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,...

In Marc Arrowe’s Bright Wind, Arielle is a white-haired teenager from the impoverished Cluster who attends elite Diamond Crest Academy through a benefactor she has never met. Her home city is ruled by the Magistrate, a leader whose government teaches that he saved the nation...

Bingo & Dingo! A Fun Fun Trip On A Pirate Ship by Michael J. Armstrong, Jr. is a children’s book that takes young readers on an imaginative adventure with Bingo and his loyal dog, Dingo. The story begins as Bingo goes to bed. With Dingo...

Augmented Reality by A.R. Milton describes a dystopian world of BioCyber warfare. Headed by twin brothers, an organization had taken over society by means of an AI-driven web, becoming The Eternal Intelligence Entity (E.I.E). Designed to rule the world, it played on human desires, persuading...

In Ephraim Clark’s The Paris Protocol, Brad James is an American singer in 1976 Paris who is also an undercover CIA agent. When his handler sends him to the Spanish resort town of Salou to watch Barry Breene, a rogue FBI agent accused of domestic...

Joy Michelle Austin’s Half Agony, Half Hope follows Rick Wentworth after his engagement to Anne Elliot ends and a message apparently from Anne draws him back to the Elliot estate. The woman waiting is Louisa, Anne’s identical twin, who drugs Rick before imprisoning him in...

In Painting Over Cracks by Lee Bukowski, Beth and Danny were in an accident. They were hit on Danny’s side of the car; he was thrown out and died at the scene. Beth survived with a few injuries but now faces life without Danny. To...

Mark Seader’s Proof of Theory follows Dr. Quinten Trent, a physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, after a one-fifth-second anomaly suggests an object has lost twenty percent of its weight. Quinten believes the reading may point to a way of interrupting gravity itself, so he...

In Larry Good and Meredith Good’s The Tree of Ticket Leaves, Meri misses a voyage to England when sudden illness keeps her behind in Virginia. The next morning, she sees a battered tackling dummy stand up and walk away from the football field where he...

In Razing Craze by Meredith Good, Allie Trask is having the worst week of her life: she loses her job at the bank and is about to start from zero, her good-on-paper boyfriend dumps her, and she is having panic attacks. She impulsively decides to...

Annie Dike crafts a story about what remains when the ground gives way in this big-hearted saga of trauma and grit. Clovis tells the story of Calliope “Callie” Potts, which begins with a prologue in which her brother Jude’s little sandcastle washes away in the...

Julie Cruse’s The Burn List tells the story of abuse and a life shaped through enduring violence and survival, from a childhood characterized by domestic poverty and abuse to a distressing journey through higher education that replicates the very harm she sought to escape. College...

Sinner’s Prayer by Dwain Lee is the second book in the Dan Randolph/Greg Zhu mysteries. Plumbers discover a skeleton in a concrete trench beneath the youth room floor of the Parkvale Presbyterian Church in Louisville. It is the remains of a former youth leader and...