Nick is a very curious young man and wants to know why many things happen the way they do. Why can't animals talk, or why are fire trucks red? Sometimes he even has dreams with the word "why." Some of his questions are reasonable, like...

Becoming Neutral examines what happens when a person stops absorbing every emotional reaction and starts protecting their sense of self. Easier said than done, but author Aimee Eppleston gets us there. She talks about neutrality as a deliberate practice linked to awareness, boundaries, and emotional...

In Mona Risk’s Her Cozy House, after Chicago resident surgeon Niles Wolf rents a basement apartment from widowed grandmother Carmen Eden, he becomes closely connected to Carmen’s granddaughter Jessica, a seventeen-year-old student planning a medical career while grieving her father’s death. Years later, Jessica completes...

Vicky Oliver’s Firebrands takes place in 1908 Manhattan, where suffragist Helena James begins investigating Derrick Dupré, the wealthy fiancé of her younger sister Summer, after overhearing him discuss bomb construction shortly following an explosion in Union Square Park. Helena discovers that Derrick operates a labor...

Author Dania Voss brings romance readers a treat with the fourth book in the Delcinia Diaries, Longing and Lipstick. Faith Wilson, the youngest of the three Wilson sisters, first met Axel Berg, the bodyguard of Crimson Shadows' frontman Sebastian Scott, at the New York Fall...

Walking with Care: Stories and Tools for Community Health Workers by Idalsy Cruz offers a thoughtful exploration of community-based care, compassion, and supporting individuals and communities through life’s most vulnerable moments. The book follows a reflective path, guiding readers through experiences that center on empathy,...

In Your Message Will Get Through by Andrew Ceroni, Steve Pfeifer wants to take his family to visit Santa’s Workshop at the North Pole. The kids really look forward to the adventures awaiting them. One Saturday afternoon, five days after Thanksgiving, the family embarks on...

Bloodlines and Betrayals by Lorraine Carey is a mafia romance set in Youngstown, Ohio, in the 1970s. It follows Elena Donato and Tony Marinetti, a young couple who instantly fall in love with each other. However, bad luck follows them because Elena’s mother's family, the...

The Thriving Family Business by Tildet Varon weaves personal experience with practical strategies. The book begins with the image of the family table as a central space where business decisions and personal relationships intersect, establishing that success is measured not only in profits but also...

The House That Remembers You by Kristen A. Peters harkens back to stories featuring haunted houses that are much more than mere plot settings, such as Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House or Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables. These classic books...

Leah fears she has ruined her career after a meltdown on her positive affirmation podcast, the only thing helping her cope since her husband’s death nine months ago. In Eat the Cake by Annie Cathryn, Leah takes a ninety-day leave to regroup, starting with cleaning...

In Tom Strelich’s Mustard Seed, after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, selected American families are secretly transported into Mustard Seed, a vast underground city beneath the hills outside Bakersfield that is built to preserve civilization during an expected nuclear war. Gill Hill grows up...

D.M. Christensen uses satire in M.B.A. to examine what happens after entering an MBA program and realizing many professional systems reward appearances more reliably than practical judgment. Classroom discussions about leadership expand into criticism of universities selling prestige while employers treat credentials as proof of...

You or Impulse by Helen Christa is a health guide that offers tips on weight loss and healthy living. Instead of quick fixes, it leans into self-awareness and learning to watch your own patterns before trying to change them. Christa walks you through building healthy...

Curve Balls and Second Chances by Susan Boles is book one in the Pickwick Pirate Queens Softball Romance series. Readers are introduced to Rose McAllister, who is living in Pickwick Bend. She owns a coffee shop and coaches the Pickwick Pirate Queens softball team. When...

Carl Jung said, “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” This idea is at the heart of The Day I Learned I’m Autistic (and ADHD!) by Bethany Stahl. In this picture book, readers are introduced to a young girl who...

As artificial intelligence begins influencing decisions with human consequences, in The Right Call: A Leader’s Guide to Ethical Decision Making in Practice, Tremaine du Preez examines what happens when organizations can no longer separate operational success from ethical responsibility. The book follows leaders facing situations...

Party of a Lifetime by Henry Corrigan follows Becca Longford as she heads back home from college, hoping a beach weekend with her old crew will make up for how badly their high school prom went. That prom night was horrible, marked by bullying, a...

In Ego Degradation: Pulling Back the Veil of Illusion to See Your Mind's Programming, Alexx Shaw defines Ego Degradation as the collapse of the mental identity a person has built from experience, until their usual sense of self no longer feels stable. When this breakdown...

In her memoir 1 in 2 Million, born in Romania with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, Elena Pomana grows up watching permanent bone growth slowly restrict her movements while her family searches for treatment after political unrest opens Romania’s borders. Her mother takes her to hospitals in...