Walls of Age by Clark Templeton is a riveting medical thriller that takes us to a region divided into the Elite and Commons Districts. Nate Walkins is a scientist working for an Institute in the Commons District on a cure for an aging virus. The...

When sixteen-year-old Michael and his younger fourteen-year-old brother, Max, came up with the plan to build the National Hall of Champions and Learning Center on Childhood Cancer, they hadn't realized their idea would lead them to become champions of hope. Dream Big: The Hall of...

Jessica Housand’s Blood Gilt is a crime saga that spans decades, following Alejandro Whitmore, the son of American mercenary Jared Whitmore, and Salvadoran revolutionary Ana Santiago. Alejandro thought he had left the world his father built when he was torn away from his childhood by...

If you have ever tried explaining how macroeconomics affects global warming to an eight-year-old, you know how quickly their eyes glaze over. In A Kid’s Guide to Economic Activism for the Climate, author Kimberly Haidinger takes on that challenge by dropping readers straight into a...

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...

Keith Thorn’s The Life I Still Want for You is a memoir of love written for the person who may one day have to keep living after his absence. Thorn begins with Melody, the woman whose presence taught him that love is happiness joined to...

Andrew Finlayson’s Mindset Towards Mastery delivers a practical guide for leaders and ambitious professionals and anyone who wants to lead, not just others but themselves. The book is designed to help leaders build conscious leadership. The author discusses what it takes to awaken personal potential...

All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a compelling, heart-rending, and deeply emotional portrayal of love, betrayal, family dynamics, and secrets left untold. Katrina Johnson, at seventy years old, is at a crossroads. Her beloved husband Sam has just died of cancer. She...

As the archivist with the Foundling Historical Society and Museum, Wrenn Grayson is employed to restore the mansion to its 19th-century original state as much as possible. The original owner of the mansion – a millionaire industrialist – prohibited the destruction of any family history...

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,...

Nehal Gandhi’s The Nonprofit Paradox takes a close look at how charitable giving changes once money passes through institutions that decide how it may be used. Drawing on over twenty years in the social sector across India and the United States, Gandhi says that the...

Lord March Rain: The Borders of Existence by Richard Meillear is a sense-awakening journey into the unknown and explores that age-old, burning question: what happens when we die? When just an ordinary, average human being, who had achieved no notoriety, success, or fame in his...

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,...

Edd Ahearn's In the Shadow of Beauty takes readers to the Yorkshire village of Norton, as veteran Tomasz “Ski” Bankowski enters a burning tradesmen’s office, where electrician Ben Carmichael lies dead beside scattered diamonds. After Ski rescues injured plasterer Aiden Anson, he learns that the...

After completing their first assignment, the six candidates of the Order of the Steel Rose—Mr. Carnby, Dr. Whitehall, Axel, Percy, Emma, and Jane—are accepted into the Order. However, they have many questions about the evil they encountered and the culprits in their custody. They soon...

Firecrackers is a riveting action thriller by A.W. Baldwin. Fourteen-year-old Nash and his friends live near Denver, at the base of the Rocky Mountains. It is summer, and the friends enjoy mischievous pirate games and all sorts of adventures. Once, walking through the woods, Nash...

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...

Salvatore A Trancucci III’s Sonny and Teresa begins in postwar Leavenworth, Kansas, where Sebastian “Sonny” Grasso has returned from Army service in Japan to play for the minor league Leavenworth Braves. Teresa is an Iowa-born student nurse at St. Mary’s when a baseball game introduces...