In Elaina Kelly Smith’s Choice, the author shares her life journey from being raised in a very restrictive religious home to traveling all seven continents. It’s an honest look at how a person rebuilt self-trust after years of simply doing things for everyone else. Smith...

In Twisted Flip, we meet Katelyn again, the star of the Home Renovator Mystery series by M. E. Bakos. Newly married and somewhat at a loose end in the mansion she now shares with her husband, Don, and Boots the cat, Katelyn decides to buy...

E. Masson and Julie G. Henry’s Selecting My Soulmate centers around Amber, a hard-working mom who is doing everything she can to raise her son, Lucas, after a difficult divorce. Between her long hours and focusing on her household, finding a partner is the last...

DeAnn Spellman’s James & Jolene Visit the Queen tracks two well-dressed kids who head out for a whirlwind vacation across London. The story begins with James and Jolene arriving at Buckingham Palace, where they stop to admire the silent royal guards standing on duty. From...

Arshes Megane has brought her father, Daelen StormTiger, from the past and now faces one more dilemma: she must figure out how to defeat Daelen, who will be the Monster hellbent on annihilating Tempestria in the future. Only one person can help her with this;...

James Houston Turner’s Into the Eye delivers a resonant, fast-paced thriller about human trafficking that will put readers on the edge of their seats. Former KGB colonel Aleksandr Talanov and the covert KTAC team under the command of Bill Wilcox, Talanov’s mentor, are dispatched to...

Life is full of new beginnings. A mother bird tells her young bird it’s time to leave the nest in The Bird Song by Willie Beesley. The news makes him feel very nervous. The world feels so big, but his mom offers some encouraging advice....

Reading can be so much fun, and it helps you learn a lot. In Terrie Sizemore’s Look at Me! I Can Read!, a little girl explores the wonderful possibilities found in books. First, she enjoys pictures that inspire her to learn more. Then she learns...

Daniel Royer’s Aben Almighty follows Aben, an Astroknight returning from the Rift war, as his squad is sent to Planet Taggert to secure an alliance with a people who judge outsiders through ordeal. To pass among them, Aben and his team accept mutations that turn...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter’s memoir Since You Weren’t There & Other Memories charts her personal path through the social landscape of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. She recounts explicit moments such as her teenage uncles shooting rats from a Kenilworth dining-room window, buying Little Golden Books at...

Love Her Blind and Other Poems, an anthology by David Somerfleck, has deep philosophical themes and is rich in symbolism. Several poems see the unattainable fair woman take center stage, ever eluding the author, in which life can often be unforgiving and somber, but for...

What Will I Be Today? This question activates Sailor’s superpower every day. Sailor is a young girl who lives a pretty normal life. She goes to school, watches TV, reads books, picks her nose, and plays with her toys. But when she is in her...

Blood of the Founding by B.A. Chapman is a paranormal romance with a bite to it. Dr. Elena Vance, PhD, works at the Jeffersonian researching obsolete Eastern European cultures, but something strange is happening to her. She thinks she might be turning into a wolf....

Brenda Murphy’s Kindling of a Firebrand is set in Boston, where Fran Sweeney grows from a Charlestown dockworker’s daughter into a Catholic woman drawn toward labor politics during the Depression. After illness damages her heart, her parents send her to Mount St. Joseph Academy, where...

So You Want To Be An Activist by Linda Soules is part of her larger career-exploration series for young readers. This entry tackles a subject most career guides skip entirely: the work of refusing to accept things as they are. The book walks young readers...

The Character Route Tree is a self-help memoir with author Marc R Schneider’s account of growing up in a household shaped by his mother Kiki’s anger, his father’s silence, and the fear rituals Schneider used to feel safe. His memoir traces the effect of that...

God Ain't Done With Me Yet is Min Diamond Golson's memoir about the struggles and mistakes she's made along the way and her search for where she belongs. Having a father who was absent most of her childhood led Golson to seek love and acceptance...

Trouble always seems to find Bethany Jarviss. Though she’s a fairly average woman working for her father in the Jarviss Family Foundation, Bethany somehow has two murder cases under her belt. But now is not the time for work or investigations as she tries to...

Sun Kissed & Salted by Angela Blair follows Alika Jones’s decades-long freefall through acts of self-destruction and survival. In 1988, she had a near-death bike accident in Los Angeles when she experienced an out-of-body episode. She abandons the stability of her life for a volatile...

Mark Binder’s The Worst centers on an ordinary eighth-grader who navigates the awkward world of a small New England middle school along with his tight-knit group of friends. Calling themselves Team Bomb Shelter, these clever middle schoolers use an ironic scale to rank their daily...