Marie Curie's Radiant Quest is the second book in Dr. K's Portal Through Time -- a middle-grade educational adventure book series by Dr. Katherine E.A. Korkidis. After Jennifer learns about the incredible French scientist Marie Curie in class, she has a conversation with her grandpa...

Lily Starling and the Storm Riders by Christian Hurst, book two in the Lily Starling series, sees Lieutenant Lily up against a cult known as Leviathan’s Hand, whose attacks across planets suggest a coordinated plan involving forbidden technology and immortality experiments. After a failed rescue...

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...

Children absolutely love surprises, and a certain young pig is no exception. Welcome Baby Wigglet! by A.M. Berkowitz begins with young Gigglet playing in her backyard. Then her parents come outside and tell her that they have a big surprise for her. At first, she...

David Thomas Kay’s Christian historical novel, The Sword of Saint Isidores, is a detailed and compelling epic saga set in 10th-century Norway. The story is book 1 in The Circles of Time series. The story was inspired by a beautiful ceremonial sword, studded with precious...

David L. Wadley’s Kamala 2028 follows Mika Johnson, an organizer raised on the legacy of the Black Panther community activism. She discovers an artificial intelligence system developed by the founder of Halcyon Labs, who intends to use it to ruin the upcoming 2028 election and...

David L. Wadley's AI Stocks Made Simple teaches novices how to make their investment entrance into the stock market, leaning into how money flows through companies linked to artificial intelligence. Wadley tells us that consistent exposure to real market coverage helps to organically grow our...

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,...

The Mermaid Broker by Sue Hinkin is a thriller and the fourth book in the Vega and Middleton series, preceded by Deadly Focus, Low Country Blood, and The Burn Patient, reading as a stand-alone like its predecessors. This installment begins with a marine biologist named...

Sunflowers Beneath the Snow by Teri M. Brown is a touchingly poignant novel about the devastating effect on one Ukrainian family, of one man’s small battle against the might of the Soviet Union, and in support of the struggle for Ukrainian independence. Lyaksandro Hedeon Rosomakha,...

The sequel to Against My Better Judgment, Fire and Ice by B.T. Polcari will fascinate readers with this heart-pounding crime mystery that breaks boundaries. Sara Donovan’s job involves working in the museum’s vault, deep within the bowels of the main building. While she is working...

In The Perils of Autumn by Rusty Blackwood, we meet Autumn and her mother, Abigail, learn of their early struggles through flashbacks, and then join them in their 1970 present life. Abigail owns a dress shop and Autumn has graduated and earned her nursing cap....

I loved Return to Autumn: Part 1 of the 2-part sequel to The Perils of Autumn by Rusty Blackwood and once again spending time with my friends at the Landon Lawns Stables. Cyril and Autumn are the owners of the stable and immediately pull you...

“Revenge only ever leads to dead-ends.” Perhaps, but it can be so very enticing under the right circumstances. As humanity prepares to fight back in Aaron Ryan's novel, Dissonance Volume II: Reckoning, the motivation for vengeance is not only present; it screams for satisfaction. Promoted...

Korea Reunited: A Family’s Lifelong Dream by Irene Kim presents a poignant recollection of how the turbulent past of Korea tore families apart, including that of the author’s father. Kim Chi-Jeon, Irene’s father and the central figure of the book, reveals through rounds of interviews...

Smash All The Windows by Jane Davis is a dramatic tale of justice and faith. August 2003 in London was a day like any other – until it wasn’t. Fifty-eight people never made it home from work that evening. But they weren’t the only ones...

Agustina Gomez fled Peru with her father and sister, intending to cross the Mexican border, enter America illegally, and start a new life for themselves away from the clutches of Balea Xolo, aka la Ballena, a notorious Peruvian drug lord who nearly killed her. She...

Bianca: The Brave Frail and Delicate Princess by Meg Welch Dendler is a fascinating adventure story with fantastical characters. Princess Bianca has not seen the outside world. She lives a royal life within the Kingdom of Pacifico and has not gone outside the castle. Princess...

Max’s Wild Night by Meg Welch Dendler is the story of a runaway dog, Max, who is unhappy with his new routine where his play-time has been cut short because the Daddy-man and Mama-lady are both busy. One day when Daddy-man lets him out at...

Jay-Jay was an old double-decker bus (a bus with a downstairs and an upstairs), who was sent to the scrap yard because he was no longer used. In the scrapyard, children would play on him occasionally before the yardmaster began to scold them and say,...