The Filbert Steps by Lila Blake follows Vivian Salvatore, a retired San Francisco teacher living on Telegraph Hill, after developer Bradford Loeb is found dead on the stairway below her home. Police treat his death as an accidental fall, but Vivian notices details at the...

Cut to the Essence by Sneha Villalva is a self-help book that pulls apart the modern lie that doing more equates to being more. Villalva shares her life as a high achiever who looked successful on the outside but felt broken on the inside. She...

A Manor to Rue In by G. H. Glover is a horror novella that fulfills every horror story’s objective of scaring the pants off its readers. When First World War veteran Thomas Harrow was still reeling from ruin in the October 1929 financial crash, he...

Samuel Colabufo’s The Mitigator centers on Joseph "Goody" Goodness, a man who carries a deep psychological scar from his childhood that manifests as an intuitive radar for tracking human rage. When he senses someone about to snap, he moves in to intercept the violence before...

In The Secret Life of Sonia Davey by N.S. Scholl, Michelle Brock is an accountant who has always put her family’s needs before her own and believed that was her role in life. When her husband announces he is leaving and wants a divorce, her...

Bunny and Fawn: The Glowing Feather is the third book in the series by Michael Lingo. When the two animals find a glowing feather in the autumn woods, it’s the beginning of a new adventure. Not far from the feather, they find its owner, Phoenix....

In J.M. Woodward’s The Holding, thirteen-year-old Anna and her nine-year-old brother Simon live between their mother’s crowded family home and their father’s basement apartment in central-southern Ontario. Anna finds relief at the barn with Bravo, the horse she rides, while Simon spends every permitted minute...

The Big Picture by Pat Ferns follows the Canadian television producer from a childhood shaped by his family’s move from Winnipeg to England to his return to Canada in 1968, when a chance CBC appointment brings him into national current affairs broadcasting. Ferns learns television...

Most of us can remember being asked as children, “What would you like to be when you grow up?” Few questions invite more thought than this one. Luckily, there is a 48-book series by Linda Soules that offers assistance to the undecided youngster. Her latest...

Getting Ready for My Allergy Test: A Skin Prick Test Book for Kids – Preparation and Recovery is a must-have for every family with kids. Dr. Fei Zheng-Ward motivates children to stay safe, strong, and healthy by teaching them about the signs of an allergy,...

In The Final Days of Wynter by Carolyne Lark Swayze, readers meet Wynter Lang, a tough, hundred-year-old woman whose comfortable life at a luxury retirement home north of Chicago gets turned upside down after a health scare. After surviving a near-death experience, Wynter decides to...

Have you ever felt like, despite your best efforts, you're not where you wanted to be in your life? An inherent need for control can lead to unpredictable outcomes. According to Jessica Wagstaff, manifestation only works if it's aligned with your true self. In Manifest...

Curiosity begins with one question. For Roman Zillian, it opened the door to something much bigger. In You’ll Be AI Right: Asking AI About Life, Love, and Everything in Between, Zillian shares how trying AI changes the way he approaches everyday life. He asks AI...

The Night of Samhain: A Halloween Fairy Scary Story is part of The Everkind Tales by Gael J. B. Orr. It’s Samhain night, and there’s a full moon. Emlyn the tawny owl sits in the hickory tree. The fairy sisters Willa and Violet are tucked...

Ben Reinking’s How to Relax Without Losing Your Edge is a self-help guide that begins with high-functioning anxiety, the kind of worry that can look like achievement from the outside while keeping a person in overdrive inside. Reinking writes as a physician and as someone...

No Silver on Rat Island by Federico Ramallo opens a window into a harbor community slipping from its prosperous roots into total economic ruin. Sitting on a plaza bench, an elderly Tortoise named Julio watches his society crumble as unbacked paper leaves slowly drive out...

Party Girl’s Guide to Paris by Vicki Lesage is a lively and personal tour of the city, built from eleven years of living there rather than a quick visit. Instead of listing sights by neighborhood, Vicki arranges Paris into moods, from the postcard classics to...

“Everyone knew what they were. Humanoid in shape, monstrous in behavior. Creatures with no soul, no conscience, no desire beyond destruction.” The menace is clear in KOA: Dark Systems by Chris Bankus, a sci-fi tale set in the cold of space sometime in the future....

In Asher Shines Bright: A Journey of Hope and Light by Kristina Gibbons, we are introduced to Asher, a young fox, who feels sad and lonely on the night of Oakmeadow’s Festival of Lights, while everyone around him is happy. Ary, his friend, notices this,...

In Hank Enzor’s Pip Goes Potty!, a little kid goat named Pip shows toddlers just how easy it is to use the potty. Pip is quite ready to say goodbye to the diapers. Every time he feels a wiggle, a tingle, or a rumble from...