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...

ML Biddison’s Dell's Duty follows Dell, Fort Pierre’s youngest deputy sheriff, after Jasmine Darby, the assassin who once tried to kill her, calls for help during a South Dakota blizzard. Russian gunmen have broken into Jasmine’s house, and Dell’s rescue puts her inside a much...

Lori M. Jones’s Crossmatch follows Claire Chamberlain, a forty-three-year-old mother of twins whose cycling accident reveals that she was born with one kidney and it is failing from polycystic kidney disease. Dialysis is coming, and Claire’s O-positive blood type makes finding a living donor difficult....

In J. Luke Bennecke’s Blackout, the US president is assassinated via a wave of drone strikes to pave the way for a coup, and civil engineer Jake Bendel is thrust into a national nightmare, looking for answers and working hard to stop a complete blackout....

True North’s Anasazi Vision follows True after she spends a year caring for her severely ill mother, whose death leaves her unable to stay in the empty Southern Oregon house. True returns to the Four Corners region and prepares for a ten-day vision quest at...

In 1975, young John Wesley Zooma witnessed the public and violent execution of a well-known member of his community by the police. The incident left him with a deep hatred for the government. More than two decades later, Zooma joined a secret Zulu paramilitary group,...

In Stan Haynes’s And Slavery No More, as the Civil War pushes toward its third year, Montgomery Tolliver serves inside President Abraham Lincoln’s administration while helping manage Union weapons production at a critical juncture. Lincoln privately debates whether presidential war powers can legally free enslaved...

Mario Kennedy works slinging pizzas but is desperate to break into the tech elite of Silicon Valley in Vince Thompson’s darkly satirical thriller, The Lockup Period. A startup called MenuAi, founded by Noah Stern and marketed by Ravi Singh, announces it is going public, and...

Brian Holshouser’s Gwyn’s Kingdom follows Gwyn after her return from the Northern Kingdoms, where she saved Princess Lily and discovered that her family’s past reaches far beyond the life she knew. Jade, her mother’s old ally, forces a vision into Gwyn’s mind that shows what...

In GTFU: A Journey of Faith, Adan Castillo tells his life story and his healing journey through faith. Born in Tulare, California, Adan was raised by his mother, a Mariachi singer who sparked his love for music. Adan grew up to become a bouncer, a...

Residents in a modest group home face financial ruin in Sebastian Grey’s heartwarming Merry Band of Misfits. Agnes Cartwright, a benefactor of the Murphy Family’s house, dies, and her daughter, Charity, cancels Garth’s monthly stipend and moves to have him declared incompetent. This could mean...