What Nature Teaches Us: A Book About Being the Light is a remarkable book for children by nine-year-old author Clay Vilhauer, co-authored by Amber Vilhauer, and illustrated by Joni-Leigh Doran. This eye-opening book takes us through the objects of nature we have known since early...

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...

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...

Most careers do not stall because of a lack of talent and skills, but because of a lack of access to the unwritten rules. Christine Hunt brilliantly articulates these rules in her book, Secrets to Work Success. She shares decades of experience, transforming it into...

The House That Fire Built by Kirk Glaser is a collection of narrative poems that tells a story about family trauma. It follows a man who inherits his father-in-law’s house and moves in with his wife and daughter. His father died of cancer and left...

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...

When an IT specialist and secret MI6 informant, Arthur Cole, is murdered at Broadmoor Hospital, his workplace, local authorities, and MI6 immediately launch an investigation. Senior MI6 operative Mason Montrose believes the Home Truth party, a far-right political movement he has been closely monitoring, is...

The Everling and the Balefire Monster by J. Christie follows Chezzy Nithercot as he attempts to solve a terrifying kidnapping inside his school. Already isolated by his unique genetic status as the last living everling, Chezzy’s thrown into total turmoil when a classmate is snatched...

Inceptum Incubus by Xen Ovid-Sophron-Naso draws us into an immense galactic conflict set between 28,050 AD and 30,050 AD, an era triggered by corporate greed and ancient grudges. We watch Euro-Galactic Prime Minister Margaretta Du Plessis pull a highly controversial move by replacing millions of...

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...

Rachel Elwiss Joyce’s Lady of the Castle is set in late 12th-century England, where Nicola de la Haye is Lincoln Castle's hereditary constable while raising a household formed through two marriages. When an earthquake destroys part of Lincoln Cathedral and kills her young son Tommy,...

Constellations of Love by Patricia Leavy follows Tess Lee, who has finally found the peace and happiness she spent most of her life searching for. Settled into married life with Jack, she begins looking forward to celebrating Christmas in a way she never could before....

Warwick Gleeson's Torment Becomes Them delivers a spellbinding meld of fantasy and historical fiction. The story opens in the Bukhtarma River Valley as the greatest Kazakh magician, Zolo Bold, watches his democratic revolution crushed by black warlock Arislan Gur’s conjured rain of giants. His struggles...

Jennifer Hodge Fahie's Essence of Life is a collection of beautiful poems about everyday struggles. People have a tendency to lose touch with their core human values in the relentless pursuit of progress. Learn everything you can and make sure you don't go down the...

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....

Love Amongst Realms by Jennifer Box caught my eye because I am immediately drawn to metaphysical, supernatural, and speculative stories, and, in this case, a cast of the most unusual and imaginative characters I've ever encountered. Marie's world, and her love affair with Hector, is...

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...