In Anne Ward Crocker's Close Friends' Cathedral Adventure, a young toad named Peat returns home from a forbidden swim to news that the woodland ravine where his family lives is about to be destroyed. When workers begin uprooting the forest, Peat makes an unexpected choice:...

Twenty-four-year-old Nina Brandt, a paralegal in Salt Lake City, Utah, is dissatisfied with her ordinary life. While her job paid the bills, she didn’t particularly love it. If only she were better at mathematics and didn’t wear glasses, she wouldn’t have abandoned her childhood dream...

In A Birthday to Die For by Frank L. Atchley, we follow Dr. Paula Mitchell, a Seattle psychologist who finds herself in a race against a literal calendar. Her patient, Kae Carlson, is terrified that she’s marked for death by a satanic cult on her...

Beautifully Broken by Lavon Hodge follows the author’s journey from a fractured childhood in the Caribbean to a life of purpose in the U.S. Army. Born into a world of maternal coldness and hidden secrets, Lavon’s early years were spent navigating the trauma of physical...

With more than two decades in the financial sector as a financial adviser under her belt and a clientele list that spans almost every level of society, Kath Ormon has come to realize that there is more to maintaining stable finances than just balance sheets...

The Happy Healthy Revolution by Theresa Y. Wee, M.D., is a well-written book that aims to strengthen the family unit and guide readers toward improving their physical and emotional health. The author begins by writing about her background growing up in the 1960s and 1970s,...

In Jean Grandbois' Nursing Flagstop, for nearly fifty years, Jerry has measured his life against a single song, “Borderless,” recorded by the elusive musician Flagstop. When a chance discovery reveals that Flagstop, now living under his real name Eugene Books, is in a Detroit care...

No Home Without You: Love and Survival Book 3 by Lena Gibson follows the story of Lissa and Cam Montgomery, survivors who couldn’t be more unlike each other, brought together by chance. After an asteroid hits, leaving the West Coast uninhabitable and much of the...

Math Heals: On the Gift and Weight of Being Human by Tiffany Suson lays out the idea that life is already running in patterns that don’t bend just because we feel strongly about something in the moment. The author takes equations, like Emotion ≠...

Athena Technologies is creating a computer system called God’s Eye, which allows all the alphabet agencies of the US to have equal access to the same information. Some people in the government believe this is too much information to have access to and want the...

Monster Science: Create Your Own Genetic Masterpiece is a children’s educational picture book written by Victoria Cerdeira with illustrations by Anna Pomelova. It follows siblings Maya and Jordan, who wish to create their own unique pet monster to play with. They discover that they need...

I Can’t Do This! I Can by Marian M.H. Rutt is one of the most powerful and deeply moving memoirs I have read. Marian and her husband Phil were living a wonderful, successful life. When Marian became pregnant, they were delighted and prepared for the...

Dear Nora by Karen Berkey Huntsberger is a historical novel with a unique twist. It is composed of letters written between a nurse, her parents, and her best friend during World War II. Nora Russell has just had her heart broken by her soldier fiancé,...

Blood & Merrow is a supernatural romance thriller by J.J. Falconer. Ever since his creator, Embla, went into slumber, Ellet has been feeding on sinners to grow stronger with each passing century. For nearly a millennium, Ellet was in servitude to the vicious Embla. However,...

When a leader becomes paranoid, followers lose hope. In Assassin's Mace by Ron McManus, Jake Palmer and Alona Green are US JSOC officers, and they have been assigned their most difficult mission yet: to enter Russia undetected and escape with Dmitry Sokolov, a high-value asset....

Becoming a Mom: An IVF Story by Liz Jauvtis chronicles the author’s deeply moving journey into motherhood. After being a babysitter to a single mother in her teen years, Liz decided she also wanted to be a mother someday. However, she did not expect to...

The Story of the Great Goddess by Nav Pallav is a beautiful and accessible retelling of the sacred text Devi Mahatmyam (also known as the Durga Saptashati). It tells the story of Mahadevi, one of the major figures in the Hindu religion and mythology. Somewhat...

In Love Across Time, Beth Ford tells a heartfelt story about a woman named Ashley who is yanked out of her modern life and dropped into the middle of 14th-century England. She wakes up in 1377 Wiltshire and has to figure out how to survive...

Rajat Chohda’s The Divine Flow of Satyuga is a philosophy built around the belief that peace is possible when a person stops surrendering emotional stability to outside judgment. Chohda tells us that a lot of forms of suffering begin when people confuse temporary craving with...

Broken and Content by James A Hale explores the book of Ecclesiastes and the words of King Solomon. Offering a fresh perspective to readers, James teaches us to tread with caution, so that we too may gain wisdom. Yes, terrible things do happen, but they...