101 Super Cute Things to Draw
More than 100 step-by-step lessons for making cute, expressive, fun art! 101 Super Cute Things to Draw is an interactive activity that can be done by yourself or with friends and f...
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Wine Club
Raise A Glass Roundup Entering the diverse and intricate world of alcoholic beverages can be a richly rewarding experience, and what better way to do so than through the pages of a...
Read more →The Hype Machine
How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health–and How We Must Adapt Leading up to and following the 2020 presidential election, it seems blatantly obvious th...
Read more →Get Your Book Seen and Sold: The Essential Book Marketing and Publishing Guide
Get Your Book Seen and Sold, written by Claudine Wolk and Julie Murkette, is a guide for assisting writers in marketing and getting their book published. Wolk is a published author...
Read more →Abyss of Tyranny
“Justin Cook’s Abyss of Tyranny is a passionate and highly enlightening tale about the justice system in the USA. Drawing on his abusive experience even outside the prison walls, J...
Read more →Colors of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Palettes
This impressively illustrated collection of paintings ranging from prehistoric times to the present so vividly demonstrates the development and significance of color as stories and...
Read more →Next Stop: (A Graphic Novel)
Pia and her father are supposed to embark on a road trip to see Cessarine Lake, a lake touted to make people’s wishes come true. However, amidst some ongoing problems at home, Pia ...
Read more →Wind Riders #1: Rescue on Turtle Beach
Grab your sailing gear and get ready to go on an adventure on the high seas…and save endangered sea turtles too.Wind Riders: Rescue on Turtle Beach is a fun read that takes Max, a ...
Read more →Inkflower
Lisa has a pretty idyllic life—a loving family, plenty of friends at school, and an amazing boyfriend. But she also has some secrets. Her father has just told the family that he is...
Read more →Carol Gilligan and the Search for Voice (Extraordinary Women in Psychology Series)
Carol Gilligan and the Search for Voice is a very empowering book by Bill Cole and illustrated by Sarah Green. For me, it is especially empowering in these times where there is an ...
Read more →The Law Says What?: Stuff You Didn’t Know About the Law (but Really Should!)
The law touches our everyday lives, and Maclen Stanley is determined to help readers change the way they think about the legal system. In this book, the Harvard Law grad and practi...
Read more →Devour: A Graphic Novel
“We bring our beliefs wherever we go.” The myths and lore from Africa came to America with the enslaved peoples. But it wasn’t just the stories that arrived in the New World; the g...
Read more →The Witchstone
In a forgotten corner of the Catskills live the Drakefords. The family has been cursed for generations. Nineteen-year-old Maggie lives with her family with no hope of escaping thei...
Read more →Catch and Keep: A Novel
Outdoors enthusiast Maren Laughlin is looking to start on a new path in Wisconsin after leaving her job as a park ranger and life with her former fiancé in Michigan. In Wisconsin, ...
Read more →Murder in the Dressing Room
The London drag scene is on its heels when Lady Lady, one of the premier drag queens of London, is found dead in her dressing room in this uneven novel, which is part mystery novel...
Read more →Fragility
Fragility is a speculative satire set during Portland’s COVID-19 quarantine. At its core is an etymology-obsessed narrator, charged with a mission to “disrupt the dominant discours...
Read more →We Came to Welcome You
Sol and Alice have recently bought a home in a community named Maneless Grove. While Alice is ecstatic at the new step in their lives, Sol is reserved. Sol has been dealing with a ...
Read more →The Case of the Stolen Goddess
Detectives Flinders Petrie and Thomas Pettigrew are now famous after their last case to find Cleopatra’s tomb. Years later, they are contacted by the curator of the British Museum ...
Read more →Fifty-Two Stories
Fifty-Two Stories should be subtitled fifty-two absolute delights from a master of literature. Many of these stories were written under deadline pressure in order to earn money to ...
Read more →Inside the Compost Bin
Composting is becoming more and more popular, but what does that mean to young children? One is never too young to build good habits that will help the world be a better place. Thi...
Read more →Anemone
Russell jolts awake, his world shattered by news of his brother Wyatt’s death in a devastating fire. The tragedy cuts deeper: Russell had desperately tried to save him. Now, a crue...
Read more →The Indignation Parade and Other Poems
The Indignation Parade and other Poems by F.R. Foksal is a beautifully done poetry collection. Foksal explores many themes throughout his work, including isolation, disconnection, ...
Read more →After the Funeral and Other Stories
I can’t help wondering if the title of this collection of short stories is an homage to a short story written by Agatha Christie. The author, Tessa Hadley, lives in Wales, where Ch...
Read more →The Dove That Didn’t Return: Poems
If anyone can call herself a “warrior poet,” it is Yael S. Hacohen. She draws from her experience as a soldier and lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces to craft this collection...
Read more →Third Wheel by Richard R. Becker
Book Summary: Brady Wilks wished for a new life with a real family in the pre-boomtown years of Las Vegas, 1982. Instead, he finds himself in a precarious situation, struggling to ...
Read more →Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship
Book Summary: Belonging Matters supports the adoption community while creating a conversation with those not directly touched by adoption. The collection explores the pursuit of id...
Read more →Out of the Far North by Amir Tsarfati and Steve Yohn
Book Summary: Tensions are at a breaking point. The Western markets that once relied on Russian gas have turned to Israel for their energy needs. Furious, Russia surreptitiously mo...
Read more →Just Do Nothing by Joanna Hardis
Joanna Hardis’ Just Do Nothing is a thought-provoking and enlightening exploration of the art of non-doing. Through her compelling storytelling and well-researched evidence, Hardis...
Read more →Kissing Asphalt by Delicia Niami
Book Summary: Resilience isn’t inherited. It’s a hard-fought skill forged by our ability to pick up the broken pieces of our past and remake them into something new. Meet four-year...
Read more →Creative Together by Steven Kowalski
Creative Together by Steven Kowalski is not just a book; it’s a transformative experience. With its engaging exercises and thought-provoking prompts, this book will challenge you t...
Read more →Epicedium – 50 experimental poetic journeys through awakening, alchemy and other worlds by Helene Alexandra Jæger
Book Summary: Exploring the realms of death and dreaming, the occult, the unconscious and the soul, Epicedium is a stream of consciousness collection of 50 works. Told as a four-pa...
Read more →CarboN The Primitivision by Larry Hodge
Review: Seattle Book Review – 5 stars CarboN: The Primitivision is the premiere art book by Lawrence Armondo Hodge (aka CarboN). His new book is a collection of CarboN’s work from ...
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