Ready For Takeoff: For Children Seeking Courage and Confidence While Flying by Joy Marie Berg is a must-have children's picture book. It is Margaret's and Michael's first time flying without their parents. Margaret, at 18, is used to flying and isn't afraid, but Michael is only...

The Art of Losing to a Y-14 by Andrew Radu is a fascinating memoir that unmasks the psychological vulnerabilities of people who identify as high achievers. Drawing from his years as an elite Ivy League fencer and his current work as a psychiatrist, Radu explores...

Keith Thorn’s The Life I Still Want for You is a memoir of love written for the person who may one day have to keep living after his absence. Thorn begins with Melody, the woman whose presence taught him that love is happiness joined to...

Relationships can be complicated. Couples in the modern era are prone to all sorts of relationship problems. According to veteran couple therapist Jake Thiessen, working on "Tiny Shifts" can go a long way in ensuring healthy, long-lasting relationships between couples. Alongside illustrations by Robinson Smith,...

F.A. Calder's Tidestep: The Water Anchor opens the Saga of Arthios with the eighteen-year-old blacksmith’s apprentice, Zaphiel, aching for adventure beyond the sleepy village of Farin. He gets his wish when his master sends him to deliver a sealed scroll to the Water Master in...

Murder (and Other Unpleasantries) by Julie Titterington is a fabulous cozy murder mystery. The story transports us to the whimsical village of Port Morvoren in Cornwall, England. A cobblestone pathway connects the village to the tidal island of St. Peter the Rock. Tamsin Castle, the...

Andrew Finlayson’s Mindset Towards Mastery delivers a practical guide for leaders and ambitious professionals and anyone who wants to lead, not just others but themselves. The book is designed to help leaders build conscious leadership. The author discusses what it takes to awaken personal potential...

Not every castle is what it seems. Fiona’s trip takes an unexpected turn in Secrets of Castle Negru by K. Lyn Smith. A violent storm leaves her and her traveling companion stranded deep in the Carpathian Mountains. They reach a castle that has been converted...

The Odyssey Decoded: Cracking the Code of Homer's Epic by Adrian Solas offers a fresh entry point into one of the oldest stories in Western literature. Rather than simply retelling Homer's epic, Solas walks readers through each episode of Odysseus's journey, then pauses to unpack...

In Nola Z's Divide by Shunya, after senior product manager Maya is fired from a Seattle technology company, every digital record of her employment disappears. She soon learns that Project Kala, the mental wellness platform she helped build, has been transformed into a system that...

The people you spend the most time with may be influencing you more than you realize. This idea is explored in The Principle of The Five Chairs by Phil Graffoe. Using the concept of individuals sitting in metaphorical chairs, the guide helps readers understand the...

Tricia Conyers’s Confidence Is Action is a practical self-help book for women who have been taught to treat confidence as a feeling, title, or public performance instead of a daily practice. Conyers uses a wedding conversation after leaving a twenty-year corporate career, when one cutting...

Kohōpeh’s The Kabuki Book takes place in Japan after the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, as Tokugawa power begins settling over Kyō. Okuni no Izumo is an exiled shrine maiden traveling to the capital after brigands steal her ox cart. When a servant abandons her on...

All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a compelling, heart-rending, and deeply emotional portrayal of love, betrayal, family dynamics, and secrets left untold. Katrina Johnson, at seventy years old, is at a crossroads. Her beloved husband Sam has just died of cancer. She...

Logan Hollister is a cop who doesn’t play by the rules. Backed by his own personal fortune, he catches criminals because he loves the hunt. It makes him the perfect adversary for The Confessor, who believes himself to be a righteous vigilante. People are dying...

Craig Brown’s Dignity follows an unnamed boy in Petone, New Zealand, who first approaches Malcolm Beaumont, the council binman everyone calls Bogie, after classmates dare him to steal the man’s Coke. What begins as a childish test turns into an unlikely attachment, formed on a...

If you have a sense of wanting more from life, The Power of Authenticity by Michelle Chappel will open new doors of awakening. For readers trapped in a groove, this book will come as a breath of fresh air. It provides guidelines on finding your...

In The Buried Bloom: A Larkspur Hollow Garden Club Mystery by Jody Chaffin, word search meets cozy mystery. In it, the puzzle player/reader is asked to solve the murder of Cora Whitaker, who went missing thirty years ago in a Vermont town named Larkspur Hollow....

With Bailey & Daisy’s Great Treasure Hunt, Shawn Allen Stewart pulls young readers right into the lively world of two real-life rescue dogs. Instead of relying on the usual cookie-cutter backyard tropes, this book focuses on something much sweeter: genuine curiosity, teamwork, and the bond...

Beyond Sudden Death by Peter Pappas follows a young college student named Ella Braid who survives a sudden cardiac arrest. Her brief experience of flatlining leaves her traumatized by the terrifying visions she received. Now fitted with an internal defibrillator, she is forced to confront...