Flick and His Mouth by Hazem Nassar follows a young robot named Flick who loves learning new words and using them to get laughs. Flick picks up his language from television and the internet, repeating phrases that sound funny or exciting without understanding how they...

Howard Jay Patterson’s Jester Prince: How the Flying Karamazov Brothers Reinvented Theatre and Saved the World, Almost chronicles the unlikely rise of The Flying Karamazov Brothers, from improvised performances on San Francisco streets and at Renaissance Fairs to stages including Broadway, Carnegie Hall, and television...

Coming Alive on the Ride by Michael Yang is a memoir of Yang’s life, beginning with his childhood in postwar South Korea and continuing through immigration, family life, and a career in Silicon Valley. The book alternates between extended motorcycle journeys across North America and...

Demon Seed by W.D. Kilpack III is the third book in the acclaimed New Blood Saga, following Crown Prince and Order of Light. Previously in book one, Natharr serves as the Guardian of Maarihk, a role originating in the Firstborn Age, where his Firstblood grants...

Real Talk, Real Hope: Breast Cancer Your Way by Dr. Loren Rourke walks readers through the cancer journey, from screening to treatment and everything in between, grounded in clinical practice. Rourke describes how mammography functions and how screening schedules are determined for patients at differing...

Blood on the Hills is an epic gangster thriller by Andrew Velasco. The Mancinis are the most powerful mafia family in North Beach. While the Orlovs ply their trade on Russian Hill, the Triads rule over Chinatown. Tone Mancini is the apparent heir to the...

In The Lost Ballerina by Deanna Lynn Sletten, seventeen-year-old Maddie Carlson needs to earn money fast. Her boyfriend, Caden, crashed her car, and her father insists she pay for the repairs herself. Maddie takes a job mowing and weeding the lawn at a big, mysterious...

People can be annoying. Some slurp their drinks, some burp loudly, there are interrupters, those who pay no regard to time, people who stare, and those who snore. But none is as annoying as the narrator’s pet, Peeve, who is not your typical animal but...

Frantic by Brent Bradley is a psychological technothriller of astoundingly high quality for a debut novel. The story takes us to Texas and unfolds over 72 hours of a deadly race against time and the world’s most powerful and wealthy techno-titans. Formerly friends, two genius...

“Being different is a gift, … Trust your heart. It will always guide you.” In Wizard Penfield’s The Christmas Leprechaun, a young leprechaun named Finn knew he wasn’t like the other leprechauns around him. They were full of mischief and greed. Finn sought to be...

Getting Ready for My X-Ray, written by Dr. Fei Zheng-Ward and illustrated by Moch. Fajar Shobaru, is an educational journey into the world of X-rays, making it an excellent resource for children and families. The author skillfully explains the science behind X-rays in an easy-to-understand...

The Myth of Aldez by Steven Trifiletti is the story of Aldez, a cheerful orphan from Kanuku Village in the land of Hillian. He spends his days running errands and finding lost things for people, always with a grin, and carries two wooden swords everywhere...

Elco Parks by Sandro Laudadio is one of the most unusual stories I have read in a while, and it resonates with its themes and atmosphere. The setting is Vancouver in 2008, where a new religion has taken hold in the belief that glacial striations...

Life in the West was tough in the early days of pioneering. In C.C. Harrison’s The Women of Bandit Bend, this life is particularly tough for the women struggling to make a life for themselves on an isolated homestead. Tally and Ivy Tisdale live on...

Rosie the Silkie Hen is a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Marian Gardner. It follows Rosie, a black-feathered Silkie hen who wishes to wear clothes. She knows this has never been done before. Chickens did not wear clothes, but she was about to...

Limits Unleashed: A Conversation Between You and Your Inner Self by Alvin Kalicharan talks about Kiritin, who grows up believing that he is a failure. His family sends him to the city, where he feels even more lost until he encounters Kisan, his inner mentor....

Camila’s parents had left Guatemala for the USA in hopes of providing a better future for their daughter. After arriving in the USA, a woman called Jennifer helped them with the paperwork and to find shelter. She becomes not just their caseworker but a close...

Quiichaar: The Adduco Ventum by Reed Sturm follows the survival, concealment, and eventual pursuit of a single forbidden weapon that was meant to be erased. During the final years of the Great Wars, the world devastator Priagrandis is secretly disabled by Djudg Clemmoth to prevent...

Sloths and Their Moths by Katie Lee Reinert is a fascinating and charming children’s book about the real-life symbiotic relationship that exists between sloths and several species of moths found living in the fur of sloths. When the sloths of the tropical rainforests of Central...

“In this way, you only know what they permit you to know, you become what they want you to be, and you exist only if they allow it.” The more things change, the more they stay the same in Dark Neology: Dante's Gray Pages by...