Dogs are pretty smart. Though most of us dog owners already know that simple fact. In Bruce Miller’s The Science and Secrets of Dogs, dogs will reveal some of their clear-thinking methods, from sensing a chemical change in their owner’s body that might signify a...

In Cynthia L. Clark's Being Laramie Buchanan, after earning her art history degree in Boulder, Laramie Buchanan takes a gallery job while grieving the loss of her mother, Maggie, and the absence of Vick Varela, the man who vanished after asking her to follow him...

Math Is A Blast! by Wendy Chen is a well-written book that teaches maths, numbers, as well as other mathematical operations, in a fun way to children through rhymes and repetition. Wendy starts by presenting the concept of math, which involves positive numbers, negative numbers,...

In Flora Wilder's How to Write a Life, Willow Carter writes historical romance in Haven under the pen name Arabella Wynn, but her newest book stalls when she cannot imagine the man at its center. Her friends push her toward dating-app research, hoping real dates...

Carrie Kabak’s Shibby Magee unfolds in two timelines, following the identical twins Isabelle “Shibby” and Isadorah “Dorah” Magee, who are like chalk and cheese. The story starts in the 1970s when the kids are abandoned by their Traveler mother, Vera Coffey. They are raised by...

Shadows Among the Peaks (The Shephard Chronicles Book 1) by R.D. Smithson is a modern-day story of the fight against institutional corruption and cartels in Mexico. When a well-respected and lauded not-for-profit organization that focuses on uplifting children’s lives in education, welfare, and food security...

As a business matures, the founder can become an unwitting constraint to further success. David Grau Sr. explains how to avoid this in The Founder’s Treadmill. The author is all too aware of how easy it is for an entrepreneur to want to control every...

Jugular Vein by David Lasaine is about the struggles of families during the Great Famine in Ireland. It takes place during the years 1847 – 1848, and concerns the O’Sullivan family, Seamus and Elizabeth, father and mother, and their daughters Bridget, Catherine, and Mary. During...

Lights & Sirens by Elizabeth Raum is a heartwarming tale about Annika “Anni” Sawyer, a quiet sixteen-year-old still dealing with her dad’s death. After seeing a poster in a store window for volunteers, Anni decides to join her town’s ambulance squad. At first, Anni wants...

The Quantum Gate by Bill Combs is the first book in The Ascension Chronicles series. The story is a metaphysical thriller that blends quantum theory with history and the supernatural. Ethan Cross, a disgraced physicist cast out of academia for his "wild" theories of quantum...

In Daniel R. Hersch’s The Laughter from the Dark, when Cain, the first son of the first human family, murders his brother, his bloodline is linked to a cursed laughter that spreads through the city. His descendants, later called the Ones Who Laugh, use forbidden...

Haris Marath offers a rigorous exploration of humanity's biological, social, cultural, and civilizational history and potential future in The Theory of Us. According to Marath, humanity can be viewed through three diagnostic premises, including the selfish gene, the illusion of free will, and the apparent...

It is 1891. Richard Carnby, Terrence Alexander “Axel” Hastings, Percival Wallace, Dr. Stanthorpe Whitehall, Emma Westover, and Jane Halifax each receive a letter offering membership in a clandestine organization. To accept, they must appear at a specific address. As they heed the invitation, they meet...

Lead with Trust by Bart Spence is a well-written book containing principles for building trust and positivity that readers, particularly business leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals, will find effective for cultivating a positive work environment. Spence begins by introducing the 9 principles of trust drawn from...

Few books dare readers to think that most of what they believe about God may be tradition masked as truth. The Way, The Truth, The Life: A Guide for the Road to Life by P. D. Blackwell makes that challenge. The book is divided into...

In Anthony J. Mohr’s memoir, Every Other Weekend, the author tells the story of a childhood suspended between two contrasting worlds. After his parents’ divorce at a time when divorce was rare, young Tony lives between two worlds: his biological father’s world, Gerald Mohr, who...

In her memoir The Great Triumph, Jeanne Estelle Saddler follows the life of her mother, Thelma, from a childhood in a South Carolina sharecropping family to adulthood in Detroit. After the Osborne family joins the Great Migration, Thelma's intelligence brings her into the home of...

In Sleepers, J. B. Velasquez introduces us to Hugo, a single father whose life in Tucson is currently being held together by sheer luck and a dwindling bank account. To save what’s left of his world, he signs on with Lunatech to earn money while...

In Kevlar, Tattoos and Invisible Scars, Matthew West-James gives us a zero-filter look at the mental conflict of coming home from Iraq and feeling like a complete fraud. As an 88M truck driver, he saw combat and earned the medals, yet spent years convincing himself...

In Andie Holman’s first book in The Laughter of the Sun series, The Mermaid's Wrath, a warrior mermaid named Scyphozoa “Jelly” discovers that she is made for greater things when the coveted Vetula Pearl awakens in her. Her rage triggers an explosion and makes her...