For Better or Worse by Linda Fischer documents the author’s extraordinary odyssey from Nazi-occupied Sudetenland to success in the world of hospitality in the United States. She was born in 1941 to an SS family and survived the collapse of the Third Reich, lived through...

Dead Dog Detective by Brandt Scheidemantel grabs you with its weird and offbeat energy right away. Officer Harry Hundlieber goes from a picture-perfect life to a mess in less than twenty-four hours: a divorce, an injury, and a job disappointment. He clings to a strange...

Only So Many Shopping Days Till Christmas by Jane and Haley Grecsek is a profanity-laced, hugely humorous self-help book that reimagines aging as a countdown to celebration rather than what many consider to be a somber walk toward oblivion. The book is inspired by a...

In Alexandria Prescott’s Maelstrom of Innocence, book one of The Maelstrom Trilogy, on the night of 7 December 1941, Harper Miller attends an embassy reception in Tokyo with her father, Ambassador William Henry Miller, expecting only a diplomatic ceremony. By morning, news of Pearl Harbor...

Matija Oreb Maša’s Magical Spring Wish is a children’s story about kindness, family, and the magic that can grow from caring for others. The book follows Granny and her loyal horse Toby as they prepare their small countryside home for the changing seasons. Young Nina...

Melissa “Mel” Noblett, a journalist and environmental activist, is in Milan gathering information from a whistleblower about a new bee virus, but is disappointed by the lack of progress. To salvage the trip, her editor sends her to Bologna to interview Dr. Daniel Woodruff, a...

In Yesterday’s Gone by Kelly Pawlik, after moving from Boston to the isolated town of Olympic Vista, twelve-year-old Darius Belcouer becomes fixated on a boarded-up house connected to local rumors about disappearances and strange activity. His investigation brings him into the orbit of Adelaide Winter,...

Dr. Rick Bein’s Eat or Be Eaten follows a continuing argument about the future of human life on a damaged planet. Drawing from decades spent beside farming communities, he examines the belief that nature survives best when people are connected to the land that feeds...

In The Junkyard by Bryan Reilly, after escaping a dog-fighting ring run by a violent junkyard owner named Mr. Fergusen, a battered pit bull called Ninja is taken into a hidden settlement beneath piles of wrecked cars where abandoned dogs survive under the leadership of...

Dead Man’s Gospel by Reno Bachman is a riveting psychological Western that introduces us to Timothy Gospel, a man scarred by violence since his childhood and who then, as an adult, inflicted it. Timothy is on the run, seeking sanctuary in the hills and forests...

Truth and The Hallow by W. L. Brooks is a fantasy which centers on Ven Lee, a girl who chooses to go back to her hometown, Ingrid Hallow, a mystical town governed by magic laws and full of mythical creatures. Ven felt like an outcast...

Faithful Journeys: Sisterhood, Love, and Restoration by J. Ryenae is the story of four women, Jaquell, Nikki, Kyla, and Courtni, who shared an unbreakable bond of sisterhood in high school, a bond that is tested by the challenges of adulthood. Now they are adults, and...

In Terry Birdgenaw’s Cyborg Contact, Dee, a giant cyborg ANT from the distant moon Bilaluna, arrives on Earth through an ancient wormhole with a warning about the environmental collapse that destroyed his original world. Stranded in a future North America shaped by drought, political violence,...

Robert Morong’s Blame Yourself presents responsibility as the moment a person stops treating the past as a verdict and starts treating the next decision as personal territory. Morong’s argument is direct: blame gives temporary relief, but responsibility gives a person something to do. The book...

Saltwater Stranger by Dianna Brown is a haunting story filled with family drama and unsettling supernatural intrigue. John and his daughter, Evelyn, are used to crows' warnings. But with this specific crow, Evelyn senses a warning tied to Kelly’s Island in Conception Bay. This place...

Set in the Ottoman capital during the winter of 1602, Rebellion and Deceit, book two in the Empires and Kingdoms series by David Eugene Andrews, follows Aisha, sister of Sultan Mehmet III, as she leaves her residence near the Hippodrome and enters a palace system...

It is 1941, nine years after the devastating Holodomor in Ukraine. Two years earlier, fifteen-year-old Konstantin “Kostya” Lysenko had missed out on the mass recruitment of the Red Army for boys over the age of eighteen, unlike his older brothers, Petro and Grisha, when World...

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...

Understand The Past: Remember Without Reliving by Keith Thorn is a well-written book that helps readers see clearly through their past scars and experiences so that these do not negatively influence how they live in the present or future. Keith begins by describing the echo...

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...