In his memoir Scars of the Badge, Tom Lee describes leaving an electrical engineering path after a university Police Explorers program leads him toward law enforcement. Dispatching gives him his first view of police work before academy training places him on the other side of...

K. M. Cookie’s Song of Hummingbird Highway starts when Terri, a music lover, gets rid of her boyfriend. She refuses to shed a tear and cannot imagine that one impulsive night at a Santa Monica reggae club will change her life. Enter Reynold, a beguilingly...

In Cassandra's Daughter, author Destiny Arnold tells the true story of her mother through her own perspective. Her mother, Cassandra, was only fourteen years of age when she gave birth to Destiny. Her father was seventeen. Because of her young age, Cassandra didn't really know...

Of Princes and Patriots: Chronicles of the Threlphax by Laura Lee Dooley is a fascinating historical novel of early Siam (Thailand) in 1864 that weaves an element of science fiction into the narrative. When Chanchai was just a young boy hiding in a sugarcane field...

What would you do if you woke up without any memory of who you are? In Between Rooms by Adrian M. Mompoint is the story of a woman who experiences that phenomenon. The story begins as she’s waking up. She’s somewhere she doesn’t recognize, and...

When Amber Black was six years old, she heard the story of Cain and Abel. The story moved her so deeply that she has sought to maintain a close relationship with God ever since. After going through various life experiences, she has come to understand...

When sixteen-year-old Michael and his younger fourteen-year-old brother, Max, came up with the plan to build the National Hall of Champions and Learning Center on Childhood Cancer, they hadn't realized their idea would lead them to become champions of hope. Dream Big: The Hall of...

Worth at Work by Randy Haveson and Kat Nisson is a thought-provoking inside-out blueprint for transforming service across industries. The authors dismiss the “smile harder” trap of compliance in customer service, arguing that exceptional service should be the result of the internal sense of worth...

If you have ever tried explaining how macroeconomics affects global warming to an eight-year-old, you know how quickly their eyes glaze over. In A Kid’s Guide to Economic Activism for the Climate, author Kimberly Haidinger takes on that challenge by dropping readers straight into a...

Nehal Gandhi’s The Nonprofit Paradox takes a close look at how charitable giving changes once money passes through institutions that decide how it may be used. Drawing on over twenty years in the social sector across India and the United States, Gandhi says that the...

In All We Keep Buried by Pamela Ungashick, a friendship is tested when Kiera is caught up in the disappearance of her friend Naomi’s ten-year-old nephew, Scottie. Everyone suspects Reggie Parks. Reggie’s brother Evan disappeared years ago, and he was the prime suspect. After all...