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...

Brighter Than the Sun is the second book in Kit Erikson’s San Francisco Sex Gods, and it delivers an enthralling portrayal of San Francisco’s gay nightlife. Blake Larsen is a beguilingly handsome exotic dancer and porn star known as Dirk Slocum. He dreams of opening...

Rose Garcia’s A Legacy Forged, book three of the Bloodlines Legacy series, follows Avalynn after she falls from the sky and is carried into the Wild North by the dragon Izel. The land strips away her memories, leaving her certain only that her name is...

Ann M. Mracek’s Symphony of Self begins with a musician’s premise: a life must be heard before it can be changed. The author asks readers to listen for the internal rhythm beneath daily behavior, using a recurring beat to explain repeated habits before the key...

My Mom Has No Fun, written by Becca Haney and illustrated by Toni Cole, is a rhyming picture book told from the point of view of a confident and secure child. He observes every moment his mom spends alone. Cleaning, napping, grocery shopping, and going...

David Ekardt’s Taggert of the Marines follows Sean Taggert, a young colonial sailor whose family merchant ship, the Osprey, is attacked after a British naval officer tries to seize one of its crewmen. With rebellion spreading through the colonies and his family drawn into the...

Every parent has a duty to prevent external influences from affecting their children's spiritual development and prepare them for life's challenges. With Unstoppable Power!, Sammy J. Carter brings a delightful picture book to help parents introduce children to the power of faith and God. In...

Rossana D’Antonio's 26 Seconds delivers a heartrending memoir that examines profound grief and the complex aftermath of a devastating plane crash that claimed her pilot brother Cesare’s life. This book explores personal loss and critiques the blame culture surrounding such tragedies, offering a deeper understanding...

Gaia B. Amman’s An Italian Adventure follows Leda, who insists on being called Lee, as she grows up in 1980s Arese, a town north of Milan where fields, gated communities, and Catholic ritual sit side by side. Lee is the smallest child in her class,...

Jann Alexander’s Vacancy is inspired by true events. Helen, a widowed kindergarten teacher, made herself a solemn promise during the sleepless nights after Hal’s death. Helen would never ignore the signs that someone was suffering again. Helen finds unexpected hope when a long-lost love reappears...

Sarah Barry's 9 Habits of Happy Retirees approaches retirement as something beyond our typical idea of retiring, which is focused on one thing: massive financial achievement. Barry walks readers through the emotional, physiological, and psychological landscape most of us often miss. From leaving a...

Love by Michael S. A. Graziano is told from the perspective of a street artist who sketches strangers in a metropolitan park. If passersby see him at all, it is often with disgust at his chronically disheveled appearance. The artist uses his talent as a form of...

Dierdre Wolownick’s Success in 7 Steps begins with the difference between a dream and a goal. A dream can live for years as something wished for, but Wolownick’s method begins when the reader decides what the destination actually is. First comes what must be learned....

Catherine Ann Russell’s The Chosen Path gives us a front-row seat to an emotional ride with the main character, Princess Journee. She unintentionally disrupts her kingdom’s traditions, and her only real way to fix things is by tackling a difficult trial to earn her royal...

Some of life's biggest lessons come from the simplest stories. In The Red Letters: Parables from the Gospel of Matthew, Angela Fincham introduces young learners to some of Jesus's best-known parables and their lessons. The book begins by defining what a parable is, using language...

In Lana Christian’s Survival Secrets, book two of The Magi’s Encounters, the Wise Men leave Bethlehem by another route, with knowledge of Yeshua that could place the child in great danger if it reaches Herod’s court. Akilah leads the caravan into the Wilderness of Paran,...

Andrew Daniels’s Tomorrow’s Rain is a collection of poetry that functions as a phantasmagorical seven-day journey along the shores of Washington state. The collection introduces a solitary speaker who drifts between sea and desert, traverses the footprints of giants, and crosses the Narrows Bridge. Part...

A M Lavender’s The Permission Slip follows the period after the life the author has spent holding together finally breaks apart. In August 2025, secret gambling and debt have driven his wife from the house, and he is left alone trying to look functional while...

Seraphin Stone: Say Yes to Heaven by Ettenig Sayam is a coming-of-age story that follows Marie Ange "Mari" Seraphin, a gifted ballerina from Haiti who gets entangled with a wealthy man, David Stone. She was once attacked by a boy who seemed to be under...

Greens Are Free by Dr. Stephanie Bernard gives readers a legitimate system so that our daily food decisions are made by knowing exactly how the body uses energy, stores it, and signals hunger. Bernard explains that early nutrition lessons leave gaps that carry into adulthood,...