At Feline Fine Retirement Home, a viral recipe can splatter spaghetti across the ceiling, attract a television producer from Los Angeles, and put an entire supernatural sanctuary at risk. Sharon Buchbinder whips up Recipe for Love around that wonderfully unruly premise, blending paranormal romance, culinary comedy, Greek mythology, and talking cats into a story where … Read more
When Scrolling Becomes a Substitute for Living. In Reclaim: How to Stop Scrolling Through Your Life and Start Living It, Heather Henderson looks past screen-time totals and app limits to ask a more revealing question: What are we actually reaching for when we reach for our phones? Henderson understands the familiar cycle of checking one … Read more
Friendship, Rock ’n’ Roll, and One Very Good Dog Madison is the kind of town where a song can start a fight, a rumor can become a weapon, and a misunderstood dog can show people who they are. As the third book in Rebecca Hendricks’ Hound Dogged series, “Doggie B. Goode” returns readers to Madison, … Read more
A Big-Hearted Fantasy Adventure About Power, Loyalty, and Becoming The heart of “PILLYWIGGIN: Awakening” belongs to the young fae no one was supposed to remember. Debbie Bishop’s two-book fae fantasy follows Peter, Chloe, and the Shadow Boys through hidden realms, stolen identities, dangerous magic, and the painful work of becoming visible again. “PILLYWIGGIN: Awakening” brings … Read more
Our Review For readers who have already climbed a few mountains of their own, Mountains to Cross: Finding Life’s Purpose in Service reads less like a memoir and more like a masterclass in how to redirect a successful life toward serious, sustained impact. The question beneath every chapter is simple and pointed: how do you … Read more
A noodle-fueled cosmic jailbreak that’s equal parts ridiculous and brilliant, just the way a children’s book should be. In Snoodles in Space: Escape from Zoodletraz!, author Steven Joseph and illustrator Andy Case return with another outrageously imaginative book in their noodle-verse series, cranking the absurdity up to eleven and never looking back. This third Snoodles … Read more
A tender and poignant portrait of an adventuresome Costa Rican emigrant and her battle with dementia, in which the tales of her life’s daring, love, and family are repeated to her as testament to her enduring matriarchal lionization. In this well-paced, poignant biography, author and retired Emergency Room physician Dr. Carlos Alvarado shares equally the … Read more
Atlanta’s Detective Caleb Austin finds himself the unexpected caretaker of a mythical egg and is thrust into a world of magic, intrigue, and murderous alchemists who will stop at nothing to capture the power of a dragon. In this debut novel, author Damon A. Daffron has crafted a compelling adventure tale of magic realism … Read more
The beast was nearly upon her. And with that rocket-propulsion of an opening, we’re off into Michael Paul Scott’s Stormsend, the first installment in the Saga of the Freewilds, a series that combines the twin inspirations of dark fantasy and detective noir to conjure a tale—and a world—that both beckons with familiars while refreshing the … Read more
Are you looking for a perfect bedtime book to read to your child as they are about to sleep? Worry not; we have the perfect gift just for you. The World Small by Kelly Anne Manuel was born as a poem and remained so. The World Small is the Book 2 of Kelly Anne Manuel’s … Read more