In D. Werkmeister’s Monstrosity, book three in the VOLK series, after former priest Cigus Varney is murdered inside the Philadelphia home of Alexandra Stepanova, a former Russian test subject, FBI agent Terri Watson discovers the killing is connected to a secret organization devoted to hunting...

Healing often begins with questions we never wanted to ask. The Darkness My Father Brought by Cathy Beck is a memoir about a woman who spends much of her life struggling with feelings and behaviors she can't fully explain. On the outside, Cathy remembers her...

Did you know that your blood works very hard to keep you healthy? It flows through your body, carrying much-needed oxygen and nutrients, as well as disposing of waste that your body doesn’t need. In Fei Zheng-Ward’s Getting Ready for My Blood Test, a young...

Jesse Sloane’s What I Thought Loss Meant is a deeply moving memoir about navigating unexpected endings over her lifetime. Jesse shares how she managed the big shifts in her life, like moving six times as a child, with only a teddy bear named Ted for...

I have just finished reading Imprisoned World by William L Frame. I found this book to be a fascinating piece of science fiction. Imprisoned World introduces us to the basin of Amora, where the people live trapped behind mountains, completely unaware that there is a...

Mark Guillerman pens a sweeping historical novel in A Heart That’s True, set in the aftermath of the 19th-century Indian Wars. The novel follows two Lakota children, twelve-year-old Joseph Cross, named Blue Thunder at birth, and his cousin, White Cloud, as they are ripped away...

On Easter in 1990, Anselm Ezemson's uncle visited him at school and took him back to his village. Anselm found out that his mother had already been buried in her grave three days before. After his mother's passing, Anselm discovered that her pain and suffering...

Indispensable: Your Career Guide for the Age of AI by Anirudh Bajaj delivers a data-driven path for navigating the AI revolution. The author dismantles narratives about the benefits or drawbacks of AI and argues that what matters at this point is not whether AI can...

Full Circles by Kenneth D. Thompson Sr. tells a deeply moving story that starts in a tiny, struggling home on East 13th Street. This memoir walks us through the author’s childhood, where he dealt with forced school busing to Burnet Junior High and the hurt...

Jessica Housand’s Blood Gilt is a crime saga that spans decades, following Alejandro Whitmore, the son of American mercenary Jared Whitmore, and Salvadoran revolutionary Ana Santiago. Alejandro thought he had left the world his father built when he was torn away from his childhood by...

After the global disasters, the Great Flood and the Great Drought, survivors now live in The Colony, a society in what was once Phoenix. Nichola Rodale lost her family, including her father, a brilliant scientist and progressive activist, in the Great Drought. She works for...

The marginalization of Jews who are not of European origin is the subject of Interrogating Ashkenormativity by Sipporah International. For readers not familiar with the term, Ashkenazi Jews are an ethnic group that originated in medieval Germany and France during the 10th century. They spoke...

Robb Erwin’s A Refuge of Last Resort follows twenty-two-year-old Lorelei Rücker, a former wildlife student trapped in debt bondage at Saino-Blatt, a Florida consulting company built around corporate scams. Lorelei has hyperosmia, which lets her detect odors other people miss, but no warning prepares her...

Rozsa Gaston’s Queen of Diamonds, book three of The Anne Boleyn Chronicles, follows young Anne Boleyn in France after she joins Queen Claude’s court in 1515. Anne is no longer the English girl learning manners abroad; she is watching powerful women build authority in rooms...

One year ago, Commander Frank Travers’s wife, Linda, was found murdered. In Lethal Design by S.F. Baumgartner, Frank thinks his wife may have stumbled onto the killer staging her office colleague’s murder as a suicide. Since Frank heads up an elite police task force, he...

How does a loving home shape a young girl’s outlook in a world divided by race? Can Anything Good Come Out of Jim Crow? is Jacqueline Smith’s memoir about growing up during the era of racial segregation. She grew up in Texas during the 1950s...

Held in the Vanishing by Ti Mougne is a memoir about a dutiful daughter who becomes her parents' caregiver. In this book, Mougne talks about the wonderful, unpleasant, draining, and heart-wrenching moments she, her husband, and her son experienced while living with her parents. Mougne...

The Ghost Ring: Lost Souls of Caligo Falls by Tom Hoffman is book 5 in the series. Simon Moody and Clara Barley are ready for a quiet summer in Caligo Falls until attorney Marion Jaggers hands them their first paid job: a derelict Manhattan hotel,...

Can a single letter change everything? That’s the question at the heart of All That Remains by Samantha Grosser. Eva and Ben have been married for decades, but they receive news that forces them to revisit a painful part of his past. The story alternates...

I Am That Cat by Kathleen Welton is a delightful picture book that gently introduces young readers to mindfulness through the everyday adventures of a lively puppy. He is easily distracted by knocks at the door, a passing squirrel, a buzzing fly, or a rolling...