The Moon and Me is a dreamy, magical, read-aloud counting book for young children. The gentle rhythms of the text by Nielle P Marques track nighttime animals in the sky, on trees, on fences, on land, in the woods, and in the creek. Flying herons,...

Rabble Rouser is John L. Skosey's firsthand account of the fight to save the University of Illinois Hospital in 1989, a battle he led as President of the Medical Staff. The trouble begins one week before Christmas 1988, when University President Stanley O. Ikenberry announces...

In David Wraith’s The Last Quest For Water, the year is 1935, with Ethiopia facing invasion by fascist Italy as Emperor Haile Selassie sends palace eunuch Semayawe “Sema” Melaku west across Africa on a secret mission. Sema must use a Ge’ez codex to locate a...

It’s amazing how a four-legged, furry friend (dogs and cats) can help you navigate a path through life's troubles. Countless stories attest to this special bond. In Eleanor Lerman’s King the Wonder Dog and Other Stories, an elderly woman tries to adopt an elderly dog...

In Peter Eliott's Falconbrow, Terza Jaidenson grows up in Lower City, a crumbling slum ruled by a shadowy aristocracy of criminal Underlords, a place that has plummeted so far from its heyday that it is known as “Hell’s Labyrinth.” Her father trained her to fight...

Do you like tales of horror? If so, Alex Grass's Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror, a collection of seventeen terrifying short stories, is the book for you. A man becomes enamored with his latest apparatus because it keeps critters out of his garden quite...

A spy is caught in a dangerous web of secrets in Into the Shadows by R.M. Jerome. The novel is set just before WWII starts, during the rise of Nazi Germany. It begins with Ella Vogel, a young Swiss teacher, being recruited for a mission...

Little Wekiva Memories: Kayaking & Other Adventures by Nichole Delafield-Bromme and Leif Bromme is a unique family memoir that takes you on a vivid journey along a one-mile stretch of the Little Wekiva River in Longwood, Florida. Moving from the northern United States, the family...

In One Chance by James Chamberlain, Charlie Baker is a Chicago gambler running from a loan shark after a fixed fight goes wrong. When a stopped moment opens a doorway, Charlie steps into Wisteria and becomes Chance Arizona, a younger version of himself in a...

Our Hands Are Pale as Milk by Sara Kay Rupnik tells the story of three sisters and their obsession with the poet Percy Shelley. He is cunning and sly, but all the sisters see is charismatic charm. Hiding behind a mask of compassion, the poet’s...

In his memoir Last August, Joe Gulla shares the month he believes will be his mother Mary Ann’s final one at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. Alzheimer’s has brought Mary Ann to the hospice, where ordinary conversation has stopped, yet Joe keeps arriving with the...

Leadership is Tough by Mary Kelly and Peter Stark is a leadership guide about what responsibility asks of people once other people depend on their judgment. Kelly and Stark begin with modern leadership under constant change, where decisions often arrive before every answer does, and...

Bella: Beyond the Bark is part of Lana Stasek's Voices Within series. The audiobook tells the story of Bella, a dog who spent eight years bouncing between crates, streets, and shelters before she finally found a real home. She becomes a bit of a local...

Entangled Frequencies by Long Temple follows Maya, Zaria, Imani, and Nia, four successful Black women whose lives intersect through a close group chat named Frequency. While managing high-powered careers in the city, their controlled lives are upended when they join Sync’d, a behavioral dating app...

In C. L. Schneider’s Rise, Esilda lives in seventeenth-century Encastle, where suspicion of witchcraft turns deadly after her secret relationship with Marion, a woman born with magical power, is exposed. After suffering a terrible loss, Marion devotes her life to regaining what was taken from...

In Without A Compass, Martin Terrell recounts his childhood in Cincinnati’s West End, where poverty and segregation shape the boundaries of life before his mother’s death sends him into foster care. At Walnut Hills High School, Terrell discovers an aptitude for writing and begins to...

In He Restores by Denise C Herndon Harvey, widowed matriarch Myra James invites her long-divided family to a lake house for Thanksgiving weekend. She believes that faith, good food, and honesty can finally heal decades of bitterness, secrets, and unforgiveness. She is joined by her...

Making Global Sense by Judah Freed takes a look at what happens when people stop treating themselves as isolated individuals and begin seeing humanity as an interdependent whole. Drawing on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, Freed argues that freedom depends on people learning to govern themselves...

In Chasing Shadows Back In The Light by Amy L van Rijthoven, we follow Vivian and a young man named Andy as their paths cross. Vivian is consumed by the need to find her missing sister, Rose, who vanished outside a liquor store back in...

Shahin Samadi's memoir, Currents of Being, Volume I, follows the author’s life as he transitions from a privileged childhood in pre-revolutionary Iran to a hardworking reinventor in America. Samadi was born in 1960 to a high-ranking military officer in Tabriz, and spent his youth moving...