Daniel J Wright’s Bounty follows Soryn, a Dark Crystal Elf bounty hunter living in demon-ruled Ethorel. A human tracker leads him to Neriana, a woman who has survived fifteen years since the Demon King ordered humanity’s extermination. A living human is worth one hundred million...

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...

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....

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,...

Falling Through the Net Hole is the second book in the Butterflies On The Net series by Inna Tamir. The story picks up right where Chasing Phantoms left off, with Vera Simkin heartbroken as Adrian finally moves in with his fiancée Kinneret. Just when Vera...

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,...

In Greatly Disappointed, Will James revisits the Seventh-day Adventist faith inherited in childhood, when belief in an imminent Second Coming made certainty part of ordinary life. Decades later, questions about teachings once accepted as Truth send the author back to the church’s beginnings, tracing the...

Andrew Tartar’s The Next Shift is a youth hockey coaching guide about helping volunteer coaches create a team environment where players can learn the game and want to return. Tartar begins with why children come to the rink and how coaches should define success. Trust...

Lords of the Dais by Glenn Starkey is a police investigation/crime novel with plenty of action and twists to keep the reader guessing. Detective Sergeant Lewis Malcolm is a retired Marine Corps veteran and one of the officers in Morgan City's small police department. When...