DD Lorenzo’s The Hotel follows Amelia Daniels, head of Daniels Enterprises, after the board of her woman-owned construction firm warns that her staff may walk away. Amelia has built the company through long workdays and refuses to accept fate as anything but an excuse. However,...

Jack's Noisy Day: A Raucous Romp Through The Alphabet, written by Sarah Tinney and Illustrated by Ricky Audi, is an entertaining and fun-filled children’s book that aims to present the alphabet in the most entertaining way possible. The story follows the journey of Jack’s actions...

The bitter divorce between Daniel and Jessica Hansen transforms into a lethal contest over their estate in Mike Skillicorn’s Interlaced. Jessica is furious that Daniel refuses to leave her with sixty percent of their assets and will do anything to secure that percentage, even if...

The Gathering of One by Reverend Joie Barry is an eye-opener. Whether we are aware of it, we are constantly walking toward the light. How can our daily deeds contribute to our journey from light to faith to truth? What we criticize in others reflects...

In Anthony J. Mohr’s memoir, Every Other Weekend, the author tells the story of a childhood suspended between two contrasting worlds. After his parents’ divorce at a time when divorce was rare, young Tony lives between two worlds: his biological father’s world, Gerald Mohr, who...

Heroes, Hope, and Healing -- Accepting Your Inner Daredevil by Kenneth Rogers Jr. uses Marvel's Daredevil as a framework for understanding and healing from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Rogers draws a careful parallel between Matt Murdock's origins, a boy in Hell's Kitchen raised by a...

In A Dark Slip of Time by Virlana Kardash, Allie is a scholar who knows more about 13th-century death than 21st-century dating. Her life as a PhD student, struggling single mother, and scholar is interrupted by slips in time that transport her from modern Toronto...

The fourth book in Kate O'Keeffe’s Royally Kissed series, Royally Off-Limits, introduces a fizzy royal rom-com about Prince Maximilien of Ledonia, a roguish royal dubbed “Man-Child Max” after he plunges down a slip-’n-slide, falling into a pond. Max has never responded well to being forced...

In Kathy-Lynn Cross’s Shattered from Within, six stories and novellas move through horror that begins inside the mind before it reaches the world beyond it. When Emily Was Here follows a woman who has spent thirteen years inside an institution and no longer knows which...

Rusty Blackwood’s Before the Grandeur: The Making of a Horsemaster is a gritty historical prequel about Cyril, a young Englishman who refuses to be limited by his meager beginnings. The story starts with his impoverished childhood in 1913 England and carries through the crushing weight...

Riley loved unicorns like many kids her age. Her love for unicorns was evident in the numerous toys and unicorn posters in her room. Riley ate unicorn cupcakes and even had unicorn underwear. Of all the people who love unicorns, Riley was special because the...

Dave Johnston’s The Golf Obsession is for golfers who replay missed shots long after leaving the course and are convinced that one new tip might finally fix everything. Johnston argues that the once-a-week golfer is often trapped by the belief that better technique must produce...

Corvus: A Crow's Story by Shallen Anne Chitwood is a heartwarming tale and a refreshing allegory. It can be read as a coming-of-age story of a crow who suffers from a paralyzing fear of flying. Corvus is the last hatchling of Maeve and Marvin, and...

The Shattered Horn by A.H. Benjamin follows an alien named Keidon and his robotic dog, Sirius, as they crash land in an enchanted world occupied by talking animals. They soon find themselves fighting to free a kingdom under the iron-fisted rule of King Zomak and...

Igor Stefanovic’s The Seven follows Abraham Meyer, a dying widower in Jerusalem who summons his seven adult children after a chaotic birthday party aboard the family yacht. Abraham gives each child an assignment. Each must travel to a different continent and return with a sculpture...

Robin Brudefors’s The Great Lies is a philosophical book built around the idea that many beliefs shape our lives simply because we stopped asking whether they are true. Brudefors calls these inherited assumptions Great Lies and examines what happens when they are treated as choices...

Joan T. Seko’s Toshio: My Nisei Father’s Journal follows the life of Toshio Morishima, a Nisei born in Fife, Washington, in 1910, through journal entries gathered by his daughter. His childhood begins on a vegetable farm before the family returns to its estate in Hiroshima,...

The Wedding by Herb Hughes begins the night before Brett Hampton, an American journalist, and Anya Laska, a Polish woman, are to be wed. He has snuck into her room, and they blissfully chat. However, their happiness shatters when German bombs rain down on the...

Bubbles in Spring is one of four books in the Seasons with Bubble Girl series. Wanda Carter Roush's book is inspired by Bubble Girl, a child with Dravet Syndrome who finds wonder in the world around her, and her springtime adventure in her own special...

Cotton and the Shadow of Memory Creek is a children’s picture book by Carolyn Christian. It tells the story of some barn animals who get pulled into an unexpected adventure. Cotton, a nosy little cat, slips out of the barn after dark. She takes a...