A quiet, achingly powerful story of loss, recovery, and the comfort of simply being there.
Grief is a big hole. At least, that’s how it feels for Little Bear, whose Papa Bear has died, leaving behind a vast, invisible absence… Little Bear and the Big Hole by Jennifer Seal (Author), Mirjam Siim (Illustrator)
A quiet, achingly powerful story of loss, recovery, and the comfort of simply being there.
Grief is a big hole. At least, that’s how it feels for Little Bear, whose Papa Bear has died, leaving behind a vast, invisible absence…
An emotionally charged, morally complex fantasy that blends passion with pathos and seduction with sorrow.
In Ar-feinial’s brooding dark fantasy, an elven bodyguard’s mission spirals into a battle with grief, desire, and supernatural forces. Haunted by the disappearance of his…
Ambitious, unwieldy, and unforgettable…
Palmer’s wildly ambitious novel is a literary experiment brimming with wit, rage, memory, and socio-political critique. In a future buckling under the weight of climate collapse, Beavan Broderick, once a fringe beaver ethologist and now a…
A taut, morally complex story that hits with precision and heart.
In Gilbert’s third JD Cordell novel, a team of former U.S. military operatives takes on a ruthless human trafficking network in the lawless underworld of Manila. When two young…
Deeply human and quietly magical; a triumph…
Thorson turns a blizzard, a blackout, and a botched vacation into a warm, imaginative reawakening of what family and Christmas really mean in his compelling YA fantasy. The Natale family’s long-awaited tropical escape…
Deeply rewarding and emotionally resonant…
Emrys continues his thoughtful, low-key epic series with a collection of stories that favors intimacy over spectacle. In “Discovery,” a wood elf scout named Ymladdwr unearths a mind-reactive portal in the wilderness. Alongside Gwyddoniaeth, a…
A playful, zoomies-filled fun…
Martin’s lively book blends movement, mindfulness, and family fun through the joyful chaos of a zoomie-prone dog and her curious human, Zoey. When Mom begins her backyard yoga session, Zoey and Lexi are all energy and…
A standout debut…
Set in a quiet Connecticut town, Orbach’s heartfelt middle-grade novel follows three fourteen-year-olds as they face pressure, loss, and change—and discover that friendship might be the one thing they can count on. Cassidy is used to moving.…
A taut, high-intelligence thriller with real emotional teeth…
A wounded ex-CIA operative learns that healing, like espionage, requires ruthless precision in Towles’s explosive finale in the E&A Investigations series. Still recovering from a hit-and-run and holed up in her family’s…
Bold, unconventional and raw…
Hagopian’s business guide isn’t your typical business book. It begins not with vision, but with a confession. Hagopian, a high-achieving executive, lays bare the cost of his undiagnosed bipolar disorder, including arrests, burnout, near-suicide. Instead of…
Vibrant, educational, and fun…
Hutchinson’s latest slithers in with a playful hiss and a bold mission: to turn fear into fascination. The book begins with a white egg, unfolding into a spectrum of snakes—red, orange, yellow, even pink—each real, striking,…
A powerful character-driven fantasy about guilt, survival, and the crushing weight of legacy.
A fugitive confronts the truth about his legacy and the heavy price of survival in Daily’s second installment in the Chronicles of the Lawbreaker series. After the…
Taut, tense, and emotionally charged…
Luxenburg’s compelling coming-of-age novel dives deep into the complexities of trauma, resilience, and the painful loneliness of being different. Fanny Berk, 15, is a karate student, a self-taught intellectual trapped in a stifling high school…
A vivid, thought-provoking SF story with heart and high stakes…
A telepathic teen faces interplanetary threats and internal reckoning in State’s emotionally charged sequel to The Dark Galaxy Series. Fourteen-year-old Sam Sanderson is drafted by GAIA, an interplanetary alliance, after…
A high-stakes romantic thriller wrapped in luxury, loss, and deadly secrets…
A glamorous, unabashedly sentimental spy novel set in the glittering ski resorts of St. Moritz, Sloan’s third installment of The Chasing Cleopatra Chronicles offers danger, desire, and a heroine…
A raw and emotionally layered novel that blends psychological realism with speculative mystery.
A troubled teen searches for his missing brother while grappling with guilt, grief, and the possibility of the impossible in Bowler’s compelling YA novel. Fourteen-year-old Colton Bowman…
Raw, unfiltered, and tragically hilarious…
Godin’s latest novel is a darkly funny, emotionally honest portrait of a man on the verge as he tries to find solid ground again. New Orleans plastic surgeon Nick Jordan seems to have it all—success,…
Dark, cerebral, and unforgiving…
Gatto’s latest novel is a haunting, richly imagined political gothic tale set in a Europe on the verge of collapse. Salbador, a repressed caretaker in an isolated coastal manse, grows increasingly unstable under the cruel authority…
A deeply moving, intellectually grounded, and emotionally brave work…
Grayhurst delivers a raw, searingly honest account of what it means to be raised by a narcissistic mother and the long, difficult path toward breaking free and healing. Grayhurst’s voice is…
Daringly imaginative and deeply rooted in human connection…
Lacy offers a refreshingly grounded take on time travel, fusing emotional realism with speculative fiction to explore identity, ambition, and connection in her latest novel. The story follows Carly Munro, a rising…