The importance of being mindful as a path to wellbeing forms the theme of A Minute of Mindfulness Journal: Seasons. Stacey Andrade King points out that the many benefits include reduced stress, improved sleep patterns, growing self-awareness, and acquiring wisdom. The journal is presented in...

In The Secret of Charley Grace by Colin Kersey, fourteen-year-old Charley Grace has always been diligent about following her aunt’s strict rules; Charley accepts that they are necessary for her safety and to protect a secret she does not fully understand. When her aunt is...

Jasyn Turley’s The Samhain Terror follows Johnathon Taylor Davies after a wrongful rape conviction removes him from society in Alyeska, a post-apocalyptic nation built after the Great Calamity destroyed the old world. Instead of prison, John is sentenced to the Sentinel Service, which sends convicted...

Pip and the Fallen Butterfly: How Kindness Grows by Zaher Arbash is the story of Aeva and her sparrow Pip as they explore the meadow near their home. While they are out walking, Pip spots a blue butterfly in the grass with a bent wing...

There are many aspiring authors, but the prospect of writing a book and then self-publishing it can be daunting. Jeff Whelchel is an established author who has written Write, Create, and Publish Your Own Book: A Step-by-Step Guide to Self-Publishing With or Without AI to...

Wendy Roberts’ After the Fall follows Amber McDermott, a Seattle teacher who retreats to Oxbow, Washington, after her nine-year-old son Jay dies from cancer. Her husband Grant dies by suicide afterward, leaving Amber alone. Fourteen months later, Jay’s oncologist, Dr. Anne Blair, is murdered and...

In Embracing the Local: Extension Cords and All, when Glen Cantrell leaves the Bay Area for Twain Harte, California, he expects mountain life, not responsibility for keeping a business community afloat. Then he becomes president of the volunteer Twain Harte Area Chamber of Commerce as...

In Dating (Again), author Dr. Paula Caligiuri shows us how our prehistoric survival wiring impacts modern online romance for people starting over in their middle years. After going through a mid-life divorce, the author fell into the chaotic world of matchmaking apps, witnessing a culture...

Still Here by G.K. Woolf is set in the quiet town of Hartford, in New South Wales. The novel recounts the disappearance of ten-year-old Hattie Monetti, which occurred in 2003 while she was returning from school. The mystery of the missing girl becomes a cold...

Sell, Sell, Sell! by David F. D'Orazi blends a sales guide with a memoir. D'Orazi draws on nearly five decades of success, starting as a child and building a career that put him in the top 2 percent of his company's salesforce. The book opens...

“Sometimes being unschooled is an advantage in art: you have more freedom to unlock your emotions . . . to not know when you’ve crossed a boundary that probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” Boundaries fade in Vaulted Night (A Novella of...

Stephen Millory is trying to figure out how to move forward after losing his wife in What Mends the Heart by Karen A. Wyle. It’s 1886, and the widowed tailor has been struggling since Mary’s death. When another tailor must leave Cowbird Creek temporarily, he...

In Michael Aloisi’s Willow Circle, seventy-four-year-old Mary Belmont has rebuilt her life nearly five years after the death of her husband Harold, finding an unlikely best friend in sixteen-year-old neighbor Tina Tanner and surprising herself when younger retiree Ted enters her world. Across their Tallwood...

A. M. Linden’s novel, The Sheriff: The Druid Chronicles, Book Three, is a mix of intriguing historical fiction and fantasy, set in early medieval Britain in the eighth century. The story is set in two neighboring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Atheldom and Derthwald. The central character is...

Doc Richter’s Vigilante’s Handbook follows Bill Starr, a retired global IT executive whose Georgetown retirement changes after his goddaughter, medical student Jayden Jefferson, is brutally attacked following a Baylor football game. Jayden identifies the person she believes responsible, but conflicting evidence leaves investigators unable to...

Super Players by Verne Harnish and Kevin Daum is a business and career guide about becoming the kind of employee whose contribution is noticed in an organization. Harnish and Daum begin by defining the habits they believe create greater value, then bring artificial intelligence into...

With colorful illustrations, Deano Jones presents this mesmerizing children's story, No Fence Can Hold Him. Two little goat siblings, a brother and a sister, roamed freely in a lush green field until one day the sister just disappeared. The little goat stopped running after his...

In Samantha Kolber’s What She Stole, adult Eloise Goldstein discovers during bodywork that childhood experiences may still be stored in her body. That takes her back to seventeen, when she is caught stealing a gold sequined purse from Macy’s during prom shopping with best friend...

Stephanie Gurley’s Love Grows Stronger introduces Gurley as a young mother whose plans for a court-reporting profession are altered by a brain tumor discovered after unexplained episodes. Surgery is followed by years of seizures as damaging medication leaves her searching for a way back to...

In Where the Door Is Thin by Chuck Morgan, a priest's body is found beneath the Black Water Bridge. The crime scene prompts Chief Alexis Calder to call in the Denver FBI field office. Calder specifically asks for an agent experienced in dealing with religious...