Every family has a story of courage somewhere in its past. For the Swarts, theirs begins in 1912 in the Netherlands. Inspired by the experiences of the author's own ancestors, eight-year-old Helena Swart is at the center of it all in Penny S. Ledbetter's De...

Mihail Băeșu’s Pastborn follows Adam Connor, who wakes up in 2199 with almost no memory of his life and discovers that Earth now belongs to robots. Humans have been illegal since Bill 1 was passed in 2113, yet Adam is technically permitted to exist because...

Matthew West-James’s Burning Salt begins with the Jaka, an ancient civilization that has learned to cross between universes through the Nexus after earlier expansion nearly destroyed them. When a rupture starts sending three-dimensional matter into a planar universe, every crossing tears through the two-dimensional environment...

Daniel R Hersch’s The Witch-Bane, book two in The Death Keeper Chronicles, takes Alexander Wren and his vampire wife, Yiyao Shi, into a Phoenix murder investigation narrated by Death himself. When five-year-old Morgan Fowler is killed in her bedroom and occult markings cover the walls,...

In Nina and the Missing Night by Natalia Paruzel-Gibson, we follow a resourceful young girl named Nina during a day that simply refuses to end. The night completely vanishes, leaving the neighborhood trapped under a stubborn sun that won’t quit. While people are happy to...

In Nola Z's Divide by Shunya, after senior product manager Maya is fired from a Seattle technology company, every digital record of her employment disappears. She soon learns that Project Kala, the mental wellness platform she helped build, has been transformed into a system that...

The Governed Enterprise by Robin Horstmann is the most practical guide to AI governance currently available for senior leaders in consumer packaged goods companies. Horstmann opens with two scenarios that would stop any executive cold: a 2:00 AM call about an AI procurement agent that...

Cut to the Essence by Sneha Villalva is a self-help book that pulls apart the modern lie that doing more equates to being more. Villalva shares her life as a high achiever who looked successful on the outside but felt broken on the inside. She...

In J.M. Woodward’s The Holding, thirteen-year-old Anna and her nine-year-old brother Simon live between their mother’s crowded family home and their father’s basement apartment in central-southern Ontario. Anna finds relief at the barn with Bravo, the horse she rides, while Simon spends every permitted minute...

“Everyone knew what they were. Humanoid in shape, monstrous in behavior. Creatures with no soul, no conscience, no desire beyond destruction.” The menace is clear in KOA: Dark Systems by Chris Bankus, a sci-fi tale set in the cold of space sometime in the future....

Lord March Rain: The Borders of Existence by Richard Meillear is a sense-awakening journey into the unknown and explores that age-old, burning question: what happens when we die? When just an ordinary, average human being, who had achieved no notoriety, success, or fame in his...

C.L. Rosario's Angel Letters of Esther follows Esther Consuelos, a Cuban-Italian Formula One publicist, and a lonely New York writer, Jan Luis Larose, who meet at the 2025 Miami Grand Prix. They discover their parents nearly fell in love in Ostia decades earlier. Believing their...

Edd Ahearn's In the Shadow of Beauty takes readers to the Yorkshire village of Norton, as veteran Tomasz “Ski” Bankowski enters a burning tradesmen’s office, where electrician Ben Carmichael lies dead beside scattered diamonds. After Ski rescues injured plasterer Aiden Anson, he learns that the...

Anna Lamnari’s The Last Labor is set in the legendary Mycenaean age, when Herakles returns to Mycenae believing ten years of punishment have bought back his life. King Eurystheus has other plans. After rejecting two completed labors, he orders his cousin to steal Hera’s golden...

It is 2550. Humans have spread into space, colonizing hundreds of worlds. The Human Systems Alliance (HSA) has been governing this vast network of planets for generations. However, for three decades, the HSA has been stuck in a brutal war with the Ascendancy, a powerful...

After completing their first assignment, the six candidates of the Order of the Steel Rose—Mr. Carnby, Dr. Whitehall, Axel, Percy, Emma, and Jane—are accepted into the Order. However, they have many questions about the evil they encountered and the culprits in their custody. They soon...

In All We Keep Buried by Pamela Ungashick, a friendship is tested when Kiera is caught up in the disappearance of her friend Naomi’s ten-year-old nephew, Scottie. Everyone suspects Reggie Parks. Reggie’s brother Evan disappeared years ago, and he was the prime suspect. After all...

In Kris Paulsen's Galaxy Walkers 2: Unity of Worlds, Lyra and Archie are Universe Walkers, humans whose awakened minds let them cross galaxies using extraordinary abilities. Their enemy, Saros, is a Walker who is Archie’s presumed-dead mother. Archie builds a device intended to stop her...

Do you dream? Do you ever wonder what your dreams really mean? In Slavica Joković’s Dreams, the author explores some of her own dreams, beginning with a dream about an earlier era, walking with someone special, only to run into the same person in the...

If you want a fresh take on a classic journey through the forest, The Rizzas deliver a beautiful version in their book, Little Red and Benny the Wolf. We meet Ruby, a cheerful little girl whose mom sends her out to deliver a basket of...