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...

When Mimi Nichter boarded a Trans World Airlines flight on September 6th, 1970, she was focused on resuming her studies at George Washington University after a productive trip to Israel. She never in her wildest dreams expected that this flight would put her in a...

“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...

A Fine Madness: A Novella in Stories and Other Mad Stories by Jeffrey Feingold is a collection of thought-provoking tales that explore human fragility, masculinity, loss, and identity. You meet characters like B, a bald Jewish guy trying to make sense of life and loneliness...

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...

The Wishkeeper’s Daughter by Michele Ashman Bell starts with a loss. Twelve-year-old Pippa Rowe loses her mother and finds herself alone in the world. It is then that the mirror in her bedroom begins to glow and speak her name, pulling her into Wishmoor Academy,...

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...

David Boito’s Fatal Castle opens with the Kohinoor’s arrival at Queen Victoria’s palace in 1850 before moving to the Tower of London in 2023, where the diamond’s colonial history lingers in the Crown Jewels. Ashley Bellamy, a UCLA history student and lifelong diamond obsessive, has...

Double by Gerry Burke introduces a wild ride where international spy games collide head-on with American underworld politics. The story sets off in the quiet English countryside village of Omelette, where a local murder case blows open a major standoff between MI5 and a hidden...

Jeff Beamish’s Sneaker Wave centers on Brady Joseph, a Deception Pass teenager whose life has been affected by his father’s death from the bridge above the strait. At seventeen, Brady is drawn into Sarah Roberts’s wealthy circle, even as his closest friends, Sam Sullivan and...

Digger: Dig or Die! by Deborah Cholette is a page-turning dystopian middle-grade novel. On an average sunny day, Nick and his younger sister Lily learn that a catastrophe is unfolding. There's a large crack in Earth's magnetosphere that causes its atmosphere to leak out into space....

The little girl starring in Maggie Keefe’s picture book, 5 Different Boo-Boos, has a rough week. On Monday, she scratches her knee while tree climbing. On Tuesday, she falls off her scooter. For five days, it’s one minor injury after another. But the child in...

The Dangerous Shipment is the first book of The Cogs and Gears of the Cosmos series by Simon Drayton. In the near future, humanity has reached the far trenches of the Nebula. Godwin Dirteon is a seventeen-year-old prodigy among the Gearsmen of the Nebula-Class Ship,...

C.F. Yetmen’s The Pretense of Memory follows Oskar Gruenewald, a law student in 1958 Wiesbaden whose life begins to tilt after Professor Brehmer accuses him of plagiarism. Oskar survived the war as a child and was raised afterward by Anna and Henry Cooper, yet his...