In John Cheyenne Wilbur's Grace Notes, Jerry Cradleman is a New Jersey athlete whose path changes after his best friend decides he no longer wants to live, and Jerry's own inherited faith begins to fail. He enters Princeton Seminary hoping the ministry will give him...

In B.A. Bellec’s Cobalt Lungs, after cobalt spores make outdoor air deadly, twenty-four-year-old Maddy lives inside Vancouver’s Rogers Arena, which has been converted into a crowded Safe Zone. Her father died there, her mother is gone, and her grandmother can no longer travel, so Maddy...

Echo of Atlantis: The Ūmdëdŭ Codex by KP Gillen is an enthralling YA fantasy with likeable characters. It has been sixteen years since Grand Elder Elijah Brightwater and his council successfully defeated Maximilian Obsidian, who wanted to open a dimensional gate. The next generation has...

What would you do to fit in? Author Becki A. Jacobson uses a real-life rescue dog, Murphy, as inspiration for the pup in The Adventures of Murphy and Me: Murphy's Credit Catastrophe. In this picture book, young readers meet a sweet beach-loving canine named Murphy....

Murphy is off to school. He doesn’t understand why, and he wonders if it’s really just about learning new rules. In Becki A. Jacobson’s The Adventures of Murphy and Me: Why Must I Go to School?, Murphy continually questions the importance of going to school....

The Adventures of Murphy and Me: When a Rescue Dog Finds His Forever Home by Becki A. Jacobson introduces Murphy, a rescue dog whose life changes when Becki welcomes him into her home. Murphy arrives as the new pup in her world, unsure of his...

Karen Hulene Bartell’s Indigo follows Chicago editor Raluca Olson to Birch Lake, Wisconsin, after an inheritance from great-aunt Winifred Nelson gives her a lakeside cabin from a relative she never knew existed. Raluca plans to sell the property and return to Chicago, but the cabin...

Banks do not offer credit out of kindness. Paul Allsbrook examines this thorny question in How Banks Get Richer by the Poor. It is in the consumer’s interest to understand the system. The author explains how credit works, along with the advantages and pitfalls. While...

From Battlefield to Breakthrough by Kristina Gibbons is a well-written book for readers struggling with the feeling of emptiness despite efforts to fully experience all that life has to offer. It offers readers a guide to understanding the enemy's operations and to building a profound...

In Killer Secrets: Hudson Valley Series Book 3 by Bonnie Traymore, Victoria is struggling with the consequences of a deadly secret. Four years earlier, Timothy Sutton, a sexual predator, had victimized Victoria and several others. Sutton was shot to death, but his death ended up...

Inceptum Incubus by Xen Ovid-Sophron-Naso draws us into an immense galactic conflict set between 28,050 AD and 30,050 AD, an era triggered by corporate greed and ancient grudges. We watch Euro-Galactic Prime Minister Margaretta Du Plessis pull a highly controversial move by replacing millions of...

Rachel Elwiss Joyce’s Lady of the Castle is set in late 12th-century England, where Nicola de la Haye is Lincoln Castle's hereditary constable while raising a household formed through two marriages. When an earthquake destroys part of Lincoln Cathedral and kills her young son Tommy,...

In Asher Shines Bright: A Journey of Hope and Light by Kristina Gibbons, we are introduced to Asher, a young fox, who feels sad and lonely on the night of Oakmeadow’s Festival of Lights, while everyone around him is happy. Ary, his friend, notices this,...

In Mohammed Zahid’s What Can Not Be Said, thirteen-year-old Arjun loses his mother Kaveri suddenly, leaving him and his father Ashok Kumar to rebuild their daily lives around one another. The return to school restores routine, yet ordinary outings remind Arjun of the home they...

Literary Echoes: Short Story Analyses by Fiza Pathan is an educational study of short fiction that teaches readers how to examine the details authors put into their stories. Pathan considers Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” by looking at the village ritual as a social practice accepted...

S.F. Baumgartner’s The Mercer Files Complete Trilogy brings together three connected suspense novellas centered on the Mercer brothers as separate investigations expose pieces of a decades-old conspiracy. In Black Gold Secret, salvage diver Luke Mercer is drawn into reporter Gemma Klein’s inquiry after Hurricane Tanya...

The Iron Vault by S.F. Baumgartner introduces readers to a high-stakes suspense story starring Navy Lieutenant Eli Mercer and forensic investigator Rosalie Tanaka. They’re brought together by a search for the truth behind the Blackwater offshore rig explosion, a disaster Eli needs to solve to...

As the World Burns by Aaron Ryan is a gripping sci-fi novel that follows fifteen-year-old Cooper Calloway, the most loved and most hated boy alive. A deep-core seismic experiment went catastrophically wrong when he was two. The result left Cooper with the power to unwittingly...

Mark Munsell’s The Shadow Ephemeris follows Mosaic, an aging Earth-observation satellite whose routine orbit collapses when ground stations suddenly stop answering and a Kessler cascade begins shredding low Earth orbit. With humanity’s commands gone, Mosaic gathers a group of surviving satellites and begins climbing toward...

Mom: I Love You to the Beach and More celebrates motherly love. Written by Becki A. Jacobson, it illustrates the beautiful relationship between a young girl and her mother. The background setting is a beach. The narrator reveals the feelings she has for her mother...