Rizwan Haider’s It Began in Africa begins in 1979, when the twenty-two-year-old Pakistani banker leaves Pakistan for a posting in Gabon. Arriving in Libreville and uncertain what awaits him, Haider enters a career that will repeatedly return him to Africa for decades. His banking assignments...

C. L. Richardson’s Reclaimers follows Robin Winters, an ex-soldier desperately clinging to the hope of a peaceful life. Just as she starts to let her guard down and make genuine connections, a major government secret shatters her hard-won stability. It’s a gut-wrenching look at what...

China Time by Jeff Pepper is a fascinating exploration of how ancient Chinese civilization understood, measured, and organized time. Rather than focusing solely on clocks and calendars, the book examines the cultural, scientific, philosophical, and practical systems that shaped the Chinese view of hours, days,...

Good Enough Parent by Dr Bill Senyard is the kind of parenting book you didn't know you needed until the weight of raising a teenager finally humbles you. Written by a pastor and a once-teen parent, this book is structured in a common style called list...

J.P. Brutus’s More Likely Than Not is about the devastating aftermath of a child’s death and the search for truth in a flawed system. After a fight with her husband, Mario, Sylvie leaves home for a short walk. Sylvie returns and finds her baby, Gabriel,...

In Douglas Robinson’s With Deadly Intent, Majken is a centuries-old blood drinker traveling toward New Orleans when a highway collision in rural West Texas leaves her unconscious far from her destination. Physician Benjamin Lambert receives the unidentified patient at an Odessa hospital, where tests identify...

Everyone wants to feel special. That's the idea at the heart of Pearl by Jennifer Louise. This rhyming picture book follows a lonely clam living on the ocean floor. She believes she's plain next to the other sea creatures. They’re bright and beautiful, everything she’s...

Not every Christmas story is told by a child. In A December to Remember, Robert Bernardo tells a holiday story through the eyes of Stanley, a young dog. He was once abandoned and struggling to survive. But then Adam and his family came along to...

In Fun With A Monster, we are introduced to a little boy who is ending his day and getting ready for bed. He has a nightly ritual: searching his room for anything that might be creepy in the dark. Once he feels satisfied, he climbs...

In To Die For by Audrey Steidl, Dei Fields immediately decides that Mika St. John is the boy she must have when he walks into class at McKinley High School. Mika is already dating someone, but that hardly matters to Dei. Mika has grown up...

Thomas M. Wing’s Perilous Shores, book two of The Sea Hawkes Chronicles, is set in 1777 during the American Revolution, where Virginia privateer captain Jonas Hawke is preparing his brigantine Resolute for a voyage that will carry the fighting across the Atlantic. Jonas travels with...

Finding your place in the world isn't always easy. In Carolyn Macchia’s lyrical story, Itty Bitty Bee Leads the Way, a tiny bee named Pixie lives in a busy hive. It begins with Queen Wigglesworth announcing a challenge to the bee community. They are short...

In To Me You See by Leo and Debbie Hamblin is a bold, unconventional memoir about two people who found each other as teenagers in 1979 in Monett, Missouri, lost each other to life, religion, marriages, and distance, and then found each other again nearly...

In That’s What My Dad Is Like by Angela Garcia, a young girl describes her father’s funny and loving way of moving through his life each day. In the mornings, he wakes the children by banging pots and pans. The daughter describes it as “like...

H. H. Fowler’s If I Had Only Known follows Tiana Folsom, a young woman whose fascination with supernatural creatures leads her toward an invitation to Tiger Island. The trip appears to offer adventure, money, and a chance to prove that beings beyond ordinary human life...

In My Pain Is My Wife, Mohan Kumar Thadi tells the story of his pain and how it permanently altered the course of his life. Mohan was a bright young engineering student in 2003. He had many dreams that he wanted to achieve. But a...

In the Beginning: The Early Days of Religious Beliefs is a fascinating work of fiction in the historical sub-genre and was penned by author Jaime Reyes. As the title suggests, we return to very early times of the human race, when Neanderthals are first learning...

In Jean Lagacé’s The Manuscript, Peter Artritis is a St. Petersburg publisher who has spent decades wanting to publish his own fiction. Lawyer Arthur Morin gives him Faith, an unpublished novel left by dead Mississippi physician Dr. Otto Zielgard. Lagacé places long portions of Zielgard’s...

Do you like playing with your pets? Do you think they are amusing? I absolutely agree with you, so I invite you to add a new furry friend to those you already have and have fun with him. Meet Frankie, the adorable protagonist of Frankie...

Unmasking the Diamond by Laura Beers takes readers on a daring mystery as the main characters uncover a deadly secret. Women are disappearing, and Lord Luca is determined to find answers. As the owner of the local newssheets, his journalist instincts are tingling. But first...