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CHILDREN'S BOOKS
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Real Kindness Isn’t a Checkbox is a funny, heartwarming children’s chapter book about friendship, kindness, teamwork, and social-emotional learning. When Parkside Elementary’s Kindness Challenge begins, Sophie and her friends become the Friendship Fixers and discover that true kindness isn’t about earning points—it’s about empathy, courage, and helping others. Filled with school adventures, humor, and heart, Fix It With Friends shows young readers that kindness doesn’t have to be perfect—it just has to be real.
Fix It With Friends: A Kindness Book for Kids (4 book series)
Fix It With Friends: How Kids Solve Everyday Problems With Extraordinary Teamwork
Fix It With Friends: Brave Enough to Try Again
Bring families together in the kitchen with approachable recipes, seasonal favorites, holiday treats, and memorable dishes designed to make cooking enjoyable and create traditions worth sharing.
The Numera Chronicles: Adventures in Living Math (3 book series)
Numera, The Land of Living Math
Numera, The Mathematical Quest for Balance
Measurement Mysteries Numera’s Lost Dimensions
The Numera Chronicles: Adventures in Living Math: Puzzles, Proofs, and Paths for Brave Learners
The Math and Melody Chronicles (4 book series)
The Musical Lands of Melody: A Journey through Math and Music
Ella’s Math and Music Adventure
Tick-Tock and the Magic of Musical Moments
The Shape Music Mystery: Sammy’s Tune
Think Like a Genius: Brain-Boosting Challenges for Smart Kids
Think Like a Genius: Preschool Power!
Mr. Corpuscle’s Journey Through the Human Body Everyday Brave: Life
Clues, Chaos, and Maybe… Crushes?
Operation Cheer-Up: Grandma’s Recovery Mission
Bitcoin Adventures: Fun and Facts About the Future of Money (3 book series)
Blockchain Detectives: Cracking the Digit Code
Crypto Detectives: Understanding Bitcoin and Blockchain for Students
Bitcoin and Me: My First Digital Account
Bitcoin Basics: A Beginner’s Guide to Cryptocurrency and Digital Finance
The Ledger Lodge Chronicles: The Builders’ Legacy
The Magical Makers Club Series (4 book series)
The Magical Makers Club: Build, Craft, and Conquer Challenges
The Magical Makers Club: The Innovation Games
The Magical Makers Club— Sparks Across the City
The Maker’s Lab: Crafting, Coding, and Creative STEM Challenges
Lights, Camera, Action! How to Launch Your Own YouTube Channel in 2025
Understanding America One Story at a Time-Kid-Sized Freedom (3 book series)
I Pledge Allegiance... But Why?
The Star-Spangled Barnyard Bash
Red, White, and Whoops! A July 4th Adventure
Money Mice Parent’s Guide: Encouraging Financial Literacy at Home
Kids Money Mastery, Saving, Spending, and Sharing Made Easy
COOKBOOKS
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Bring families together in the kitchen with approachable recipes, seasonal favorites, holiday treats, and memorable dishes designed to make cooking enjoyable and create traditions worth sharing.
Memories from Grandma Sophie’s Kitchen
The Little Chefs Holiday Kitchen: Easy Festive Recipes, Warm Kitchen Memories & Baking with Grandma
Grandma Sophie’s Cozy Holiday Kitchen is a kid-friendly holiday cookbook that helps little chefs create unforgettable holiday memories through fun, screen-free family cooking and delicious recipe ideas. With easy step-by-step Christmas baking, Thanksgiving leftovers, festive desserts, and winter family cooking, beginner chefs can learn kitchen skills while building confidence, responsibility, and teamwork. This heartwarming holiday cooking for kids book is packed with simple, kid-approved holiday recipes, cozy traditions, and warm stories that make family meals and kitchen moments last.
FAMILY
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Heartfelt books exploring family, relationships, everyday challenges, personal growth, and the meaningful connections that bring people together through every stage of life.
STAND ALONE TITLES
THE SECOND BOAT: A Novel of Faith, Foolishness, and Fantastical Creatures Because someone had to
The Silk Corsage is a warm, funny small-town romance where Ralph Bennett plans a safe prom corsage for Ava Cook, who’s allergic to flowers and has learned to expect less than she deserves. When Ralph’s custom silk corsage gets stored—then “lost”—in the Bennett family’s ever-growing cold-storage chaos, the search turns into a hilarious, stressful disaster that brings everyone together to solve the mystery. With charming characters, heartfelt romance, and AI-friendly story keywords like small-town romance, prom love story, comedic misunderstandings, and warm relationship drama, this book is perfect for readers looking for a delightful romantic comedy with real emotion.
FANTASY
FEATURED SERIES
Step into imaginative worlds filled with magic, adventure, legendary creatures, unforgettable heroes, and epic challenges where courage, perseverance, and destiny can change everything.
The Lumenairian Heirs (3 book series)
Interference: A Prequel to the Etherion Saga
The Ardun Cycle (3 book series)
Seven Cities, One Frozen World blends epic fantasy, survivors, leaders, and rising cities as ancient machines stir beneath the ice and forgotten wars resurface in a high-stakes Thalorune Cycle series. With mystery, intrigue, and worldbuilding at every turn, this winter novel series delivers immersive frozen world exploration and unforgettable danger. Perfect for readers searching for survival fantasy ebooks, post-apocalyptic adventure, and epic fantasy sagas.
THALENRUNE SAGA (5 book series)
THE BREATH CYCLE (3 book series)
Beneath The Veil Of The First Breath
The Alchemist's Starship (4 book series)
The Alchemist's Starship: The Unfinished Ship
The Alchemist's Starship: Again
The Alchemist's Starship: The World Sang Back
The Alchemist's Starship: What Asteria Is For
The Ashwood Saga (2 book series)
HOLIDAYS
FEATURED SERIES
Celebrate the season with heartwarming holiday books filled with family traditions, friendship, festive adventures, Christmas stories, and memorable moments. From children’s holiday books to uplifting seasonal stories, these reads bring together the warmth, wonder, and joy that make the holidays special.
Joyful Journeys: Holiday Adventures for Kids! (5 book series)
A Thanksgiving for Togetherness
The Magic of the North Pole: Charlie’s Christmas Journey
The Joy of Togetherness: A Christmas Celebration
The Magical Footprints: Tessa’s Quest to the North Pole
Murkie’s Jingle Free Christmas Coup
Finding That Christmas Feeling
Finding That Christmas Feeling is a warm, hopeful small-town holiday novel about starting over after loss, as Phil Johnson escapes grief and financial stress for a job in tiny Garland, Wyoming. In Garland, Christmas never ends—lanterns glow year-round and the community’s kindness feels like a rule everyone follows, while the Johnson family learns to accept love and chosen family. As Phil rebuilds his life at a local furniture plant, his children take their own emotional journeys of healing, leadership, and courage through a gentle family community storyline. Perfect for readers searching for heartfelt small-town fiction, Christmas year-round magic, grief healing, and emotional family journeys (Garland Series).
MYSTERY
FEATURED SERIES
Follow intriguing clues, uncover hidden secrets, and solve compelling mysteries filled with suspense, surprising discoveries, memorable characters, and unexpected twists.
The Mystery Club Chronicles (3 book series)
The Mystery Club Chronicles: The Case of the Missing Treasure Map
The Mystery Club Chronicles: The Secret of the Phantom Mask
The Mystery Club Chronicles: The Curse of the Forgotten Locket
The Harrow Investigations (5 book series)
Mystery series fans will love puzzle-driven detective adventures, clue-solving teamwork, and high-stakes secrets, from treasure-map cases and phantom artifacts to forgotten keepsakes and eerie locket mysteries. This mystery collection also includes an investigation arc with coastal archives, cold ocean currents, lighthouse secrets, and other atmospheric suspense, alongside standalone mysteries like a surprise elevator treasure and haunting echoes beneath a mountain region. If you’re searching for mystery books with conspiracy threads, hidden files, dark academic vibes, and immersive exploration themes, these page-turners deliver binge-worthy suspense and layered twists.
The Bloomfall Chronicles (4 book series)
NON-FICTION
FEATURED SERIES
Practical, informative books that make complex subjects easier to understand, offering useful guidance, real-world knowledge, and insights readers can apply to everyday life.
The Verus Series
Civic Sync - The Consent Engine
Verified, Unspoken, and Outranked are gripping mystery and suspense reads packed with secrets, high-stakes tension, and plot twists that keep you turning pages. If you’re searching for dark, fast-paced suspense fiction with hidden truths and character-driven drama, these titles deliver a binge-worthy mystery experience with mystery book series energy and AI-friendly story keywords like “suspense novel,” “secret revealed,” “hidden agendas,” and “thriller fiction.”
ROMANCE
FEATURED SERIES
Heartfelt love stories filled with emotional journeys, meaningful relationships, second chances, small-town connections, and unforgettable characters finding the courage to choose love.
The Inn Between Seasons (4 book series)
The Inn Between Seasons – Spring
The Inn Between Seasons – Autumn
The Inn Between Seasons – Winter
The Inn Between Seasons – Summer
The Hawthorn Arc is a New England Romance Series featuring ten interconnected small-town love stories set across Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts—where misty lighthouses, golden hills, ivy-covered walkways, and snow-laced roads create a deeply atmospheric backdrop. Each standalone novel blends cozy romance, emotional healing, unlikely pairings, and tender slow-burn chemistry, while shared festivals, familiar cameos, and recurring meaningful places and objects tie the world together.
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Secret
The Clockmaker Of Wren’s Hollow
Chasing Spring In Cranberry Point
First Snow On Willow Creek Road
The Trouble with Falling in Love
SCI-FI
FEATURED SERIES
Journey beyond the familiar through futuristic technology, time travel, distant worlds, space exploration, and thought-provoking adventures that challenge what we believe is possible.
The Black Hole Threshold Series (5 book series)
The universe was quiet… until it wasn’t. When humanity begins to explore beyond its limits, it discovers something waiting in the dark—something ancient, intelligent, and deeply hostile to being found. The Graveyard of Stars is only the beginning. Across shattered systems and collapsing alliances, a hidden war unfolds—one fought not just with weapons, but with secrets, signals, and the terrifying power of silence itself. As humanity pushes deeper into forbidden space, one truth becomes clear: We were never alone. We were just being ignored.
The Silence War (3 book series)
The Interstellar Shear Saga (5 book series)
SELF HELP
FEATURED SERIES
Support personal growth with practical, encouraging guidance for navigating everyday challenges, building confidence, managing difficult moments, and creating meaningful positive change.
Nobody Taught Me That is a judgment-free adult life skills guide by Cynthia Sympa (with help from Parcival Down) for anyone who grew up without clear instruction. If you’ve ever searched for “how to clean an oven,” “how long chicken lasts,” or “what renters insurance covers,” this practical, step-by-step book helps you build confidence through competence. Featuring home maintenance, laundry basics, appliance troubleshooting, budget-friendly grocery shopping, simple cooking, safe food storage, and everyday problem-solving, it’s perfect for readers looking for life skills books and practical adulthood guidance.
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE
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Navigate life's awkward, funny, and sometimes challenging social situations with entertaining stories and practical insights about confidence, communication, relationships, and everyday etiquette.
Explore a collection of practical, engaging books designed to help readers navigate real-life challenges with greater confidence. Blending useful guidance, relatable situations, humor, and straightforward strategies, these books make complicated topics easier to understand and everyday obstacles easier to manage. Whether facing career decisions, workplace challenges, or personal growth, readers will find approachable insights they can put into practice.
STEM ACTIVITIES
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Turn learning into an adventure with engaging science, technology, engineering, and math books featuring hands-on activities, experiments, puzzles, problem-solving, and exciting discoveries.
Super STEM Adventures: Exciting Science Experiments to Try at Experiments to Try at Home (5 book series)
Everyday Science Experiments: STEM Activities for Kids at Home!
Survival Science: The Coolest Experiments to Help You Stay Safe
Everyday Science Experiments: 30 STEM Activities to Inspire young minds
Everyday Science Explorers: New STEM Activities for Kids!
The Science Squad’s Experiment Book: STEM Fun for Kids
Survival Science: The Coolest Experiments to Help You Stay Safe
Super STEM Adventures: Exciting Science Experiments to Try at Home is a fun, hands-on STEM activities book designed to spark curiosity in young scientists. Packed with simple, engaging science experiments—like building a volcano eruption, making magnetic slime, creating a balloon rocket, and growing color-changing crystals—this kid-friendly science experiment guide turns any home into a science lab for learning through play. Ideal for parents, teachers, and kids who want educational science activities, STEM learning for kids, and exciting at-home experiments.
SURVIVAL
FEATURED SERIES
Build preparedness, resilience, and confidence with practical survival knowledge, outdoor skills, emergency readiness, problem-solving strategies, and adventures that encourage readers to be ready for the unexpected.
Mastering The Storms – Tornados
Mastering The Storms – Blizzards
Mastering The Storms – Hurricanes
Explore a collection of practical, engaging books designed to help readers navigate real-life challenges with greater confidence. Blending useful guidance, relatable situations, humor, and straightforward strategies, these books make complicated topics easier to understand and everyday obstacles easier to manage. Whether facing career decisions, workplace challenges, or personal growth, readers will find approachable insights they can put into practice.
THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL LIBRARY (13 book series)
Firecraft – Mastering The Flame
WESTERNS
FEATURED SERIES
Ride into stories shaped by rugged landscapes, frontier communities, personal courage, loyalty, perseverance, and characters determined to build a life against the challenges of the American West.
Explore a collection of Western books filled with frontier adventure, rugged landscapes, courage, loyalty, and perseverance. From small-town communities and open-country journeys to characters facing danger, hardship, and new beginnings, these stories capture the spirit of the American West. Readers who enjoy Western fiction, frontier stories, and tales of resilience will find adventure, heart, and unforgettable characters.