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...

Many readers may feel uncertain about the future but lack the tools to move forward. Suneet Bhatt shines a light on the path in Making Sense of Purpose: How to Gain Clarity, Build Momentum, and Find Your Kiran (a ray of light). Readers will be...

As the archivist with the Foundling Historical Society and Museum, Wrenn Grayson is employed to restore the mansion to its 19th-century original state as much as possible. The original owner of the mansion – a millionaire industrialist – prohibited the destruction of any family history...

Queen of Magic: The Wondrous, Unstoppable Adelaide Herrmann by Margaret B. Steele is a compelling hybrid of biography and rediscovered memoir that finally gives one of magic's forgotten superstars her due. The book centers on Adelaide Herrmann's own 1932 manuscript, "Sixty-Five Years of Magic," written...

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...

It has been more than a decade since the war began on Solara, a world of sprawling lands and isles. It was sparked after the Nightshade Empire, the government that rules most of Solara, launched a persecution campaign against Arcanists, people who can draw on...

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...

Realm Travellers: A Queen’s Cradle by M.J. Raco marks the final chapter for a group of companions thrust into a dangerous parallel dimension. The story begins on Maxine’s seventeenth birthday, driven by her consuming desire to use a magical portal to bring back her deceased...

“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...

Nehal Gandhi’s The Nonprofit Paradox takes a close look at how charitable giving changes once money passes through institutions that decide how it may be used. Drawing on over twenty years in the social sector across India and the United States, Gandhi says that the...

The Tenacious Leader: Your Map to Overcome Change Fatigue by Michelle Smeby is a business guide for executives and managers stuck trying to drive transformation through teams exhausted by too much of it. The book opens with a personal moment on a hiking trail in...