The Moose Smooch by Stacy Taylor is a picture book about Moose, a lovable dog whose one favorite thing in the world is a big doggie smooch. From the opening pages, Moose is shown enjoying hugs and scratches, but it is his joyful kisses that...

The Cat Owner's Guide to Health Emergencies by Dr. Gal Chivvis presents feline emergency care as a matter of owners' readiness, recognition, and timely action, explaining that cats often mask an illness until their health is impaired. Chivvis teaches us how a crisis will usually...

In The Second World by Jake Korell, Flip Buchanan grows up inside a Martian colony where power is exercised through ceremony, media displays, and corporate rituals. While adults hold authority in public, Flip builds his real life with his friends Pepper, Rizz, Pockets, and Cheese,...

The Christmas Starfish by J.B. Auchter is a holiday picture book that takes readers beneath the waves for a seasonal adventure in Cape Cod Bay. Framed as a story shared on a winter night, the tale imagines Santa’s sleigh gliding not only through the sky...

The Metamorphosis of Marna Love by Tom McEachin is a coming-of-age story about a sixteen-year-old high school sophomore. Raised by her single mother, Marna Love never quite felt like a typical teenager. She would rather read Kafka than worry about boys. She finds existential writers...

The Diary of a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Alcoholic follows Elli Rose Cikovic as alcohol becomes the fixed driver of her decisions from adolescence into adult life. After starting to drink in her teens, she began experiencing recurring blackouts that reshaped how she moved through school, relationships, and...

The Gospel of Caiaphas by Nicole Diamond Austin is a fictional telling of Joseph ben Caiaphas, who has always been infamously portrayed as presiding over the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus. Austin recreates Caiaphas, from childhood in a priestly household, to his rise as the high...

Adrian Cox's The Fall follows Raymond Cutter, a former Los Angeles police detective in the 1920s. After being pushed out of the force because of his sexuality and buried in debt, his life falls apart. He ends up working as a private investigator, accepting rough...

The Badass Widows by Valerie Saul is an excellent book. The widows are not your typical mature women. One fixes boat engines. Another is a tech guru. The main character, Beth, is a retired FBI agent, which puts her in a formidable league of her...

The Washashore by Christopher Mirabile opens on a storm-lashed morning in Provincetown, where newly appointed police chief Silas Lopez responds to a foundered boat before dawn. The uneasy calm shatters when a body is discovered near Town Hall, brutally injured in what first appears to...

After what Tom Berte went through a few years back, he and his family have settled into life in a small upstate New York skiing town on Castle Ridge. Tom is no longer the Deputy Attorney General; he now has a small legal practice in...

Keith Landry’s The Garden Detectives is set at Riverview condominium, where the annual rush for garden plots coincides with the arrival of Cletus Hughes, whose confident manner quickly secures him a place among the residents. Bridge nights, committee meetings, and seasonal gatherings knit the community...

The Ragman by Don Lehmkuhl introduces Joey Schatz, who became an orphan after witnessing the murders of his parents. He was raised in the same home that gave shelter to his father, Our Lady of Providence Children’s Home. Here, he becomes friends with Tony Rosetti,...

The Shadow of Death: A Tragedy of Yellow Fever by McKenna Rowell is set in 1793 Philadelphia, where Deborah Allard becomes entangled in a dispute that threatens David Byrne’s family after Mr. Foster accuses his father of a ruinous debt. Just when Deborah uncovers a...

The Ups and Downs of Running a Small Business by James Fay Comley is an insightful guide that blends personal anecdotes with practical advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners. Drawing from over 95 years of life experience and decades of running a successful...

The Wisdom I Can't Teach by Paul Coyne is a collection of poems that explore the lessons life offers. Written during the first five years of his son’s life, the book is a heartfelt guide to navigating life’s complexities. Coyne draws on his personal experiences...

The Power of Encouragement: Turning "I Can't" into "I Can" by Ruth Maille is a children's picture book featuring Orbit, a cheerful globe, who arrives via rocket at a kindergarten classroom to teach students about two interconnected superpowers: courage and encouragement. Five classmates, Natalie, Giuliana,...

The impact of symbolic systems on human awareness provides the background to The Cosmological Mind by Anthony L. Canali. He reflects that the role of the media in forming opinions has led to media bias. It has also become a source of entertainment rather than...

The Necessary Goodbye by Peter D. Banko is a well-written book that offers readers essential leadership tools for finding, developing, and nurturing talent; selecting the right people for their team, and firing team members who do not contribute meaningfully to organizational goals and fit the...

The Cheeky Capybara is a children’s picture book written by Kateryna Dronova with illustrations by Dara Karei. It is the story of Tito—a capybara with a big personality and an even bigger ego. He struts around the marshes and green meadows, convinced he’s better than...