E. Hughes’s A Clockwork Universe presents Unified Rotating Universe Theory as a cosmological model built around rotation as the organizing principle of physical reality. Hughes begins by rejecting space as an independent container, defining it instead as distance created after matter gives location meaning. From...

Magnus Baikie’s The First Law is Survival (We Have a Few More) follows Marcus d’Ostia, a former orphan who now leads the XIX Legion in an empire modeled on ancient Rome. After imperial armies conquer Wyddfce, Emperor Tertius orders Marcus to marry Isolde, the Celtic...

The Secret of the Smiling Rock Man by Joe Cappello is a collection of 14 short stories that readers will enjoy. All the stories are built around characters his father used to describe as having “rocks in their heads,” people who refuse to settle for...

Voices to Victories by Tara Peterson is a bruising, deeply personal memoir that traces one woman's path from a fractured Catholic upbringing through addiction, manipulation, and years spent inside the club scene, before achieving hard-won faith and recovery. The three words in the subtitle map...

In Bullheaded for Success, Dale Strobach looks back on the stubbornness that once caused mistakes and explains how faith gave that same determination direction. A turning point during a college trip to Europe changed the way he understood God’s guidance, leaving him to reconsider what...

Some sacrifices are chosen, while others arrive without warning. Gone Away by Tess Manchester is a historical fiction novel inspired by the lives of Joseph and Adrienne Kennedy during the Manhattan Project. He’s a chemistry professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and she’s a...

Phases is a story that shows Nick's life from when he was young and felt out of place. It starts when he joins music school, meets Dara, and later meets Naia at a birthday party. After Naia disappears, Dara and Nick go to look for...

R. A. Birk’s Miracle on Windy Point follows Todd Clancy, who leaves his wife Sally and their three sons at a floating restaurant moments before an earthquake tears apart the Oregon coast. While Todd fights through flooded roads, Sally escapes with restaurant owner Jimmy Johnson...

Richard Cutler’s Carbon Neutral follows Admiral Neil Dodson, who commands four enormous colony ships on a thirteen-year voyage from humanity’s first settlement outside the solar system to Tau Ceti. His crew must locate a habitable planet and build a wormhole Gate that will connect the...

Life with a reactive dog is no easy venture. Maintaining your love for that reactive dog can be very difficult at times, especially when all the hard training over the past few months has proved futile in practice and your reactive dog, on a leash,...

School Search and Find by Fei Zheng-Ward is a bright and lively picture book that takes children through a full school day while inviting them to look closely at everything happening around them. Each of the twelve scenes shows a different part of school life,...

Breezy Bakes Her Best is a rhyming picture book for children by Lori Rotter. Breezy is a cute little bear whose parents own the Buttercup Bakery by the bay. This morning, Breezy is determined to help her Mama bake. However, she ends up spilling sugar...

Stahno the Space Explorer (Discover the Magic of Artmaking) by Lan H. Reilly is a children's story that celebrates art and adventure. It is centered on Stahno, a Caspian seal who dreams of zooming across the stars to see other planets. With the help of...

What would you do if your childhood disappeared almost overnight? Beneath the Canopy by Lynda Riggers takes readers to the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II through the eyes of two children. First, there’s Johanna, who lives in Arnhem. The war has turned her life...

Sol by DiVitto Kelly follows Sol, a stubborn senior citizen who has recently retired from running a Queens deli to enjoy his golden years in Miami Beach. A family vacation to his wife Myrna’s ancestral home in Romania disrupts this peaceful retirement when a vampire...

A. M. Linden’s The Valley is a spellbinding and imaginative work of historical fiction set in early medieval Anglo-Saxon Britain. The Valley begins in the 8th century, when Herrwn, a Druid priest, teacher, and bard, is an old man in his eighties. Herrwn recalls his...

In Tessa Kinsela’s An Unconscious Choice of Chaos, fourteen-year-old Ashley Kelly starts Year Nine certain that every small decision can set off a much bigger result. She trusts the routines of her Queensland home and expects Landon State High School to feel just as familiar....

In Opal by Jo Ann Kiser, Opal Beauleigh grows up beside Sarvis Creek in Kentucky with one ambition: becoming an artist. At fifteen, marriage to Wendell Ferguson takes her away from the home she knows, while his search for work carries their family farther from...

In Mohammed Zahid’s What Can Not Be Said, thirteen-year-old Arjun loses his mother Kaveri suddenly, leaving him and his father Ashok Kumar to rebuild their daily lives around one another. The return to school restores routine, yet ordinary outings remind Arjun of the home they...

Telling Dixie Goodbye by Scott Oglesby opens a window into the author’s turbulent, wandering life as he tries to distance himself from his conservative Southern upbringing. Growing up in a strict household in the shadow of a demanding father, Oglesby has a profound sense of...