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So You Want To Be A Police Officer by Linda Soules

Informative and perceptive, with plenty of heart. Soules’s engaging latest presents police work as a profession shaped as much by restraint, observation, and human connection as by authority. Moving beyond arrests and emergencies, the book explores a working day filled…
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So You Want To Be A Chef by Linda Soules

A deliciously engaging guide for kids with big appetites and bigger culinary dreams. Soules delivers another energetic, eye-opening journey into an extraordinary career in her lively book. Aimed at readers ages 10–14, this illustrated career guide moves past cooking-show glamour…
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A Haunting in New Hampshire by Len Handeland

Sinister, suspenseful, and satisfyingly eerie. Handeland ventures into 1970s New England in his latest, weaving family turmoil into a sinister supernatural mystery. Fleeing her abusive, alcoholic husband, Thomas, Margaret Arnold takes her young son, Timmy, to her mother’s home in…
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So You Want To Be A Shark Researcher (So You Want To Be A…) by Linda Soules

A fin-tastic gateway to marine science. Soules takes young readers beneath the surface of shark research in this informative, visually rich career guide. Written for ages 10–14, the book moves beyond sensational images of sharks to examine the methodical scientific…
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The 20th PID Book: A Rare Look at a WWII Photo Intelligence Detachment, edited and annotated by Nancy Finston

Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and quietly moving; a remarkable WWII archive. Finston brings the little-known work of the 20th Photo Intelligence Detachment into sharp focus in this fascinating archival history. She traces the unit’s story with admirable clarity, moving from…
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The Lost Goblin Map by Shari Marshall

Clever, quirky, and packed with supernatural mischief.  Marshall turns one boy’s unwanted move into a wonderfully offbeat adventure in this engaging middle-grade novel. Thirteen-year-old Liam Cyprus expects little from his family’s move to the drearily named town of The Dumps.…
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SwiΨtcH: Or, How Liam Mathers Nearly Lost His Mind by Frederic Martin

A mind-bending page-turner where quantum weirdness meets middle-school mayhem. Martin’s absorbing latest turns one teenager’s inexplicable experiences into a gripping exploration of reality, identity, and connection. Thirteen-year-old Liam Mathers is a soccer-obsessed middle schooler whose ordinary life fractures when he…
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Series Review:  Evanswood (2 books) by Evelyn M. Exley

A thrilling plunge into a world of swords, secrets, and second sight. Exley launches a two-part fantasy adventure that carries a nobleman’s daughter from the sheltered halls of Great Hall into a world of danger and mystery. In Evanswood, Part…
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The Bear & Cat Chronicles by Kris Neely

A charming philosophical gem with plenty of heart. Neely’s delightful collection of brief, interconnected stories explores Zen and Taoist wisdom through the everyday experiences of two unlikely friends. In “The Buried Seed,” Bear’s impatience with a slow-growing seed becomes a…
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Fire’s Ally  D. M. Kannapan

A wonderfully strange, deeply immersive fantasy of discovery and survival…  Kannapan delivers an ambitious, richly imagined YA fantasy where science, survival, and social upheaval collide.. The story follows Eleg, a quiet young Urmettian scientist who has spent years studying the…
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The Berrylove Chronicles by Ryan Langlois

A deliciously offbeat chronicle of misfits, mishaps, and small-town mayhem.  Langlois’s darkly comic collection gathers ten interconnected stories set in a fictional Northeastern Ontario community loosely inspired by Sudbury. Across bars, garages, cemeteries, trailer parks, spiritual retreats, and local competitions,…
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The Art of Losing to a Y-14 by Andrew Radu

A razor-sharp, darkly funny reckoning with the price of winning. A psychiatrist and lifelong competitive fencer turns his most bruising victories and losses into a searching examination of ambition, identity, and the dangerous seductions of achievement in Radu’s candid memoir.…
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Before I Was Jesus: Twenty-Five Secret Identities of Jesus by Gerald D. Robison

An intriguing, Scripture-driven journey into the mysteries of the divine. Robison’s spirited theological study asks a provocative question: If Jesus existed before Bethlehem, where was he during the centuries recorded in the Old Testament? His answer drives this accessible, Scripture-rich…
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The Battle Rages On: A Panoramic Look at Spiritual Realities and Spiritual Warfare from Before Time Began by Gerald Robison

A bold, Scripture-rich journey into the hidden realities of spiritual warfare. Robison tackles spiritual warfare through an imaginative exchange between a modern believer named Adam and Jesus, tracing the conflict from before creation through humanity’s fall, angelic rebellions, the Divine…
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Blueland by Robert Jaxx

A fierce, cinematic, hard-edged Western. In Jaxx’s sweeping historical Western, the end of the Civil War sends Union captain Alden Zur and three battle-scarred comrades toward an uncertain future. Reunited with his family, Alden heads west, hoping to put war…
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Space Shield: The Wrath of the Sun by Jeremy Clift

A page-turning space epic charged with danger, ambition, and impossible choices… A looming solar catastrophe puts humanity’s technological future at risk in Clift’s ambitious science-fiction thriller. As scientists warn of a storm capable of crippling global infrastructure, humanity races to…
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The Determinists: Harris, Sapolsky, Hossenfelder, and the Free Will Debate by Lawrence David Rose

A bracing, brainy challenge to the case against free will. Are human beings genuinely capable of choosing what they think and do, or are their decisions inevitable products of biology, environment, brain activity, and physical law? Rose tackles this enduring…
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Cooking Up Magick: The Dell Chronicles Book One by HL Bernabe

A spellbinding fantasy feast with plenty of heart… Bernabe’s series opener in the Dell Chronicles serves up an ambitious blend of cozy fantasy, sprawling adventure, romance, and high-stakes epic fantasy, anchored by an endearing heroine whose greatest strengths are compassion…
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The Valhalla Project (A Dan Burnett Private Detective Mystery/Thiller) by Larry Terhaar

Taut, timely, and impossible to put down. Terhaar’s gripping latest pits a dogged investigator against a dangerous web of murder, money, and corporate power. Nineteen-year-old David Jacobs, an autistic accounting protégé, is walking his dog in Pelham Bay Park when…
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Soul Octopus Analogy – The Soul’s Endless Dance Across the Web of Creation Bud Megargee

A bold, imaginative voyage into the soul’s infinite possibilities… Megargee’s latest gives reincarnation an audacious new shape. Imagining the soul as an octopus, he positions its head as the seat of a unified consciousness and its tentacles as individual lives…