Klood P. Trouvay’s Embers in the Salt introduces us to Syra, a woman who has survived the worst of New Merserat’s fighting pits only to end up doing forced labor for the city officials. She’s a survivor through and through, with the nickname Greykiss, like...

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...

Helyn Dunn’s Valor is the riveting and well-crafted story of Ena, a young Druid, and her quest to find purpose and meaning in her life. This is Book 2 of The Evensong Enchantments Trilogy, and many details of Book 1, Sacrifice, are interwoven. The story...

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,...

In Kerie Logan’s Becoming a Divine Messiah, on New Earth, Danica turns twenty-five and enters Becoming, the rite that begins adult life after humanity’s Great Awakening. Her guide, Paula, introduces her and her twin brother, Ryan, to the history behind their communal world, where money...

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,...

In Tony Perez’s The Dragon and The Eagle, former Delta operator James Chase now serves as the personal security officer for Secretary of Defense Michael Andrews. When China fires on the USS John S. McCain during a naval patrol in the South China Sea, surviving...

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...

David Pinkston’s The Untold Story of Satan’s Seed is a theological study that gives readers an argument over spiritual authority. Using the King James Bible, the author posits that every person must measure religious teaching by the words of Jesus because no church leader can...

In introducing The False Paradigms of Today and the Timeless Truth of Tomorrow, John Bliss states that “We can never know what is true,” and that what we understand as truths are merely those things that most people can agree on. The book is a...

In Solace Enough by Brian A. Brooks, Austin and Helen move from Texas to New York and open a photographic studio. They begin a new life after years apart and tragic losses: his mother’s death due to ovarian cancer and her family’s deaths in a...

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...

Nature Against by Delenda Carthago starts in a sterile dome city where a computer system controls every human decision. We follow Ziyue, a woman who is done with this forced perfection and just wants an exit from the system, but the rulers won’t even let...

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...

Voices on the Wind -- Assault by Helena P. Schrader is an epic story of courage and defiance in the face of a relentless enemy and incredible deprivation. The first of a series based on the historic defense of the island of Malta by the...