The Dumbing and Numbing of America: Destroying a Democratic Republic by Sammy Lee Gott is a passionate and unapologetic critique of the political, social, and cultural challenges facing modern America. Written from the perspective of a veteran who has witnessed decades of national change firsthand, the book presents a deeply personal examination of what the…
J. O. Quantaman’s Afterlife: Cool Assassins 3 delivers a bold, genre-blending narrative that successfully merges science fiction, police procedural, and action thriller into a single, immersive experience. Set in the year 2076, the novel presents a world destabilized by climate catastrophe and corporate dominance, where humanity has partially escaped Earth by colonizing cislunar space. At…
All Writers Are Liars by Nicholas Bruechle is an intentionally unconventional and self-aware novel that operates at the intersection of metafiction and psychological inquiry. Rather than following a linear narrative, the book constructs a layered interplay between author, character, and text—challenging the reader to question not only what is being told, but who has the…
Sim One: A Love and Then-What-Happens Story by Tom Ahern is an intimate, emotionally unguarded work that sits at the intersection of memoir and epistolary reflection. Structured through emails, notes, and fragments of lived experience, the book resists conventional narrative form and instead leans into something more personal: a sustained act of remembering. At its…
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day by John William Babin offers a thoughtful introduction to one of America’s most enduring Christmas poems, inviting young readers and families to rediscover the story behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s beloved work. Positioned as the second installment in a series exploring Longfellow’s poetry for younger audiences, the book serves…
Mimsy: Cum Laude by Don Blossom is a psychologically charged work of literary fiction that explores the fragile boundary between memory and obsession. Anchored in a narrator’s relentless search for a woman long vanished from his life, the novel unfolds less as a linear romance and more as a deliberate excavation of emotional residue left…
Shared Sorrows by Vincent Panettiere is a restrained and introspective work of literary fiction that examines the quiet unraveling of a man forced to confront the emotional dishonesty of his own life. Set against the familiar rhythms of academic routine, family obligation, and public scrutiny, the novel unfolds as a meditation on grief, moral responsibility,…
Memories, part of Laurie Loveman’s Firehouse Family series, is a historical novel set in 1930s Ohio that explores the emotional aftermath of betrayal, love, and long-buried trauma against the backdrop of small-town life and the dangers of firefighting. Rooted in a specific time and place, the novel draws its strength less from spectacle and more…
Plausible Liars, the fifth and concluding novel in Lin Wilder’s Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery series, is a bold and confrontational medical–legal thriller that engages directly with some of the most volatile ethical and political debates of the contemporary moment. Wilder places physician Lindsey McCall and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Kate Townsend at the center…
Doggone, the first installment in D. M. Buckley’s Lexi O’Malley series, introduces readers to an unconventional heroine navigating danger with wit, improvisation, and more nerve than preparation. Lexi O’Malley is a thirty-two-year-old software programmer whose life has stalled—out of work, out of money, and uncertain of her next move. When her eccentric Aunt Scarlet pressures…