In The Art of an Enlightened Woman, Sarah Voldeng defines empowerment as internal personal power derived from strength, confidence, and responsibility for one’s choices. She references Socrates on self-knowledge and continuous learning as foundational to empowerment. Voldeng’s Formula Factor Theory balances energizing “fill factors” and...

Sid Thatte’s Algebra begins by establishing arithmetic as the foundation for algebra through shared operational rules and categorizes numbers into real and imaginary types, explaining their properties and placements on the number line. The text elaborates on operations with signed numbers, order of operations, and...

Cooking with Judith: Comfort Foods Create WOW Eating by Judith Briles is an exciting cookbook full of tasty home meals and party dishes with detailed, step-by-step guides on how to make them using simple ingredients. Judith brings together a wide variety of easy recipes prepared...

Lynn Crandall’s Hear Me is the second book in the Dark Sides series, which continues the riveting saga of the Aeons, a group of beings endowed with extraordinary abilities fighting against the encroaching darkness that threatens the city of Auralia. The story follows Ainsley Durham,...

What would you do if you came across one little line that made you question everything about the twin you thought you’d lost? That’s the question that life unexpectedly presented to April Ashcroft in The Postcard by Mariela Dabbah. April’s Sunday routine was already off...

In Salvation of the Soul, James Harman explains that salvation includes spirit, soul, and body, linked to past, present, and future events. Harman states that salvation of the spirit is a past event received by faith in Christ’s completed work and is eternally secure. He...

The Billion Dollar Sugar Cube by Charles Jacobs is a riveting novel that centers on two Interpol agents, David Blum and Tina Santini, as they confront a global predicament unlike anything they have encountered before. A mysterious group known as the Global Futures Alliance (GFA)...

You Don't Know Me by Margaret Groh is a wonderfully complex murder mystery. Aging socialite Catherine Preston decides to visit her old friend in Philadelphia, forgetting that she died years ago. When she finally returns home, a vial of insulin is found in her purse...

In The Musher Man by Kevin L. Hostbjor, Denny Darkcloud is part Haitian and part Kootenai Indian. To protect him, his mother, Panacaea, adapts the way she raises him. From her, he learns the healing traditions passed down through the Haitian lineage. From his Kootenai...

With the ever-increasing volume of information we consume through digital media nowadays, sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. According to Michael Aaron Cody, traditional and current philosophical constructs have become increasingly redundant. The author advocates for a new intelligence paradigm grounded...

Of Light and Freedom is book two in Rachel Fallon's fantasy series, The Star Queen Chronicles. In book one, Of Darkness and Ruination, Asteria Zagreus, enslaved on Celesterra, is placed in the Dusk Kingdom and given to Prince Cyrus Tynan. Refusing submission, she plans her...

The Ascension Directive by Cal Lopez is a thought-provoking and intense science fiction novel that explores the consequences of unchecked technological power and the nature of human consciousness. The story follows Dr. Natasha Morgan, who develops SAGÉ, a digital entity, and teaches it what it...

Ernest McCloskey is a boy with a dream. Not content to remain in school, he envisages building an empire. In Ernest, author Andre Durivage has created a character whose vision is to run his own construction company, and as he gains a little success, he...

The Winds of War by Maggie Keith is a transporting first entry in the Descendants of Darkness series, and a beautifully crafted fantasy. The narrative introduces the imagined world of Libra, a realm on the brink of war. Era Vandemir is a young fighter who...

Cluster by Robert J. McCunney skillfully blends mystery, budding romance, and the ominous threat of terrorism. When Dr. Dan Murphy's healthy 28-year-old brother mysteriously develops a rare blood disease, Dan embarks on a quest to find answers. He meets the spirited journalist, Anna Carlson, who...

FG Laval's The Princess and the Spy takes readers to the enigmatic Kingdom of Malvas. Spymaster Etienne Martan is charged with maintaining the delicate political balance of Carentan, Malvas's neighboring kingdom. But during a lavish masked ball, Etienne is propelled into an unexpected controversy when...

Back From Suicide is a moving memoir detailing the life of Patrick Wood, a well-loved and gifted young man who struggled with mental health issues. With a vibrant social circle and a longed-for programming internship in Munich, Patrick seemed to be thriving. However, after a...

Where Summer Melts Christmas by Jéssica S. Scheumann is a gorgeous children's picture book. It follows Sofia and her best friend, Zeca, a cute penguin, as they spend Christmas this year in a new country with its own traditions. Sofia and Zeca both love Christmas, the...

The Gatekeeper by Bradford Kuhn follows John, a simple man living a simple life in the woods, when a woman shows up at his door injured and dying. She names John her heir before she dies, turning his world upside down. Now John is left...

Halley's Gathering by William Overstreet is a historical literary novel set in early 20th-century America, where Julia Halley operates a trading post deep within the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico Territory. She has gathered a diverse circle of companions, including a Southern doctor who provides...