In J. R. Wirth's The Institute, seventeen-year-old Melissa Jenkins wakes up from a terrifying, recurring nightmare. In her dream, Melissa encounters the same individual each time but cannot identify who he is. Melissa decided to volunteer at the Serenity Institute, where she began assisting Scarecrow,...

In The ISIS Gambit by Brad Carlson, Hezbollah launches an attack on Washington, Boston, and New York from Russian-owned cargo ships. The US President finds himself drawn into another conflict and sends out Special Forces to deal with what they believe to be a...

John Avery knows the Lord Jesus Christ well. His desire in writing The Kingdom of God: Our Life with Jesus the King is to share his closeness to Jesus with you. He is not our example but points us to Jesus and His Kingdom. In...

The Lie That Changed Everything is Gary Trew’s second emotionally turbulent and hilarious memoir about growing up in a challenging family dynamic with a military father with PTSD and a mother whose childhood trauma had lingering effects of its own. Gary shares his captivating story...

In John W. Bebout's The Light from Darkness, we meet seventeen-year-old Teddy Miller in Great Tortugas, off the Florida Keys. It’s 1864, during the waning months of the Civil War, and this desolate island is the location of a Yankee prison. Teddy has gone there...

David Litwack’s The Light of Reason is Book Three in The Seekers series, another brilliant and compelling entry to a series that is already growing long legs. In an alternate world, two seekers return from across the sea, having acquired exceptional knowledge and wisdom, with...

The Lights of Greyfare by Juno Guadalupe is a gothic horror novel set in a Northeastern coastal town where mysterious "lights" have appeared. Needful of change, anything to pull her out of a deep depression resulting from a nasty and brutal divorce, journalist Katherine "Kat"...

Young readers embark on a whimsical journey with a curious little fox who dreams of the impossible in The Little Fox Who Reached the Stars: Sammy and Comet by Peaches Murphy. This enchanting picture book introduces a world where desires can take flight with simple...

The Long Way Home is a work of fiction in the mystery and suspense subgenres and was penned by author Betta Ferrendelli. It is intended for the general adult reading audience and forms the sixth installment of the Samantha Church Mystery series. In a chilling...

The Magical Red Kimono by Jan Morrill is a thoughtful children's picture book about the beautiful friendship of two young girls from two different cultures. Sachi and her best friend, Jubie, enjoy spending time together. While sitting under a big oak tree that grew outside...

When someone steals a magical artifact, the combination of its loss and old secrets threatens a family's survival in the urban fantasy novel, The Magical Tarot Deck (The Madigan Chronicles Book 2) by Marieke Lexmond. Tara Madigan feels good after outwitting her sister Lucy by...

Lucas Mack's life is upended when he loses Addy. He seems to drift without an anchor, yet he is determined to start anew. So, he decides to test the Maelstrom. The maelstrom appears as a swirling circle of water for only three days each year,...

Chris Lengle introduces The Male Nurse Survival Guide as “a real, no-b[…]-s[…] survival guide” (elisions my own) to the world of nursing. As he notes, “[t]his is the raw, real, and uncensored guide to surviving as a male nurse” in the United States. As such,...

The Midas Effect has a very different premise, but it delivers. Author Manuel Dorado turns it into something that is a welcome alternative to the standard superhero and techno-thriller fare. The main protagonist, a young academic named Miguel Le Fablec, is formidable, yet he does...

Maureen Stanton chronicles her tumultuous journey through love, loss, and grit in her memoir, The Murmur of Everything Moving. She offers a dazzling portrait of her passionate yet complicated relationship with Steve, a man whose life becomes intertwined with hers just as he is diagnosed...

The Mystical Ark: A Vessel of Blessings by Eileen Patra is a novel that blends different genres into one story—adventure, visionary, and mystery, with strong spiritual themes. Photographer Elena Rowan and her archaeologist friend, Zak Erdmann, are on a summer field expedition when they make...

Lorenzo Maria dell'Uva's The Never-Ending Run: The Complete Guide to the New York City Marathon includes the race’s history, a mile-by-mile description of the race course, and a map of the entire route. Additionally, there is information on qualifying for the race and a year-by-year...

The Pentacle by Marieke Lexmond brings The Madigan Chronicles to a powerful and emotional close, drawing together the tangled threads of magic, family, and fate. As the Madigan women grapple with the aftermath of prior battles, the search for the Pentacle becomes the final test...

Petrina Soren had lost her parents in space at a young age and had ended up being raised in an orphanage. Now a teenager, she goes to Attike space station, the headquarters of the Intergalactic Coalition of Planets and its Space Forces, to apply to...

The Pianist's Only Daughter by Kathryn Betts Adams is a memoir that chronicles the author's life and, most poignantly, her role as a caregiver to both her ailing parents. Adams describes an upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s that teeters between her parents' talents and...

The Poetry Project: Genesis is a collection of narrative poems by Angela Williams. The poems are derived from the chapters of the Book of Genesis. From creation to the children of Israel in Egypt, the author discusses God’s faithfulness, unconditional love, and favor upon His...

The newly formed Creaping Bottom Post Box Topper Society is determined to knit stunning post box toppers each month. Despite their January topper being labeled a disgrace and an eyesore by an anonymous email, the team continues knitting creatively themed toppers every month: hearts for...

“Look up! Penelope Pym! For the love of God, look up!” Those profound words were all that was needed to grab Penelope’s attention from her reading. She was sitting on a park bench in Central Park, as she did every Saturday morning, oblivious to the...

Maximize your fullest potential and find success and fulfillment in your personal and professional life with The Process of Living. In this book, author Bill DeBarba presents a practical framework aimed at empowering people to help them enact the necessary changes that will set them...

The Promise of Justice: A Love Story by J. Jaye Gill is a compelling contemporary romance about forgiveness and justice. This engrossing drama centers on Regina, who endured a terrible crime but kept it secret from everyone, even her loved ones, for seven years. She...

The Queen of Fairy by Marieke Lexmond is the thrilling fifth installment and a satisfying conclusion to the Madigan Chronicles that deftly blends magic, adventure, and family drama. The story centers around the Madigan family's quest to help the Guardian of the Cup of Plenty...

The Rabbi’s Knight by Michael J. Cooper is an epic historical tale set at the twilight of the Crusades, full of twists, turns, betrayals, romance, and heroism. It accurately captures the mystique, majesty, and drawing power associated with the city of Jerusalem. Knight Templar Jonathan...

Colin Duncan spent six years in the Marines as part of a secret special ops group, regularly facing tense, violent, life-or-death situations. He now lives a peaceful life as an ordinary college student. Well, not quite ordinary. Ever since he was a kid, Colin has...

Ever since Max and his neighborhood friends watched the movie The Great Escape they had not been able to get it out of their minds. The movie was that good. It portrayed the efforts prisoners of war made to escape during the Second World War....

Considering the lattice that connects in-between spaces, reconnecting shards of distant memory, or staring at a sidewalk sketch after a downpour are among ways of approaching The Sandpiper’s Spell, the stunning poetry compilation by Tom Pearson. Whether interpreting a languid moment or creating a narrative...

The Secret Cave and the Light of the World by Sheila Hara follows Hiro, Lani, Wazi, and their parents as they set out to explore a cave marked on an old map. Led by Papa, they carefully follow the path underground, encountering natural obstacles like...

The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia by David J. Mason tells the story of the author’s great-grandfather, Parson Sykes, and his journey to freedom during the Civil War. The author does a remarkable job of setting up the details of the...

I wonder if you have ever read a book like The Ships We Sail by Janet Helen Fix. These are 'Modern Fables for the Unfinished Soul.' Twelve short tales featuring an animal or thing remind us, rather than tell us, what we already know. A...

What has faith got to do with love? Can two people with extremely opposite beliefs love each other and make it last? You’ll find a surprising answer to such a dilemma in the exciting novel The Sinner’s Club by DW Plato, an engaging story laced...

The Soul Machines is a work of fiction in the history, mystery, family saga, and interpersonal subgenres. The work is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by Alexandru Czimbor. Set in Transylvania, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1800s,...

The Spaceman is a short story and poetry collection by W.B. Edwards. The book opens with The Roadside Diner where an old couple's tryst with altruism goes wrong when they let two teenagers inside their diner on a cold gray morning. A man crashes his...

Sometimes, second chances can be cathartic, and sometimes they cause more pain. Cameron Lane’s The Squaring of a Heart is sprinkled with romance and centered on coming home, fighting for what matters, and discovering that second chances often appear when you least expect them. Coming...

In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero, the master magician, intones: “We are of such stuff as dreams are made of.” This could be a summation of The Storm Behind Me: A Book of Poems and Pictures by Rory Piontkowski and Sheri Wiseman. It is a compilation...

Orah and Nathaniel are on a journey in The Stuff of Stars. It is a journey that began in the first Seekers book, The Children of Darkness. A journey that began with a desire to recover the wonders of an intelligence that existed before their...

The Talking Cow: Tales of the Barn Owl Bard by Timothy Swiss is a delightful children’s picture book that takes readers on a fun farm adventure. When a family visits a dairy farm with their children, they enjoy activities like swimming in the cow tank,...