This year's International Booker shortlist is skewed towards stories told by YA protagonists in extreme emotional distress. Dutch poet Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's book, The Discomfort of Evening is perhaps the most disturbing of these, telling the story of Jas, a young [...]
A dozen schoolchildren are plunged into an otherworldly adventure of a lifetime in Kingdom of the Silver Cat by Thomas Carroll. This book for young readers is creative, authentic, and unique, but also supported by strong life lessons and powerful messaging [...]
The Siren of Good Intentions by author J.E. Mooney is a sweeping and immersive descent into the wild heart of West Africa exploring the dramatic conflicts of capitalism, imperialism, loyalty, and love. A cast of inter-related and well-penned characters find their [...]
In Krakenscourge, the second installment in author John Graham's Voidstalker series, readers are brought to an imagined world where humanity has breached the boundaries of the solar system, and found that life is not always interested in playing nice. Digging back [...]
Envisioning the spread of mankind throughout the stars has been a rather recent development, but these dreams of expansion have sparked countless books, movies, television shows and even space program initiatives. John Graham taps into this common passion to deliver a [...]
A bizarre, mind-bending story unfurls on the pages of Time's Musicians by Mark Paul Oleksiw, an author with an imagination only matched by his delicate and authentic style. In this decade-spanning novel, the idea of connections across time and space mix [...]
Inez Garza, sporting a new magical streak of purple hair, is back at the heart of rebellion and action in A Noble's Path, the second book of the Enchanted Isles series from author I.L. Cruz. Following on from the tumultuous events [...]
Author Brian Meehl brings his Blowback Trilogy to a compelling close with Blowback '94, where Iris Jongler-Jinks finally gets her wish to hop through time, landing her squarely in the heart of the Belle Epoque in Paris, determined to find her [...]
The complex and painful decisions surrounding breast cancer are explored in intimate detail in Resurrection Lily: The BRCA Gene, Hereditary Cancer & Lifesaving Whispers from the Grandmother I Never Knew, a raw and impactful memoir by Amy Byer Shainman. Cancer can [...]
Sam Razor, a rugged PI with skills for the highest bidder, gets caught up with messy Sin City mob dealings in The Blonde with the Bad Nose Job, the first case in author Carlo Armenise's Sam Razor, Private Investigator chronicles. Hunting [...]