Making My Way by Damaris Melo-Gyasi is an inspiring story that follows the journey of a Brazilian girl with a dream of becoming an architect. After seeing an architect discussing a plan for her family’s future home with her parents, Damaris decided she was going...

Gin Crow by Jason Hill follows Willy Knight, a widowed father living with his daughter Christy in 2005 San Antonio. Willy has spent years studying the death of Helen Ruth after recognizing parallels between her disappearance from public memory and his own wife’s death after...

In Joseph Rein’s Youtopia Infinity, FBI investigator Ana Downer returns to Youtopia Towers after a man murders his wife along with their children, Tanner and Lilly, inside Youtopia Infinity, a virtual reality system built to regulate human emotion and prevent violence. Ana soon discovers evidence...

Olga Alexeeva did not move to America when her younger sister left Russia; it was only years later that she took the opportunity to leave the country of her birth. She shares with us the memories of her younger days in the Soviet Union, the...

Things I Saw: A Funny Animal Alphabet Book, written and illustrated by Britt Joanna, is a charming, hilarious book for children that depicts various animals from A to Z performing antics that begin with the first letter of their name. This book is a great...

Embodied Everyday Awakening by Geri Portnoy describes a developmental transition that can arise when familiar ways of organizing one's life stop providing orientation. Portnoy explains how this change often begins in ordinary circumstances, when one's mental control no longer explains experiences, and one's attention starts...

Wingman by Michael S. Vassel is the story of a recently divorced man in search of love. Jay McGraw is no longer married. Seeking to take his mind off his divorce with his now ex-wife Kate, Jay joins his happy-go-lucky friend Shawn, a musician, for...

What if reincarnation were real? What if you could look back from the present to your past lives, but also see forward from the past? What if you could repay the karmic debts you left owing in your past lives? Nine Lives: A Soul’s Journey...

Jane Dougherty did not expect housesitting for her cousin, Elizabeth, to go awry in Two Hours To Bedlam, a Route 66 Mystery by J.G. Macdonald. Yet, she finds herself in a mystery far deeper than expected. When a body is discovered in a sulfur pond,...

“How could I have been so obtuse, so neglectful that my dying son hated me until the end?” For Joe Fredericks, the protagonist of Wayne Feinstein's novel, Turning, it took little effort to be such a sleazeball. Joe is the definition of success in one...

In The Boy with the Butterfly Mind by Lorelei Brush, readers meet Julie, a math teacher juggling her job, marriage, and the nonstop energy of her four-year-old son, Patrick. She feels deeply proud of him, but also worried. His moods range from exuberant curiosity to...

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...

In It Happened at the Palace, Stewart F. Lane invites readers into the storied past of one of Broadway’s most treasured landmarks. Lane traces the Palace Theater from its vaudeville beginnings to its transformation into a Broadway institution that has hosted generations of legendary performers....

Once Known: A History of Slavery in Westford, Massachusetts, is written by Leslie Gwen Howard. The author visited the Westford Museum, Westford Women Doll Collection in 2013, and found one doll dressed in colonial clothing but with a dark fabric for skin, representing Peggy, a...

Sydney Hughes goes to Dickens, New England, to help her Aunt Irma recover from hip surgery. Sydney works as an insurance actuary and lives a very structured life, so she figures the trip to her aunt’s place will be calm and uneventful. However, that plan...

In Heart Jam Journey, Hayley Shines talks about her struggles with people pleasing, self-doubt, and ignoring her own needs. She mixes personal stories with practical steps, creating what she calls the H-E-A-R-T Jam practice. This five-step process guides readers to pay attention to their inner...

Kristina’s Cache by Kristina Ahlnäs is a fun, easy-to-read memoir of a woman seized by the thrill of adventure and the unknown. Growing up in rural Finland in the 1960s was an amazing experience for the author, but she had dreams of becoming an oceanographer,...

Sugar Sand Land by Patricia Leavy is a love story for the ages. Emerson Blue is one of the most famous social media influencers in the world. She appeared to come from nowhere and announced her arrival with the question: “Who is Emerson Blue?” Her...

In The Beast Prince by Alix Nichols, readers are introduced to Elise, a quiet, outdoorsy glassblower in Chambéry, who walks into a dark hotel room with the intention of repaying a family debt, only to discover the person she thought would be there isn’t. Cue...

Telling the truth can be like opening a magical door. Sometimes it can be scary to try, but in the end, it makes you feel happy inside, loved, and trusted by people around you. C.M. Harris shows this attribute aptly in What If We Were...