In Dr. Paul L. Sasser’s The Oagenn, Nathanael Livanos has lived for centuries by hiding what he is: an Oajinn who does not age like ordinary people, but his hidden life ends when his brother El-Jy’een begins hunting the ancient rings that can alter the...

When sixteen-year-old Michael and his younger fourteen-year-old brother, Max, came up with the plan to build the National Hall of Champions and Learning Center on Childhood Cancer, they hadn't realized their idea would lead them to become champions of hope. Dream Big: The Hall of...

Bodies of Water by Marylee MacDonald is a collection of original short stories. Each story ranges in length and content, but all are about people whose lives change when water enters the equation. In The Ark Encounter, Pearl loses her house to a hurricane, then...

Surviving Summer Camp is an adventure novel for preteens and young adults by Paul Breau. Edward "Eddy" Martin is quite an introverted twelve-year-old. He isn't like his overconfident sixteen-year-old brother, Adam, or his playful little nine-year-old brother, Callum. Eddy doesn't enjoy the outdoors. But after...

In Elaina Kelly Smith’s Choice, the author shares her life journey from being raised in a very restrictive religious home to traveling all seven continents. It’s an honest look at how a person rebuilt self-trust after years of simply doing things for everyone else. Smith...

In Deception, D. Rebbitt’s first book in The Cyborg Wars series, Prince Gregor of the frontier world of Evergreen, an independent principality beyond the Human Empire, drifts through a privileged life. His father, Emperor Mikolavich, wants to unite Evergreen with the neighboring enclave of Berane,...

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...

Prelude to the Storm is the first book in the Storm Cycle series by Leonard J. Chastain, a spellbinding epic fantasy with incredible worldbuilding and unforgettable characters. Welcome to the frozen wastes of Baria, where twenty-year-old Imar watches in horror as an old enemy resurfaces:...

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....

The Enchanted Harvest Feast: A Thanksgiving Tale of Magic and Gratitude by Nina Purtee is a fabulous book for children. The story welcomes us to the Enchanted Forest in the fantasy world of Maplewood. Finley Greenbriar, a charming, curious, and kind-hearted Bram, lives in an...

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...