Who knew a closet full of shoes could hold so many journeys? If the Shoe Fits by Angie El-Zarad is an endearing picture book that invites young readers to explore different adventures, one pair of shoes at a time. At first, each pair seems quite...

Keith Thorn’s No Mud: No Lotus uses the metaphor of mud to describe difficult life experiences such as grief, loss, burnout, and depression, which often precede healing or renewal. He argues that cultural habits encourage avoiding pain, but meaningful change requires fully experiencing discomfort rather...

It had been three months since Eff, a teenage girl from Earth, had arrived on the alien planet whose name she didn’t even know. She was suffering from partial amnesia and had no memory of her life before then. Eff had been surviving alone on...

Following the murder of Kestra, a member of the Nabukko camp, Eff is put behind bars on suspicion of the murder and two other prior murders. Her fate remains uncertain until Merula summons her and makes a shocking announcement. She offers Eff a science officer...

Monsters Arise! by John DeGuire begins after a near-fatal attack in London, with Vlad Dracula III awakening with a transplanted human heart and discovering that his survival is part of a wider operation run by Dr. Moreau. Escaping confinement, Dracula follows a trail of stolen...

Bridge Between Two Worlds: From Sarajevo to London by Dr. Serge Mac, or Srđan Macanović, is the memoir of his childhood in Sarajevo into adulthood, shaped by war and displacement. He grew up in Grbavica in a family anchored by routine and familiarity. Later, as...

In Bad Dreams and Bad Memories, Keith Thorn explains how these two issues continue to influence everyday reactions when the body responds to stored impressions, as if those earlier conditions still exist. He tells us that these responses begin before conscious thought and reflect patterns...

In No Regrets: The Freedom Beyond What Can’t Be Changed, Keith Thorn traces how he spent years chasing achievement, and the journey to finally turning toward the memories he had spent much of his life trying to outrun. As regret surfaces in middle age, Thorn...

In This Kindness Prepares Another, Keith Thorn isn't interested in giving us a polished, ego-driven victory lap. Instead, the book feels like a quiet, almost startlingly honest dismantling of the person he used to be. Thorn deconstructs the defensive walls he spent decades building, looking...

A Walk in the Dark: The Invisible Man by Niknesha Hairston tells the story of Gabriel “Gabe” Omen, a blind forensic psychologist and FBI consultant with Heightened Sensory Detection (HSD). Before all this, Gabe was just a young boy with a loving family. Unfortunately, a...

You Can't Change The Past by Keith Thorn is about something we all do, even if we don’t always notice it: thinking again and again about the past. The author explains how we replay moments in our heads of things we said, choices we made,...

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...

In What’s Your Nineveh? When Running from Your Calling Becomes Its Own Kind of Hell, Keith Thorn turns the biblical account of Jonah into a question of what happens when a person keeps refusing the duty God has placed on them. In the Bible, Jonah...

The Warrior in the Garden by Keith Thorn is a beautiful, reflective book that narrates the story of young Kaori. She starts her journey under the watchful guidance of her Sensei in a dojo. Most stories about any martial art focus on the discipline of...

After years of trying to make life predictable, Keith Thorn finds that fear keeps returning even after loss has taught him that no amount of planning can stop change. In his book High Intention. Low Attachment, he follows the daily cost of that reflex as...

In Keith Thorn’s Worth the Trade, time is the currency behind every decision. Thorn begins with money because it is the cost people count, then changes the question from what a thing costs to what it asks of a life. A possession has a receipt,...