Release Date: August 10, 2021 The Heart Resort is a private couples resort in the Outer Banks of North Carolina owned by a Filipino-American family, the Pusos. After a hurricane shuts the business down, the youngest Puso sibling Brandon decides to return to helpout. After working as a contractor in the DC area for years, he finally decides to make up with his eldest brother … Continue reading It Takes Heart by Tif Marcelo
Release Date: July 5, 2022 Esme Nash is graduating college and is looking forward to an exciting life in New York City. She plans to live with her boyfriend and has secured a job at an art gallery. Her plans are abruptly halted when her parents are in an accident and she has to return to upstate New York to care for her ailing father. … Continue reading A Shoe Story by Jane L. Rosen
Release Date: July 6, 2021 What is the importance of one single red fox in the expansive Wilderness outside of Glacier National Park? To most, this fox would just be a passing moment of observing wildlife in action, but not to a young woman who recently completed her doctoral degree in biology. After completing her formal education, Catherine Raven set out to establish a homestead … Continue reading Fox & I An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven
Release Date: August 17, 2021 Dahlia Lighthouse’s upbringing was far from typical, and even as a 26-year-old woman she is still grappling with it. The Lighthouse family resides in a secluded mansion on an island with a sinister history. Over the past couple of decades, women have washed ashore the rocky beaches of Blackburn Island in ice blue dresses, each death attributed to the small … Continue reading The Family Plot by Megan Collins
Release Date: May 4, 2021 Letty Carnahan’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to flee New York City with her four year old niece, Maya, in tow after stumbling upon her younger sister’s body in her New York townhouse. Exhausted and emotionally drained, Letty arrives at a small beachside motel in Treasure Island, Florida – The Murmuring Surf. With nothing but her … Continue reading The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews
Release Date: March 16, 2021 About The Book: A Most-Anticipated Book of 2021: Bustle * Ms. Magazine * The Millions * Electric Lit * SheReads A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee’s escape from civil war—and the healing power of community. A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of her neighbors across the way. She is an outsider, … Continue reading Book Spotlight: Silence Is A Sense by Layla Alammar
Release Date: March 16, 2021 About The Book: Alice Sullivan, a high-achieving architect and mom of two, is used to being in control. Until life rips the blueprints right out of her hands. While she’s always strived for a picture perfect life, Alice’s foundation is rocked when she discovers her daughter is failing reading at school, and worse, her son is a bully, having humiliated … Continue reading Book Spotlight: Are We There Yet? by Kathleen West
Release Date: January 12, 2021 Nadia has never had a clear answer to the seemingly simple question, “Where are you from?” She has lived in many places throughout her life due to her father’s job with the UN, ranging from Rome, to Dar-es-Salaam, to Kampala, to England, and even New York City. Beyond her varied geographic identity, Nadia has grappled her whole life with her … Continue reading Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu
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