If puffins could bake, what would they make? Poppy Puffin’s Pastries by Ruth Amanda is about a pastry shop in Scotland owned by a bird named Poppy Puffin. Through playful rhymes and a bunch of puffin characters, the story introduces a delicious-looking assortment of baked...

John Raleigh Boyd's Standing Naked In The Wind, book two of The Royal Society of Esoterica series, begins in 1901 London, when scientist Maxwell Jaxon investigates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn after Aleister Crowley uses clockwork butterflies to turn concertgoers into unwilling thieves....

Long Since Drowned by Angela Grey is the fourth book in the Dakota Killer Thriller series. A body has been pulled out of Falls Park, but it’s being passed off as just another tragedy. Laci O’Neill is still traumatized by her journey to find her...

Echoes Along the Shore by Angela Grey and Paige Peterson is the third book in the Echoes in the North Country series. Leah, a nurse and writer, goes camping at Lake Superior with her husband and brother in search of peace. What they encounter is...

In Angela Grey’s A Catalog of Small Cruelties, Violet is an architect who wakes up from a coma to find out that her children are gone. Or rather, that they never existed at all. Though her memories of them feel real, the entire world insists...

Growing Up with Brandon by Claire Nance is a collection of three short stories featuring young Brandon through three incidents in which he must choose between doing what is right and being cool. In Brandon’s Promise, Brandon’s friend persuades him to ride to the supermarket...

Spidergate: Worldwide Fiscal Climate Change - Rising Oceans of Debt or Ways to Wealth by Professor Oscar J Realmsworth is a non-fiction book that comfortably wraps up the subjects of ecology, finance, and politics in a single comprehensive guide. It is, in essence, written to...

Have you ever felt excited and nervous at the same time? That’s exactly what Ariel is feeling in Marigold Twinkletooth and the Star-Coin Surprise: A Tooth Fairy Tale by Jamie Kucia. It centers on a young girl, Ariel, who can’t wait for her first loose...

Shaley Howard’s Excuse Me, Sir! Memoir of a Butch is an honest and often darkly funny recounting of growing up queer, navigating identity, and spiraling through addiction before clawing her way back to herself. The book traces her life from childhood, marked by family instability,...

Beach Camper Caper by Katlee Davis starts with 14-year-old Mandy Mardell trying to survive a bummer of a summer at a California campground. She is already brooding over failing cheerleader tryouts when things get worse. Someone sneaks into her tent, steals her grandmother’s precious childhood...

In Saanvi and Prakash Learn Together by Sheena Sharma, the two siblings discover that they do need homework help from their parents, and that working together can be fun. Saanvi and Prakash have opposite attitudes to homework. Saanvi is excited to work on the assigned...

Mich Solo’s novel, Failsafe (The Failsafe Series, Book 1), is a near-future, gripping cyberthriller. Nathan Harris is a sharp data analyst in a U.S. government agency. He is frustrated and extremely puzzled when he encounters an unusual programming problem. He tests a revised code. It...

Have you ever found a lost dog and wondered what to do about it? In Sara Deen Kimball’s Rowen and the Animal Shelter, young Rowen and his dog are out playing when they notice a stray dog hiding in the bushes near their home. Rowen...

I expected to find a compendium of philosophical sayings and thoughts in B. R. Jallipalli's Waves of Thoughts: Thoughts That Changed the World, but discovered something meticulous and thoughtful. It is a book that shows how thought evolved from the time of primitive survival to...

In Lynn Crandall’s Move Me, after Dark Sides, a supernatural criminal faction, loses its hold on Auralia, city manager Cassie Butler tries to leave behind the name Diane and the crimes attached to it. Her new life is interrupted when Peter, a surviving Dark Aspect,...

Canthany Rising by Kenneth Bliss opens right after mankind's fall, shifting the spotlight to the animals of Eden. We follow T’alla, an ordinary cat, who suddenly transforms into a bipedal, talking exile on a bizarre new world. She isn't alone either; six fellow creatures share...

Justine and Becca, mother and daughter, have been close for the past nine years. Becca is the eldest daughter, and her mother expected her to help raise her two younger sisters. However, by her teenage years, Becca began to feel as if her mother was...

The Outside Voice by C. S. Zolondek is a psychological thriller with a twisty plot and a family that implodes with a secret. In spring in Ann Arbor, Michigan, four-year-old hyperlexic Blythe Daye hears voices in her head, and at first, she thinks it is...

In I Love You, Hypothetically by Stacy Goforth, Piper West is a witty writer for a men's health magazine who finds herself under constant pressure from her well-meaning parents to settle down and find the right man. In a moment of panic, she tells...

Life had been going well for young James Fields until his father died in 1984, when James was thirteen. Bills began to pile up, and since his mother’s meager salary could only cover so much, life became a tough struggle. They moved to Oakland in...