Easy-Peasy Birthday Cake That Even Little Ones Can Make by Tatiana Bell is a fun children’s picture book. It follows the activities of three kids who decide to make their mom's special day a memorable one. The three kids, without any experience, enter the kitchen...

“Always have papers in your hand, walk fast, and look worried. Fewer people bother you.” Interestingly and funnily enough, I experienced this at a job I once had, though we used a clipboard, not papers. Even funnier is the whimsical nonsense in Average Civil Employee:...

The Geography of Desire: A Memoir of West Africa by Linda Gambill follows a young woman who leaves a complicated life in Tennessee to join the Peace Corps in The Gambia in the late 1970s. Drawn by a need for change and independence, she arrives...

The Graceful Healing Workbook and Journal by Ana Parra Vivas is a twelve-week writing journey that guides readers toward a shift in how they interpret their inner life. The book centers on the idea that beliefs influence emotional state and direction in everyday living. Through...

Bj Sikes delivers a charming sapphic historical romance in Her Runaway Lady. Solange works as the head trimmer in a little millinery shop in Paris. She loves her job and is set on one day taking over the shop from Madame Poulet. Solange has no...

Dragons’ Rebirth is a tale of magic, forbidden alliances, love, and betrayal in a world that is complex in its rules and where powerful forces are at play. The elves shattered the balance of the magical world when they tried to resurrect the last dragon,...

The Dragon of Dread Deep by C.D. McKenna follows Cassian, a boy betrayed by his thieving parents and raised as a cutthroat pirate, always seen as less for not being a "pure" pirate. When he suddenly finds himself in the role of captain, it quickly...

In Damion Hamilton's quasi-autobiographical work of fiction, Weirdo, Damion spends his days inside a book warehouse where the production speed dictates his worth, then goes into the city each night carrying books and notebooks as he tries to pass within spaces that were never built...

Cristiano Ronaldo (Scouted!): A Sports Biography for Young Soccer Fans by Magnus Lundgren is a fast-paced biography of one of the greatest soccer players of all time. The book mainly uses narrative, with added stats and analysis that help explain football (soccer) terminology. It is...

The Human Rubric: A Memoir of Life in a Neurotypical World is a remarkable work in which Dr. James P. Manning reflects on his experience of growing up and living in a neurotypical world full of implicit social norms. The author takes readers on an...

Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning by Megan Margherio is a personal narrative that moves between past and present, exploring memory, trauma, and healing. It unfolds through fragmented vignettes and conversations between “Little Me,” “Teen Me,” and the author, showing how memory resides in the body...

Your Grief Companion: A Friend to Soften the Ache by Dayna Mason is a gentle guide through the many stages of loss, offering brief reflections that mirror the emotional experience of grief as it unfolds. The book is divided into sections that cover shock, longing,...

Little Z and the Blue Storm Secret by Ann Marie Hannon follows a boy named Kaleb as he navigates some typical but stressful childhood worries. With Halloween approaching, Kaleb finds himself at odds with his friends because he doesn't want to follow the crowd and...

Jill Carol’s Is It Someone You Know? starts with a crime that turned Levittown upside down when a young boy was found brutally beaten to death with a blunt object. The body was thrown in a trash bin, and it was the town’s first murder....

Athena Technologies is creating a computer system called God’s Eye, which allows all the alphabet agencies of the US to have equal access to the same information. Some people in the government believe this is too much information to have access to and want the...

When a leader becomes paranoid, followers lose hope. In Assassin's Mace by Ron McManus, Jake Palmer and Alona Green are US JSOC officers, and they have been assigned their most difficult mission yet: to enter Russia undetected and escape with Dmitry Sokolov, a high-value asset....

Rajat Chohda’s The Divine Flow of Satyuga is a philosophy built around the belief that peace is possible when a person stops surrendering emotional stability to outside judgment. Chohda tells us that a lot of forms of suffering begin when people confuse temporary craving with...

The Angel by Ellen Wood is a second-chance love story. The novel opens with an almost cinematic scene. Carlene Jae, a woman admired for her grace and poise, is publicly served divorce papers by her powerful husband, Joshua Sendis, at the Philharmonic in front of...

Everyone looks forward to birthdays because it is a time when you get to make a wish and expect that it will be granted. Children, too, are no exception. My Birthday, My Special Wish by Ciara. L. Hill teaches children how to dream and...

In Education Empowered, Srinivas Jallepalli tells readers that we’ve begun teaching children in a way that doesn’t match how people actually develop. He breaks it down to biology, how the brain works, and how we learn from the world around us. He talks about how...