The Queering: The Life and Death of Brooke Skipstone by Brooke Skipstone, is a lesbian romance novel written for young adults. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Taylor MacKenzie is a seventy-year-old grandmother, teacher, and writer who lives in Clear, Alaska. A closet lesbian, she finds...

Set in the year 1995, The Mixtape to the Real Me: The Mixtape Chronicles is a young adult coming-of-age story by Jake Martinez. Justin Ortega and Dominic Mendoza are two teenagers in love studying at Garza High in South Texas. However, the place and time...

In the poignant, moving story, Willow's Secrets by Sally Avery Bermanzohn, a girl searches for her roots and discovers the ways of her people. After the tragic death of her mother, Willow is adopted by a white man and his daughter who raised her on...

Prep School for Serial Killers by Tara Platt is a thrilling novel about overthrowing the powers that be and securing your own destiny. Set in a dystopian society in the 22nd century, Anathema is a sixteen-year-old student at one of the special boarding schools set...

Bend With The Breeze starts with a tragedy that involves the O’Reilly family. John Martin Ford takes his readers on a journey of a year and a half in the life of the youngest son, Sean O’Reilly, his father Timothy, his mother Mary, his sister...

My Name is Luke by Jim Ruddle is about a young boy caught in the middle of an unfortunate trip out at sea on a bad day. It all starts when he is awakened on his grandpa’s moored boat by the movements of two men...

Doug has been fired from yet another job. With the economy in bad shape, he had grown to expect this development and the feelings that flowed from it. Once again he will retire to his home, which needs repairs, and shrink into himself until he...

The Girl With Sad Green Eyes by Lee Wanaselja sets the bar high when it comes to fusing classic storytelling and contemporary fairy tales. A story of abuse and the power of forgiveness, this is a story of a young girl, who, despite having sad...

In the Middle is a paranormal young adult novel by Jamie Handling that tells the story of a teenager trapped in a puzzling purgatory. It takes Camille a while to accept that she died in the car crash, but when she is finally able to...

It is 1855 in Illinois, and tensions between slave abolitionists and those who were pro-slavery are at an all-time high. Even though this is a free state, bounty hunters get paid to retrieve people who have escaped. Sid Johnson, a young boy, is awakened by...