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...

The last words twenty-four-year-old Delilah heard from her mother were, “Go to Hell.” Despite their strained relationship, Delilah never thought her mother meant it literally. After being trampled to death by a horse, Delilah wakes up to the sight of a building that could pass...

When Detective Ava Martinez and her partner, Dan Riley, arrive at a crime scene in the small coastal town of Crystal Cove, they find the lifeless body of April Seagram, a guide at Biosphere Marine Institute. From the body’s wounds and witness statements, it was...

Outcasts of Essex by Jane Hulse is a wonderful historical tale of war, romance, and patriotism, set in the eighteenth century during the Revolutionary War. Sarah Barrett is just fifteen and is often required by her midwife mother to assist in the births of local...

A House Full of Strangers by Diana Stevan is a collection of two novellas and eleven short stories set in Winnipeg, Manitoba, during the 1940s and 1950s. The book focuses on landladies, their families, and the tenants who pass through their homes, offering a view...

In Chicago, Warren Stevick, a prominent tax and corporate attorney, had been the go-to guy for every crook who had a problem with the law and their money, and was a favorite among the mob. Life and business had been good until he was forced...

Getting Ready for a Tornado by Fei Zheng-Ward is a children’s book that talks about tornadoes and how children can stay safe if one appears. It explains that tornadoes are spinning windstorms that look like funnels reaching down from the sky. Some tornadoes are thin...

In Damion Hamilton's quasi-autobiographical work of fiction, Weirdo, Damion spends his days inside a book warehouse where the production speed dictates his worth, then goes into the city each night carrying books and notebooks as he tries to pass within spaces that were never built...

Cristiano Ronaldo (Scouted!): A Sports Biography for Young Soccer Fans by Magnus Lundgren is a fast-paced biography of one of the greatest soccer players of all time. The book mainly uses narrative, with added stats and analysis that help explain football (soccer) terminology. It is...