Hedgehog's Halloween by Sara Louise Kelany is a lovely children's picture book about a grumpy hedgehog who is ready for his long winter retreat. It's late autumn, and Harry Hedgehog is about to hibernate. Yet what he doesn't know is that it's also time for Halloween. Thus,...

The Bible of Black Prosperity: Reclaiming Lost Black Wealth by Woody R. Clermont examines the historical and systemic reasons behind the racial wealth gap in America. The book provides a thorough analysis of the economic, social, and legal systems that have influenced Black prosperity and...

Dangerous, Black and Notorious tells the true story of Mary Ellen Pleasant, a powerful Black entrepreneur who lived during the 19th century. The book follows her journey from childhood to her rise as one of the most influential women in San Francisco during the Gold...

Spiritually Homeless follows Kris Girrell’s examination of how people register moments that feel significant outside religious structures, beginning with his own mountaintop event and moving through accounts of individuals who found their lives were redirected by inner prompts they could not ignore. Girrell traces how...

I Thought It Was A Sign by Dayna Mason follows fifty-four-year-old writer Anelie, who leaves her longtime partner after he chooses to travel with another woman. She packs two suitcases and goes to Mystic, Connecticut, where Michael, a man she once exchanged messages with, offers...

When Samuel Alexander arrives in Cornwall in 1969, he intends to research his heritage. However, an encounter with a voice at a cemetery leads him to Glastonbury, where he finds a rare and mysterious ring with ties to ancient history. After eighteen years of trying...

Pirate’s Alley by Thomas J Leveque is his second novel focused on the Chretien family. The narrative resumes with James Chretien encountering a distant relative as he relocates to Louisiana to join his family. Nanette Chretien, having been rejected by the Daughters of 1812, travels...

God Everywhere, God Everything by Elior talks about God’s presence by describing creation as an ever-active expression of divine thought, in which every location, natural process, and human life exists within God’s being. Elior says that the human mind functions as a limited counterpart to...

James believes he has his hands full with navigating life as a fifth grader. His strategy involves regular conversations with the friendly bus driver, Ms Tammy, about how to avoid his archenemy, Dylan. When his older sister Laura falls ill and is diagnosed with leukemia,...

In The Magical Farm Mysteries by A.M. Berkowitz, three young sisters, Avery, Avianna, and Ainsley, spend their summer vacation with their grandparents. While there, Uncle Timmy tells them about a magical bubble gum rock he once had as a child. According to him, if you...

Sheena, the Allen family cat, has already developed a reputation as an adventurer, so when the family packs up and heads out on another trip, the wily cat does not hesitate to sneak onto the vehicle and join them. She quickly discovers how unforgiving the...

Young readers are invited to move their bodies while lifting their hearts to God in Praise and Play to Start the Day by Christine L. Henderson. Each of the exercises is paired with a rhyming line of thanks that turns everyday movements like running in...

The Innkeeper’s Son by Christine L. Henderson opens with Marcus, the main character, pretending to be an important centurion who rules over toy soldiers. But Marcus’s mother abruptly asks him to bring blankets to their stable, where his father is seeing to new lodgers. At...

Barry Robbins's 6-3 and 5-4: Betrayal From Within tells the story of modern America through twenty-five Supreme Court rulings that speak for themselves. Each chapter gives a case a voice, turning decisions like Dobbs, Bush v. Gore, and Salinas into narrators that react to the...

Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines by Adrienne Caldwell is a deeply moving, horrific memoir of one woman’s dysfunctional childhood marred by neglect, physical, mental, and sexual abuse by the very people who were supposed to care for her. After constant abuse her entire life, the...

Dark Roots by Sheldon Higdon is a taut psychological thriller that will keep readers riveted to the pages. Benjamin Cole is a successful journalism professor living near Pittsburgh. After a two-year relationship with Aisha, a solo mum and also a university professor, the pressure is...

Bucket Lists and Walking Sticks by Emma Scattergood is the first of a series of travelogues that document the author and her husband Darryl’s adventures in travelling around the world by a variety of means. An inveterate blogger from Australia, the author has compiled a...

Paddy and the Banshee by Marty Martin is a memoir about a boy named Paddy who grows up between rural Ireland and New York City during the 1960s. His life is full of constant change: moving from one place to another, dealing with his parents'...

The Arts Council by Dolly Gray Landon is a razor-edged satirical poke at the pretentiousness of the art world and asks the question: What exactly constitutes art? The Pimpleton Arts Council is an extraordinarily powerful body in the city of Pimpleton. Run by a group...

In The Juror’s Secret by Jimmy Ray Conner, the shining star in the story is elderly widow Grace Tilley, who works at the Bay Savings Bank in Cow Hollow. While this upmarket suburb of San Francisco is a lively and thriving area, there are problems....