Mark Binder’s The Worst centers on an ordinary eighth-grader who navigates the awkward world of a small New England middle school along with his tight-knit group of friends. Calling themselves Team Bomb Shelter, these clever middle schoolers use an ironic scale to rank their daily...

Jaxon Quinn gradually develops a change of heart when he receives a parcel containing evidence indicting his client, mob boss Vincent Morelli, for a gruesome murder. His conscience pricks him even more, seeing as he just aided Vincent to beat tax evasion charges and walk...

The marginalization of Jews who are not of European origin is the subject of Interrogating Ashkenormativity by Sipporah International. For readers not familiar with the term, Ashkenazi Jews are an ethnic group that originated in medieval Germany and France during the 10th century. They spoke...

In Andrew C Merrick’s Between Fleets, Luke MacLaughlin is a young Casarian naval officer serving aboard the destroyer HMS Snug Varanid of Endicott when he is asked to help locate Raekhuna, the lost homeworld of the Kherrian Peregrine Fleet. Shaera is a Kherrian engineer beginning...

The people you spend the most time with may be influencing you more than you realize. This idea is explored in The Principle of The Five Chairs by Phil Graffoe. Using the concept of individuals sitting in metaphorical chairs, the guide helps readers understand the...

Tricia Conyers’s Confidence Is Action is a practical self-help book for women who have been taught to treat confidence as a feeling, title, or public performance instead of a daily practice. Conyers uses a wedding conversation after leaving a twenty-year corporate career, when one cutting...

In Wade Prull’s Black Tank, Gary is a former infrastructure specialist who has spent four years traveling alone in the motorhome he chose with his wife Claire. At Ridgeline State Park, the afternoon light matches a place Claire once circled in their road atlas, but...

In Love on the Perimeter by Lloyd Devereux Richards, seventeen-year-old Llewelyn Davies is a sensitive boy struggling with anxiety. Losing his mother and being abandoned by his alcoholic father leaves him in the care of his grandmother, but he lacks self-confidence, always shutting himself away....

As one of the last remaining songgivers, whose music has healing properties, Christine Daaé should be more than a singer at the Paris Opera. However, a rogue attack by a malevolent grimlark during her childhood not only killed her mother but also stripped her of...

Bones: A Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Brian Doe follows Brom Bones three years after Ichabod Crane’s disappearance, when life has become far from the victory he thought he'd won. His marriage to Katrina is strained, his home is full of tension, and he’s too...

Still Here by G.K. Woolf is set in the quiet town of Hartford, in New South Wales. The novel recounts the disappearance of ten-year-old Hattie Monetti, which occurred in 2003 while she was returning from school. The mystery of the missing girl becomes a cold...

As I began to read Nouvelle New England by Chef Justin Bradbury, I was immediately immersed in the rich New England culture and its relationship with food. Chef Bradbury carefully laid out the connections between types of foods and dishes that were special to each...

In Bound Maiden: Daphne’s Chase by Eva Darcy, we meet a nineteen-year-old river nymph who resolutely turns her back on marriage to live a wild life in the woods. Daphne’s unwavering devotion to Artemis becomes her guiding light until a Titan-blooded basilisk begins terrorizing Arkady,...

Hadley is hungry, and her rumbling tummy won't let her rest until she finds something to fill it. Hadley the Hippo Is What She Eats by Kayla E. Green follows her through the jungle as she munches her way from one snack to the next,...

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...

The Psychic: A Young Adult Paranormal Thriller, Volume 1 is a paranormal mystery written by Rupert Fox. Elizabeth Wood is suffering from recurring nightmares that vividly recreate the tragic death of her parents when their car sank into the waters of Loch Lochy. She was...

If there is anything I love better than the movie Taken, starring Liam Neeson, it is the second book in this thrilling series: Inescapable — Remembering by Madge H Gressley. A beautiful woman, Darcey Callahan, sets out to locate her missing boyfriend, driving from Texas...

Yvonne's Cookbook Let's Eat! by Yvonne Hendricks is a book that will delight all those who love to cook and eat. In this book, the author shares her recipes and tips with readers, but in addition to this, she tells personal stories and introduces us...