Demystifying the Doctorate: Your Guide to Survive and Thrive by Cody Arvidson is a practical field guide for anyone at the start or lost somewhere in the middle of a doctoral program. The book opens by naming a problem most dissertation textbooks skip entirely: the...

Sox is a cheerful, loving brown and white dog who wants to explore the world around him. The story of Sox and His Big Adventure by Leighshé Pillay begins with him running around the garden, where he finds a sparkling key. This is the start...

In Quill Holland’s Corrupted Race, years after the Horror is destroyed, and Project RESTORE rebuilds humanity’s damaged worlds, Raith lives on Gaia with his children after having once been Tynan Khidar, the emperor whose identity was overwritten. His attempt at farming is interrupted when the...

When a young sparrow asks his grandfather where to find happiness, he says that the keys to happiness are all around him. He needs only to keep his eyes and heart open to find them. And so begins a little sparrow’s journey. Through beautiful artwork...

Jeff Janoda’s Season of Life follows Basil Biggs, a free Black farmer whose Pennsylvania land becomes part of the Gettysburg battlefield in 1863. After Confederate troops retreat, Basil returns home to find his farm devastated. Union intelligence officer John Babcock recruits him to follow the...

Sometimes you have to break a few rules to figure out where you belong. In The Trolley to Renwick Park by Susan Gere Carter, seventeen-year-old Lucy Harmon lives in Ithaca, New York, in 1915, when young women are expected to marry and settle into traditional...

Breakfast at Bernie’s: Waffles and Wisdom by D. L. Norris is a delightfully charming tale of small-town, rural America and the inhabitants who keep it alive and functioning. Columbus, Wisconsin, is the epitome of any small, rural settlement, where the social center is the local...

In Greatly Disappointed, Will James revisits the Seventh-day Adventist faith inherited in childhood, when belief in an imminent Second Coming made certainty part of ordinary life. Decades later, questions about teachings once accepted as Truth send the author back to the church’s beginnings, tracing the...

Andrew Tartar’s The Next Shift is a youth hockey coaching guide about helping volunteer coaches create a team environment where players can learn the game and want to return. Tartar begins with why children come to the rink and how coaches should define success. Trust...

K M McFarland’s Beyond the Veil follows Gabe Stone, a struggling New Orleans singer whose life ends abruptly in a violent shootout. Instead of crossing over, he encounters Baron Samedi, the Voodoo Loa of Resurrection, who offers him a second chance at life on the...

M. Van Shamrai’s Scions of the Last Hope follows Gaag Zorb, a young astrophysicist traveling to Dubai as Earth prepares to evacuate millions aboard interstellar stations bound for Glezar on a journey expected to last three centuries. When Gaag’s shuttle crashes in the Arabian Desert,...

Sweet Playdate Club by Luz Dang is a lovely children's picture book that features sweet food and friendship. One day, while sitting under an oak tree, Sky and Dani share each other's desserts. Sky has Mantecaditos, Puerto Rican shortbread thumbprint cookies. Dani has a Paleta...

Daddy Loves Santa by Catherine Lanigan tells the story of two lonely souls whose paths suddenly cross during the holidays. At the heart of it is Rachel, a commercial architect who loses her creative drive and takes a leave of absence after her mother passes...

Lords of the Dais by Glenn Starkey is a police investigation/crime novel with plenty of action and twists to keep the reader guessing. Detective Sergeant Lewis Malcolm is a retired Marine Corps veteran and one of the officers in Morgan City's small police department. When...

Jeff Binkley’s Dead Cat Bounce combines investment advice with the story of a thirty-year career spent working inside financial markets. The author begins with the decision to become a stockbroker after seeing Wall Street in 1987, then follows the path that eventually takes him to...

The Iron Vault by S.F. Baumgartner introduces readers to a high-stakes suspense story starring Navy Lieutenant Eli Mercer and forensic investigator Rosalie Tanaka. They’re brought together by a search for the truth behind the Blackwater offshore rig explosion, a disaster Eli needs to solve to...

Som Phin's The Love That History Erased follows Cambodian American software engineer Srey Rattana, who finds herself inhabiting the body of Lady Channary, the heroine of an Angkor-inspired fantasy novel Srey has been reading on her phone. Believing she knows Channary’s future, Srey decides to...

In Black Sheep Rising, Donna Theresa recounts a childhood that begins in Plainfield, New Jersey, where being named after the woman her father loved places her inside family hurt from birth. After her mother Ann leaves her father for Catonsville, Maryland, Donna grows up in...

J.L. Michael’s Missteps Mending Devilish Ways begins in late 1928 as Alexandra Bathenbrook, an American photographer based in London, returns to New Orleans after more than a year spent building a reputation through assignments overseas. Alexandra wants answers about Astor Lys, a sinister man who...

In Mike Michalak’s gripping novel, My Name Is Davis, the world’s political landscape shatters when coordinated stealth air strikes target the military parades of foreign adversaries to instantly end the leadership regimes in North Korea, Russia, and China. With a modified emblem left behind to...