Elaine Hsieh Yu’s Ugly Dumpling: A Memoir follows the author’s childhood after immigrating from Hong Kong to Hawaii in the 1970s, where she grows up in poverty with her mother and brothers after a violent separation from her father. Yu describes vivid scenes of life...

In Janel Brown Stormer and Mary Ellen Brown Carlson’s Cousins Too, at a summer reunion at Great-Grandma Brown’s house, a large group of young cousins hears that their great-grandfather, Charles Hudson Brown, once hid a locked treasure box somewhere in the nearby woods. Before the...

Yaw Agawu-Kakraba’s The Executioner’s Stepdaughter is set in 1960s London, where Nii Narh Okine is a Ghanaian medical researcher living far from Accra, bound by his mother Ameley’s warning that England must give him a doctorate, not a white wife. His father, Obo Okine, was...

Carrie Kabak’s Shibby Magee unfolds in two timelines, following the identical twins Isabelle “Shibby” and Isadorah “Dorah” Magee, who are like chalk and cheese. The story starts in the 1970s when the kids are abandoned by their Traveler mother, Vera Coffey. They are raised by...

Today’s world moves fast, but keeping your cool isn’t always easy when instant gratification isn’t possible. Still Not Freaking Out by Mahendra Vadnere explores how Stoic philosophy teaches people to retrain their minds to navigate life’s modern challenges. It features the writings of Stoic thinkers...

Kennedy and her mother-in-law, Cora, have just learned that their husbands, Geoff and George Taylor, committed gambling fraud, hoping a family trust would pay out to cover millions of dollars in debt from their losses. In Not My Hero by Michelle Bolanger, Kennedy has just...

The Hero by Eve M. Riley follows Sadie, a quiet, self-taught coder, and her boss, James, a brilliant software programmer struggling after the end of his long-term relationship with Jane. He’s spiraling, but trying to keep up appearances at work, especially in front of...

The Incredible Adventures of Casper the Cat Who Got Lost in Africa: The Pangolins is the first book in a series by Jennifer Ussi. Casper is a clever cat with different colored eyes and heart-shaped markings. She lives in the city, but after an action-filled...

In the fifth book in C.J. Adrien’s Saga of Hasting the Avenger, The Empress and Her Wolf, the Viking anti-hero Hasting and his hardened, oath-bound crew sail deep into the treacherous heart of the Byzantine Empire in the ninth century. Empress Theodora hires Hasting to...

In Mitch Goddard’s Beneath The Flame Azalea, Jeff returns to the western North Carolina trail years after his Appalachian Trail hike left him reeling from Beckham Sheridan’s unexplained death. During a storm cleanup led by Luna Kramer, Jeff finds a waterproof action camera buried under...

Eleanor and the Serpent King by Aneta Cruz follows seventeen-year-old Eleanor, who inherits the Northern Kingdom after her father’s death, only to find the coffers empty and her people dying of starvation. As if that were not enough, she also has to take care of...

In Love Language by Christine Ko, Cassie's life is turned upside down when she moves from the United States to South Korea with her parents. Born and raised in America, she considers herself American. Once in her family’s home country, she finds herself caught between...

Caregiving Is No Joke: A Caregivers' Guide by Gemaine Owen, MD, is both a practical and heartfelt guide. Owen mixes her professional know-how with honest stories from her own life. It’s a tough job. Caring for someone takes a lot out of you, but there’s...

In Lukman Clark's The Wind Rose Conspiracy, Brandon Blake is living on inherited money after his parents’ plane vanished over the Timor Sea when a hypnosis session sends him toward a Libyan cave. There, he finds ancient scrolls linked to Hypatia of Alexandria, a philosopher...

Change isn't easy. Yet, many fail to adapt. If you're having a hard time dealing with change and uncertainty, Future-Proofing Leadership is the book for you. Rosie Ward is a veteran consultant and leadership coach. Here, she introduces a framework that is designed to navigate...

The Big Switch: Varney and Cedric by Lynn Slaughter is a remarkable novel for children. We meet Varney and Cedric, two teenagers, both misfits, unhappy with their lives. Varney is a born-and-bred vampire, but he hates how blood tastes, dislikes his mum’s cobweb cookies, and...

Sean M. Tirman’s A Rap on the Door is a collection of short stories built from speculative premises that turn familiar fears into strange pressure points. And they all start with a knock. Among them is Polaris Breach, where a widowed sailor leaves shore after...

Fun Day With Misa is a children’s book written in both English and Spanish by Mireya Saldua. Misa is a playful, miniature Australian puppy whose name means 'beautiful bloom' in Japanese. This playful puppy is loved by her mom and dad and adored by her...

Without Reservations: Roadmap to Romance by Shonda Ramsey is a gentle, faith‑centered second‑chance romance that brings Tess and Luke back into each other’s lives after more than two decades apart. Once high‑school sweethearts who spent several summers building a quiet, hopeful love, they were separated...

Hypatia by Lukman Clark begins in fourth-century Egypt, where a girl named Tuya lives beside the Nile with her Kushite mother and Macedonian soldier father. After her father disappears, a catastrophic sea surge tears Tuya away from home, family, and the name she was born...