Kids, parents, and teachers seeking a fresh source of children’s literature would do well to add Bubbles in Summer to their reading list. This book is the second in a four-season series by Wanda Carter Roush and is illustrated by Andrew and Alicia Pezzente. A...

Finish Your Book by Lorraine Haataia, Ph.D., is a guide for anyone who has started a manuscript and stalled somewhere in the middle. The book opens by rejecting the usual advice about waking up early or hitting a daily word count, and instead builds its...

Wiggle, Snooze & Snuggle is a delightful rhythmic picture book that gently guides toddlers through the winding-down magic of a bedtime routine. As the sun dips and the sky goes dark, the world around a child begins to snooze too—the trees drooping in the park,...

Some kids see problems. Others see possibilities. In Amanda Aizu’s Mika Makes It Work!, readers meet a young girl named Mika, who handles every dilemma with a little creativity, confidence, and by saying: “I’ll make it work!” She’s full of ideas, and she isn't afraid...

Contentment: How to Attain Lifelong Peace and Well-being by an anonymous author is a candid, personal account of a childhood and young adulthood of great unhappiness, which continued across several generations of the author's family. From there, the book widens into something closer to a...

Alec Litowitz’s The Adaptability Quotient: Rewiring Your Mind for Success in the Next Human Era looks at a world where the rules people rely on are changing faster than the instructions meant to explain them. Artificial intelligence accelerates that shift, making adaptability important whenever familiar...

The Magical Tram by Hayley Frazer follows Clem, a conductor with many jobs who brings the reader along as a newcomer while he and his old friend, a dog, ride a tram that can wander through his memories. The tram takes them to different moments...

Jesse Kuhn offers a remarkable and useful tool when experiencing the death of any loved one, but especially a spouse. As I read Always Here: Death of a Spouse, I took away six key points to apply to the grief process. While many people might...

In Leave the Kid Alone: A Fractured Remembrance, author Steve Zettler welcomes readers into the chaotic childhood of young Stevie during an unforgettable year in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Growing up right above a family-owned saloon and country inn ensures that Stevie’s daily life looks nothing...

In her memoir, Unbecoming Behavior: A Southern Memoir of Adventurous Choices, Akasha Halsey describes growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, where her mother treats girlhood as something to be managed in public. A childhood train ride arranged by her father gives Akasha her first sense that...

In Shah S. Sahota’s Yaari: The First Blade, Yaari Lethira is the daughter of a fallen forge dynasty in Soletheum, a city ruled by twelve noble Houses beneath the protective Ember Veil. After General Dharnek Lethira dies, his House loses its forges as laws leave...

Always Here: Widowed With Young Children by Jesse Kuhn is a grief companion written specifically for parents raising kids alone after losing a spouse, a narrow, deeply specific audience that most grief books overlook entirely. The book unfolds across four parts, from understanding grief in...

Jack R. Bialik’s Lost in Time examines a recurring pattern in human history, where knowledge can disappear for centuries before surviving evidence brings it back into view. The book begins by questioning familiar assumptions about when ideas first appeared, using early cataract surgery to show...

Martha Conway’s novel, We Meet Apart, is a deeply haunting historical novel interwoven with intriguing speculative fiction and supernatural elements. The story, set in 1940 during WWII, has two concurrent timelines. In one timeline, Ireland is a free, neutral country. In a second timeline, the...

The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor by Michael Mizov is a riveting blend of Gothic horror and mystery. The story takes us back to post-World War 1 England. Summoned by her father, Lottie Bradbury, daughter of Lord Thomas Bradbury, returns home after twelve years of...

Richard M. Anderson’s Outbound: Meta Mars follows Dr. Virgil Greenly, an environmental scientist who arrives on Mars in 2260 to help transform Valles Marineris into a vast enclosed habitat for permanent settlement. Project director Timothy Storm has crews building a roof across the immense rift,...

Tawni Alexander, a teacher and aspiring singer in Cleveland, is surprised to learn from her friends that her lover, Dante, recently proposed to someone. She knew their relationship was dying, but she is disappointed that Dante never mentioned his engagement to her. She ends things...

John F. Kennedy: Light the World – A Ceremonial Play with Songs and Photos by Charles D Jewell is one of those special projects that light up the world. The author has created a wonderful play that celebrates not just the life and times of...

Gerald Kumpf's The Letters She Burned follows James "Jimmy" Wiseman after he inherits a box hidden in his late mother Rosalie's cedar chest. The chest is filled with old love letters, a wartime journal, and a photo of her with a young Marine none of...

Johan Ottosen’s Angels of the Apocalypse follows journalist Kurt Østergaard as clues left by his late stepfather, Professor Bjarne Arnesen, pull him further into Mirrin Bank, a secret intelligence agency hiding him from the people hunting him. Bjarne’s mysterious list is headed Angels of the...