Kyoto Souvenir by Arturo Elias is a travel memoir about a favorite destination gradually turning into a second home. After years of returning to Japan with his wife Karen, Elias buys a centuries-old machiya in Kyoto’s Higashiyama district, beginning a restoration that reshapes every visit...

Klarson Slade, Roweena, Delavon Tormé, and Seera belong to different worlds but are somehow united by a bond and connected by an ethereal realm that links different realities, even ones separated by time and space. A dragon rider seeking the truth, a princess without an...

Fearless Growth Mindset: Short Stories for Girls is a collection of eight motivational short stories by Toby Sparrow. At the rock-climbing camp, Sahana learns the value of perseverance and practice after she saves her bully's life. Skye is a phenomenal dancer who shies away from...

Chad K. Smith’s Resilient Mental Health for Teens is a practical self-help guide designed to help teenagers navigate social media spaces and master emotional control. The book explains the "white bear effect" to show why suppressing negative emotions backfires. It also uses an Emotion Wheel...

The Music Room by Margaret Farrell Kirby centers on Cath, a fifty-two-year-old nurse who starts to feel like something in her life just isn’t working anymore. After losing her mother at a young age, she pushed aside her dream of becoming a writer, and now...

Teri Davis shares her own detailed journey in Caught in the (Balancing) Act, offering a close look at what it’s like to navigate the unpredictable realities of an autoimmune illness and permanent nerve damage. The author walks us through her transition from being completely self-sufficient...

In Dragonfly Down by Annette Masters, we meet Laurel, a teen who has spent her life hiding behind strict security and rigid routines after a childhood tragedy. Her world shatters a second time when an explosion levels a youth healing center on her family's private...

Jonathan Sears’s Legend of the Last Star Knight begins in Winnipeg with Alex, a shy high school senior who simply wants to slide under the radar and maybe talk to his crush, Ally. Instead, an ancient artifact and a bizarre cosmic storm rip him away...

Tressa Litton, a senior at Wyval University, accepts an invitation to the Summit Society, the Northeastern chapter of a secret society rumored to guarantee valuable connections for post-graduation paths and beyond to the chosen few. Although not really interested in becoming a member, Tressa feels...

In C.C.S. Jones’s Magic Rift, Lusa is believed to be the last mage in Aetherealm after the Mage Order has been destroyed. Izier has begun rebuilding, but strange weather starts spreading across the realm as crops fail beyond the capital. The imperial council sends Lusa...

Amoura Ascending by Meg Kramer is the second book in The Veiled Flame Series, which continues the story of Amoura Renly. Amoura returns to Elderwood Academy determined to lie low and hide her identity as a Spirit Witch. But hiding her true nature, even disguised...

In Honeycomb by R.A. Van Vleet, thirty-two-year-old realtor and part-time actress Sam Williams is in danger long before she realizes how precarious her life has become. Unbeknownst to her, two men are surveilling her on the orders of her jealous and manipulative agent, Ray Calderon....

Can love overcome past hurts? That’s the question Tanya A. Taibl answers in The Words She Left Behind. Before we can get to Taibl’s caregiving journey, we need to understand the family dynamics that preceded it. The author had been estranged from her aunt for...

The Secret of Tu'ku's Peak: A Tortoise Odyssey by Randy Stollar follows a curious tortoise on his quest to discover a nearly forgotten treasure. Tyler is old enough to want more from life. He doesn't like the ancient rules that all tortoises live by or...

J. Andrew Shelley's Estate: Golden Rules tackles a topic most of us put off until it's the last minute or too late. Shelley opens with the real cost of a bad goodbye, from the billions spent on funerals each year to the months or years...

There’s a difference between tattling and telling. Do you know what this difference is? In Stacy Byous’s Tattle Tails, siblings Skylar and Brodie are constantly tattling on each other. When they take their tattling to school and start tattling on their classmates, the tattling really...

Fearless Fred and the Last Dragons is a children's fantasy adventure by Aurelia Szeto. The kingdom of Velum used to be known for lavish parties, especially the dragon-spotting ones. But after Lady Dragozanah wormed her way into the court to become King DJ Terrance's personal...

In Craig Rostron’s Dogleg, Cole travels to Kauai to scatter his father’s ashes from the seventeenth hole of the golf course his father loved, inviting his old college friend Hayes along under the guise of a golfing reunion. What begins as a private mission expands...

The Moonlit Rose of Isfahan by Jamila Mikhail is a love story that shows the enduring power of love and rehabilitation rising from the horrors of war. Set in Isfahan, Iran, both during and after the Iraq/Iranian War of 1980, the story focuses on two...

The Birthday Triplets and the Pony Race Adventure, written by Kelly Tooman, is a whimsical and adventurous picture book for young children. The triplets are heading to Granny Rosie’s factory, where only the best fun can be had. They go inside, and their eyes widen...