Easy-Peasy Birthday Cake That Even Little Ones Can Make by Tatiana Bell is a fun children’s picture book. It follows the activities of three kids who decide to make their mom's special day a memorable one. The three kids, without any experience, enter the kitchen...

Cael's unintended role in the events leading to his mother's death hardens his father's heart toward the young mouse and creates a growing emotional rift in the family. Unable to win back his father's affections and determined to make a name for himself as a...

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...

Lady D's Chiseled by Choices combines her own life stories with advice about recovering from trauma and rebuilding one's life. The book examines various aspects of personal wellness and their impact on us. It covers topics such as emotional health, loss, relationships, work, finances, spirituality,...

Too Smart to be an Umpire by Jack Oujo chronicles the author’s journey from a baseball-loving kid in New Jersey to a professional umpire working his way through the minor leagues, and eventually to a complete career reinvention in the business world. The book begins...

The principal section of “Meeting” Anne Frank: An Anthology, edited by Tim Whittome, is a collection of essays from twenty-three contributors who outline the impact Anne Frank and her amazing diary have had on their lives. Anne Frank left behind a legacy that has fascinated...

The Graceful Healing Workbook and Journal by Ana Parra Vivas is a twelve-week writing journey that guides readers toward a shift in how they interpret their inner life. The book centers on the idea that beliefs influence emotional state and direction in everyday living. Through...

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...

When the Sky Turned to Dust by Catherine Matthias is an engrossing MG novel that takes the reader into the life of a family fighting to survive the dust storms affecting their home in Kansas. It follows 12-year-old Caroline, who, along with her 9-year-old brother, tries...

Nick Nethery’s novel, The Peace Child, is an exciting and character-driven fantasy about an old retired soldier and a six-year-old prince, caught up in a struggle for power between two kingdoms, Cordoba and Leone. The retired soldier, Red (Colonel Ranford Redgrave), has carried out countless...

“The truth? It don't fit clean. Life don't work like no sermon or a newspaper headline. It's messy. It bleeds.” Life does these things and more, and messy can be an understatement as The Bible Of Blackwater County, a novel by Jenny Cafaro, clearly illustrates....

Beyond Offices by Clark Lowe explores the changing nature of work and challenges long-held beliefs about where and how work should be done. The book traces the historical shift from labor, based in physical locations like farms and factories, to office work and to a...

You can have a good team and the perfect action plan, but leading in the right direction is what enables you to achieve your goals. Both at work and in life, it’s not just about learning strategies, but about putting ideas into practice and showing...

Are We Having Fun Still? by Joseph Blackhurst hits on a question that feels relevant in 2026: why does our downtime suddenly feel like a chore? The author starts with a simple conversation in a Target checkout line that spirals into a full-blown autopsy of...

The Dragon of Dread Deep by C.D. McKenna follows Cassian, a boy betrayed by his thieving parents and raised as a cutthroat pirate, always seen as less for not being a "pure" pirate. When he suddenly finds himself in the role of captain, it quickly...

Billy struggles to cope with his mother's passing to the point that he becomes miserable when his father remarries. All attempts to draw him out of his shell fail, as the young boy prefers to comfort himself with memories of his late mother. When his...

Eye to Eye by Max MacNeil is a lovely book of stories for families to read together. Lucy’s grandfather, Max, struggles to understand what Lucy is saying to him until, one day, he decides to get down to her level. Lying on the floor next...

Borealis is an engrossing eco-thriller novel by Bill Bennett. The Crystal Cove case took a lot from Detective Ava Martinez. She arrives in Alaska hoping to recuperate. However, with the Apexion Oil & Gas Summit at Westmark, tensions are high as corporate and geopolitical interests...