Pam and Jodi’s Journey is compelling as it portrays students raising consciousness and standing up for their rights. N.K. Beckley’s middle grade novel Pam and Jodi’s Journey is upbeat and informative. It focuses on a deaf student... Read More

"The Meaning of Life" is an fun political thriller that takes a blunt approach to looming moral questions. Eighteen-year-old James is put through hell in Robert Scollo’s thriller, "The Meaning of Life". Drenched in geopolitics, war,... Read More

The essays in "The Byzantine Pineapple (Part 1) with Corporation X" blaze their own path as they work to persuade others of their unique worldview. Bill Poje’s idiosyncratic "The Byzantine Pineapple (Part 1) with Corporation X"... Read More

"Clouds and Earth" is a twisting and turning science fiction thriller. Corporate espionage meets the moral quagmire of war in Sayde Scarlett’s science fiction novel "Clouds and Earth". Lieutenant Alisande “Sandy” Attiyeh is a... Read More

Perry’s work evokes the 1970s and celebrates the black culture of the time by centralizing it. Ev’one-yaY Eulasson’s Between Tomorrow and Yesterday: Tripping into Nowhere behind Nothing collects two plays, Sleep No More and Buy the... Read More

Deeply felt, tender, and moving, these poems are the work of a sensitive, perceptive poet. “Take off your shoes / Where we are going / you will not be touching the ground,” promises one of the poems in Come … Sit in My Heart: A... Read More

"The Fifth Dimension" is a loquacious novel with some interesting philosophical insights. Ramma Kher’s novel "The Fifth Dimension" follows a woman through grief, motherhood, and numerous existential crises. After the devastating death... Read More

Within this able satire are clear-eyed depictions of politics when the cameras are turned off. O. Ryan Hussain’s "The Outlandish and the Ego" is a political satire that wields broad, bawdy humor alongside quiet moments of tender human... Read More