The Offline Playbook for Teens by Ariana Smith is a non-fiction guide written for teenagers aged 13 to 16, their parents, and teachers. Rather than lecturing young readers about excessive screen use, Smith explains how digital platforms are designed to capture attention and shape behavior....

D. Michael Hewlett’s And All Because I Couldn’t Sleep One Night follows Carter Jackson, whose restlessness pushes him into the humid night in Williamstown, where he sees a mysterious figure planting For Sale signs on the Bonners’ lawn. That figure turns out to be Lindsey...

The White Light Bends by Tiffany Blaine tells the story of four generations of women and their struggles to manage their relationships with others and accept past mistakes. Ruby, the matriarch, suffers from dementia, and her daughter-in-law, Margaret, tries to maintain a relationship with her...

Ari Schneider’s Stolen Headstones is a compelling memoir where the author reconstructs his grandfather Louis’ actual experiences during the Holocaust by cross-referencing family documents with official international archive data. The book details how Louis fabricated heroic stories about shooting soldiers and eating rodents to mask...

In C.W. Lovatt’s Daniel Stubb:1808-1809, Daniel Stubb, a young British cavalry officer serving in Portugal during the Peninsular War, arrives with the 20th Light Dragoons as Sir Arthur Wellesley begins forcing Napoleon’s army from Iberia. Inexperienced in command, Daniel must carry orders through gunfire and...

In Abigail Moyer's One of My Patients Is a Vampire, Dr. Ian Greyson keeps a psychiatric practice in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where his ordered routines begin breaking after a boy warns him that one of his patients may be a vampire. When a forensic psychiatrist is...

The Queen of Second Chances by Kam Karem is a brilliant blend of supernatural fantasy and crime mystery. The story unfolds in the whimsical Olde Town, Bolder County, Georgia. We meet eighteen-year-old Destiny, the sole employee and proprietor of The Sky’s NOT the Limit, Drone...

In Chuck Morgan’s The Glass Man Protocol, Dr. Claire Rousseau, a former Boston neurosurgeon, now treats ordinary patients in Silver Creek, a mountain town where she hopes her past will stay quiet. When Mayor Halloway collapses at the Winter Festival, Claire recognizes a neurological attack...

Too many Americans see Washington, DC, as simply a political hot mess, yet there is so much more to our nation’s capital. Author Ken Wilcox makes this abundantly clear in Ultimate DC: Travel, Walk, Explore. In it, he shares his love and knowledge of the...

In Jennifer Hardman's What Remains of Grace, Jenna returns home after ten years. Jenna ran away from Tarpon Springs after losing her brother and built a successful company and a new life in Alpharetta. For the next ten years, Grace handled every responsibility alone, keeping...

Maybe You Lied by Jennifer Sadera is a psychological thriller that follows twenty-one-year-old Will Lockhart, who is drowning in grief and guilt after his mother’s death in a car accident. He cannot socialize nor bring himself to move past the paralysis, but when he cannot...

The human brain is truly a wondrous creation. According to Wahid Antoine Baserini, the universe repeated the pattern of its origins when it developed life, and subsequently, our brains, here on Earth. In The Human Brain Has Eclipsed Its Creator, Baserini emphasizes that a failure...

Lauren Martin offers an intimate collection of poems in her book, Forgotten Lands. Through her poetry, Martin recounts her experiences and paints a vivid portrait of her life and the environment in which she grew up. She reveals her disillusionment with society, which continues to...

“Over generations, the original idealism has been perverted and evolved into what we have now.” Idealism and lofty goals often become twisted, and Dystopian Paradise, a novella by Marvin Cook, is a perfect example of utopianism corrupted. The story begins simply enough, with 12-year-old Pilar...

In Moon Weaver’s Autobiography of an Ordinary Polish Man, the author speaks about his childhood spent tending cows with a loving mother who tragically died of cancer when he was just nine. His memoir maps out a lifetime of trying to escape poverty by reading...

Our Guide to Navigating ADHD: How to Embrace Challenges, Develop Grit, and Flourish by Jane Timmons-Mitchell and Stephen Mitchell is a helpful guide for anyone supporting a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. There are both the psychological side and firsthand experience. Jane writes from...

Christmas in July at Harbor's Hope by Angie Tompkins is the perfect story for those who enjoy a second-chance romance with a touch of danger. In the small seaside town of Harbor’s Hope, the Evergreen Tide Resort is getting ready to celebrate Christmas in July....

The Family Speaks by Kirk Ward Robinson is an extensive, multi-generational family saga that focuses on Blaize Speaks, a fiercely stubborn Appalachian matriarch with a terminal illness, and the children she raised in the poor town of Bilbo, Tennessee. The story follows the fractured lives...

As concern over climate change grows, all sections of society must participate in corrective action. Peter Suchmann believes that young people should be involved by understanding the issues and creating awareness in their communities. The "Unstoppable" Student Workbook meets this need admirably. The author suggests...

Pollution and climate change have drastically altered environmental conditions on Earth. Unstoppable by Peter Suchmann is an illuminating guide designed to show students, teachers, administrators, and community members the path to environmental activism in 2026. Suchmann provides references to books and articles, as well as...