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The Suicide Council (Before God Decides) by Victer Hugo Basurco

An inventive, moving look at the questions suicide leaves behind. Basurco takes on suicide, grief, and divine judgment in this unusual work of speculative spiritual fiction. In his imagined Heaven, God creates the Suicide Council, a group of prophets and…
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The Hand Grenade Division by Michael A. Dorosh

Taut, gripping, and haunting; a searing tale of loyalty and survival. Dorosh delivers an immersive, morally complex portrait of an ordinary man caught inside an extraordinary historical catastrophe. In 1936, eighteen-year-old Henry Martens leaves Calgary for Germany, hoping to pursue…
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HOMES by Hayden Thompson

A thoughtful, deeply human journey through love, loss, and belonging… Thompson’s absorbing novel traces one man’s search for connection across continents and decades. The story follows Dr. George Harrington, a single father who leaves Paris with his twelve-year-old son, Hugo,…
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The Bear & Cat Chronicles by Kris Neely

A charming philosophical gem with plenty of heart. Neely’s delightful collection of brief, interconnected stories explores Zen and Taoist wisdom through the everyday experiences of two unlikely friends. In “The Buried Seed,” Bear’s impatience with a slow-growing seed becomes a…
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Fire’s Ally  D. M. Kannapan

A wonderfully strange, deeply immersive fantasy of discovery and survival…  Kannapan delivers an ambitious, richly imagined YA fantasy where science, survival, and social upheaval collide.. The story follows Eleg, a quiet young Urmettian scientist who has spent years studying the…
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The Warm Planet by Evelyn M. Exley

A witty, wistful romance brimming with heart and hard-won second chances… Returning home after years away forces a guarded young woman to revisit the friendship that once changed the course of her life in Exley’s poignant romantic drama. Tulsa Wakefield…
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Life in Woke America: A Family’s Story of Truth and Betrayal Under Fire by Joel Rakow

A page-turning political drama with an unexpectedly tender heart… A foster child turned Army private finds love, purpose, and himself while confronting institutional power in Rakow’s ambitious political thriller. Army Private Xavier King, a foster child searching for purpose, never…
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All Writers Are Liars by Nicholas Bruechle

Darkly funny, philosophically rich, and emotionally astute. Bruechle delivers an ambitious work of literary metafiction that blurs the boundary between author and invention with wit, intelligence, and surprising emotional depth. Struggling novelist Baker McCloud pours himself into a manuscript populated…
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Bodies of Water by Marylee MacDonald

Perceptive, moving, and quietly powerful. MacDonald’s latest book explores the myriad ways ordinary people find themselves standing at the edge of change. Across fourteen stories linked by the presence of water, the collection examines grief, family, friendship, aging, and the…
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Waldwick…Tribe by Kenneth Linde

A provocative and compassionate look at the forces shaping contemporary American life… Linde pairs philosophical inquiry with a deeply personal journey as a disillusioned senator seeks to understand the growing fractures within American society. Frustrated by the endless noise of…
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Nothing Left to Lose by Len Joy

Emotionally raw, politically charged, and deeply human… Joy delivers a layered, emotionally intelligent story where politics and family collide with heartbreaking consequences. Tawni Carter built a national pro-life movement by demanding sacrifice from everyone around her, especially her family. When…
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Presidential Follies On Ice by Alex Charns

Deliberately excessive, occasionally rambling, and often sharply funny.  In this anarchic hockey fantasia, civil liberties attorney and longtime beer-league player Charns imagines a 3-on-3 showdown against Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Justice Samuel Alito that escalates into a broadside against…
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Always, Janie by Meghan Sorley

A hauntingly tender debut about love, loss, and becoming yourself. In her emotionally incisive and deeply atmospheric debut, Sorley traces the long aftershock of first love across the American West, following one girl’s painful evolution from dutiful daughter to reluctant…
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The Earth Is Her Own by Renée Carrier

Lyrical, visionary, and unforgettable. Set amid the rugged beauty of Wyoming’s Black Hills, Carrier’s richly contemplative book blends literary realism, spiritual mystery, and speculative fiction into an emotionally resonant story about grief, healing, and human transformation. The novel centers on…
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Gaia’s Revolution (The Icaria Trilogy) by Nina Munteanu

Bleak, intelligent, and emotionally explosive. Munteanu’s latest is a politically incendiary portrait of a civilization unraveling under climate collapse, historical trauma, and ideological extremism. Berlin, 2022. In a country destabilized by climate catastrophe and political extremism, activist Damien Vogel becomes…
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The World As It Is by Donald Levin

An unflinching, immersive, and incendiary portrait of injustice… Levin crafts a layered portrait of a city and a nation confronting the realities of injustice and change in his latest novel. 1963 Detroit. When an aspiring Motown musician witnesses a white…
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Waldwick… Reckoning by Kenneth Linde

A quiet, incisive, deeply felt novel… In his latest installment in the Waldwick series, Linde follows Amy Terrill beyond the boundaries of the life she built, into a quieter, more interior reckoning. A mother, survivor, and woman whose past resists…
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The Mudlark’s Song by Kimberly Manning Aker

Haunting and lyrical; an un-put-downable read. A solitary Oakland homeowner with a penchant for antique hunting and restoration discovers a cache of 1930s diaries hidden beneath her attic floorboards in Aker’s evocative novel. Aurora “Lark” Fernschild has built a life…
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The Star Thrower by Kathleen Welton

A beautifully written, thought-provoking page-turner with heart and purpose… Three recent graduates trade certainty for a journey of self-discovery that leads them into an unexpected environmental battle in Welton’s reflective novel. Seeking distance from the futures expected of them, Ava,…
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Peg, Unhinged by Teri M Brown

Laugh-out-loud, brutally honest, and heartfelt. A woman’s carefully constructed life comes undone and reassembled in Brown’s sharp, darkly funny meditation on midlife, identity, and letting go. Peg is a successful real estate agent and mother. But as menopause descends, bringing…