Thank You for the Shoes by Raffaela Marie Rizzo follows the life of Michelangelo Rizzo, a young boy growing up in the rough mountains of Calabria at the turn of the twentieth century. The story traces his father’s difficult decision to leave Italy for America...

Author Aaron Ryan concludes the epic Talisman saga with its final installment, Halcyon. Liam "Foxy" Mayfield, the last Iskander, Onyx Sleater, the powerful Nexus, and Arion Peridifyca, the Zorander, are united in their fight against the dreaded Asterium Axis. With 743 scattered souls all over...

Tears of the Flames is a dark fantasy novel by Sisi Zhao. Mira Murphy's life turns upside down after a brutal assault in the woods awakens something dark and powerful within her, summoning a mysterious green vortex over her hometown. A couple of years pass,...

Where Our Stories Meet by Alizae Kurtzig and Thando Maluleke tells the story of two children living on opposite sides of the world whose lives gradually connect through curiosity and friendship. Daisy lives in San Francisco, where rainy mornings, school experiments, and time with family...

In Bad Dreams and Bad Memories, Keith Thorn explains how these two issues continue to influence everyday reactions when the body responds to stored impressions, as if those earlier conditions still exist. He tells us that these responses begin before conscious thought and reflect patterns...

In No Regrets: The Freedom Beyond What Can’t Be Changed, Keith Thorn traces how he spent years chasing achievement, and the journey to finally turning toward the memories he had spent much of his life trying to outrun. As regret surfaces in middle age, Thorn...

In This Kindness Prepares Another, Keith Thorn isn't interested in giving us a polished, ego-driven victory lap. Instead, the book feels like a quiet, almost startlingly honest dismantling of the person he used to be. Thorn deconstructs the defensive walls he spent decades building, looking...

After the death of her grandfather, Grace Woodruff returned to Woodruff Mountain, home to many generations of the Woodruff family and its herb business empire, for two main reasons. To settle and manage her grandfather’s sprawling estate, and also seek peace of mind since her...

Lorrie Parise's 25902: Homemade with Love is a long look back at a house that meant everything to a family. Lorrie starts at the point where she has to leave, and from there she rewinds into how her parents, Alice and Fidel, made it happen...

When a catastrophic flood threatens a community of animals, they have to adjust their prejudices to survive in the compelling novel, Redeeming Rhubarb by Bob Richley. Rhubarb has hated rats since one killed his brother. When a rat, Barnabas, and his family move into their...

In Mary Romasanta’s La Llorona: The Awakening, Ruth arrives at her partner John’s family home for Thanksgiving, stepping into a household where his mother, Mi-Ra, presses her about having a child. When a last-minute errand sends John and his brother JJ to a nearby store,...

David L. Wadley's AI Stocks Made Simple teaches novices how to make their investment entrance into the stock market, leaning into how money flows through companies linked to artificial intelligence. Wadley tells us that consistent exposure to real market coverage helps to organically grow our...

Pet Safety with Lola & Sophie by Christine Devane features two friendly dogs, Sophie and Lola, who guide young readers through important pet safety tips. The story starts with the dogs introducing themselves and explaining that they are there to help children and families learn...

Careers By the People by Mike Wysocki is a compilation of over 100 first-person interviews, placing readers inside the working lives of those in a wide array of positions. These include the likes of a Vice President of Information Technology, who recalls learning computing through...

Entertaining and well-researched, A. Piper Burgi’s The Exploress and the Pillars of Eternity is a fine example of historical fiction. Set in the early nineteenth century, at a time when Egypt was just beginning to allow Europeans access to their country and its archaeological treasures,...

In R.D. Moreno’s ZADA 5: The Window Splinters, Connor Balcazar, a newly named duke, works to secure an interplanetary empire led by Empress Christina while Lorenzo rebuilds his power after escaping captivity. He prepares an assault on the capital world of Markus 2 using portal...

Cruise Fling is the story of Andrea, who has been a single parent since losing her husband three years ago. She needs a vacation and books one, but when her family backs out, she decides to go anyway. She’s been stuck in grieving for so...

There is a sense of loneliness when reading Ana’s words as Confessions of a Female Dominant opens. Every page and every word reveals it in a multitude of ways. She is a woman desperate for something, which she cannot name, not while in Russia and...

A psychic awakening can be a blessing or a curse, depending on the outcome. Telepathic messages may overpower us, as Richard Fort discovered to his cost. He describes his traumatic journey in Foreign Whispers: A Telepathic Awakening. It seems that a voice pops into your...

You Can't Change The Past by Keith Thorn is about something we all do, even if we don’t always notice it: thinking again and again about the past. The author explains how we replay moments in our heads of things we said, choices we made,...