In Amira Vasileva’s Chosen by a God, eighteen-year-old Valia lives with her ailing mother in the village of Endra outside Clahmore. Valia takes a job in a small bookstore as a mysterious figure begins appearing whenever she is alone. Her life changes after an envelope...

Holding On by a Thread by Stefonknee Wolscht is the bittersweet story of a transgender woman who decided to shed the oppressive mask and reveal her true self. Walking away from 23 years of marriage wasn’t easy, but when her wife gave her an ultimatum,...

Curiosity can lead us to places we never expected to go. In Constance and the Battle for Wonder by Julie Lavender, twelve-year-old Constance Faultsom has grown up in a colorful, imaginative home where her family embraces creativity and a magical place called Wonder. They're perfectly...

Kent Handy’s The Dark Secrets of Woodruff County is a historical nonfiction account of Kent Lemont Handy’s life in Woodruff County, Arkansas, where his childhood places him inside a Black community living under racial segregation that reaches into everyday life. Handy traces the family from...

Kris Welsh’s Celtic Love Knot Trilogy reimagines Celtic legend through Scáthach, the warrior trainer who speaks from Tír na nÓg, the Otherworld realm of eternal youth, as she remembers Cú Chulainn, the famed Hound of Ulster who trained at her fortress on the Isle of...

On the Ninth Day by Mark Berry is a political thriller that follows Sebastian, an assassin known in elite circles as “the Robin.” He is anonymous to everyone but Durbish McFane and his three respected associates, a hitman bound by a personal oath never to...

With Frances Flamingo Soccer Star, Dottie Lee invites young readers onto the vibrant, high-energy pitch of youth sports. Far from just a story about winning a game, this picture book focuses on the real-world anxiety of stepping into a brand-new experience. We follow Frances and...

What Do You Feed a Flamingo? A Flamingo Friendship Adventure for Kids by Lee Porter is a fun, educational story for kids. Phyllis and Ethel are off on their holidays, and they have planned for everything. Well, everything except the weather. When they get thrown...

Jasmine Kah Yan Loo’s Reigning Fire follows Yan Xun, the sixteen-year-old miracle child and sole heir of the Prince Regent. In her world, nobles bond with animal spirits called Emberkin during their Binding Rites, a ceremony Xun sees less as sacred and more as a...

In G. S. Scott’s Fire and Ruin, the God of Chaos has controlled the world for five hundred years according to the Game of the Gods, which allows one of them to rule for that number of years, after which the other gods are allowed...

The Rojak Pot of Sorts With a Jaffna Tamilian Twist is a collection of 18 short stories by Nirmala Kasinathan. A university student gets a bout of chickenpox, and in her delirious state, she explores the tenets of Hindu philosophy and cosmology. A foreign student...

When Georgia Thayer, a medical social worker in Columbia, South Carolina, urges her sixteen-year-old foster daughter, Tessa, to attend a nighttime party hosted by her classmate, she has no idea how much trouble awaits the kids. Working the night shift, Georgia is shocked when Sara...

Ursula Bloom is the editor of a gutter rag with flagging sales. Desperate to have a win, she decides to print a fake news story about celebrity children’s author Emmie Hobson. The story starts small: a doctored image of an overweight child who died 30...

Being a founder of a startup is not easy. Ksenia Yudina founded the fintech company UNest, which at one point reached a market valuation of $120 million before the Silicon Valley Bank crash led to its downfall. In One Venture, Ten MBAs, Yudina shares her...

Navy SEAL JD Cordell and his K9 partner Ajax storm into Niger to rescue Doctors Without Borders physician Ellen Chang from al Qaeda kidnappers in D.C. Gilbert's Montagnard. JD has dreamed of retiring and spending his life with her, a woman he once met on...

Peanut Butter and Donner: A Curious Chorus by Erin Rosenblum is a unique, rhyming story about two pets who were rescued by their family. Donner is a blue parakeet who was found in an ice cream shop. Peanut Butter is a little brown rabbit who...

Eliyahu and the tooth fairy are two different, invisible visitors whose visits happen to overlap during one faithful Passover night. During this important Jewish holiday, adults leave out wine for Eliyahu, a Jewish prophet, who symbolizes the hope of peace and harmony in this world....

Stolen Dreams: A Manchurian Legacy by Julie Kowalska Sormark is a historical memoir that follows the life of Vladislav Kowalski. It would appeal to a diverse audience of young adults and adults who enjoy learning about history and real-world adventurers. When we hear the word...

Winning with AI Personalization: The Privacy-First Playbook for E-Commerce Growth by Brian V. Anderson examines the evolving digital marketing landscape and offers a practical framework for businesses navigating an increasingly privacy-regulated world with changing consumer expectations. The book challenges long-held assumptions about personalization, arguing that...

Tales from the Texas Timberlands, Volume 2 by J. Andrew Rice features five interconnected stories set in East Texas. It shows ordinary folks whose character, persistence, and everyday values end up shaping the next generation. The first tale, “Sawmill,” follows the dauntless Berry brothers who...