Mīrkhwānd’s The Garden of Purity recounts the life of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) through the traditions preserved in a fifteenth-century Persian chronicle. The history begins with his ancestry among the Quraysh, a powerful Arab tribe based in Makkah, where the Kaʿbah stands as the sacred...

In Norma Washington’s Ashes Don’t Tell Everything: Some Secrets Refuse to Stay Buried, Madison Jackson Winter is nearing the end of three years in prison for the death of a man at a Wisconsin diner. Once married to a bishop, Madison escaped her former life...

As the world has become more connected, local optimization no longer guarantees success for business institutions. Being perfect at the micro level doesn't necessarily mean it will also work out well at the macro level. To solve this mismatch, Joel Vieira dos Reis introduces a...

What would happen if the world suddenly stopped making sense and you had to come up with an explanation? The Wrong Answer Book by J. A. Mallow gives kids 54 unusual situations where the most ridiculous response might be the best one. The book is...

Aged in Secrets by Joana Ventura is set in the Portuguese coastal city of Porto and the vineyards along the Douro River. Catarina Sousa is a forensic accountant sent by her high-flying London firm to audit Valdeira & Filhos, known for their vintage port wines....

My Principal Is a Time Traveler (Probably) by Javier López centers on Ollie Finch, a fifth-grader who loves hard evidence but suddenly finds his logic tested at Vernon Elementary. Everything changes when Ollie spots a bizarre calendar note written two months in advance that correctly...

K.M. Gruchelska’s Seven Point Eight: Virago follows Tahra, a gifted remote viewer working with physicist Paul Eldridge on Project OOBE in 1967. When their experimental machine is disrupted by mysterious beings called the Directors, twelve participants become unresponsive; their consciousnesses apparently scattered across alternate dimensions....

Margaret Graziano’s Align Culture shines a light on the hidden problems that cause people to leave their jobs and check out mentally at work. The book examines real workplace settings where an astonishing 83 percent of employees feel disconnected, costing companies billions of dollars each...

Imagine an exciting winter adventure with your friends over the holidays. In K.M. Selvidge’s Kloe’s New Year, Kloe and her friends are off on a school trip over the holidays. Lots of fun is in store, with skiing, ice skating, and bonding with your friends....

In Som Phin’s The Naga Sisters Chronicles, six Cambodian American sisters travel to Cambodia, their late mother’s homeland. During a sunrise visit to Angkor Wat, eldest sister Chanda Seang remembers the stories their mother told about naga guardians and the princess who helped establish a...

In her memoir Shattered: A Story of Betrayal and Loss, Nora Plesent recounts how her search for affection transformed the life she had built as a New York attorney raising four children. After years in an unhappy marriage, Plesent travels to China to adopt her...

In MT Lynx’s Myths of Endolia: The Ballad of Inyanna Mortseoule, Inyanna is a healer in the Defiance, an army fighting the Empire of Rhyfel. As a member of the Sages Tribe, she channels the Saol, a life-giving energy that enables her to treat wounded...

A Mermaid in the Thames by Sara Louise Kelany centers on Loulou, an absent-minded junior mermaid from the secret world of Atlantishoo who gets sent on a sudden solo mission. She is supposed to defend a Thames seahorse nursery from pieces of broken boat wood,...

The Horizon Problem by Michael Kaufmann is a business novel in the tradition of The Phoenix Project, set in a fictional bank called Beyond Horizon. Consultant Alex Meyer arrives to find a company that has adopted agile theater and DevOps in name only. Its quarterly...