Ari Barak and the Free-Will Paradox by Shaul Behr is a hilarious story with deep cultural and spiritual underpinnings, following the journey of Ari Barak, a teenager with ADHD and mischievous tendencies, and Howard Segal, an intelligent young man in an unconventional yeshiva. They are...

In BF by Teryl S Cartwright, Baym Fol’m seeks freedom no matter the cost. He will not stay in one place or on one course for too long as he is driven to try out different trades and travel to different places. However, this lifestyle...

Thriver by Julia Joseph is the story of Alexis (Lexie) Brewer and the aftermath of an explosive and terrifying break-up with her boyfriend, Cal. With a single father who has dedicated all of his time, energy, and attention to an Army career after the death...

School Lies by Santiago Andrea Arciniegas Gomez is a nonfiction story told mostly through photographs. Arciniegas details his life at school, the weirdness, the lies, the bullying, everything that shaped him throughout his school years and beyond. He had friends. He told the same lies...

The Protocols of Ambiguity by author B.B. Jacobson is a philosophical and partly autobiographical coming of age story centered on a young adult character. The central plot focuses on a young boy, known as ‘the boy’, receiving a gift from God, one which promises to...

In The War Blog by Glen Sobey, Crystal and her younger brother have been raised in Alaska by their devoted grandparents since the death of both their parents in a car crash 15 years ago. When their father suddenly makes an appearance, Crystal discovers that...

Marie Drake’s You Can't Force Love is a realistic novel with multi-layered characters. We encounter two sophisticated characters, drawn from two different worlds and thrust together in the same foster home. The only thing that Jordan Fry and Kimberly Orvine have in common is the...

Who Are You, Trudy Herman? by B.E. Beck is a YA story set during World War II. It’s 1943. To Trudy, a young girl about to become a teenager, the war has no meaning. All she is interested in is boys, friends, and schoolwork. All...

When it comes to issues like abuse and sex trafficking, we can choose to bury our heads in the sand and hope it will all go away, or we can decide to learn what we can about it. Unfortunately, while we might not be able...

James Henderson’s alcoholic father was one of the pub regulars but, toward the end of his life, he would sit alone, drinking himself into oblivion. When readers first meet James, aka Chooka, in Miscarriages, he is sitting by his comatose father’s bedside, talking to him...