A sprinkle-filled romp bursting with creativity and heart.
Rotter’s playful picture book finds comedy and confidence amid a morning of bakery mishaps. Breezy Bear is eager to pitch in as her family prepares Buttercup Bakery for the day. Unfortunately, her… Breezy Bakes Her Best by Lori Rotter
A sprinkle-filled romp bursting with creativity and heart.
Rotter’s playful picture book finds comedy and confidence amid a morning of bakery mishaps. Breezy Bear is eager to pitch in as her family prepares Buttercup Bakery for the day. Unfortunately, her… 
An intimate, perceptive coming-of-age story.
Wang examines the cost of reinventing yourself in a changing China. Mark (Cheng) Ma never expected to find himself in his high school’s prestigious international program, where English replaces Chinese and the future seems to… 
A witty, wistful romance brimming with heart and hard-won second chances…
Returning home after years away forces a guarded young woman to revisit the friendship that once changed the course of her life in Exley’s poignant romantic drama. Tulsa Wakefield… 
Fresh, perceptive, and irresistibly readable…
In DaVeiga’s The Orion Sessions trilogy, thirteen-year-old Orion Casey navigates friendship, creative ambition, betrayal, and the complicated relationship between identity and attention. Best Friends introduces Orion after humiliation has driven her away from singing. When… 
A ferocious, compulsively readable tale of loyalty and survival…
After his kingdom falls to a rival house, a legendary knight must protect its last surviving prince in Eanes’s sweeping epic fantasy. Bound by an oath to the late King Orrin… 
A spellbinding tale of faith, fate, and defiance…
Norwen takes readers into twelfth-century Mecklenburg, where old gods linger beneath a changing world. Raised to believe that duty comes before desire, Milena faces a future already mapped out for her. With… 
Irresistibly sweet, wonderfully witty, and bursting with heart.
Fisher’s charming picture book follows Bagel, the nervous newcomer at the Corner Cafe, where an assortment of colorful treats has him questioning what makes him special. Birthday Cake has sprinkles, Cinnamon Bun… 
A warmhearted, irresistible page-turner.
Nixon’s historical novel delivers an engaging tale of resilience, ambition, and found family amid Prohibition and the Great Depression. After her mother’s death, 20-year-old Lila Young leaves Rockford, Ill., for Lima, Ohio, hoping to make a… 
Wickedly clever, profoundly unsettling, and wildly entertaining.
In Stanfill’s darkly funny SF novel, a brilliant young programmer unleashes an AI tasked with saving the planet, only to discover that its solution may require humanity to disappear. In 2036, Abigail Thompson… 
A slick, adrenaline-charged eco-thriller…
Melby skillfully combines creature horror, scientific intrigue, and police procedural into a tense, fast-moving thriller. Developer J. T. Barton believes he’s dealing with an oversized Burmese python until Professor Christine Flannagan uncovers something far worse—a cold-tolerant… 
A wildly imaginative fusion of haunted-house horror and pulp science fiction.
Rife’s fourth volume in the Cool Thing series begins with a haunted house but quickly reveals that the ghosts are merely one layer of a far stranger mystery. The… 
Tense, intelligent, and chillingly plausible…
Bahren paints a chilling portrait of a country on edge, where suspicion, ideology, and fear erode the boundaries between public duty and private life. The destruction at Fort Riley sends the country into chaos and… 
A riveting blend of science fiction, mystery, and exploration…
False accusations, fractured loyalties, and an alien world’s hidden secrets drive Gadeken’s richly imagined second installment in the Nabukko Trilogy. After being accused of murders she could not have committed, Eff… 
A psychologically rich, intricately plotted thriller.
In Sharpe’s gripping psychological mystery, buried childhood memories propel a psychologist on a relentless search for the truth behind her father’s death. After a terrifying elevator incident triggers memories of being locked inside a… 
A character-driven science-fiction adventure with brains as well as heart…
Gadeken’s series opener in the Nabukko Trilogy follows a resourceful young woman whose search for her lost memories uncovers unsettling secrets in an isolated human colony. Stranded on an unfamiliar… 
A meticulously researched exploration of collaboration, memory, and the elusive nature of truth…
Wolfe’s ambitious biography is a searching and deeply researched portrait of a man who lived a double life. Jan Jürgen “John” Petersen was a respected Canadian social… 
A sweeping colonial thriller with surprising depth.
Imperial rivalries, African intrigue, and a rescue mission gone awry: another assignment for Canadian intelligence officer Jack Torrance in Ring’s expansive historical adventure. The novel opens in the aftermath of the Sudan campaign… 
Epic, nuanced, and unsettlingly relevant…
In Bao’s science-fiction epic, a fisherman and a soldier from opposite sides of a hidden war cross a fractured galaxy in search of a world erased from history. Vertan Zviedal leaves his impoverished homeworld to… 
Lyrical, noir-soaked, and genuinely chilling.
In Kaufman’s haunting novel, a washed-up private investigator is hired to find a lost blues record and discovers that some legends survive because no one should uncover the truth. Francis “F.” Mallory spends his days… 
Perceptive, moving, and quietly powerful.
MacDonald’s latest book explores the myriad ways ordinary people find themselves standing at the edge of change. Across fourteen stories linked by the presence of water, the collection examines grief, family, friendship, aging, and the… 
