks about the death of his wife, and brings together beauty and suffering in a creative and aesthetic way. Written in free verse and as prose poems, they...

So You Want to Be an Animator is one of more than 180 career-orienting books by Linda Soules. Dedicated to the profession of being an animator, it is an illustrated non-fiction book for children aged between ten and fourteen. With the aid of colorful, stunning...

Hear, O Israel by Robert J. Popoff follows the author’s lifelong struggle to bridge the gap between studying theology and actually experiencing a life guided by faith. Popoff reflects on his decades of marriage, public service as a mayor, and sudden, severe medical emergencies that...

The Golden Age by Alexander Exelmans is a thought-provoking philosophical play set in a future where artificial intelligence has transformed human civilization into a work-optional society. The story follows Zachary, a former Mars colonist who returns to Earth after years away only to discover that...

Orange and White by Richard J. Reese is a short story about the Holocaust. In 1943, Reinhardt Schroeder was member of the SS, someone who took great pleasure in killing Jews for the Nazi regime. Schroeder was tasked by his superiors to dismantle "Chamber II"...

In Brandon Fisichella’s The Corpse War of 1793, when the sergeant marches into the Norfolk town of Stowlham with a British regiment, expecting routine garrison duty during the Napoleonic era, he instead enters a town already collapsing beneath attacks carried out by the dead. Soldiers,...

The Skull of Wenceslas by Marion Deland revolves around Kat Schneider, a medieval literary expert, who is trying to move forward after the loss of her beloved Oma. She gets the change she needs when she travels to Prague to translate an ancient manuscript. However,...

Love You, Love You 'Night by Kristi Cromwell is a well-written book that offers children a comforting bedtime story filled with love and allows them to bond with their parents or guardians. It is Emily’s bedtime, but she is not ready to go to bed...

So You Want To Be An Astronomer & Exoplanet Hunter is one of the more unique jobs in the So You Want To Be series by Linda Soules. Although it might seem like astronomers spend all night gazing through a telescope, there’s much more to...