Engaging, heartfelt, and authentically inclusive.
Jeffery May and Laura May offer a candid, heartfelt glimpse into the day four Autistic friends explore a children’s museum for the first time in their engaging debut picture book. Through Jackson’s voice, readers step… Our Amazing Minds: Celebrating Differences and Sharing the Adventure of Autism by Jeffery May, Laura May
Engaging, heartfelt, and authentically inclusive.
Jeffery May and Laura May offer a candid, heartfelt glimpse into the day four Autistic friends explore a children’s museum for the first time in their engaging debut picture book. Through Jackson’s voice, readers step…
Spare, unsentimental, and deeply resonant; a layered portrait of resilience.
Collis’s latest is a quietly powerful novel of postwar survival set against the harsh beauty of rural Western Australia. Two years after returning from Vietnam, Matthew Walker is still caught…
Lyrical, emotional, and gripping.
In Hatefi’s heartfelt middle-grade adventure, two siblings risk everything to save the person they love most. Eleven-year-old Leonardo and eight-year-old Leili’s lives change forever when they learn their father has a terminal illness. Rumors of a…
A cheerful adventure crammed with giggles, greetings, and goofy charm…
Novak makes her debut with this lively, laugh-filled ride that celebrates friendship, diversity, and the joy of squeezing in together. Who knew an elevator ride could feel like rush hour…
Visceral, moving, and unforgettable.
Zuckerman’s latest captures the grit and hope of Jewish immigrants fighting to carve out new lives in the cramped tenements and unforgiving streets of New York’s Lower East Side. Malka Kaminsky slips out of Grodno with…
Atmospheric, evocative, and emotionally charged…
Set against the rugged backdrop of Eastern Kentucky, Cafaro’s compelling novel follows a young girl’s fight to claim her voice. Growing up under the weight of her father’s drinking, childhood in Coon Ridge for Flora…
Haunting, cerebral, and unsettling…
Lively’s latest is a slow-burn psychological mystery that explores the blurry line between reality and delusion. When Dallas attorney Simon Steed is hired by a mysterious woman, Neva Storm, to probate her father’s will, he’s drawn…
A charming, sound-filled adventure…
Martin captures the quiet courage of trying something new in her tender tale of separation, trust, and unexpected joy. When Grandpa arrives for a visit, Lexi can hardly contain her joy. Her paws TAP, TAP, TAP,…
A gentle, heartfelt story of big feelings and new beginnings…
Martin’s tender debut in the Lexi the Coonhound series traces the emotional journey of a rescue pup. Shy and soft-eyed, Lexi the coonhound spends her nights curled up on her…
Playful, poetic, and unexpectedly intense.
Leyse charts the emotional fallout of first love in Paris in his playful novel. Three twenty-somethings, William, Christina, and Pascale, land in Paris for six unfiltered weeks of rooftop parties, cemetery crawls, and wine-soaked debates…
Bracing, darkly funny, and deeply felt.
In Wang’s blistering debut, a queer millennial’s search for freedom spirals into chaos, fame, and a murder charge. When Pete Chan, a self-aware and pop-savvy Chinese American in his late twenties, impulsively quits his…
Tender, playful, and deeply moving…
It’s not easy being the new pup on the block. Merz captures the quiet courage of a rescue dog navigating rejection and kindness in this heartfelt story. Parker’s got a big heart and a bumpy…
Quiet, introspective, and elegantly written.
Cotwell’s striking debut blends emotional intensity with psychological insight, tracing a man’s physical and emotional drift toward reckoning and renewal. Mark, a middle-aged tech entrepreneur, has spent years chasing the elusive promise of startup success,…
Whimsical, heartfelt, and faith-filled…
Siso weaves scripture and real-life emotion into a tender story about embracing what makes us unique. Elisabeth loves her sock puppets and the pretend worlds she creates with her best friend, Samuel. But when a puppet…
Brutal, poetic, and unforgettable…
A warrior princess, a scarred prince, and an ancient oath intersect in Elliott’s myth-drenched story of survival, selfhood, and sacrifice on the Scythian frontier. Anaiti, a hamazon trained in the ways of her mother’s people, is…
Quietly powerful and wonderfully wholesome.
In Xu’s heartfelt story, a young panda must decide for herself who she is. Pandy has always felt like a Koala—she plays koala games, sings koala songs, and fits right in at her koala school.…
A tense thriller with bite and brains…
Cooper’s ninth Brad Parker and Karen Richmond thriller blends scientific intrigue with a chilling revenge plot. Dr. Eric Salton, praised for a breakthrough lung cancer drug, is savagely murdered. Another dies in a…
Thoughtful, compassionate, and quietly profound…
A lonely boy and a broken bird find their way forward in Williams’s graceful, moving middle-grade novel. After a car crash kills his father, twelve-year-old Elliot Blake retreats into silence, burdened by guilt he can’t…
Powerful and intimate…
Torrellas charts nearly thirty years of emotional survival, raw heartbreak, and eventual healing in this poignant collection. The book unfolds in thematic chapters, each capturing a stage in the poet’s emotional evolution. The early poems, filled with…
Beautifully told, thematically rich, and quietly devastating; a stunner.
A soul-hungry spider-spirit stalks the forests of Gitlu’quam Island in Tocher’s elegant, elemental dark fable. A group of children, orphaned by the monstrous T’lejhánkha, a creature who feeds not only on…