Dwayne E Hackett’s People of Nyame: The Emissary begins in 2495, after descendants of the African Diaspora have built the Umoja Compact across the Nyame Cluster. Ashley Walker, a scholar on Ubuntu, waits for permission to study the Dyson Almond, an alien archive vessel near...

In the literary fiction novel, I Am Danvers by Kate Kaminski, Marie “Danny” Danvers makes a living as a live-in companion inside very wealthy homes. After a job with the Whitaker family ends in accusations, art adviser Ian St. Martin sends her to Los Angeles...

What would you do if you woke up without any memory of who you are? In Between Rooms by Adrian M. Mompoint is the story of a woman who experiences that phenomenon. The story begins as she’s waking up. She’s somewhere she doesn’t recognize, and...

When Amber Black was six years old, she heard the story of Cain and Abel. The story moved her so deeply that she has sought to maintain a close relationship with God ever since. After going through various life experiences, she has come to understand...

The Siege of Mauldonion follows Kevin Dobbs, a seventeen year old travelling bard whose visit to the Mauldonion Province becomes part of a war for the kingdom’s survival. After Velmordian soldiers cross the border, Kevin joins Phill, the province’s Master Ranger, in warning King Gene...

The Lord of Records is Adria Sanders’s account as a former skeptic of the metaphysical who begins receiving telepathic teaching from an entity she understands as the guardian of her soul’s Akashic file. The book explains, through her conversations with this being, that human life...

John Malone’s An Ascendant of Kings follows Adofo Abas Akopian, a prince of Akopia who was believed dead after the Carth Dominion shattered his homeland at the Crimson Bluffs. Taken into slavery as a boy, Adofo survives years inside the Dominion’s military order before returning...

You’ll be going straight to Dragon’s Whiff Campground in the fun pages of A Dragon in My Campground to see if there’s really a mythical beast hiding just off the trail. Meru is totally sure there is a dragon out there because he keeps finding...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter’s memoir Since You Weren’t There & Other Memories charts her personal path through the social landscape of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. She recounts explicit moments such as her teenage uncles shooting rats from a Kenilworth dining-room window, buying Little Golden Books at...

There Be Dragon by Michael Tars follows Kwe, a highly trained agent, whose final mission ends in disaster when he's caught in an explosion and seemingly dies. Instead of waking up in a hospital, he finds himself in the snowy kingdom of Kalador, where three...

Jessica Housand’s Blood Gilt is a crime saga that spans decades, following Alejandro Whitmore, the son of American mercenary Jared Whitmore, and Salvadoran revolutionary Ana Santiago. Alejandro thought he had left the world his father built when he was torn away from his childhood by...

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...