[easyazon_link identifier=”B0GS75V7BS” locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Ivy Leigh Ever After[/easyazon_link] Middle Grade Fiction Date Published: Feb 24, 2026 Publisher: Small Circles Press Ivy Leigh’s a feisty eleven, almost twelve-year-old who could never imagine using a fist to solve a problem. But that was before. Before Momma died. Before her BFFs, Lizzie and Ruthie, started pressuring her to change. […]

Sometimes love asks the most from the people least willing to give it. The Code One Club series by Alison Naomi Holt centers sapphic stories where trust is hard-won and connection arrives at the worst possible time.   Synopsis: Power, loss, and emotional distance shape the relationships within The Code One Club series, where connection […]

The Civil War didn’t divide every place along clear lines. In some communities, it settled in more quietly—reshaping relationships, testing loyalties, and turning ordinary moments into something uncertain. In The Reluctant Patriot, Susan Lohafer follows one man trying to stay outside of that shift as it gradually reaches his doorstep. [easyazon_image align=”center” height=”500″ identifier=”B08XSMTW7S” locale=”US” […]

  [easyazon_link identifier=”B0G4FPKNPR” locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Circus Bim Bom: A Cold War Adventure[/easyazon_link] A Cold War Adventure   Historical Fiction/Cold War Fiction w/romance subplots   Date Published: 03-01-2026 Publisher: Bim Bom Books “There are no accidents in life, only opportunities wearing different clothes.” When the first privately owned Soviet circus arrived in 1990 America as the Soviet […]

Plant medicine has moved from the fringes into mainstream conversations, featured now on everything from celebrity websites to wellness podcasts. Shannon Nering’s new memoir, The Mother Vine: How I Healed My Heart With Ayuhuasca (4/21/26, She Writes Press, distributed by Simon & Schuster) is a soulful, oftentimes hilarious, journey from a harried mother’s rat race in the TV […]

[easyazon_link identifier=”164914234X” locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Golfing, Gardens & Ghosts (Katie and Maverick Cozy Mysteries)[/easyazon_link] Cozy Mystery Date Published: 01-28-2026 Publisher: Secret Staircase Books, an imprint of Columbine Publishing Group, LLC   School’s out for the summer and math teacher Katie Wilk needs something to occupy her time, something beyond helping to plan Jane Mackey’s upcoming wedding. So, […]

Life is built on the assumption that what we experience is shared and understood. For Aubrey Shallcross, that assumption has never fully held. The voices he hears have always been part of how he moves through the world in The Hearing Voices Series by Charles Porter. [easyazon_image align=”left” height=”500″ identifier=”0989425622″ locale=”US” src=”https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51UtYnIxM3L._SL500_.jpg” tag=”chapbrea05-20″ width=”324″] Aubrey […]

  When belief hardens into certainty, it can push people toward decisions that reshape far more than their own lives. Two men, shaped by completely different experiences, begin moving toward the same moment without fully understanding how deeply their choices will intersect. In Body Man by Al Pessin, that convergence drives the story forward. [easyazon_image […]