Jenn Whitmer’s Joyosity examines how workplace culture gradually pulls people away from meaningful work by normalizing exhaustion and emotional disconnection. Using experiences from educational leadership, Whitmer describes how institutions often demand constant output while ignoring the human cost created by fear-driven management and endless pressure....

Vietnam's Modern Day Boat People by Shira Sebban follows Vietnamese asylum seekers returned from Australia after arriving by sea, beginning with Tran Thi Thanh Loan, a Catholic mother facing prison in Vietnam after officials sent her family back. Sebban enters the case through a newspaper...

Life Is an Upward Spiral by Ansar Yawar begins with the problem of human misery and the question his Nana placed in his mind: why do so many people fail to be happy? Yawar answers through the image of life as an upward spiral, where...

The Parchment Burns, The Letters Rise: One God, One Lord, One Life examines the Shema as a declaration that refuses to separate belief from obedience. Robert John Popoff argues that Scripture presents hearing God as an act proven through the shape of a person’s life,...

Pitch Black: The Best Black Ads of the Past 50+ Years by Mark S. Robinson traces how Black Americans appeared inside advertising long before Black professionals took back the right to create those campaigns themselves. Beginning with slave notices printed in colonial newspapers, Robinson follows...

Navigating the Entrepreneur Sandwich™ by Sher Downing is a business and caregiving handbook for entrepreneurs whose aging parents begin needing regular support. Downing opens with the kind of phone call that can change an ordinary business day instantly, when a parent falls and family responsibility...

In Caryn Green’s Better Angel, a sixty-six-year-old Chicago journalist sets out in 2017 to cross America by train while researching a story about the Transcontinental Railroad. Lost in Washington, DC, she meets a lanky thirty-one-year-old man who claims to be Abraham Lincoln, physically returned from...

The Secret of the Smiling Rock Man by Joe Cappello is a collection of 14 short stories that readers will enjoy. All the stories are built around characters his father used to describe as having “rocks in their heads,” people who refuse to settle for...

Jenny L Cote is an extremely talented author. The Ark, the Reed & the Fire Cloud is sure to be a favorite of your child. The plot follows Max, a Scottish terrier, and Liz, a feline, as they lead other various animals to Noah’s Ark....

K Lynch offers readers an escape to the tropical island of Berneau, where love awaits and danger encroaches. Lynch begins his trilogy with a brief history of Berneau. The Million Dollar Therapist Carol Lindsey is the daughter of farmers who becomes the wife of a successful attorney....

This setting is Georgia, 1856. Cain and Olivia Breedlove buried their father a couple of weeks earlier. At the reading of the will a stipulation is placed on Olivia. She must marry within six months to a man of upstanding character and financially well off or...

I love historical books that take place during the Civil War Era, this book did not disappoint me. This book contains steamy scenes and graphic language. The characters make this book. Sophia, Gavin and Jesse have been friends since childhood. Jesse and Sophia have been pledged...

In From Zero to Christian in Just 35 Years, Lori A. Moore is very candid concerning her life. She was not raised in a Christian home. Her home life was unstable at the least. Her parents did not go to church and felt they were...

Sue’s Nightmare by Dean Roberts reminded me that ultimately we are responsible for our health and medical treatment. While I know that doctors and other medical personnel are mere humans, they sometimes forget that fact. In their arrogance they forget they are treating a fellow...

"Missing Andy" is an unusual love story. Author, Lori A. Moore, and her ex-husband, Andy, were best friends. They had a better relationship after their marriage ended than during their marriage. They went places together and always knew they could depend upon each other. Andy...

After saving Noah and family from the evil stowaway Charlatan aboard the ark in The Ark, the Reed, & the Fire Cloud, heroes Max and Liz, along with faithful mates Kate and Al, earn immortality and a directive from God to serve as His envoys...

Lori Moore begins her book by introducing readers to Grady. Grady has a new toy fire truck with siren, lights, and a horn. Grady likes to play pretend and slides down his imaginary fire pole. This is a flip me book. The other story is...

We're living in a time of economic turmoil. Each day we hear the jobless rate increases. Brenda Bence's How YOU Are Like Shampoo For Job Seekers could not have been published at a better time. She offers advice on marketing yourself. Bence is a Branding...

You've just graduated from college and have very little job experience, and yet they have high hopes of landing the perfect job, so does every other college graduate. How do you make yourself stand out in the crowd of job applicants? Brenda Bence has the...

The Last Dance of Gus Finley is a fictional account of an actual event. The setting was Friday, April 17, 1885, in Prestonsburg, in the eastern hills of Kentucky. Gus Finley was sentenced to die by hanging. For a year the prisoner had been housed...