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The Sentinel of the Chakra Stones by Christine Boucher

A high-octane adventure… The entertaining debut installment in Boucher’s promising the Chakra Stones series is a fast-paced adventure featuring an endearing pair of teenage protagonists. Life for fourteen-year-old Jaden is not so perfect: her mother left her when she was…
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Project Anan (Book 1 of the Energy Exchange Series) by Lionel Lazarus

An exciting space opera… Lazarus’s debut installment in the Energy Exchange Series is marked with layered conflict and loads of tension. When the aliens first invaded Earth, they extracted its precious energy, changed the human population and left. But when…
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Make America Beautiful Again by Bo Bancroft

A dense literary satire tightly entwined with a tense mystery… Irresistible. Bancroft delivers an intoxicating mixture of wit, whacky satire, intriguing mystery, and political intrigue in his marvelous debut. A suspected terrorists attack with a pre-dawn bomb spree along Georgia’s…
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Covering All Wrong by K. Lumpkin

Tense, absorbing, and heartbreakingly authentic… Intriguing and engrossing, Lumpkin’s latest novel takes readers into meandering lives of two different people as they try to survive the traumatic circumstances of their lives. With a young mother trying to make ends meet…
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Battle in the Avenue by Sean McCutchen

A gritty, sharp, and ultimately hopeful tale… A winner. McCutchen’s latest novel is an exciting, page-turning tale of a dystopian world struggling with Fuel Wars threatening to destroy the world and wiping out humanity. Betrayed by his lifelong friend and…
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Sandman: A Golf Tale by David W. Berner

A novel filled with nostalgia and heart… Spectacular. A young boy grapples with the questions of what he wants from life in Berner’s touching latest novella. The boy loves golf, but there is something about his love for the game…
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Corbin’s Catacombs by James Pack

Rapturously full of scares… Pack’s latest is a poetic feast of nightmares and insomnia, a gorgeous demonstration of horror and things better left unsaid, a collection that summons the darkness within. This is a brilliantly twisted collection of short poems…
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Light Fighters (Star Children Saga Book 2) by Palmer Pickering

Tense, moving and expertly executed… Un-put-downable. Pickering’s second installment in the highly acclaimed Star Children Saga is a fantastic mix of apocalyptic fiction, magical fantasy, and mythology that pits Cassidy and Torr against sinister enemies seeking their magical powers. Trying…
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The Reign of the Occult by Lauren Louise Hazel

A sumptuous tale of YA fantasy… Employing a charismatic cast, expert worldbuilding, and intriguing storyline, the debut author Hazel artfully delivers an exhilarating story of familial ties, shifting loyalties, and forbidden magic. The mortals are caught between the war between…
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Eka and the Elephants (Dance-It-Out! Creative Movement Stories for Young Movers) by Once Upon a Dance (Author), Leah Irby (Author), Cristian Gheorghita (Illustrator)

Brilliantly subtle and spot-on… A charmer. Once Upon a Dance and Leah Irby’s delightful latest in the Dance-It-Out series celebrates the arts and creativity, while inciting the love of gardening. Eka and her family are excited to start a new…