In Michael Aloisi’s Willow Circle, seventy-four-year-old Mary Belmont has rebuilt her life nearly five years after the death of her husband Harold, finding an unlikely best friend in sixteen-year-old neighbor Tina Tanner and surprising herself when younger retiree Ted enters her world. Across their Tallwood...

There are probably hundreds of books about the fate of Eastern European Jews during the Holocaust, but relatively few about the fate of German Jews during the same period. Even fewer focus on German families who escaped not to America or British-ruled Palestine, but to...

In Death of Days by Eliot Pattison, Cato Pike leaves his dangerous world in intelligence because he no longer trusts the leaders. His life is interrupted when his estranged father, a renowned historian, summons him with a favor. Cato travels to an abbey in Scotland’s...

Sometimes the hardest part of finding the right person is figuring out what kind of love you really want. In Chasing the Perfect Spark by Dana Lucka, Daniella “Dani” Babich is starting over after a broken engagement leaves her questioning what comes next. She starts...

In Collateral Wife: A True Con Marriage by Anne Stark Gallagher, Anne’s life spirals into a nightmare after her marriage. Anne married Ben, a man who appeared to be sincere, impulsive, and guided by his heart. Anne did not know her charming husband was a...

Toward the Light: A Year in Paris by Deborah Svec-Carstens is a thoughtful, honest, and refreshingly positive memoir of one woman’s journey to Paris as an American au pair during the early 1990s. The author had just graduated from college and was working alongside her...

Medicare Made Simple 2026 by Margaret Whitfield explains how someone approaching Medicare can turn an unfamiliar system into decisions based on their circumstances. Whitfield begins with the enrollment date that determines when coverage should start, then shows how that date affects the path a reader...

Do you know what makes a strawberry so sweet and special? In Nato Dvali’s Lilé and the Berry Fairy, Lilé learns why from a special adventure she shares with a berry fairy that she meets in the woods. This berry fairy has so many pockets...

Hadley is hungry, and her rumbling tummy won't let her rest until she finds something to fill it. Hadley the Hippo Is What She Eats by Kayla E. Green follows her through the jungle as she munches her way from one snack to the next,...

No One Sleeps by Townsend Walker is a thought-provoking collection of short fiction. ‘Nessun Dorma’, the first of the twenty works in this anthology, personifies suicidal thoughts in a way that forces you to ponder the meaning of life. The following entry, ‘As Ye Sow,'...

Too many healthcare workers are exhausted and withdraw from careers they once loved. A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals by Dr. Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, a pediatrician who turned to writing after her son's near-fatal accident, offers a different path forward. Using Christina Maslach's...

Scott Ambrose’s Demystified Mystic presents a modern guide to mysticism built around the idea that interconnectedness can be experienced as a lived spiritual reality. The book frames the sense of separation people feel within themselves and the world as the starting point for a path...

Andrew Tartar’s The Next Shift is a youth hockey coaching guide about helping volunteer coaches create a team environment where players can learn the game and want to return. Tartar begins with why children come to the rink and how coaches should define success. Trust...

Som Phin's The Love That History Erased follows Cambodian American software engineer Srey Rattana, who finds herself inhabiting the body of Lady Channary, the heroine of an Angkor-inspired fantasy novel Srey has been reading on her phone. Believing she knows Channary’s future, Srey decides to...

We live in a world that assigns labels to everything. This habit is the result of conditioning by our parents, teachers, and society. Siobhán Bridget Kennedy questions whether this serves us in Before the Labels. She reflects that we love to put others in boxes,...

The Secret-Keeper’s Shipwreck: Mayhem in Gold Rush San Francisco by Jess Wells is a delightful historical novel set in the Wild West early days of San Francisco. Before gold was discovered, San Francisco was nothing more than a tiny, poor village by the bay without...

Aleksander Szeser’s Dissonance follows Kira Hunt, a thirty-six-year-old Los Angeles physical therapist whose home life with philosophy-professor husband Max revolves around their three-year-old daughter, Rebecca. At a child’s birthday party, Rebecca hands Kira a message from a stranger who somehow knows where to find her....

Songs of Yeak and Kinnari Book 1 by Som Phin is the first installment in the Khmer Legend of Love and Destiny series. At the dawn of the world, a Kinnari and a Yeak warrior joined forces to stabilize chaos and bring order. Thus, the...

The current head of the IRA, Brianna Donovan, has a diabolical plan. To carry it out, she needs to get hold of a coded crucifix. It’s somewhere in Pamplona, Spain, and so she hires a mercenary known only as El Gocho to find it for...

Being ordinary can be so boring. Jimmy has his own unusual way of doing just about everything in Jumbled Up Jimmy by Laura Roso. He wears his watch, his socks, and even his uniform just a little bit differently. His friends Rafi, Maddie, and Sophie...