Light Weaver by Lusine Torossian follows the story of a relic thief named Satya Lumian, who experienced the loss of her mother and brother five years prior in a massacre that eliminated the last of the healers and magic weavers. Satya could have never imagined...

Harp and the Lyre: Exchange by H. C. Roberts brings something unique to the table—a fantasy story that comes with music. Throughout the book, there are QR codes that let readers listen to fourteen songs, making the story even more immersive. The plot moves between...

Pickles the Mermaid by Laura Strachan is a children's picture book that follows the story of its titular mermaid, Pickles, who loves eating pickles and enjoys spreading joy by asking her sea friends if they would like a "tickle or a pickle." However, she faces...

I Love That Girl by Hannah R. Goodman follows the lives of four childhood friends as they navigate love, friendship, and sexuality in their college years. Nori, Ethan, Andy, and Gwen were inseparable in high school until graduation. But they started drifting apart when their...

Harp and the Lyre: Exposed by H.C. Roberts is a unique first book in a dystopian trilogy. Exposed begins in a country just before its takeover. Viona was raised by a father who left his traditional upbringing to marry her “foreign” mother. She befriends Ezra,...

Morsels: Tales of Love and Passion by Sera Maddox Drake is a collection of short stories. The subtitle perfectly summarizes its subject. A Tale as Old as Time gives a sneak peek into the passionate life of Beauty and her captor, Beast. The Muse is...

An Old Soul by M. Kevin Hayden is a gripping narrative centered around Isaac André, a young African American who feels lost in his life in 1996 Chicago. Working at a video rental store, Isaac struggles with feelings of displacement, family responsibilities, and the quest...

Gripping Grace in the Garden of Grief (A Place for the Heart) by Marcia P Earhart is a non-fiction book on grief and hardship that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who have or are currently experiencing grief in...

The Lightning People Play by Tim Cummings is a young adult novel that mixes elements of magical realism with deeply grounded emotion. Kirby Renton is a 14-year-old boy trying to hold his family together. His younger brother Baxter suffers from intense seizures and begins talking...

Twice Over a Man: A Fierce Memoir of an Orphan Boy Who Doggedly Determined a Finer Life by Orvin T. Kimbrough is an inspiring memoir that follows Orvin's life from trial to triumph. Orvin starts by sharing 23 personal growth principles that guided him throughout...

Greek by Osmosis: My Life on a Small Greek Island by Laura Aristidou Candris is a memoir that transports readers to the Cyclades through vivid detail and wry storytelling. Beginning with her marriage to Aris, a Greek national she met in Kentucky, Candris chronicles a...

In Do Not Resuscitate by Scott Eveloff, MD, Harry Lindmark, an intern at Narragansett General Hospital, experienced the loss of a young patient who was not meant to die. Doctor Travis, a patient of Harry, warned Harry that years ago, he had alerted his colleagues...

The wave of independence that swept through Africa during the 1960s saw major political realignments. Exceptions were South Africa, the Portuguese territories, and Southern Rhodesia. The latter declared independence unilaterally from its colonial ruler in 1965, and became involved in an escalating bush war against...

Eafin Lokdore and the Magician’s Lost Medallion by R.G. Edwards is a modern-day fantasy tale that reads like a classic from the 1800s. The story takes place in a faraway kingdom where magic still exists and good can still triumph over evil with a little...

ABRACADABRA by Terry Bean follows Dani, a young girl who leaves home during an argument between her parents and goes to a lake she often visits. There, she picks up a branch shaped like a wand and notices her reflection speaking from the water. The...

Sometimes in life, we feel like we're all alone. Problems seem so big that we start to think there's no way out. However, in adversity, we can be sure that God is always taking care of us. He puts obstacles in our way so our...

In Michelle Miller’s Where the Clouds Cannot Find Me Revisited, Marisol is a mother in Mobile, Alabama, whose life narrows to a single imperative after her infant son Jacob Oliver is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. As doctors work to stabilize Jake, Marisol...

Hop's Tales: The Kind Bunny by Evelina Ruimy follows Hop, a little bunny who enjoys going to school and telling his sister, Fluff, all about his awesome day there. Hop even meets a puppy named Ruff, who laughs at him for liking class a lot....