Through the advent of the age of artificial intelligence, employing intentionality when using this cutting-edge technology to create insightful products will be the only way for anyone to set themselves a cut above the rest in an increasingly automated world.
In Long Lost Midwife, Skye Smith drops a simmering domestic standoff into segregated 1930s St. Louis—and lets it burn. What starts as one woman’s insistence on choosing who helps bring her child into the world quickly becomes a pressure test of marriage, class performance, and the violent boundaries a community is determined to enforce.
If you’ve ever wished a middle grade adventure could feel like an escape room designed by a kid with unlimited glitter, snacks, and zero respect for “normal,” Trapped is exactly that ride. It follows Ava—an inventive, sporty, claustrophobic eleven-year-old—who stumbles into the facility of Dr. Heynis and gets pulled into a maze of riddles, traps, and utterly unhinged surprises. What starts as a “get out alive” challenge quickly becomes a loud, funny, surprisingly warm story about fear, friendship, and the kind of bravery that shows up even when you’re shaking.
The Thin Door is a YA coming-of-age slipstream tale where a teen steps through a reality-bending “thin door” and must untangle who she is across two worlds.
After years of “almost, but not quite,” Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere is finally back in the adaptation spotlight in a…
Wooden Dolls Game is a dark, emotional family drama with a speculative twist. Instead of grand sci-fi mechanics, it gives us something more intimate: a girl who can rewind time and a family that keeps breaking in different ways no matter how many times she tries to fix it.
If your reading life lately has involved dragons, deadly trials, magical schools, brooding love interests, and a lot of…
The Chosen Tenant takes a deliciously unnerving “what if” and refuses to let you look away: what if the way your brain processes language—especially under medication—could physically rewrite reality? It’s a story that starts in the familiar grind of deadlines and executive dysfunction, then slides into speculative horror with a very specific flavor: the kind that feels like it could happen to you if you answered one more email while running on fumes. And once the book reveals what the house really is—an archive that literalizes idioms and stores them behind labeled doors—it becomes clear you’re not just reading a haunted-house story. You’re reading a systems story.
Loneliness isn’t an emotion reserved for adults—kids feel it, too, often in quieter ways. A Friend for Hope by Amie White, illustrated by Olena Oprich, taps into that truth with a gentle story about a new beginning, a shelter dog, and the kind of friendship that doesn’t fix everything instantly—but makes life feel a little less heavy.
David sees his face looking back at him. Him. But not him. The features are skewed, giving a rough approximation of what a computer would think he might look like twenty-five years on from his own disappearance.
