Dierdre Wolownick’s Success in 7 Steps begins with the difference between a dream and a goal. A dream can live for years as something wished for, but Wolownick’s method begins when the reader decides what the destination actually is. First comes what must be learned....

Catherine Ann Russell’s The Chosen Path gives us a front-row seat to an emotional ride with the main character, Princess Journee. She unintentionally disrupts her kingdom’s traditions, and her only real way to fix things is by tackling a difficult trial to earn her royal...

Some of life's biggest lessons come from the simplest stories. In The Red Letters: Parables from the Gospel of Matthew, Angela Fincham introduces young learners to some of Jesus's best-known parables and their lessons. The book begins by defining what a parable is, using language...

In Lana Christian’s Survival Secrets, book two of The Magi’s Encounters, the Wise Men leave Bethlehem by another route, with knowledge of Yeshua that could place the child in great danger if it reaches Herod’s court. Akilah leads the caravan into the Wilderness of Paran,...

Andrew Daniels’s Tomorrow’s Rain is a collection of poetry that functions as a phantasmagorical seven-day journey along the shores of Washington state. The collection introduces a solitary speaker who drifts between sea and desert, traverses the footprints of giants, and crosses the Narrows Bridge. Part...

A M Lavender’s The Permission Slip follows the period after the life the author has spent holding together finally breaks apart. In August 2025, secret gambling and debt have driven his wife from the house, and he is left alone trying to look functional while...

Greens Are Free by Dr. Stephanie Bernard gives readers a legitimate system so that our daily food decisions are made by knowing exactly how the body uses energy, stores it, and signals hunger. Bernard explains that early nutrition lessons leave gaps that carry into adulthood,...

Pismo Beach Sniper by Topper Jones is a thriller that opens with a disturbing premise. At the competition on the Central Coast, a precision marksman targets young surfers, leaving eleven-year-old Zael Hanlon and his teammates wounded. Zael’s father, Thad Hanlon, investigates the shooting together with...

In Kathy-Lynn Cross’s So Shall I Reap, Tevin is a Grim Reaper called an Ashen, one of the daemons who harvest souls for the River Styx. Sent to collect a child after a Las Vegas car crash, he stops when seven-year-old Alexcia Stasis looks directly...

Maya Angelou said, “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” In So You Want to Be a Voice Actor by Linda Soules, readers are invited into the creative and often surprising...

In Wrong Side Out: Madness Misdiagnosed, Benton Savage looks back on the first bipolar episode that overtook his life at twenty-five, when a belief that marriage would cure his unhappiness became fixed on Lane Johnson, a woman he had once dated. After she declined two...

Believing B Presents the Virtue of Faith by Frances Angelina is a heartfelt and beautifully written book that helps children and their caregivers explore faith in a natural and relatable way. Using everyday activities like sports and exercise teaches that faith isn’t just about wishing...

If you have a child who is constantly singing into a hairbrush or dreaming of the big stage, So You Want To Be A Singer by Linda Soules is the perfect roadmap for them. Soules treats the voice as a fascinating, living machine made of...

In 72 Unique Logic Puzzles, Gazmend Ceno introduces Albcell, a 10-by-10 number puzzle built from alternating diamonds beside circles. Every row must contain the digits zero through nine once. The same rule applies to each column, then repeats inside every irregular cell group. Odd numbers...

In Carolina Ghattas’s Behind the Desk, Ghattas describes growing up between Chile and Honduras, where an early love of order becomes a skill she will later use beside senior leaders. After studying tourism, she enters the airline industry and moves to Miami when her husband...

In J.R. Thibeault’s Michael’s Loop, fourteen-year-old Michael Wilson moves with his mother, Linda, away from Toronto to Southford, a small town hollowed out by closed businesses and a shrinking school. Basketball earns him a place at Eastgate, where he meets Jessica, a history-loving girl most...

In her memoir The Great Triumph, Jeanne Estelle Saddler follows the life of her mother, Thelma, from a childhood in a South Carolina sharecropping family to adulthood in Detroit. After the Osborne family joins the Great Migration, Thelma's intelligence brings her into the home of...

More than a memoir, Henry’s Classroom: A Special Education in American Motherhood by Amy Mackin offers a damning account of how American policymakers and institutions fail neurodivergent children and their families. In it, Mackin, a mother with three children who have developmental issues that require...

Most young people today watch movies featuring spy stories, with car chases, exciting scenarios, and quick-fix conclusions. So You Want To Be A Spy by Linda Soules opens the door to the real world. As one of her series explaining many different careers, in this...

In Matricide: The Denigration of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement, Joanne Callahan talks about how the women who secured female voting rights are remembered and makes the argument that recognition has not matched the actual scale of their impact. She takes us through how monuments,...