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60The Catchings Press, by Robin McMillion | Book Review
The follow-up to The Children of the Children (reviewed here), The Catchings Press is a literary coming-of-age novel set in 1967-68, in the fictional small town of Catchings, Texas. It’s McMillion’s second novel, and it shares its interest in institutional…
Cutie Pies by the Slice, by Kimberly Nixon | Book Review
If you enjoy Depression-era historical fiction, Cutie Pies by the Slice will definitely be one to add to your reading list this autumn. Set in the twenties to thirties, the novel is Kimberly Nixon’s latest work of family-inspired historical fiction.…
In Between Rooms, by Adrian Mompoint | Book Review
The cover of In Between Rooms gives you a perfect preview of what you’re in for: a bloodied stuffed elephant sitting alone. It’s a fitting image for Adrian M. Mompoint’s second horror novella, which continues to draw heavily from Stephen…
So You Want To Be A Professional Athlete, by Linda Soules | Book Review
So You Want To Be A Professional Athlete is another entry in the “So You Want To Be A…” series by Linda Soules, the illustrated career-exploration line for young readers that has grown to nearly 200 titles, covering everything from…
So You Want To Be A Scientist, by Linda Soules | Book Review
So You Want To Be A Scientist is the latest entry in the “So You Want To Be A…” series by Linda Soules, an illustrated career-exploration line for young readers that now spans nearly 200 titles, covering everything from astronauts…
Waiting for the Bad Thing to Happen, by Anita Fiore Welsh | Book Review
Anita Fiore Welsh was given up for adoption in 1963, through an adoption that wasn’t legal. Her memoir, Waiting For the Bad Thing to Happen, published July 21, 2026, covers the years that followed, including time in foster care, relationships,…
Sol Canyon, by Michael Wolf | Book Review
Sol Canyon by Michael Wolf is a Los Angeles detective novel that starts out as a light character piece and gradually turns into something quite a bit darker. Released September 2025, it’s the first book in Michael Wolf’s series following…
Syracuse Will Burn, by Jim Loughran | Book Review
Ancient Sicily is, in large part, criminally underused in historical fiction. Everyone wants to write about the fall of Troy or Caesar crossing the Rubicon, but Syracuse rarely gets a mention outside academic texts. That gap is exactly what Irish…
T.V. Holiday’s Vendetta: Legend of The Iron Warrior Vol. 3, by T.V. Holiday | Book Review
Vendetta is the third book in T.V. Holiday’s Legend of The Iron Warrior series. I haven’t read the first two, so I came into it cold, but it turned out to be a gripping and fairly epic read that mostly…
May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn | Book Guide and Review
If you are longing for a holiday but are either too poor or too busy, Kimberly Sullivan’s May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn is an easy recommendation. This is comfort reading in its finest form, the kind of book…
How Do You Live Without Love? | Book Guide
How Do You Live Without Love? is a literary fiction drama that tackles tough questions through the lens of institutional decay, grief, and faith. It's written primarily for a Christian or spiritually questioning audience, given its setting deep within church…
Love Me Do, by Meg Macy | Book Review
There’s something satisfying about sequels, and Meg Macy’s Love Me Do, published 15 December 2025, delivers exactly that pleasure. This continuation of the “All You Need Is Love” series proves unafraid to tackle the messy complexities of LGBTQ+ relationships. It’s…
Rainy Wood (As It Began), by Taanja Mahye | Book Review
The first book in Taanja Mahye’s Rainy Wood series, As It Began is a dark and atmospheric historical novel set in 1917 Minnesota. It follows fifteen-year-old Helen Spooner, an orphan raised in near-total isolation deep in the Northwoods, who is…
Let Slip the Beasts, by Suzanne Berget | Book Review
What does it mean to be human when your memories might be fake, your body is no longer your own, and a corporation holds the patent on what you are becoming? That is the question at the centre of Let…
Steal the Reaper, by Todd Hosea | Book Review
Steal the Reaper by Todd Hosea is a book with a premise I have never quite encountered before, but that feels like a lost or forgotten Stephen King novel. What if an alien spacecraft crashed on Earth, but plot twist…inside…
Salvation Reigned, by Travis James Peterson | Book Review
Apocalypse stories are a guilty pleasure of mine, so I was eager to dig into Salvation Reigned. It’s a bit of hard book to categorize, and that’s part of its charm. On the surface it’s a science fiction disaster story,…
I Get Knocked Down, by Murphy Buck | Book Review
As the title signposts, I Get Knocked Down is a collection of deeply personal poems that tackle some difficult subjects. Poetry can be tricky to review because it’s such a personal form of writing, and what resonates with one reader…
Black River, By Yvonne Osborne | Book Review
Black River by Yvonne Osborne, the follow-up to 2024’s Let Evening Come, is a literary rural noir set in the lowlands of Michigan farm country. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Where the Crawdads Sing sat down for a drink with…
The Sizable Problems With an Interspecies Relationship, by Belladonna Bryson | Book Review
The Sizable Problems With an Interspecies Relationship by Belladonna Bryson, originally released in 2024 with a one-year anniversary edition out in March 2025, is a debut fantasy romance that reads like a love letter to the energy of mid-2000s teen…
The Hierarchy of Angels, by W. J. Whitley | Book Review
The Hierarchy of Angels by William Whitley, released in May 2026, is a debut novel that drops readers straight into a richly imagined alternate-history world that feels like a lost Jules Verne epic, with strong shades of Philip Reeve’s Mortal…
The Children of the Children, by Robin McMillion | Book Guide and Review
Robin McMillion’s new book The Children of the Children is an ambitious cult drama that tackles religious manipulation with extreme realism. Set during the final years of the Cold War, the novel presents a chillingly believable apocalyptic religious community where…
Next in Line, by T.W. Baker | Book Guide and Review
I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect when I picked up Next in Line by T.W. Baker going by the cover. As it turns out, this is a workplace comedy novel that tackles the chaos of pharmacy life through oodles…
Off Script: The Actor’s Operating System, by Francisco Marquez | Book Guide
Published 17 February 2026, Off Script: The Actor's Operating System by Francisco Marquez is a practical handbook for actors built around a singular organizing idea: that the techniques of the craft should function together as a coherent system rather than…
The Migration of Vivex, by Xyne | Book Review
Released on 23 March 2026, The Migration of Vivex by Xyne is a LitRPG novel that slithers straight out of the dark swamp of survival fiction. I reviewed the first book a couple of months ago—in fact, it was my…
The Last Diaspora: Book 1: Letters To Earth, by Mandy Gardner | Book Review
Released in 2019, The Last Diaspora: Letters to Earth by Mandy Gardner is the first in a five-book sci-fi series about planetary colonisation, published by Endless Ink Publishing. While comparisons inevitably arise to Interstellar and Andy Weir novels like The…
The Dyre Prophecy, by Wyatt Moore | Book Review
Some books feel like they were made to be discovered on a school library shelf, shoved into a bag and finished in one sitting. Wyatt Moore’s second novel after 7 Days to Die is that kind of book. The Dyre…
How to Sit with Someone, by John Gerrard | Book Review
How to Sit With Someone: Peer Support Skills for Connection & Mental Health is a short and accessible guide by John F. Gerrard on the often-overlooked craft of being there for someone in distress. Drawing on his training as a…
The Dreamer’s Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor, by Brent Simon | Book Review
The Dreamer’s Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor by Brent Simon, published in February 2026, is one of those wonderfully obsessive books that feels less like a standard film study and more like stumbling into a hidden archive…
Medicine for the Blues, by Jeff Stookey | Book Guide
The 1920s are often remembered as a decade of jazz, economic prosperity and social change. Images of flapper dresses, speakeasies and bustling cities dominate popular culture's understanding of the era. Yet beneath this glamorous image was a reality that many…
What Lies through the Smoke, by C. C. Ford | Book Review
What Lies Through The Smoke by C. C. Ford, released in 2025, is a debut novel that introduces readers to a world of dieselpunk vibes, a term I had never even heard before reading this book (in contrast to steampunk).…
When the Darkness Swallowed the Sun, by Robin Newbold | Book Review
Robin Newbold’s fourth novel, published by Spectrum Books in 2026, is a dark, twisting thriller set against the sweat and neon of Thailand’s islands. The author is apparently a former foreign correspondent, who has spent years living and working across…
I Fall to Pieces, by Dani Lewis | Book Review
First published in November 2025, I Fall to Pieces is the first entry in Dani Lewis’s Cassie Hunt series, and it is one of the most hilarious mysteries I’ve read in quite some time. Blending dark humour, crime and an unforgettable narrative…
The Dyre Prophecy, by Wyatt Moore | Book Review
Some books feel like they were made to be discovered on a school library shelf, shoved into a bag and finished in one sitting. Wyatt Moore’s second novel after 7 Days to Die is that kind of book. The Dyre…
Off Script: The Actor’s Operating System, by Francisco Marquez | Book Review
Published 17 February 2026, Off Script: The Actor’s Operating System is a practical guide for actors. The book has a unique approach to acting based on Marquez’s ‘operating system’ idea, drawing on years of the author’s experience as an actor.…
The Last Diaspora: Book 1: Letters To Earth, by Mandy Gardner | Book Review
Released in 2019, The Last Diaspora: Letters to Earth by Mandy Gardner is the first in a five-book sci-fi series about planetary colonisation, published by Endless Ink Publishing. While comparisons inevitably arise to Interstellar and Andy Weir novels like The Martian, this novel carves…
The Dreamer’s Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor, by Brent Simon | Book Review
The Dreamer’s Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor by Brent Simon, published in February 2026, is one of those wonderfully obsessive books that feels less like a standard film study and more like stumbling into a hidden archive…
What Lies through the Smoke, by C. C. Ford | Book Review
What Lies Through The Smoke by C. C. Ford, released in 2025, is a debut novel that introduces readers to a world of dieselpunk vibes, a term I had never even heard before reading this book (in contrast to steampunk).…
Medicine for the Blues Trilogy, by Jeff Stookey | Book Review
Published in 2017/2018, Jeff Stookey’s Medicine for the Blues trilogy—beginning with Acquaintance and continuing through Chicago Blues and Dangerous Medicine—is not exactly a new series, though its themes feel timelessly relevant. Set across the 1920s, the trilogy is an LGBT epic that…
Kidnapped, A Life Unbound by Michael Reif | Book Review
Kidnapped: A Life Unbound by Michael Reif is a pretty extraordinary account of a life lived far beyond the ordinary. I’d like to begin by thanking the author for providing us with an advance copy of this as-yet unpublished book. This…
A Passionate Touch (In Uncertain Times) | Book Review
As the title announces, A Passionate Touch (In Uncertain Times) by Anthony Welsh is a little book about passion. Published in March 2026, it follows a romantic entanglement of Londoners Brandon and Pricilla (not Priscilla?). It is a somewhat difficult…
Without a Face, by Lonnie Busch | Book Review
We’ve had the pleasure of reviewing Lonnie Busch’s books before here on the site, recently Assimilation, so when Without a Face landed on our radar we were already familiar with what this author is capable of. For those new to…
Houses Built by Faith: Jailhouse. God’s House. Courthouse, by Kaysia Earley | Book Review
Released late last year, Houses Built by Faith: Jailhouse. God’s House. Courthouse by Kaysia Monica Earley is one of the most inspiring books I have read in a while. It is a Christian memoir written by a Florida-based attorney who…
Rubedo, by Leona Caelestis | Book Review
Rubedo by Leona Caelestis is the first instalment in the Necrocene series, two words I had to look up before even starting the book! Published a couple weeks ago, I was immediately drawn to the surreal cover, something warped yet…
The Migration of Vivex, by Xyne | Book Review
Released on 23 March 2026, The Migration of Vivex by Xyne is a LitRPG novel that slithers straight out of the dark swamp of survival fiction. I reviewed the first book a couple of months ago—in fact, it was my…
Tall Boy Sun, by Neal Holtschulte | Book Review
Neal Holtschulte’s second novel Tall Boy Sun was published last month, and it follows on the heels of Crew of Exiles, a book that won the sci-fi category in our first Bookshelfie Awards. This novel marks a confident step forward from his debut, and…
Finding Sutton’s Choice, by Brenda Haas | Book Review
Published on June 3, 2025, Finding Sutton’s Choice is the debut novel by Brenda Haas, and fits comfortably into the genre of contemporary literary fiction. This is a story about family, specifically the complicated bond between a parent and a…
One Remembers Yet, by Raymie Martin | Book Review
The debut historical novel from Raymie Martin, One Remembers Yet is a book taking place during WW1 but is not really a war novel. Set in December 1917, as the First World War grinds toward its uncertain conclusion, Martin tells…
Small Town Symphony, by Sloan Richman | Book Review
Published 6 March 2026 by New York author Sloan Richman, Small Town Symphony (In Four Deadly Movements) is a contemporary crime novel set in an affluent suburban town. Blending mystery with the detective genre, and also with a hint of…
Vendetta, by Wes Davis | Book Review
Published independently in November 2024, Wes Davis’s Vendetta is a character-driven thriller that asks a deceptively simple question: is revenge ever truly worth it? The novel follows Barrett Coleson, a wealthy and celebrated actor living in Malibu, as he reflects…
Alterity, by Jules | Book Review
The writer who goes by Jules’ debut opens with a simple declaration: “Magic isn’t real, except when it is.” From that first line, the book signals what kind of story you’re getting into, one where the boundary between reality and…
Steal the Reaper, by Todd Hosea | Book Review
Steal the Reaper by Todd Hosea is a book with a premise I have never quite encountered before, but that feels like a lost or forgotten Stephen King novel. What if an alien spacecraft crashed on Earth, but plot twist…inside…
Let Slip the Beasts, by Suzanne Berget | Book Review
What does it mean to be human when your memories might be fake, your body is no longer your own, and a corporation holds the patent on what you are becoming? That is the question at the centre of Let…
Exile: Part II — Root and Branch, by Anthony Hodge | Book Review
If Exile: Part I – From an Antique Land was an invitation into a world, then Root and Branch is the moment that world fully catches fire. South African writer Anthony Hodge’s sequel picks up years after the events of…
Rainy Wood (As It Began), by Taanja Mahye | Book Review
The first book in Taanja Mahye’s Rainy Wood series, As It Began is a dark and atmospheric historical novel set in 1917 Minnesota. It follows fifteen-year-old Helen Spooner, an orphan raised in near-total isolation deep in the Northwoods, who is…
Love Me Do, by Meg Macy | Book Review
There’s something satisfying about sequels, and Meg Macy’s Love Me Do, published 15 December 2025, delivers exactly that pleasure. This continuation of the “All You Need Is Love” series proves unafraid to tackle the messy complexities of LGBTQ+ relationships. It’s…
Silks and Stones, by Quinn Lawrence | Book Review
The second book in Quinn Lawrence’s Cinna and Hokuren series, Silks and Stones is a cozy combination of the fantasy and detective genres. The book follows two women detectives: Hokuren, a sharp and reserved private investigator, and Cinna, her fearless…
Hunter’s Hidden Camera, by Anthony Auswat | Book Review
Going by the cover alone, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I picked up Hunter’s Hidden Camera by Anthony Auswat. As it turns out, this is a darkly entertaining LGBT coming-of-age psychological thriller that tackles taboo subjects with…
May Flowers at the Three Coins Inn, by Kimberly Sullivan | Book Review
If you are longing for a holiday but are either too poor or too busy, Kimberly Sullivan’s May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn is an easy recommendation. This is comfort reading in its finest form, the kind of book…
Live Like Abbey, by Luciana Hill | Book Review
There are books you read and books that stay with you. Live Like Abbey by Luciana Hill is unmistakably the latter. Part memoir, part love letter to dogs, part self-help book, this book will alternate between making you go aww…
Sins of the Father, by Peter Andrews | Book Review
Thrillers are one of the most popular genres in modern times, but finding a unique angle in such a crowded marketplace is no easy task. Sins of the Father by Peter Andrews is a confident, compulsively readable debut thriller that…
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60Her Bloody Creature
There's comfort in what you know. Stable work, steady pay, food and shelter to go back to... routine, structure: quiet. It all seems perfect, until comfort invites boredom. And as five young lives learn, boredom breeds stagnation and stagnation breeds…
Wisp Hollow: The Necromancer
After surviving a brutal car crash on the fog-covered roads outside the small town of Wisp Hollow, seventeen-year-old Scott Endore wakes up with impossible strength, violent blackouts, and memories of a monster with human eyes. As strange attacks spread through…
AcClaim: A Sultryverse story
Beatrix Winslow-Hale built her career by writing women who own their desire. Then a man turns hers against her. A bestselling novelist on the verge of a bigger life, Beatrix is brilliant, controlled, and finished with accepting the future her…
Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story
They counted on her silence. They should have counted the wolves. After her Paris school punishes her for defending herself against an attempted assault, eighteen-year-old heiress Manon de Rochemaure is exiled to Le Rolle Academy—a Swiss boarding school where powerful…
King of Blades
Steel will flash. Pixels will spill. But only one can be crowned… King of Blades. It’s the year 2338, time for the orbiting megacity of Arcadia to host one of the biggest sporting events in the world: Children of the…
A Promise A Sweeping Story of Friendship in WWII
In a world collapsing under the weight of Fascism and war, one Promise becomes the only thing strong enough to hold three friends together. Three friends, three different paths…one Promise. As a Jewish woman, Hannah is a target…
The Fall of the Last Acorn
Title: The Fall of the Last Acorn Author: Eric Jeffrey Kaufman Genre: Sci-Fi / Techno-Thriller / Speculative Fiction Logline: As an unchecked AI consciousness awakens amid planetary ecological collapse, an uneasy alliance of engineers and whistleblowers races to expose the…
LEO LION PAWS One Very Small Lion, One Very Big Adventure
Every great lion starts somewhere. For Leo Lion Paws, it all begins with one tiny, brave step beyond the safety of home — into a river, a meadow, a forest full of things worth investigating. He learns that courage doesn’t…
Embracing the Local: Extension Cords and All
He didn’t set out to become a civic leader, he just wanted a glass of wine. After two, he found himself in charge of a scrappy, all-volunteer Chamber of Commerce in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills. After twenty years solving complex…
Twisting Fates (Specialist Crime Squad Book 1)
A professor is found dead in a Glasgow laboratory he had no business entering, bludgeoned and hidden inside a freezer. No one can explain why he was there after dark, alone. To the Specialist Crime Squad, the answer looks straightforward.…
Signal Breath: Parasympathetic Athleticism
Most of us live with too much noise. The breath gets thin. The jaw clamps shut. The shoulders rise. The body braces for impact, even when nothing is coming. But there is another channel. Signal is the moment the breath…
Where the Water Falls
25 year old Hunter Strong is determined to figure out how to build a perfect life. What he learns is that to pursue that life, it takes one step outside of his comfort zone as a result of Marge's guidance.…
Der Mensch, der ich wurde
Wer bist du wirklich? Warum denkst du so, wie du denkst?Warum fühlst du, was du fühlst?Und wie viel von dem Menschen, der du heute bist, hast du eigentlich selbst gewählt? Der Mensch, der ich wurde ist eine Reise zu diesen…
No Good Night for Gentle Beasts
(This is the sequel to Let Slip the Beasts, so the reviewer should probably have read that one before diving into No Good Night for Gentle Beasts. Maria Ashford reviewed Let Slip the Beasts.) Can one lonely weapon kill an…
THE FALSE VERDICT
A rejection can close a door. The more dangerous loss begins when you turn it into your name. When failure becomes identity, the next action gets distorted. A missed promise becomes proof you cannot be trusted. A bad result becomes…
PBX Und seine Gedanken
PBX und seine Gedanken is a deeply personal collection of thoughts, reflections, and stories about the questions and experiences that shape us as human beings. The book invites readers to pause, feel, reflect, and discover something about themselves. Across…
Looked Down Upon: The Exiled Kin
Born into a world that misunderstands him as much as he misunderstands it, Lucas Ramirez struggles to find his footing as an autistic teenager. Dealing with poverty, prejudice, faith, trauma, and love, he feels at odds with everyone and everything.…
Looked Down Upon: A Masked Wickedness
It’s been two years since Luke came face-to-face with his demons and put his long-lost, psychotic father behind bars. With the Masked Hunter from his nightmares gone, Luke strives to move on with his life, but heading off to college…
The Fourth Courier
It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the material out of the defunct Soviet Union. The FBI sends an agent…
Looked Down Upon: A Masked Wickedness
It’s been two years since Luke came face-to-face with his demons and put his long-lost, psychotic father behind bars. With the Masked Hunter from his nightmares gone, Luke strives to move on with his life, but heading off to college causes…
So You Want To Be An Astronaut
What does it really take to become an astronaut — not in a movie, but in the actual universe where rockets shake your bones and silence stretches forever outside the hull? So You Want To Be An Astronaut is the honest,…
Aardis
Traveling through “The Gateway to Aardis,” Author T. Stevens takes readers on an interstellar adventure that begins with a dream and leads to an extraordinary journey.Scott, an independent corporate investigator, finds himself on the planet Aardis, where he was recruited…
Short Story Club
This is a comic that I’ve recently finished titled ‘Short Story Club’ with three sub-chapters that are neither a continuation or directly related, yet they’re intertwined, this is more ‘manga-like’ in terms of presentation and style but it utilizes that…
Unmasked
Unmasked is the prequel to a gritty character-driven fantasy romance series, perfect for fans of paranormal and urban fantasy. A stolen mask. An ancient spirit. Halloween in Salem. What could possibly go wrong? Salem is the last place a 330-year-old vampire…
Between Two Skies: Some Thoughts and Memories
Between Two Skies: Some Thoughts and Memories is a collection of essays and short stories. These essays and short stories trace a life lived between places and generations – from the warmth of Hyderabad to the quiet fields of Wassaic.…
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw…
Solivagant
The solivagant walks the streets of Edinburgh, the voice in his head incessantly active as, unbidden and unrelenting, it dissects his inner life. Occasionally other voices intervene but whether these are constructs of his own consciousness, or extraneous to it,…
The Anatta Paradox: The Self That Remains
MEMORY ISN’T WHO YOU ARE. BUT WHAT IF IT’S ALL THAT’S LEFT? After watching his wife disappear piece by piece to a devastating neurological disease, neurosurgeon Dr Wei Li dedicates his life to restoring what the brain has lost. His…
Cyborg Contact
Cyborg Contact — A humorous first-contact, Cli-Fi adventure First Prize – International Firebird Book Awards for both Cli-Fi and Best Unconventional Love Story!Literary Titan Gold Book Award and Bookview Review Gold Badge Award! “offers far more than a typical science fiction adventure”“masterfully weaves sci-fi action with political…
The Blackbird and the Ghost
The Boiling Seas are the mariner’s bane – and the adventurer’s delight. The waters may be hot enough to warp wood and boil a hapless swimmer, but their scalding expanse is full of wonders. Strange islands lurk in the steamy…
Nightingale’s Sword
In the endless jungles of Tyria, the Blackbird flies again. Tal Wenlock and Max Odyn make a formidable team. The thief and the scholar have already unearthed one ancient scroll, filled with priceless knowledge and forgotten magic – and with…
The Owl in the Labyrinth
Tal, Max and Lily might have sailed the deadly Boiling Seas, explored their mysterious islands, even flown through their steamy skies – but they’ve never ventured underneath them. Until now. Because Max is trapped, surrounded by the very secrets she…
The Singer
The world is a dangerous place. War brews, plagues and famines destroy, kingdoms rise and fall – but not in the village of Quern. There, life is good. The air is clear, the town is peaceful, and the crops and…
The Fire Within
The bad news is that Perce nearly set their house on fire. The good news is that they did it by magic. But they’re only a child, and their new powers are out of control. They need to learn, and…
Atomic focus : Eliminate Distractions, Beat Procrastination, and Get More Done in Less Time,
Every great achievement begins with one simple ability: the ability to focus. In a world where notifications, social media, and endless distractions compete for your attention, Atomic Focus shows you how to reclaim it — one small, intentional habit at…
Magical Bounty Hunters
If novels are like the written form of movies, then this will feel like bingeing on your favourite TV show! When sixteen-year-old Cassie gets kicked out of the Flitterbick School of Magic, she’s sentenced to work as a Magical Bounty…
Street Hawk: Resurrection Protocol
For forty years, the legend of Street Hawk has slept. The world’s most advanced attack motorcycle vanished into history, its rider haunted by the choices that ended an era. Jesse Mach has spent decades trying to leave the past behind,…
Paulie’s Pizza
Paulie’s Pizza: A Summer of Friends, First Loves, Fast Money, and Fatal Decisions Sixteen-year-old Cole Callander finally has everything he’s been waiting for: a driver’s license, a beat-up Ford pickup, and a summer job delivering pizzas. Paulie’s Pizza seems like…
Sunnyside Dormitory
Population laws labeled Remi illegal at birth. Upon her capture, she is sent to Sunnyside Dormitory, a prison masquerading as an orphanage. The hallways weave an endless maze, and it’s not just the guards who watch her every move but…
Cutie Pies by the Slice: A 1930s Historical Novel of Strength and Belonging
Some people inherit a family. Lila Young has to build one from scratch. When twenty-year-old Lila arrives in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, hoping for a fresh start with her older brother, she discovers she’s more alone than ever.…
Winter Kill
When a note with four cryptic words appears on his doorstep, Alaska P.I. Sidney Reed is sure it’s a clue to his wife Molly’s tragic death. He’s even more convinced when he finds red roses left on Molly’s grave and…
Deep Waters: Surviving the Psychopath
Shiloh Cassidy thought that she was living the dream the night she caught the attention of the handsome and world-famous actor, Blake Perry. But the next morning, she discovers she is living a nightmare. There is more to Blake than…
A Cakewalk to Memphis
Big Sallie Morning, a determined Black cleaning woman from Memphis, becomes caught up in a desperate search for her pregnant niece’s missing husband. What starts as a personal mission quickly turns into a dangerous journey across a segregated South, where…
Beautiful World, Where Are You
A novelist and her best friend exchange long emails on civilization's decline while navigating their own messy relationships.
Antarctica
Stories exploring desire and moral transgression, its title story following a married woman's dangerous flirtation.
Small Things Like These
A coal merchant discovers a disturbing secret about the local Magdalene laundry, weighing his family's safety against morality.
Dept. of Speculation
A marriage unravels after infidelity, told in fragmented, aphoristic paragraphs rather than continuous narrative.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
A tea monk encounters a robot returning to check on humanity, and the two discuss purpose and contentment on a gentle journey.
Long Island Compromise
A wealthy family's fortune unravels across generations after a kidnapping, exposing how inherited trauma warps everyone who touches it.
The Man in the High Castle
In an alternate America where the Axis won WWII, a banned novel imagining an Allied victory circulates in secret.
Yellowface
A writer steals her deceased friend's manuscript and passes it off as her own, becoming a bestseller built on theft.
The Mark and the Void
A fictional version of the author becomes convinced a banker is planning a heist, skewering post-crash Irish banking culture.
The Name of the Wind
A legendary figure in quiet exile tells the true story of his own extraordinary and tragic life.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A boy fakes his death and rafts down the Mississippi with an enslaved man fleeing to freedom, in regional vernacular.
The Year of Magical Thinking
Didion recounts the year after her husband's sudden death, examining grief with clinical precision.
Of Mice and Men
Two displaced ranch workers dream of owning their own farm, a fragile hope threatened by one man's strength.