The Adventures of Kimo by Eric A. Javier captures the feeling of being a young child desperate to escape a mundane afternoon. Kimo is stuck at home because a thick fog has blanketed the California coast, ending any chance of his going to the beach....

How Shakespeare Can Save the World by Ion Parreah offers an imaginative exploration of modern society through Shakespeare’s enduring insights, using the Fool’s voice as a guide through contemporary chaos. Parreah introduces the fictional town of Cold Cape, a community undone not by natural disaster...

Tall as the Sun by Stephanie Henson is a children’s picture book set at the beach, told from a little girl’s perspective. As she rides upon her father’s shoulders, she delights in the views of swimmers, surfers, and seagulls. But it’s the special feeling of...

Anna Belfrage’s Queen of Shadows is set in fourteenth-century Castile, where Alma’s future changes when she is taken into the household of Doña Leonor de Guzmán, the king’s companion whose position draws both favor and hostility. What begins as service becomes responsibility as Alma learns...

Fantasy lovers will welcome The Soul-Sung by Daniel Sheley, the first book in the Vaeritas Saga. Denny is a young boy attuned to the stars and the mysterious soul-force known as Veym, who sees his village destroyed by dragon-fire. At the same time, he is...

The East Wing by Danielle M. Wong follows Wren Lee, a Boston barista who learns that the grandfather she believed died years ago has only recently passed away and left his mansion in Dukette, Virginia, to her. Hoping the inheritance will offer distance from the...

Alesa Lightbourne’s Bad Ass Grandma: Living Large, Finding Awe redefines what it means for an older woman to be Bad Ass after all the former trappings of the rat race begin to lose their old authority. Lightbourne shows that this identity is not built through...

In Emergence, Jonathan P. Strecker explains why childhood formation depends on repeated practice inside the places where children spend their days. Speaking from years as a head of school, he presents home life and classroom life as one shared system that can prepare a young...

In introducing The False Paradigms of Today and the Timeless Truth of Tomorrow, John Bliss states that “We can never know what is true,” and that what we understand as truths are merely those things that most people can agree on. The book is a...

Walking Along the Ancient Tokaido Road: A Pilgrim’s Path: Adventures and Transformations (Vol. 2: Insight and Memories) by Ichiro Asanuma continues the author’s journey through Japan with a thoughtful examination of history, culture, and modern society. Picking up where the first volume left off, the...

So You Want To Be A Pilot is part of Linda Soule’s amazing So You Want To Be series. Have you ever looked up at a plane flying above and decided you wanted to be a pilot? It sounds like a wonderful job, and it...

Seraphin Stone: Say Yes to Heaven by Ettenig Sayam is a coming-of-age story that follows Marie Ange "Mari" Seraphin, a gifted ballerina from Haiti who gets entangled with a wealthy man, David Stone. She was once attacked by a boy who seemed to be under...

Sinner’s Prayer by Dwain Lee is the second book in the Dan Randolph/Greg Zhu mysteries. Plumbers discover a skeleton in a concrete trench beneath the youth room floor of the Parkvale Presbyterian Church in Louisville. It is the remains of a former youth leader and...

Seeing Sunny Again is a collection of Americana short stories by Paul Clayton that explores many issues. Among them are memory, loss, family, friendship, love, and resilience across different eras of American life. The stories range from coming-of-age experiences in mid-century Philadelphia to wartime Vietnam,...

Glenscott Thomas Copper’s Angels Dance on the Head of a Pin follows Scott Rankin, a small red-haired Catholic boy from 1962 La Crosse, after his family’s breakup pushes him from St. John’s parish school toward Chicago. Scott wants to become the priest his Italian grandmother...

The Hidden Face of God by R.A. Williams is a near-future AI thriller set in 2038. Cybersecurity expert David Bishop expects danger to remain behind computer screens, but a favor for his pastor pulls him into something far more serious. When a website about the...

So You Want to Be an Explorer by Linda Soules continues the So You Want to Be series. The world we live in is amazing, but so much of it has never been seen. If you’ve ever dreamed of being the next big explorer, this...

There is beauty all around us, and it’s soothing. Imagine the stars in the night sky and the gentle sound of the waves. It’s all very calming. In Clare Hollywood’s The Stars and Sea Are in Me, one can feel the simple power of the...

Down to Earth is Book 2 of The Attuned series by Jessica Natalie Reino, but it can be read as a stand-alone as well. On the face of it, Sarah D’Antonio is a typical high school junior. But her home is the fictional New England...

Don't Tell by Teresa Schapansky is a deeply personal and harrowing memoir based on the life story of Troy Edward Eklund. The book walks you through Troy’s painful childhood, his addiction, and his fight for a better life—all before his sudden death in 2025. Troy...