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Align Your Business with the Real You: Connect with Yourself, Create What Matters Most, and Define Your Success by Jennifer Musser
Not all self-help books are created equal. Jennifer Musser’s Align Your Business with the Real You stands out by blending memoir, strategy, and actionable exercises. Her 5C framewo...
Read more →Here Lyeth by Johanna Frank
Book Summary: In Here Lyeth, Lexxie, feeling angry and heartbroken, leaves her home after learning that her biological father lives in a village called Vereiteln Dorf. There, she b...
Read more →The One Week Writing Workshop: 7 Days to Spark, Boost or Revive Your Novel by Karin Adams
About the book: You’ve always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps you’ve made a pile of notes—even written several chapters. But as you sit down a...
Read more →How America Works… and Why it Doesn’t by William Cooper
Book Summary: Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions that have shaped the nation’s...
Read more →Winterland: A Novel
As a child, Anya uses gymnastics to escape the stark, wavering darkness and cold of her remote Siberian outpost. Talented and driven, she is selected for a grueling gymnastics scho...
Read more →Vespertine
Artemisia is a Gray Sister, working alongside fellow nuns as they prepare dead bodies for their final rest. If they fail to do so, the dead will rise again and attack the living. A...
Read more →Through the North Pole Snow
Through the North Pole is an adorable story of a tiny artic fox that finds a nice warm house at the North Pole with food and a jolly old soul. The old man slept a lot and then fill...
Read more →The Witches Almanac: Sorcerers, Witches and Magic from Ancient Rome to the Digital Age
This book delves into the fear and misconceptions that have plagued those accused of having magical abilities throughout history. The different biographies range from ancient times...
Read more →Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods: History, Insights & Magickal Practice
This book incorporates the rich and fascinating history of the Greek gods through a lens of modern witchcraft in this masterful guide. The book covers the main gods in the pantheon...
Read more →Central Places: A Novel
Audrey Zhou is living her dream life in New York. With a successful job and soon to marry her dashing fiancé Ben, she returns home to Illinois to introduce Ben to her parents. Upon...
Read more →Into the West
A story about the founding of Mercedes Lackey’s most well-known world, Valdemar, Into the West is about an ethical leader, Baron Kordas Valdemar, guiding his people into the wilder...
Read more →Shot Clock
The Sabres, two-time AAU National Champions, led by basketball phenom Dante Jones, are holding their annual tryouts. Recently, Dante was shot by a police officer in Oasis Springs, ...
Read more →Kimchi, Kimchi Every Day
A cute little girl talks about how she likes to eat kimchi every day, and she lists out the different ways she will eat her kimchi during the days of the week. Whether it us eating...
Read more →Beardstown
In the early 1800s, Thomas Beard bought a plot of land in what would later become Illinois. Over two centuries later, the town he founded still exists, having withstood many of the...
Read more →Self-Portrait with Nothing
Self-Portrait with Nothing is a glance into the multiverse, an attempt to articulate the endless permutations of identity, loss, and love. The story follows Pepper Rafferty, a fore...
Read more →Sinister Graves (A Cash Blackbear Mystery Book 3)
Cash Blackbear has been helping Sheriff Wheaton, who is her guardian, to solve some cases. Cash has dreams that sometimes help her understand things others don’t. The spring floods...
Read more →The Sevenfold Hunters
Abyan Guled is a member of the Sevenfold, an elite squad of alien hunters training at Carlisle Academy. Her only goal is graduating with first place— but when one of her team membe...
Read more →The Name Game
The Name Game is the story of a girl who is sitting at home, feeling bored. Soon she notices a bird outside her window, and she wants to know all about it. The bird talks to her an...
Read more →Blue Box, Vol. 1
Reaching the nationals is going to be tough for badminton player Taiki Inomata. All he wants is to become better at badminton. Meanwhile, Chinatsu Kano from the girls’ basketball t...
Read more →The Deluge
In 2013, scientist Tony Pietrus measures the rate of methane hydrates in the atmosphere. He is looking at the possibilities associated with the next extinction-level event. Shane i...
Read more →The Hero of This Book
This strange and beautiful memoir follows the narrator on her path of grief and reflection as she walks around London. She last visited the city with her mother, who has since pass...
Read more →Blood Circus
In a not-too-distant future, Ava lives in the North American Territory, on one side of a military fence. This fence separates humans from the Klujns, a humanoid species that every ...
Read more →Blue Box, Vol. 2
Taiki Inomata has always loved badminton, and he really wants to go to the nationals. Then there’s Chinatsu Kano, a basketball player who shares the same dream as him. When a turn ...
Read more →The Scroll of Chaos
The Scroll of Chaos is about a young Chinese girl named Astrid Xu who has always wanted to help her mother escape her depression. When she finds the Scroll of Chaos with her little...
Read more →We Garden Together!: Projects for Kids: Learn, Grow, and Connect with Nature
We garden together is a really fun book! This books is packed with a ton of backyard gardening experiments that we can do together as a family and help grow our own food! I haven’t...
Read more →Chocolates from Tangier: A Holocaust replacement child’s memoir of art and transformation
How to combine a memoir, a family narrative, and a retrospective of creative art? With grace, diligence, and intense feeling, Jana Zimmer weaves the elements together. Her Holocaus...
Read more →My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
Rather than a book about the civil rights struggle in Selma, Alabama, this is a story about a middle-class happy family and the everyday life therein. Because of the title of this ...
Read more →The Trackers: A Novel
Charles Frazier’s name is synonymous with sweeping historical fiction that brings seemingly lost worlds to life: Cold Mountain, Nightwoods, and more. His latest, The Trackers, has ...
Read more →Izzy Paints
Izzy loves the art that she sees at an art museum. She decides that she would like to create her own art. So Izzy finds inspiration in the world around her to create her own art. I...
Read more →Fox and Bear
Fox and Bear live happily in the forest. Bear wants to live a simple life, but Fox is very handy and creative. This leads to Fox creating more inventions, which Bear is unsure of, ...
Read more →Owl and Penguin (I Like to Read Comics)
The book Owl and Penguin has several shorter stories about the characters Owl and Penguin, who are best friends, and how they help each other out and cheer each other up when they ...
Read more →Gillespie Field Groove
Rolly Waters is listening to a story from his newest client, a nurse named Lucinda Rhodes. Rolly previously made Lucinda’s acquaintance when a previous case of Rolly’s nearly kille...
Read more →Coming Full Circle: Healing Trauma Using Psychedelics
Ken Kesey, the famous author and infamous explorer of inner space, once said “you don’t get anything for free. Everything causes bruises.” While he was referring to the effects of ...
Read more →Destiny Springs
Destiny Springs by Elliott Foster is the third fiction novel within his latest trilogy. This novel picks up from the award-winning Reckoning Waves and follows Corey Fischer after f...
Read more →The Dawn of AI (Paperwar) by Ryan LeKodak
Book Summary: One malfunction… Millions dead… The search for answers begins… In the year 2040, the world’s transportation is dominated by a highly advanced artificial intelligence ...
Read more →The Book That No One Wanted to Read
A book written by a book! That’s so amazing! (Not really, it was written by Richard Ayoade, but the narrator says it was written by a book, so that’s really fun.) And Tor Freeman d...
Read more →Finally Seen
Ten-year-old Lina Gao last saw her parents and little sister five years ago. Since then, she’s been living in Beijing with her grandmother. Until now. Her parents are finally ready...
Read more →One Tiny Treefrog: A Countdown to Survival
One Tiny Treefrog follows the life of a red-eyed treefrog in the Rainforest. This incredible journey starts as a small clutch of eggs are laid on a leaf above water and must hatch ...
Read more →The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond
Edie and Violet are running from a past that haunts them as much as spirits haunt the twins. A year ago, Edie slipped into the Veil, the place between life and death, and caused he...
Read more →My Last Innocent Year: A Novel
Midway through her senior year of college, Isabel finds herself enmeshed in a sexual encounter that she feels, in hindsight, was not entirely consensual. Her activist roommate publ...
Read more →A Touch of Moonlight: A Novel
Every full moon, Larimar Cintrón’s naturally curly hair straightens itself out. Her ankles twist themselves around until her feet face backward. She can run so fast that she’s flyi...
Read more →Self-Publish a Book in 10 Steps by Hank Quense
About the Book: Self-publishing a book is difficult. This book simplifies it by breaking down a self-publishing and marketing project into 10 steps. This step-by-step process will ...
Read more →Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall
Book Summary: Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy. Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the p...
Read more →My Expansion by Nancy Manet
Story Summary Big Bear thinks they know how things are supposed to be for the cub: Don’t run too fast. Don’t get your feet wet. Do what the “good” bears are doing. Never stray from...
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