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Reshona Landfair's WHO'S WATCHING SHORTY? RECLAIMING MYSELF FROM THE SHAME OF R. KELLY'S ABUSE, exclusive reveal by People Magazine. Read Here. 

RUNAGATE: SONGS OF THE FREEDOM BOUND by Crystal Simone Smith wins Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry by North Carolina Literary Review.

LULLABIES FOR THE INSOMNIACS by Ella Grace Foutz receives review from Booklist

BIG ENOUGH is included in the list of 1015 101 Great Books for Kids from Betsy Bird of SLJ's Fuse8 blog and Evanston Public Library.

Steven Varni's ARGH!, in which a grumpy bear has all eh needs or wants within the walls of his garden until a rogue weed's never-ending runner leads him beyond his walls and into the wide world, where he attracts one new friend after another.

LULLABIES FOR THE INSOMNIACS by Ella Grace Foutz receives review from Publishers Weekly.

SLEEPY SEA by Bonnie Kelso receives review by School Library Journal

Reshona Landfair's WHO'S WATCHING SHORTY? RECLAIMING MYSELF FROM THE SHAME OF R. KELLY'S ABUSE, about the author's intimate experience as a young teenager involved with the global R&B superstar R. Kelly in one of the most high-profile sex scandal cases of a generation, and how it impacted her life after he was exposed.

Author-Illustrator of THE OXHERD BOY Regina Linke's THE TAO OF NATURE, a collection of more than 50 modern interpretations of classic Taoist texts illustrated with the author's Chinese gongbi-style brush painting, providing readers a chance to explore the balance and resilience found in nature.

Screenwriting team William Robertson and Alex Zamm now represented by Liz Nealon. This screenwriting team is responsible for family entertainment such as Inspector Gadget 2, My Date with the President’s Daughter, and Under Wraps. 

Regina Linke's BIG ENOUGH has won the New England Book Award by the New England Independent Booksellers Association.

Author-illustrator and teacher of illustration Rebecca Solow's ZAZEL: HOW ROSA RICHTER CHANGED THE CIRCUS, SAVED LIVES AND BECAME THE FIRST HUMAN CANONBALL, about aeralist Rosa Richter, the author's great-great-great-step grandmother. 

Real Life Funnies cartoon journalist Stan Mack's MULE DINER, a collection of the strips that originally run in National Lampoon, plus extensive new material featuring comic strip stories. 

Justin Hayne's IBIS is shortlisted for the first Novel Prize 2025 by the Center for Fiction.

Leigh Therriault's THE DARK SHINE, about a boy who finds a ghost girl stuck in a haunted boot and must free her soul from the sole by solving the mystery of her death.

Peabody Award-winning journalist and Yemen expert Gregory D. Johnsen's THE HOUTHIS:AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF A BRUTAL MOVEMENT, a narrative history of the Houthi which aims to inform readers of how this rag-tag group of fighters in Yemen came to be, what they fight for, and how they have become a U.S security threat.

Author/Illustrator Jessie Lehson holds an MFA degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and was named a “2024 Inspiring Leader in the Children and Nature Movement” by the Children and Nature Network.” 

BOUND BY STARS by author E. L. Starling has received a starred review from Kirkus. Read the full review here.