"Blood Moon Prophecy" is a delightful, inventive fantasy novel whose young cast grapples with a sense of destiny in a magical world. Dilani Kahawala’s fantasy novel "Blood Moon Prophecy" hinges on nautical and magical adventures and... Read More

In Helena Close’s contemporary novel "Things I Know", a teenage girl battles with grief, memory, and her identity. Saoirse’s father relocated her and her two siblings from Limerick to an even smaller town after their mother’s... Read More

Jackie Morris’s "The Wild Swans" is a dreamy retold fairy tale that’s full of hope, beauty, and love. A retelling of “The Wild Swans” by Hans Christian Andersen, the story revolves around the princess Eliza and her eleven... Read More

In "Lech", lives intersect in the mountains of New York, exposing the countless banalities and brutalities of generations. Within pages of the book’s start, a character recalls being assaulted as a child. This sets the tone for the... Read More

Ernesto Mestre-Reed’s historical novel is set in Cuba in the late 1990s, where a displaced young man learns the limits of family, trust, and community. Rafa is an orphan. He moves to Havana, where Cecilia, a restaurant owner, becomes... Read More

"Cemetery Reflections" is eloquent as it meditates on the evolution of death, grief, and memorialization in the United States. Jane Hopkins’s "Cemetery Reflections" pairs graveyard photographs with poems and reminiscences about death... Read More

Reflecting on the enchantments that nature casts on people, The Sandpiper’s Spell is a beautiful poetic mosaic. Tom Pearson’s The Sandpiper’s Spell contains poems that meditate on nature, life, death, and memory, using language in... Read More

Teenagers discover the power of friendship in "Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex", an exciting young adult novel. Carole P. Roman’s spirited young adult adventure "Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex" merges mystical and scientific... Read More