Full Circles by Kenneth D. Thompson Sr. tells a deeply moving story that starts in a tiny, struggling home on East 13th Street. This memoir walks us through the author’s childhood, where he dealt with forced school busing to Burnet Junior High and the hurt...

How does a loving home shape a young girl’s outlook in a world divided by race? Can Anything Good Come Out of Jim Crow? is Jacqueline Smith’s memoir about growing up during the era of racial segregation. She grew up in Texas during the 1950s...

Held in the Vanishing by Ti Mougne is a memoir about a dutiful daughter who becomes her parents' caregiver. In this book, Mougne talks about the wonderful, unpleasant, draining, and heart-wrenching moments she, her husband, and her son experienced while living with her parents. Mougne...

History has a way of surprising us, but not quite like this. Chronically Out of Time by Julie Hodgson follows Carol Cole, a library worker whose narcolepsy is tied to something completely unexpected. When she falls asleep, she’s transported to another place or time in...

Greenhorn: Episodes in an Immigrant’s Life by Alex Krieger is a timely reminder of what it costs and how traumatic it can be to leave everything and everyone that you know and love to move across the sea to a new land where you don’t...

A journalist is someone who seeks the truth and shares it with the world. They ask questions that no one else dares to ask. That’s why it’s such an admirable profession. Now children can learn everything they need to know about it in So You...

Bud Megargee’s SOUL Octopus Analogy introduces a New Age model of the soul as an octopus whose head holds a central spiritual consciousness while each arm carries a separate incarnation. Those lives may exist across different eras at once, gathering experience for the same larger...

N. Joseph Glass’s Harbinger of Darkness follows Arenna Estanova, a former Earth military commander who now leads an asteroid survey crew aboard The Outlier. Six years after the war between Earth and Mars, Arenna wants the rules and routine of civilian work until her team...

Every family has a story of courage somewhere in its past. For the Swarts, theirs begins in 1912 in the Netherlands. Inspired by the experiences of the author's own ancestors, eight-year-old Helena Swart is at the center of it all in Penny S. Ledbetter's De...

In Andrew C Merrick’s Between Fleets, Luke MacLaughlin is a young Casarian naval officer serving aboard the destroyer HMS Snug Varanid of Endicott when he is asked to help locate Raekhuna, the lost homeworld of the Kherrian Peregrine Fleet. Shaera is a Kherrian engineer beginning...

Lady Vagabond by Judy DePue is a compelling memoir that chronicles the journey of a graduate student who embarks on a fifteen-month odyssey of discovery before committing to a career as a behavioral psychologist. As she travels from Samoa to Australia, from New Guinea to...

Matthew West-James’s Burning Salt begins with the Jaka, an ancient civilization that has learned to cross between universes through the Nexus after earlier expansion nearly destroyed them. When a rupture starts sending three-dimensional matter into a planar universe, every crossing tears through the two-dimensional environment...

Devil's Name by Lori B. Duff follows small-town Georgia lawyer Jessica Fischer as she takes on the case of Alexander, a transgender teenager fighting to legally change his name and birth certificate before heading off to college. While Jessica navigates a hostile small-town court system...

Mitten Discovers His Shadow by Deborah Carter Martin is a delightful picture book about a little barn kitten growing up and discovering the wonders of the world. When Mitten and his brothers and sisters are old enough, their mother takes them out into the farmyard....

Cheryl Carpinello’s Feathers of the Phoenix follows Rosa and her cousin Jerome after the ancient Atlantean Mneseus arrives with news that the second Phoenix Feather is ready to be found. The five Feathers must one day reunite with the Atlantean Horse so Atlantis can rise,...

So You Want To Be A Psychotherapist by Linda Soules is another excellent addition to the So You Want To Be series. Two chairs in a quiet room; that’s what it takes for lives to start changing. Imagine a job that doesn’t revolve around vehicles,...

Murphy is off to school. He doesn’t understand why, and he wonders if it’s really just about learning new rules. In Becki A. Jacobson’s The Adventures of Murphy and Me: Why Must I Go to School?, Murphy continually questions the importance of going to school....

Nat’s House of Echoes is an engaging fantasy novel that focuses on Rian, a teen boy who can hear strange frequencies inside the mechanical structures of his world. After spending his childhood working with fishing nets in a waterlogged community, he travels up to a...

Do you ever wonder why people think what they think? Why do they do things that often make no sense at all? In Linda Soules’ So You Want To Be A Psychologist, you will discover a lot of interesting facts about people who study the...

Lacy and Ivy Find New Wonders by Brenda Strand and Colleen M Bratley introduces young readers to two hardworking winter fairies who make the season magical by sculpting unique icicles and creating beautiful snowflakes. While Lacy and Ivy get a huge kick out of watching...