Life throws a curveball at a savvy beach bar owner when a large corporation threatens her business and her relationships in Palms on the Cape by Jenn Bouchard. Rachel Sinclair is proud of what she has accomplished despite having a neglectful and spiteful mother. Rachel...

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, wondering what that noise was in your closet? In Laura Helland’s The Hellandback Kids, that’s exactly what happened to eleven-year-old Chris Hellandback. But when he got up and looked in the closet, there was...

To the random eye, thirty-year-old Sally Ward, a radiologist based in Atlanta, Georgia, is just a hot doctor. However, she is secretly psychic and can see into the future whenever she shakes hands with people. It is because of her gift that she warms up...

The Sure Thing: A Pleasure Practice to Revive the Spark by Elana Auerbach introduces a weekly intimacy ritual shaped by Shabbat and built for couples who want a dependable way to reconnect. After years of missed timing in her marriage, Auerbach creates a set time...

In Fabiano Oliveira’s Anny, The Girl Who Hacked The Future, Anny Marveira grows up in Spain under the tutelage of her dad, a man whose hidden past as the hacker Spider Spinner gradually emerges. During a trip to Brazil, Anny notices some small financial irregularities...

In Yiannis' Great Adventures Vol. 1, Ralph Belfiglio talks to children about interesting changes in life. In a small antique shop in the city of Athens, there is a beautiful hand-painted cabinet. Yiannis, a friendly mouse, lives there. He likes to walk around the shop...

Have you tried true Japanese cuisine? Have you wondered about its simplicity? In fact, as Aurelian Marchesi explains in The Logic of Japanese Cuisine, it’s actually refined, possibly described as minimalist. When presented with the fine makings of Japanese cuisine, one might feel the quantity...

H.S. Toshack’s The Smile of the Tiger is set during catastrophic flooding in Bangkok, where a house cat named Sheena becomes trapped alone in the Allen family apartment after the building is abandoned. With no access to food or water, she escapes through a garbage...

Another Invisible Ghetto by Rasmenia Massoud is a thought-provoking look into the lives of a group of people trying to find their identities through various means. Ian, poor and heartbroken, makes a life-ending decision that opens a space in Jacob’s apartment building. Jacob tries to...

Futureproofing Humanity by Robert M. Geraci examines how modern scientific discoveries changed the way people understand the fate of human civilization. After geology and evolutionary theory revealed that life emerged through natural processes across immense spans of time, the possibility that humanity might also disappear...

Ellen Rachlin’s Enheduanna’s Song From the Sands is set in Mesopotamia during the late third millennium BCE, where Enheduanna, born Ana, is sent by her brother King Rimush to take power as the high priestess in Ur, a city shaped by unrest and resistance to...

Reading Shmeading Stinkin' Reading by Nat Gibson is about Benji, a little boy who loves stories but struggles to read them on his own. For children with dyslexia, learning can often be discouraging, and their confidence may quickly begin to decline. Benji understands this feeling...

The Pebble in the Pond: A Story of Stuarts Landing by Suzanne S. Groves left me searching for the right words to capture its uniqueness and deep sense of rightness, especially in a world that often feels devoid of compassion, empathy, or love. Miriam has...

In Channeling Marilyn by Mima Tipper, high school senior Alexandria “Lexa” Donovan is thrust into a world she hasn’t prepared for. She is randomly selected by lottery to play the lead role of Cherie in the school’s production of Bus Stop. She struggles with stage...

Dina Saalisi still remembers the abuse she suffered at the hands of a close family member when she was much younger. Rather than let those turbulent times define her, she moved past them and, with a series of strategically thought-out and documented methods, turned that...

In Everkind, Haven Ruth, the smallest fairy, is also known as the Biter Fairy. In Gael JB Orr’s The Itty-Bitty Biter Fairy, Haven Ruth has quite the temper, and she resolves it by biting anyone nearby. All the other fairies have bite marks from Haven...

Mission: The Figueroa Cipher is a thrilling spy novel by C.W. James. When the codes for nuclear missiles are stolen, James Vagus and Dakota Walker are sent to retrieve them before another world war begins. James and Dakota are American MIS-X teen operatives who trust...

The Stars Are Always There by Jaime Maria Merrill is a compelling read, with a fast-paced plot and vivid writing that brings the events to life. The summer isn’t going well for Jess Lindsey, a month short of her twelfth birthday. Her parents have just...

Derek Hadinger’s 10 Years of Strong Black Coffee and Strong-Willed Patients is a brutally frank memoir of his time inside the U.S. health system, as a nurse in Columbus, Ohio. Derek describes his interactions with patients from all walks of life during his time as...

Mix the world of Harry Potter and its characters with economics, and you get an amazing book, Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages and Other Economic Curiosities in the World of Harry Potter by J. Brian O’Roark. The author is an economics...