In This Kindness Prepares Another, Keith Thorn isn't interested in giving us a polished, ego-driven victory lap. Instead, the book feels like a quiet, almost startlingly honest dismantling of the person he used to be. Thorn deconstructs the defensive walls he spent decades building, looking...

Keith Thorn’s The Distance We Didn’t See is an incredibly raw, quiet book that looks at how family rifts actually happen—not usually through one big explosion, but through years of small misunderstandings and unaddressed pride. Thorn is brave enough to look back at his own...

Open Hands follows Keith Thorn as the wound left by the father who abandoned him continues to shape his life well into later adulthood, until the painful distance that forms between Keith and his own children forces him to face the fear that has guided...

In What’s Your Nineveh? When Running from Your Calling Becomes Its Own Kind of Hell, Keith Thorn turns the biblical account of Jonah into a question of what happens when a person keeps refusing the duty God has placed on them. In the Bible, Jonah...

The Warrior in the Garden by Keith Thorn is a beautiful, reflective book that narrates the story of young Kaori. She starts her journey under the watchful guidance of her Sensei in a dojo. Most stories about any martial art focus on the discipline of...

“After all, I won’t say I’m completely innocent, but I’m not exactly… not guilty.” It's difficult to separate the guilty from the innocent in Blood Echoes, the latest novel from prolific author Aaron Ryan. It is also challenging to understand where the source of true...

After years of trying to make life predictable, Keith Thorn finds that fear keeps returning even after loss has taught him that no amount of planning can stop change. In his book High Intention. Low Attachment, he follows the daily cost of that reflex as...

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...

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,...

The Legend of Lutey and the Merbeing by J.R. McRae, with illustrations by Stefania Saccarola, is a religious-themed children’s story set in the village of Zennor on the dramatic northern coast of Cornwall. Loosely based on a Cornish folktale, it tells the story of a...

In The Saga of Haggle Lee Ho by J.R. Poulter, Haggle’s neighbors, who are rich haughty folk, constantly dismiss him and look down upon him. After all, how can a poor farmer be of use to them with their riches and superfluous wealth? But nothing...

The Watchers by J.R. Poulter is about life through the eyes of two little rabbits, who watch life unfolding around them. They try to find out what is down by the water, what can be seen on the shore, what is in the bushes, what...

In the children's picture book story Twice as Worsa! by J.R. Poulter, Albert’s Aunt Kate comes to visit. She is accompanied by her son, Lionel, Albert’s cousin. Unfortunately, Albert does not seem to be cheerful about the visit. He tries to get away, but his...

The Amish lead a simple life. Led by their strong beliefs in God, their work ethic and the way they actually live their lives is a testament to their faith. Leah is Amish. A middle child of eleven, she lost her mother at a young...

Long Nose Legacy: A Dog's Story of Royalty and Loyalty by J.G. Eastman is a modern-day fable about the adventures of royal Russian Wolfhounds, specifically the sisters Carnegie and Madison. As grandchildren of Tresor and children of Gracie, both prize-winning dogs, they are a privileged...

After a traumatic car accident, a high school student suffers from amnesia that conceals more than teenage angst in the dramatic Young Adult fiction novel What The Valley Knows by Heather Christie. Molly Hanover and her mother Ann have just relocated to Millington Valley. Ann's...

Canaan’s Secret is the sixth book in the Zack Tolliver, FBI series by R. Lawson Gamble, an entry that features murder and mystery. Zack Tolliver is back at home to spend time with family, leaving the FBI, when Libby’s sister calls. She is worried for...

Trials & Tribulations of Modesty Greene: A Fictional Novel About Harriet Tubman’s Historical Legacy by D W Plato has settings that sweep from a very third-world country to North America, and the huge cast of characters is equally detailed and vivid. The reader experiences eighteenth-century...

In Janet Wertman's Jane The Quene: Book One of the Seymour Saga trilogy, we are introduced to one of King Henry VIII’s wives that we hear about less often. She was probably the favorite of Henry’s wives but, unfortunately, she died shortly after the birth...

The Big Book of Small Presses & Independent Publishers, subtitled Small presses, book contests, university presses, and independent publishers for “unagented” authors by Marylee MacDonald, is a valuable tool for authors who have been ignored by the big presses and agents who sell to them....