In The Juror’s Secret by Jimmy Ray Conner, the shining star in the story is elderly widow Grace Tilley, who works at the Bay Savings Bank in Cow Hollow. While this upmarket suburb of San Francisco is a lively and thriving area, there are problems....

Lynn was 39 years old when she met Tony at the swimming pool at Columbia University in New York City. Tony was 29 at the time and was going through a divorce, but they clicked and got married three years later. Life went well for...

Joy Michelle Austin’s The Cost of Sensibility tells a modern story about survival, responsibility, and choosing honesty when silence is easier. Rick Wentworth is rebuilding life after years of confinement and abuse, learning parenting, therapy, and how to approach marriage with Marianne, who expects openness...

Making My Way by Damaris Melo-Gyasi is an inspiring story that follows the journey of a Brazilian girl with a dream of becoming an architect. After seeing an architect discussing a plan for her family’s future home with her parents, Damaris decided she was going...

Keith Thorn’s The Distance We Didn’t See is an incredibly raw, quiet book that looks at how family rifts actually happen—not usually through one big explosion, but through years of small misunderstandings and unaddressed pride. Thorn is brave enough to look back at his own...

Laura Briel Sullivan has written an adult tale for those who are grieving in Sailing With Angels. The story is both gracefully poetic and extraordinarily visually beautiful. Princess Briel takes her sailboat out on the open water. Along the way, she meets many characters who...

Linda Soules’s So You Want to Be a Ballet Dancer introduces young readers to the demanding and artistic world of ballet. The book explains that ballet is far more than graceful performances onstage. It is a discipline built on years of physical training, repetition, precision,...

In Beauty and Pain-Relieving Tips from a Massage Therapist, K.J. Walt tells us that people lose physical well-being gradually when they stop paying attention to the connection between daily behavior and bodily condition. Drawing from personal illness alongside years spent working in massage therapy, Walt...

A 60-year-old man had nagging questions about his life. Reluctantly, he turned to AI for answers. The response was unexpected, and the answers pointed him in a new direction. Robert John Popoff shares his remarkable journey in The Algorithm and the Soul: An Unexpected Grace....

Chaperones by Megan Karasch is a fantastic novel of self discovery and growing up, even when the main character is already 26. Andrea was so over protected while growing up she never learned anything about life or herself. Her only enjoyment came from behind a...

With Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Tilia Jacobs gives us the story of Tsara, a Jewish housewife who receives an invitation to a ball that she doesn’t really want to attend. The reason? It’s being held by her uncle with whom she has had no contact...

Nadia's Obsession by Charles D. Martin is number two in the saga of Nadia. Orphaned and forced to grow up in deplorable conditions in a Russian orphanage, she escapes to the United States as a mail-order bride. She is both intellectually unrivaled as well as...

A Measure of Blood by Kathleen George is a beautifully conceptualized and masterfully developed novel about unusual circumstances and things gone terribly wrong. Nadal Brown wants to be included in the life of a seven-year-old boy he believes to be his son. Maggie Brown is...

In Burn Out by Kristi Helvig, seventeen-year-old Tora lives on planet Earth, but it is on an Earth far different from our own. After the world was saved from a planet-destroying asteroid, the diverted asteroid missed Earth and collided straight into the sun. Now with...

War of Wings is the fantasy debut of Tanner McElroy and chronicles the war between angels and the rise of Lucifer and his 200 fallen. A prequel of sort to Genesis, War of Wings is told in alternating points of view between Gabriel - an...

Cherringham - Murder on Thames: A Cosy Crime Series is a joint writing project by US-based novel and games writer, Matthew Costello, and UK-based producer and writer, Neil Richards, to produce 12 mystery novellas over a year, based in the fictional English town of the...

Elderberry Croft by Becky Doughty is the story of Willow Goodhope and the way her presence brought together many of the residents of The Coach House Trailer Park, changing their lives in ways that they never even knew needed changing. Willow Goodhope moves into a...

. Knocked Down But Not Knocked Out is a book about how to handle adversity and trials. Omosigho gives plenty of scripture to back up his advice. It's a book all of us need to read and glean from. Yes, there are things you've already heard;...

A Bad Reputation is the latest Madeleine Maclin mystery by Jane Tesh, starring former beauty queen turned artist and private eye. In A Bad Reputation, Wendall Clarke becomes the talk of the town when he comes back to the small town of Celosia, North Carolina...

The Oregon Kids: The Big Catch by Bob Richley is a beautifully written children’s book about morals and character. Billy loved to fish with his dad. One day, his dad announced that the family was going on a camping trip. Billy couldn't wait for an...