Christina Angle relates her story in The Open Heart of a Military Spouse and Veteran: Twenty Lessons from Shared Experiences in the Military Life. She raised four children while serving in the Army. At times, she questioned her parenting skills but did her best under...

In Dan Tron’s Zerodopulos Saga opener, The Indigo Mage, John Sullivan is a centuries-old Indigo Mage training Karen Smith in the supernatural world hidden in ordinary life. On Karen’s first field day, John borrows her camera to record their assignments and show viewers how energy...

Beach Camper Caper by Katlee Davis starts with 14-year-old Mandy Mardell trying to survive a bummer of a summer at a California campground. She is already brooding over failing cheerleader tryouts when things get worse. Someone sneaks into her tent, steals her grandmother’s precious childhood...

Burn Fuel Better by Don Owens points out an often overlooked culprit of climate change: Black Carbon, a type of particulate matter and a byproduct of burning fossil fuels. It is more dangerous than carbon dioxide, causes illnesses when inhaled, and coats our ice shelves,...

Managing the Bucket List: The Journey Begins Volume I by Carol J. McIlwain is a self-help travel book with memoir elements about making long-held travel ambitions achievable through planning that fits the person taking the trip. After retiring from the Department of the Navy in...

In Saanvi and Prakash Learn Together by Sheena Sharma, the two siblings discover that they do need homework help from their parents, and that working together can be fun. Saanvi and Prakash have opposite attitudes to homework. Saanvi is excited to work on the assigned...

Amanda L. Vasquez’s Secrets of the Sea follows Kalama, an orphaned girl on O’ahu who always felt like an outsider in her own community. Everything suddenly changes when she steps in to save a sacred sea turtle named Ona from hunters. This display of courage...

Like most kindergarteners, Mia likes routines. Everything in her life has always been simple and easy, with no changes from activities with her family to what she eats. In I Don’t Think So! by Kelli Joyner, Mia is challenged to change her perspective one day...

In From Rollercoasters to Carousels, Gigi Khonyongwa-Fernandez turns her experience as the mother of Alejandro, born at twenty-four weeks after the loss of his twin, into a medical self-help memoir for parents affected by neonatal intensive treatment. Alejandro spends nearly six months in a London...

Leah Moyes’s Soul Thief is set in Thebes in 1184 BCE, where eighteen-year-old Akila Nady lives as the privileged daughter of Kheti Nady, a royal scribe serving Pharaoh Ramses III. Beneath that life, Akila assumes the name Akl, a disguised tomb thief who steals funerary...

Kaya Gibson’s Released is the story of her extraordinary life, beginning with her early childhood when she was born as Rhonda Baker in Flint, Michigan. Her troubles begin at six when she loses her mother to Hodgkin's disease and survives abuse after that. Diagnosed with...

Good Little Greek Girl is an unfiltered memoir of growing up as the Australian-born daughter of Greek immigrants. Dama Koupa is caught between two cultures and suffocated by generational expectations. From the opening pages, the author makes clear that this is her truth alone. She...

Mich Solo’s novel, Failsafe (The Failsafe Series, Book 1), is a near-future, gripping cyberthriller. Nathan Harris is a sharp data analyst in a U.S. government agency. He is frustrated and extremely puzzled when he encounters an unusual programming problem. He tests a revised code. It...

The Battle Rages On is Dr. Gerald D. Robison's deep dive into spiritual warfare, tracing the unseen conflict between good and evil from before the creation of the world through to the battles believers face today. Robison, a Bible teacher who has pastored churches on...

Have you ever found a lost dog and wondered what to do about it? In Sara Deen Kimball’s Rowen and the Animal Shelter, young Rowen and his dog are out playing when they notice a stray dog hiding in the bushes near their home. Rowen...

I expected to find a compendium of philosophical sayings and thoughts in B. R. Jallipalli's Waves of Thoughts: Thoughts That Changed the World, but discovered something meticulous and thoughtful. It is a book that shows how thought evolved from the time of primitive survival to...

Dinky: The Nurse Mare’s Foal by Marta Moran Bishop pulls back the curtain on the hidden financial side of high-end horse breeding. We follow a discarded newborn colt named Dinky, who’s treated as nothing more than a useless byproduct by top-tier stables. Shipped away on...

In Lynn Crandall’s Move Me, after Dark Sides, a supernatural criminal faction, loses its hold on Auralia, city manager Cassie Butler tries to leave behind the name Diane and the crimes attached to it. Her new life is interrupted when Peter, a surviving Dark Aspect,...

Canthany Rising by Kenneth Bliss opens right after mankind's fall, shifting the spotlight to the animals of Eden. We follow T’alla, an ordinary cat, who suddenly transforms into a bipedal, talking exile on a bizarre new world. She isn't alone either; six fellow creatures share...

Karol Windsor’s Hypothermia follows Cassidy Blackburn, a Milwaukee travel writer whose life as an adventurer changes after a hunting accident leaves shrapnel lodged near his heart. A year after the accident, Cass writes close to home as anxiety over another cardiac emergency governs how far...