Soaring in Silence: One Woman’s Triumph over Fear by Beverly Gandara is the riveting story of one woman’s experience with a dangerous retiree who stalks her. During the summer and after one week of vacation, Kim and Brad return home to their co-op apartment...

Marie Curie's Radiant Quest is the second book in Dr. K's Portal Through Time -- a middle-grade educational adventure book series by Dr. Katherine E.A. Korkidis. After Jennifer learns about the incredible French scientist Marie Curie in class, she has a conversation with her grandpa...

Lily Starling and the Storm Riders by Christian Hurst, book two in the Lily Starling series, sees Lieutenant Lily up against a cult known as Leviathan’s Hand, whose attacks across planets suggest a coordinated plan involving forbidden technology and immortality experiments. After a failed rescue...

Keith Thorn’s No Mud: No Lotus uses the metaphor of mud to describe difficult life experiences such as grief, loss, burnout, and depression, which often precede healing or renewal. He argues that cultural habits encourage avoiding pain, but meaningful change requires fully experiencing discomfort rather...

Children absolutely love surprises, and a certain young pig is no exception. Welcome Baby Wigglet! by A.M. Berkowitz begins with young Gigglet playing in her backyard. Then her parents come outside and tell her that they have a big surprise for her. At first, she...

The Seaside Sleuths and the Bridal Batter Blunder by Joy Michelle Austin follows young Lily, who wants her dad’s engagement cake to turn out right, but a jar of candied orange peel goes missing during a busy week at home and school. To figure out...

Teenage Runaway by Ronald Schulz is the true account of his departure from home at age fifteen in 1967 and his subsequent journey through Illinois and the southern U.S. Schulz details his methods of evasion, travel by bus, and brief encounters with locals while navigating...

Rise: Living Life Over Cancer is an essential memoir in which Betty Jean Aucoin, M.Ed., shares her experiences, lessons she learned along the way, her approach to living with stage IV breast cancer, and changes that helped her to move forward and live an abundant life....

David Thomas Kay’s Christian historical novel, The Sword of Saint Isidores, is a detailed and compelling epic saga set in 10th-century Norway. The story is book 1 in The Circles of Time series. The story was inspired by a beautiful ceremonial sword, studded with precious...

In Thomas and the Magic Violin by Tuula Pere, a young boy is determined to get a difficult composition for his school’s concert just right. While his friends are outside, Thomas is practicing inside with the windows open, worried that his neighbors are tired of...

As Shakespeare once wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” and that’s exactly what the young children in The Leading Role by Tuula Pere are eager to do. It begins one day when a young girl, Emma, discovers...

In A Stargazer by Tuula Pere, Aylin is a young girl who falls ill with a high fever. While resting, she finds comfort and a bit of magic from the starry sky just outside her window. A glowing visitor named Vesper appears, and Aylin’s sure...

The Hermit’s Hut follows Francis, a children’s author who leaves his city apartment after his books lose readers and moves into the mountains near his friend Erasmus, an old, half-deaf shepherd. Francis builds a small cottage and spends his days walking, foraging, and passing long...

The Fox and the Garbage War by Tuula Pere will teach children about critical thinking and the dangers of ambition. In this story, Francis the Fox is disappointed after his campaign to become mayor fails. However, he decides not to give up and creates a...

David L. Wadley’s Kamala 2028 follows Mika Johnson, an organizer raised on the legacy of the Black Panther community activism. She discovers an artificial intelligence system developed by the founder of Halcyon Labs, who intends to use it to ruin the upcoming 2028 election and...

Project H.E.A.L. by E.T. Darkmore is a science fiction tale for children. Maverick and Maddi are spending the summer break at the St. Magnus Memorial Hospital because it is where their parents work. It’s a very strange place. As they explore, they notice weird things....

David L. Wadley's AI Stocks Made Simple teaches novices how to make their investment entrance into the stock market, leaning into how money flows through companies linked to artificial intelligence. Wadley tells us that consistent exposure to real market coverage helps to organically grow our...

Most of us have probably spent zero time wondering who the first unicorn was. But that's exactly the kind of question Kathleen J. Shields decided deserved a whole story, and the result is something genuinely charming. The First Unicorn: Miracle on Wonder Island drops us...

You Can't Change The Past by Keith Thorn is about something we all do, even if we don’t always notice it: thinking again and again about the past. The author explains how we replay moments in our heads of things we said, choices we made,...

Rusty Blackwood’s Before the Grandeur: The Making of a Horsemaster is a gritty historical prequel about Cyril, a young Englishman who refuses to be limited by his meager beginnings. The story starts with his impoverished childhood in 1913 England and carries through the crushing weight...