Robbie Shell’s Bees on the Roof, as the title and beautifully designed cover suggests, is a children’s book about a colony of bees being cultivated by children on the roof of a building. The venue is the Meadow Hotel, where Nick the Head Pastry Chef...

Tenebroso is the Midnight Rider, a fearsome supernatural being with a thirst for justice. In this new collaboration between C.S. Kading and Tony Fuentes, Alguacila Rosa Delgado is an officer of the law who tracks the monster to avenge his killing of her partner. Also...

Radical Ray: No Greater Love by Bobbi Chegwyn is about a young boy whose ordinary childhood is suddenly upended by family tragedy. The story opens with warmth and humor as Ray spends time with his mother, Shirl, and his grandmother, Leila, in their lively Sydney...

In John Wesley Wilson’s Straight to Hell: Memoir of an Ex-Evangelical Pastor, Wilson grows up in rural Alabama inside a world shaped by Pentecostal religion, family violence, poverty, and fear of divine punishment. After becoming a pastor, husband, and father, he spends years trying to...

In the 1830s, settler-colonists passed laws to enforce the mass removal of Native Americans from their land. The Chickasaw tribe in West Tennessee was among the many tribes displaced, but before leaving, they cursed their ancestral land. In 1940, a wealthy land developer purchased land...

When Althea “Thea” Woodruff, a hotshot attorney at Hartford Pharmaceuticals in Philadelphia, quits her job after secretly driving the whistleblowing on the company’s illegal activities, she moves back to Patton Springs, her hometown in Woodruff Mountain. However, her colleagues are left curious about the way...

M. E. Lange’s Pause... and Effect follows Lyndsey Barnes, a fifty-two-year-old Oregon engineer who no longer recognizes what her body is doing to her. A sudden office outburst ends her thirty-year tech career. When she finally tells her husband Connor, the conversation exposes how far...

So You Want To Be A Professional Athlete by Linda Soules is a well-written book that will inspire children aspiring to be athletes with the necessary information about what the profession entails. Linda begins by describing who a professional athlete is and what they do...

So You Want to Be an Explorer by Linda Soules continues the So You Want to Be series. The world we live in is amazing, but so much of it has never been seen. If you’ve ever dreamed of being the next big explorer, this...

In Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches by David L. Wadley, after fleeing Los Angeles under federal pursuit, former USCIS officer Nubia arrives in Atlanta and discovers that her identity has been used to authorize deportations, child removals, and surveillance operations targeting immigrant families across the...

Edouard Prisse’s Sleeping With the Enemy is a political and economic commentary that examines China’s rise as a global power and argues that Western trade policies helped create the current imbalance between democratic nations and the Chinese government. The book centers on the belief that...

“After all, I won’t say I’m completely innocent, but I’m not exactly… not guilty.” It's difficult to separate the guilty from the innocent in Blood Echoes, the latest novel from prolific author Aaron Ryan. It is also challenging to understand where the source of true...

There is beauty all around us, and it’s soothing. Imagine the stars in the night sky and the gentle sound of the waves. It’s all very calming. In Clare Hollywood’s The Stars and Sea Are in Me, one can feel the simple power of the...

At forty-eight, Melissa McNulty Fairmont lives paycheck to paycheck, working a day job in Los Angeles. As a fine artist, she also sells commissioned paintings on the side and dreams of becoming a full-time artist. Her mother and two sisters, with whom she has had...

Linda Soules’s So You Want To Be A Deep Sea Diver introduces young readers to the demanding and fascinating world beneath the ocean’s surface. The book explains what it means to work in deep water, where every movement depends on training, patience, and specialized equipment....

So You Want to Be a Vaccine Developer (Immunologist) by Linda Soules introduces young readers to immunology and vaccine science, explaining how scientists teach the immune system to recognize and fight diseases. The book explains how vaccines work by helping the body create memory cells...

So You Want to Be a Treasure Hunter (Archaeologist) by Linda Soules introduces young readers to archaeology through storytelling, science, and real-world exploration. The book explains how archaeologists carefully discover the stories of ordinary people through pottery, tools, bones, walls, and forgotten objects buried beneath...

The DREAMER Path: A Journey to Rest, Renewal, and Your Authentic Self by Susan Bruck is a deeply personal and warmly written guide for anyone who has spent their life caring for others at the expense of themselves. Bruck, a former Waldorf teacher, lawyer turned...

Dolly Parton said, “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” That message is sprinkled throughout The Little Girl with Big Dreams by Sissel Waage. This picture book follows a young girl as she imagines herself all grown up with endless possibilities. As...

No Climb Too High by Angela Haas starts with a woman running out of second chances. Roxanne Denning was struck by lightning in the Colorado mountains two years ago. It left her physically intact with some scars as a souvenir, but emotionally fractured. The accident...