An inclusive, educational story with big emotions and a big heart Stew and his classmates keep getting new teachers. One of the students, Bullock, even worries that it’s because people think they’re “trash” due to their disabilities. Why else would they be on their fourth teacher of the year? When Mr. Murant walks through the […]
When an East Coat city slicker heads to the rural Pacific Northwest to make peace with his terminal diagnosis, he’s surprised to discover an opportunity to live authentically instead. When Stewart Waldon heads out to the Pacific Northwest by bus, he has one goal in mind. A life-changing medical diagnosis has prompted him to make […]
Picture this: a peaceful lakeside retreat designed to strengthen family bonds transforms into the setting for an unthinkable tragedy. It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica plunges readers into this exact scenario, crafting a psychological thriller that explores how a single social media post can set off a devastating chain of events. From the opening pages, […]
A raw, open-hearted memoir that shows quiet strength in the midst of family secrets and trauma Deeply personal and vulnerable, Melissa Baker’s Building the Bridge explores the author’s long, complicated journey toward healing. It embodies resilience, forgiveness, self-love, community, and unexpected connections found in unique places. Page by page, we experience how Baker is able […]
A moving children’s book about the love grandparents and grandchildren share, however far apart MimiChi, a girl from Japan, whispers to her grandmother in the United States, “When I see the sun, you see the moon.” In the US, Nona whispers just the opposite: “When I see the moon, you see the sun.” Despite an […]
Regret by Guy de Maupassant Regret was published in 1883. It’s a beautifully written story about Monsieur Saval, who in old age looks back on his life with regret. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Regret by Guy de Maupassant Regret by Guy de […]
A meaningful portrait of the distance between conviction and consequence In Proles, Barry Bergman traces a world attentive to labor, place, and the quiet desire for meaning. Simon “Sy” Bussbaum moves through this world with the sense that something is missing, a purpose glimpsed and then deferred. The novel follows him through landscapes of heat, […]
In the Warsaw Ghetto of WWII, one young Jewish girl poses as a Polish Catholic to help her people survive Hitler’s invasion. The story of Edna Stefania Brill, child hero of the Polish Resistance in WWII, receives a long overdue spotlight in Little Edna’s War by Janet Bond Brill, Edna’s daughter-in-law. Based on Edna’s own […]
A Curse, A Corporation, and the Fight for an Island’s Soul John Grisham takes us back to the sun-soaked beaches of Camino Island in his latest legal thriller, “Camino Ghosts.” But this time, paradise has a dark secret lurking just offshore. On nearby Dark Isle, the ghosts of enslaved Africans and their descendants still linger, […]
Synopsis: An immortal bond. A brother stolen by death. A sister who must risk everything to bring him back. Senya never wanted to be a hero. But when a spectral woman arrives to deliver a harrowing claim—her twin brother is trapped in the Crosslands between the living and the dead—she has no choice but to […]