Echoes from the River by Kathryn Lane follows Francesca Morales de la Garza, an eighteen-year-old bride from Mexico, who is thrust into an arranged marriage and moves to a remote part of Australia in the 1970s. What begins as the story of a young bride...

The Adventures of Dizi the Mountain Gorilla is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Pamela Boullier Ross. It follows Dizi, a young mountain gorilla whose name means 'bamboo flute.' Dizi is pretty happy with his life in the Virunga Mountains. Then he hears...

Author Avalok brings readers yet another mesmerizing collection of poems with Poems of Captain Coddiwompler: Tacking Onwards. The book opens with a poem in which the narrator searches for light and hope through imagination and poetic creativity. The narrator finds peace and joy trekking in...

K. M. Cookie’s Song of Hummingbird Highway starts when Terri, a music lover, gets rid of her boyfriend. She refuses to shed a tear and cannot imagine that one impulsive night at a Santa Monica reggae club will change her life. Enter Reynold, a beguilingly...

Between Two Names is a coming-of-age story by Aaron Wang. It's 2010 in China. Cheng Ma was preparing for his Gaokao tests when he received a full scholarship to attend the international program at a new school. From the very beginning, Cheng felt like an...

Hillbilly Monk’s Brisket Wisdom by Billy Monk brings us a really wild premise that perfectly blends rural American life with some heavy psychological exploration. The book follows Billy, an eccentric Oklahoma man who spends his days smoking meat, running an illegal still, and rambling about...

Rachel Elwiss Joyce’s Lady of the Castle is set in late 12th-century England, where Nicola de la Haye is Lincoln Castle's hereditary constable while raising a household formed through two marriages. When an earthquake destroys part of Lincoln Cathedral and kills her young son Tommy,...

Chris Neo’s third installment in The Love Secret series, Love Beyond Eros, continues the story of Aris, the American traveler who finally finds the “love secret,” and Angelica, the woman of his dreams. After a village festival throws their future into chaos, Aris goes missing....

In Ravi Ranjan Goswami’s Missing, we take a close look at Suresh, a young man in Orai overwhelmed by his family’s expectations. He has a university degree but no career path, which triggers a non-stop stream of cruel remarks from his mother. His family even...

Linda C. Wisniewski’s Time is a Pilgrim is set in 1830 Podhale, where Regina arrives in Biały Kot to help her daughter Marianna through childbirth as the halny, a destructive mountain wind, sweeps the villages. The baby, Halina, is born with a red mark across...