In The Promise We Made, Larry and Sherry Swank recount how losing their young son led them to help children in South Bend. Sherry longed to become a mother when she married Larry, the owner of the Indiana company where she worked. Their son Jaxson...

The Falls of Us: A Compilation of Short Stories by E.M. Fowler explores society’s underlying issues and what comes after a painful experience. A religious woman is adamant that she murdered her husband despite evidence contradicting her claims. A vindictive ex-wife plays puppet master to...

For better or worse, it seems that AI is here to stay. We must adapt and learn how to get the best out of this revolutionary technology as it influences more and more facets of our lives. This is exactly what The Ultimate AI Toolkit...

From the very first page, If You Live on a Farm by Kari Ann Gonzalez welcomes young readers to a picturesque scene through the surprising variety of farm life—from sun-drenched meadows bursting with colorful flowers, a line of beehives, fish ponds, rows of solar panels,...

Some losses divide life into before and after. In Jessica by Richard Friday Greene, Pearce Goode is trying to make sense of his childhood. Growing up, home isn’t always a safe or happy place. His father uses harsh physical punishment, and his mother struggles with...

Lady Ghost by Kara Jacobson follows Mike Johnston, a maintenance worker in Red Wing, Minnesota, who starts seeing a mysterious female spirit on the third floor of an abandoned hospital in 2019. Mike has a gift for sensing things others can't, and when he finds...

The Boy Who Lost His Voice by Ellen van Schoten combines striking black-and-white illustrations and lovely storytelling to create an unforgettable book. In it, a twelve-year-old boy named Willem loses his voice, which sends him on a journey throughout his hometown of Delft in the...

Martin Terrell’s memoir, You’re Only Innocent Once And Once Is Not Enough, is a moving account of a man navigating the courts and using the classroom to leave prison behind. When a long sentence for a burglary conviction came down despite his innocence, he decided...

Black Brilliance by Suzette McLean is a historical nonfiction quiz book built around one idea: Black history is part of world history, not a separate story beginning with enslavement. McLean starts in ancient Africa, where rulers such as Mansa Musa represent established centers of wealth...

In China’s Secret Strategy, Arthur Deperis and R Sampath examine how China’s economic rise changed its relationship with the United States as American dependence on Chinese manufacturing increased. They connect China’s entry into the World Trade Organization to the movement of production overseas, then follow...

Transformational Communication by Jomo Thomas is a well-written book that provides readers, especially Christians, with a blueprint for becoming effective communicators who mirror Christ in both the words they speak and in the inner content of their hearts. Thomas begins by describing communication as a...

Do you enjoy your food? Have you ever wondered if you could create more satisfying and interesting meals? In Coco Hazel’s Healthy Cookbook for Adults, there are lots of ways to make eating healthier and more interesting without venturing into a more restrictive diet like...

Karen Henrich’s book, Brave Like Me, brings young readers into the lives of four tight-knit woodland pals named Benny Bear, Remy Raccoon, Ruby Rabbit, and Mabel Mouse on a frosty winter morning. Suddenly, their quiet morning gets disrupted when a strange, dark figure pops up...

Scott Sollers’ Way Up North takes us right into a small, tight-knit Inuit village up in Nunavut, not far from the North Pole. We follow a young boy named Nukilik who is growing up fast and wants nothing more than to help his community by...

Martina Boone’s The Crown of Moonlight is a secondary-world romantic fantasy with a historical Highland setting, following Flora, a nineteen-year-old noblewoman protecting Dunhaelic as immortal rulers fight for Alba Scoria’s throne. Flora’s father and brothers are dead, leaving her responsible for the clan even though...

C.S. Pascoal’s Accidental Tribes charts the unexpected path of eight isolated teenagers thrown into a strange disciplinary space known as Solitaria. This high-pressure environment in Room 359 at PS 555 unites several tech-loving rule-breakers overseen by school advisor Dr. Miryam. The moment a sudden theft...

Enough by Sharmilla Fassbender and Sharminey Selvanathan is a sweet children’s story that invites readers to slow down and see the wonder of the world around them. Through a combination of Silvia Fassbender’s illustrations and short sentences, Enough follows a small child through everyday experiences....

Pickled for Revenge: A Christmas Mystery is a fabulous cozy murder mystery by multi-award-winning author A. Piper Burgi. The story is set in the whimsical German village of Ettering. Before the first candle of Advent burns down, the village pastor Maximilian Theodor Feller is found...

Bernard Doucette’s Higher Intelligence follows Jeremiah Reese, the scientist who created Archi, a synthetic mind that ended civilization seventeen years earlier. Living alone in the mountains of western North Carolina, Jeremiah hides from the machine that calls him Father, using his secluded position to help...

Dragon Cartel by Carmen Amato is set in Acapulco’s dangerous underworld. Detective Emilia Cruz hunts El Barracuda, a cartel hitman, when she takes on a missing-person case. A Customs inspector disappears from the city port, and Emilia is asked to help. Emilia soon realizes this...