In You Are Not Alone: A Recovery Coach's Journey From Addiction To Advocacy, Amy Sprague describes how a reliance on substances slowly turns into a life governed by fear and physical need. Using her own experiences, she shows how her attempts to quit alone repeatedly...

L.R. Merriman’s The Truth Dancer centers on Elenden deArthis, the isolated third son of a Northern noble family whose ability to perform truth dancing draws attention from hidden spiritual groups, Imperial authorities, and ancient enemies connected to the old elemental schools. After surviving an assassination...

In 1876, eighteen-year-old Loren Ardoin left his home in Louisiana, escaping from the lingering aftermath of the Civil War, heading west with only his worn guitar. After days on the railroad and drifting through towns with his music, Loren ends up in Nogales. In this...

Lonely When You’re Dead by Roy Chaney begins with journalist Claude “Murph” Murphy caught in a violent sweep following a riot at a Quebec City poetry festival, setting up a story that combines crime, politics, and cultural unrest. Murph arrives in Canada on an assignment,...

In It’s Party Time! But Where Is My Outfit? by Sandra Ledesma, young readers meet a group of critters who live together in a treehouse. One day, a park ranger visits them with a surprise. He invites them to a celebration, promising cake and lots...

When Faith Is Shaken by Sallie Dawkins is a well-written book that offers hope to readers, especially during seasons of doubt, intense medical crises, unanswered prayers, and more, while guiding them through the path of recovery and wholeness. In five parts using dreams, metaphors, and...

In Aletheia by Michael Karlsen-Williksen, we follow a Norwegian astronomer who grew up on his Uncle Arne's tall tales about a UFO landing in the freezing north. Everyone figured Arne was just eccentric, but decades later, the protagonist is working at a LOFAR telescope in...

The Boy In The Back by Fern Lebo: A True Story of Survival in Auschwitz and Mauthausen tells the story of Jan Blumenstein. Jan was born in Nové Zámky, just like his father and his grandfather before him. Growing up, things were not rough for...

Couple Valentino and Heleanne are shopping in the local market when they come across a stall selling ‘Assassin’s Treats.’ The salespeople appear to be gypsies, and Heleanne jokingly asks them if they’re assassins. Not given a complete answer, the couple is left wondering. Shortly thereafter,...

What a smart read for smart kids! Designed for young readers, So You Want To Be An Astronaut by Linda Soules offers the budding space explorer just about everything a kid needs to know about travel beyond our pale blue dot. From where they work,...

Ava Over the Rainbow by Jennie E Nicassio is a wonderful, heartwarming story about learning to live with loss. Haidyn loved her dog. Ava never left her side; she stayed close to Haidyn and protected her, giving her friendship and love like nothing else on...

Jugular Vein by David Lasaine is about the struggles of families during the Great Famine in Ireland. It takes place during the years 1847 – 1848, and concerns the O’Sullivan family, Seamus and Elizabeth, father and mother, and their daughters Bridget, Catherine, and Mary. During...

Debra Maria Flint and Paul Murphy-Sanderson deserve credit for addressing a painful and long-neglected subject within Roman Catholicism in their book, The Sins of Mandatory Celibacy. Anyone who reads Murphy-Sanderson's testimony will sense that this was not an easy book to write. It gives voice...

Robbie Shell’s Bees on the Roof, as the title and beautifully designed cover suggests, is a children’s book about a colony of bees being cultivated by children on the roof of a building. The venue is the Meadow Hotel, where Nick the Head Pastry Chef...

The Blind Boy Who Saw The Invisible King by Austin M. Kairnes III centers on Joe, a blind boy who is very determined to find a mythical king hidden in a mountain castle. Joe believes this Invisible King holds the secret to his purpose and...

Space Cat in Paris by Dawn M. Aerts is about a cat who becomes a superhero in her own special way. This children’s picture book is inspired by the true story of a cat named Félicette. The tale begins in Paris, where the feline enjoys...

Rooted in Christ's Identity is a short novella by Sallie Dawkins. All the little sunflower seed has ever known is the Gardener's workbench. It is fond of all the neatly placed pots and plants. The little seed sees that the Gardener likes to tuck a...

Thoughts Etched in Words by V. Koushika is a collection of poetry, personal observations, affirmations, and hand-drawn storytelling by a young writer who began composing and illustrating her ideas at just eleven years old. The book is organized into several themed sections that focus on...

Green by Chuck LeGrande follows a quiet teen named Jamie, who flees his home in Queens after a confrontation with his father, carrying nothing but a hidden draft board letter and a book of drawings. His aimless wandering brings him to the rough edges of...

In To Me You See by Leo and Debbie Hamblin is a bold, unconventional memoir about two people who found each other as teenagers in 1979 in Monett, Missouri, lost each other to life, religion, marriages, and distance, and then found each other again nearly...