The Longest Day

Alicia Cahalane Lewis

Tattered Script Publishing

The Longest Day is a bold, contemporary, coming-of-age novella about the power of speech, personal choice, and the courage to uncover what lies buried, both in history and within ourselves. When Ellen Abigail Allen, a studious fifteen-year-old freshman at The Craftsman (an elite private school in Washington, D.C.), is falsely accused of stealing archaeological data that points to the location of Nefertiti’s lost tomb, her world shatters. What follows is a traumatic violation that leads to a chilling threat from her biology teacher: stay silent, or be expelled. Torn between fear and a desire for justice, Ellen stays silent. But when an ice storm traps her in the building overnight with her best friend, Sylvia, and the school’s outsider, Justin, secrets unravel. Together, the three teens confront what they have been hiding for far too long. A story of secrets unearthed, courage awakened, and wrongs made right.

Crimson Thaw

Bruce Robert Coffin

Severn River Publishing

In the unforgiving wilderness of Maine, a disgraced detective must confront his past to solve a chilling murder. Detective Brock Justice's career is on thin ice. Once the golden boy of Maine State Police, Brock now finds himself exiled to the remote northeastern wilderness, punishment for crossing the thin blue line. Assigned to the Major Crimes Unit—North, he suffers the added indignity of partnering with newly-minted Detective Chloe Wright, a rookie with her own hidden struggles. The pair’s uneasy alliance is put to the test almost immediately when a routine snowmobile retrieval in the coastal town of Blue Hill unexpectedly escalates into a full-blown murder investigation. Even as the case exposes the darkest corners of the town, their fragile partnership threatens to undermine the investigation at every turn.

Hideaway

Dave Morrison

JukeBooks

Jack Dupree has done a lot of things he regrets, and a lot of things he can't remember, but that's all behind him now. He doesn't drink or tend bar any more. He doesn't play piano any more, at least not in public. He works the door at a blues bar called the Hideaway; he is trying to put his life back together and move on. He does not feel obligated to find his missing brother—Danny is a charming liar and a loose cannon and has disappeared before. It is Annie, Jack's wild ex-girlfriend, who begs him to help. And when Annie is murdered, Jack has to find out who is responsible and bring them to some kind of justice. Little does he know, Jack is about to open a Pandora's box of family secrets.

Cramping My F!#ing Style: Feminine Rage Art & Calligraphy

Shayna Carreau

Live from America: How Latino T.V. Conquered the U.S.

Javier Marín

Planeta Books

Live from America, by Ogunquit resident Javier Marín, reveals the untold story of how a Mexican family and an audacious American entrepreneur built a Spanish-language media empire that forever transformed U.S. television. From the scrappy beginnings of the Spanish International Network in the 1970s to the rise of Univision and Telemundo, Marín unravels the political battles, cultural tensions, and unlikely alliances, among them Hollywood figures and presidential insiders who shaped Latino TV’s ascent against industry titans like Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch. Before Univision was a media empire, it was a rebellion, told in the language America tried to ignore. Blending investigative rigor and narrative flair Live from America is both a business saga and a cultural reckoning about language, power, and belonging in modern America.

Feminine Morbidity

Maya Williams

The Headlight Review

"As with all we tend, love is not linear. Some moments it breaks, others it flees like a comb from hair but it is here—where doubt ends and faith begins—that we find this dazzling collection of poems, moving us from our own understanding of expectation to the dream of reimagining. In Feminine Morbidity, we find an unapologetic writer able to walk the fine line of surprise and devotion, upending the long-held history of Western birthright and belonging. A lens that is at once an embodiment of resilience and uplift, this work is one of intention and reassertion. In an elevation of lineage and identity, Williams illustrates the true spark of liberation, acknowledging the spirit and language owed to that which we build in place of the empire" —Olatunde Osinaike, 2025 Headlight Review Poetry Chapbook Prize Judge.

Timberrr! A History of Logging in New England (Second Edition)

Mary Morton Cowan

12 Willows Press

This engaging nonfiction book for readers ages 8 and older explores 400 years of logging in New England. Logging was vital to the first European settlers’ survival, where conflicts arose with Great Britain over mast pines. Fascinating developments in the processes of cutting trees, transporting logs, and sawing them into lumber are described, and eleven vignettes portray the day-to-day lives of woods workers. Industrial advancements and environmental issues are introduced, and the book concludes with thought-provoking issues about the future of our forests. Timberrr! features more than 80 illustrations (including rare images from the author’s family archives) and contains a timeline, a glossary, enrichment sources, and a map—an ideal resource for use in classrooms, homeschool programs, museums, and libraries.

Sparrow Always

Gail Donovan

Illustrated by Elysia Case

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

In this heartwarming companion to Sparrow Being Sparrow and Sparrow Spreads Her Wings, Sparrow wants to help the guide-dog-in-training next door pass his test but soon finds she may be the one in need of help when she has difficulty staying on task in school.