So You Want To Be A Veterinarian is part of a series for children on exciting and worthwhile careers. Without talking down to young readers, Linda Soules emphasizes that love for animals and scientific accuracy are necessary to succeed in this profession. She explains that...

In David Fitz-Gerald’s Rathuun: King of the Prairie, the titular Rathuun is born on the prairie into a buffalo brum, whose safety depends on old migration paths. As a calf, he is saved by Na-Muh, a human boy whose kindness marks him for life. Years...

Tricksters, Takers, and Team Players: Teaming Up for the Hunt, written by Alisha Gabriel and beautifully illustrated by Vivien Sárkány, is a wonderful children's book that introduces young readers to the natural world—a world where animals hunt in many different ways, reminding us of their...

The Seashell Safe Harbor: Friendship by Sherrie Schmidt takes readers on a bright, cheerful adventure. It introduces you to the friendship group—Happy the sailboat, Starfish Sue, Pelican Hugh, Dolphin Rue, Captain Drew, and their guests—who all set out together on the Friendship Trip. They plan...

Linda Dindzans’s novel, A Certain Mercy (A Certain Future series), is a profoundly moving and inspiring Christian historical story set in Judea in the first century AD, in the time of Yeshua of Nazareth. Zara is a young Judean Jew from a wealthy family....

Ernesto H Lee's Lines Drawn in the Marsh is set in 18th-century Lincolnshire, where Lady Eleanor Ainsworth dons a mask as a highway rider after Julian Ashford, heir to Ashford Manor, advances a plan to drain the southern marsh used by local families for grazing....

Patricia D’Arcy Laughlin’s Sacrifices For Kingdoms follows Elizabeth Angelique Richardson, a Trinidadian philanthropist whose royal garden party invitation brings her into Prince Michael Alexander Stephen’s orbit while she is in Europe preparing “God Has No Gender,” a paid lecture for the children’s home she founded...

God of Wonders (A Celebration of Knowing a Divine Creator) is a children’s Christian picture book written by Dominique Okonkwo with illustrations by Sarah Ugolotti. It follows a young boy who goes on an adventure to the beach and explores God in His natural creation....

Candace Plattor’s Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself begins inside the disorder created when addiction takes over a relationship. Plattor shows how the loved one can become trapped in secrecy while rescue begins to pass for love. Greg’s cocaine use moves from party behavior into daily...

In Sandy Writes Her Story by Jo Pittman, readers meet Sandy, a sea otter who loves to float in the ocean, play music, and enjoy her peaceful surroundings. But some days feel off. Her body is heavy, and her thoughts are hard to explain. Sandy’s...

In A Wave of Breath by Tess Collins, Brooklyn's and Martin's lives are abruptly disrupted when the water turns red while they shower together. This marks the beginning of the catastrophic Water Event, a disaster that affects only the United States. Before disappearing, Martin promises...

In Tony Perez’s The Dragon and The Eagle, former Delta operator James Chase now serves as the personal security officer for Secretary of Defense Michael Andrews. When China fires on the USS John S. McCain during a naval patrol in the South China Sea, surviving...

Ava Over the Rainbow by Jennie E Nicassio is a wonderful, heartwarming story about learning to live with loss. Haidyn loved her dog. Ava never left her side; she stayed close to Haidyn and protected her, giving her friendship and love like nothing else on...

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...