China’s Master Race for World Domination by Jack Cox Williams is a political thriller that blends espionage, science fiction, genetic engineering, and global power struggles into a fast-moving narrative centered on the ambitions of the Chinese government. The novel begins with President Xi Jinping reflecting...

B. Lou Guckian unflinchingly tells her story from a broken person to healing in Heart Knocks: From Strayed to Straight, a searing memoir. The memoir follows the author through years of self-destruction to spiritual redemption. She writes about her rebellion as a teenager, her marriage...

Maddy's Towers is a children’s picture book written by Inbal Alon with illustrations by Mandira Biswas. It follows Maddy, a young girl who returns home in tears after a sad betrayal. Her best friend, Mei, just revealed Maddy’s secret to everyone. While Maddy’s mother comforts...

In Jeffrey Butler's Bait, Detective Harper Jones of Wolf Hollow, North Carolina, faces one of the most challenging cases of his career. The town of Wolf Hollow borders the ocean, and this summer is good for tourists, with beach events, walkways, and playgrounds. Someone starts...

As part of his Ancient Wisdom series, author Neel Burton brings his wit and wisdom to German philosophy in The German Greeks. In addition to their philosophies, the author offers biographical profiles of Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche in chronological order, illustrating their influences...

After a decade away from his hometown of Philadelphia, thirty-five-year-old Evan is back to bury his recently murdered grandfather. During the funeral, the family learns from the press that Evan’s uncle, Michael O’Brien, is running for mayor. Apparently, after the death of the incumbent Republican...

In Anne M. Kennedy’s The Baku Inheritance, book one in The City of Winds series, in 1890, Anton Nikolayevich Sabroski arrives in Baku with tanker plans that could open a new route through the Suez Canal. He learns that his father has died, and the...

In Shadows in the Creek by Michael H. Balfour, Dante Villehart moved to the quiet town of Edenvale. Dante was hoping that distance from his past would bring clarity and peace. That hope is shattered when Lila Summers is found brutally murdered at the edge...

In Ron Lundmark’s Hypno Dude, Kirk Taylor studies hypnosis in Kathmandu under an elderly teacher named Herkomus, who believes a hidden organization is preparing to control world governments. After Kirk moves to Washington DC with his diplomat mother, he discovers billionaire Fernando Manuro has secretly...

Gertie Goes to Foster Care, written and illustrated by Izzy Unger-Finn, follows a young girl named Gertie who talks about what it feels like to live in a foster home. She explains that it is a place where children stay with another family when they...

Life with Less of Me by Julianna Burmesch is a memoir that follows the author’s life from a childhood with parents prone to hoarding, emotional abuse, and alcoholism. The book starts in 2019, when fifty-eight-year-old Julianna sorts through her mother’s rooms and describes the suffocating...

In Andra Douglas's Changing Cadence, Christine Davis built the New York Sharks women’s football team after discovering that few opportunities existed for women who wanted to play tackle football at a serious level. Nearly twenty years later, she prepares for the final season under her...

In Aletheia by Michael Karlsen-Williksen, we follow a Norwegian astronomer who grew up on his Uncle Arne's tall tales about a UFO landing in the freezing north. Everyone figured Arne was just eccentric, but decades later, the protagonist is working at a LOFAR telescope in...

In Lotte Skale and the Wyvern Hatchery by Shanna P. Lowe, fourteen-year-old Lotte helps her father operate a hatchery and sanctuary for endangered wyverns, winged, serpentine creatures that are hunted by the tyrant, King Bouldermaul. The regime in Asoleenya is anti-magic, and this means Lotte...

Anne Shaw Heinrich's House of Teeth is set in the small town of Poulson, where the ending of one marriage begins pulling several families into the same orbit. Judy Saunders spends years trapped in a bitter relationship with truck driver John, while he quietly builds...

In Let’s Put On A Show, Stewart F. Lane breaks down exactly what it takes to get a production off the ground, starting with the spark of motivation and moving through the logistics of the industry. He draws on his own journey from a child...

In Stolen Secrets by S.F. Baumgartner, FBI Special Agent Charlie O’Rourke believed adopting Jamie would keep her safe. Charlie was trying to shield her from threats tied to a past he hoped to leave behind. For twelve years, Jamie lived under a carefully constructed identity,...

Kira McCloud sells herself as a brilliant and successful decluttering guru with her “sunshine test” in Jenny Hogan's How to Clean Your Life with Sunshine, but her personal life and spaces are far from organized. On her plate are an unfinished book deal, a threatening...

Do you believe that morning and evening routines affect our lives? The Bookend Effect encourages readers to live in the present. Begin your mornings with intention and reflect on your daily activities in the evenings. According to Troy F. Liposec, orientation is the foundation of...

Anna Belfrage’s Queen of Shadows is set in fourteenth-century Castile, where Alma’s future changes when she is taken into the household of Doña Leonor de Guzmán, the king’s companion whose position draws both favor and hostility. What begins as service becomes responsibility as Alma learns...