This patriotic adventure paints a picture of dedicated CIA agents without overlooking the complex moral situations they find themselves in. Priyesh Patel’s "Moralis Aleam" is a political thriller in the classic Clancy style, filled... Read More

Fishere’s novel is a gripping portrait of the tenuous spaces that marginalized populations are made to occupy. Ezzedine C. Fishere’s Embrace on the Brooklyn Bridge traverses the memories and inner struggles of a group of Egyptian... Read More

Sleek, supple, and luxurious, Lola’s wool was envied and admired by all the sheep on the farm—until one day it wasn’t. Using soft edges, watercolors, and simple, warm words, Gemma Merino shares the unlikely story of a sheep who... Read More

Compassion is key in this book that serves to inspire those within the LGBTQ+ community to see that everyone’s struggle is different. The second edition of Loren A. Olson’s Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight achieves an... Read More

Raising a toast to mothers while offering practical tips, these essays provide a hard-won wisdom that psychology-based manuals often don’t. Nineties sitcom actress, singer, and Nashville mom Jenna von Oy returns in Situation Momedy: A... Read More

When Grace’s day turns from bad to worse, she decides to leave it all behind, in Holly L. Niner’s sweetly uplifting "The Day I Ran Away". Alternating voices and fonts in adult orange and youthful purple relate Grace’s experiences... Read More

Full of jaggedly poetic charm and twisted humor, this is a fine novel about a caper gone wrong. Les Wood’s "Dark Side of the Moon" is the painfully funny tale of a jewel heist that never should have happened and a plan gone... Read More

"Superfairies" is a fun set of four stories, one for each season of the year. The four fairies—Star, Berry, Rose, and Silk—tend to the animals around Peaseblossom Woods, rescuing them from whatever trouble they get into. The... Read More