Newsletter for November 2026

Featured Books

Somewhere right now, someone is getting paid to invent an ice cream flavor that has never existed before, and this book shows kids exactly how that job works.

It looks easy. Just eat ice cream and call it science, right? But inventing one perfect scoop is a serious food science challenge, and the road from a wild idea to a finished flavor is paved with chemistry, creativity, and cup after cup of patient tasting. This beautifully illustrated nonfiction book follows a real flavor inventor through every step of the process, giving young readers an honest, fascinating look at one of the most creative careers in the food industry.

Kids will learn how taste actually works, and why the nose deserves most of the credit. They will find out why cold hides sweetness, why the color of a scoop changes the way our brains experience flavor, and why most new creations fail long before one finally clicks. These are the kinds of facts readers will repeat at the dinner table, in the classroom, and to anyone willing to listen.

Speaking of facts that stick: vanilla is the world's most popular flavor and the second most expensive spice on Earth, after saffron. A twelve-year-old boy once helped make it available to the world. There is a real ice cream graveyard in Vermont with tombstones for retired flavors. And one professional taster's tongue was insured for a million dollars.

More than fun facts, though, this is a real look at what it takes to build a career where science and food meet. Young readers discover the kitchen experiments, science classes, and skills behind jobs in food science, flavor chemistry, sensory science, and the culinary arts. Hands-on activities encourage kids to start experimenting with flavors and ingredients at home, turning their own kitchen into a food science lab.

Part of the So You Want To Be A... series, which takes one dream career per book and explores it with the depth and respect that curious kids ages 10 to 14 deserve. Every page is illustrated, every page is honest about the challenges, and the whole book is built to spark the kind of wondering that leads somewhere real.

Whether your reader wants to invent the next legendary dessert flavor or simply loves understanding the science behind what we eat, this is a book that earns its place on the shelf.

Taste everything. Invent it.

 

In the wake of the devastation at Colley, Jaml seeks solace in prayer and relentless training. As part of his journey to heal, he reluctantly joins a fellow Reaper on a mission to track down a wayward prince. But what begins as a pursuit quickly spirals into a harrowing battle against emerging forces of darkness: kingdoms falling under the shadowy manipulation, vengeful kings, and a fallen angel bent on igniting a war of unimaginable proportions.

 

Caught in the chaos, Jaml faces a horrifying revelation- a new kind of monster has risen, and it is one he has sworn to protect: mankind itself. As morality blurs, he must grapple with an impossible choice: to protect humanity at all costs or to follow his divine directives and eliminate evil. Every step brings him closer to his greatest fear and most lethal foe- the Dark Reaper.

 

Set in the infancy of Christianity, this gripping saga unfolds as Lucifer's minions wage war on mankind, with the Reapers- God's superhuman warriors, protectors, and avengers- at the forefront of the battle between good and evil, while demons and lycans thrive on fear and flesh, and humans begin their climb in the cosmic conflict between heavenly brothers on different sides of the divine spectrum.

 

Follow Jaml, the killer of the fallen and wielder of the Sword of Darkness, as he forges his destiny and leaves an indelible mark on history in this epic tale of faith, war, and redemption.

 

I Should Have Known Better by Larry Lentchner

 

Larry Lentchner delivers a confident and captivating read in his latest novel, I Should’ve Know Better. I Should’ve Known Better introduces protagonist Phil Green, a neurotic, functionally dysfunctional everyman who stumbles, bumbles, fumbles—and obsessively overthinks—his way through life.

 

About I Should’ve Known Better:  I Should’ve Known Better invites readers into Phil Green’s textured, tumultuous, often tentative journey:  from his fevered youth in the Sixties to intoxicating affairs, from ambitious failures to quiet domestic triumphs. Dogged mercilessly by his relentless internal inquisitor at every twist and turn, Phil navigates crises—both real and imagined—revisits loves gone wrong, and recounts his trials, tribulations, and triumphs with a healthy dose of humor, self-flagellation, and candor.

 

In this phenomenal first-person fictionalized memoir, Phil soldiers through fifty years of romance, alcoholism, two marriages, fatherhood, chancy career moves and cancer. As he grapples with life, death, divorce, and ever-present doubt, Phil shrewdly and candidly details his highs, lows, and in-betweens. Ever desirous of doing the next right thing, even while his confidence about what is right is torturously elusive. Phil traverses a path fraught with successes and failures, ghosts from the past and a healthy dose of rumination about the future.

 

A novel that is at once witty, tragic, triumphant, and philosophical, I Should’ve Known Better is a story of survival—even as Phil doubts himself at every turn. Moreover, I Should’ve Known Better examines the choices that feel inevitable until they aren’t; what we learn only after loss; and the surprising forms love takes across decades.

 

Novelist Larry Lenchtner delves deeply into the human psyche to craft a character who is at times maddening, alternately endearing and exasperating, but utterly, unquestionably human. In this compassionate, brilliantly rendered tale, Lentchner has developed a richly-drawn protagonist we can root for. Meticulously crafted, peppered with wry humor, and brimming with hard-won wisdom that belies fiction, I Should’ve Known Better is raw, deeply resonant and real. Engaging, eminently readable, and entirely relatable, I Should’ve Known Better is an exceptional story exceptionally well told. Readers will find solace in Phil’s confessions, courage in his perseverance, familiarity in his foibles, and an overarching sense of not being alone.

 

A book that gently reminds us that life exists on a continuum—there is love and loss, life and death, joy and sorrow—I Should’ve Known Better highlights how seemingly incongruous things, such as inner fiction and repressed truth, a desire to succeed and ambivalence about success, fear and perseverance,  and regret and acceptance, can, and do, coexist. Lentchner offers a companionable guide destined to resonate with readers who are mourning a past relationship, navigating middle age, or simply longing for honest storytelling.  A book that turns regret into reflection, I Should’ve Known Better shows how life, messy and imperfect, can still be meaningful.

 

Police Chief Ray "Big Ray" Elmore has spent twenty years keeping the peace in Split Tree, Arkansas, a town too small to hide its secrets—until the night that a farmhouse burns to the ground, leaving behind two bodies and more questions than answers. It could be nothing more than an accident except that half the county swears they've seen the dead couple's son, walking the streets of town—flesh and blood, scarred and changed, but very much alive.

There's just one problem. He’s been dead for over twenty years, buried somewhere in the sand of a Pacific island that Big Ray remembers all too well.

 

As Ray digs through fifty years of buried secrets—stretching from a convict's escape off a prison work gang to a decades-old death written off as an accident—every thread seems to loop back to the one man in Locust County he despises most. But connecting the dots may cost him more than he’s willing to pay. With a federal investigation bearing down, an old flame in danger, and the weight of every man he saw die in the war visiting him at night, Ray must decide how far he's willing to go to get justice for two people nobody else thought worth avenging.

 

Some ghosts need to stay buried.

 

 

 

Book Giveaways for November

Win a copy of The Taken Ones by J.A. Jance.  All you have to do is click on the book cover below.  It will take you to the main page.   Look for the giveaway on the left.  Follow the instructions listed.

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