Always Here: Widowed With Young Children by Jesse Kuhn is a grief companion written specifically for parents raising kids alone after losing a spouse, a narrow, deeply specific audience that most grief books overlook entirely. The book unfolds across four parts, from understanding grief in...

Beyond Her Selfie by Preston Copeland is a heartwarming coming-of-age story that follows two endearing friends throughout their international travels. Robi and her best friend Marquetta travel through San Francisco, New York City, Lisbon, and Edinburgh during the summer following their high school graduation. Robi’s...

C.S. Pascoal’s Accidental Tribes charts the unexpected path of eight isolated teenagers thrown into a strange disciplinary space known as Solitaria. This high-pressure environment in Room 359 at PS 555 unites several tech-loving rule-breakers overseen by school advisor Dr. Miryam. The moment a sudden theft...

Searching for Full: How GLP-1s Changed My Eating-Disordered Life by Paige Gordon is a memoir that traces many years of bulimia nervosa, beginning in childhood and tangled up with trauma, family strain, and years of treatments that never quite worked. The book opens with an...

In Shami Stovall’s The Last Rift Dragon, seventeen-year-old Richter Whitlock is training to become a Knight of the Silver Fog, one of the dragon riders who protect Bridgehaven, a city spread across 112 islands. Only three dragons remain in the known world, leaving the order...

Max Willi Fischer’s Working the Angles is set in 1937 Akron, Ohio, where eighteen-year-old Deet Jenkins leaves high school for a job at Consolidated, one of the city’s enormous rubber factories. He enters factory life as a battle over union representation spreads through Akron’s rubber...

Caroline’s Lighthouse by Erica Zaborac is about a young girl who suffers a serious injury while competing in a show jumping competition in which her horse, Beau, is killed. For a time, Caroline turns her back on the sport that she enjoyed with her mother....

The Reel Life of Zara Kegg by Brad Barkley is a coming-of-age love story. Father and daughter, Jack and Zara Kegg, relocate to Carolina Beach, North Carolina, following the death of the family matriarch, Tania Kegg. It is off-season, with much of the town boarded...

Directions in Paradox Comix by John F. Elliott presents stories, wisdom to live by, and humor. You can read it as a philosophical manifesto or therapy guide. Some readers will simply enjoy the illustrations, which are very symbolic. The author cleverly builds maxims into templates...

Tabitha Unleashed is the first book in the Unbroken Series by Robert W Adams. The story follows sixteen-year-old Tabitha Griffin as she tries to survive a world that doesn’t understand her. She is a suicide-attempt survivor hiding a real magical ability behind the appearance of...