Linda Dindzans’s novel, A Certain Mercy (A Certain Future series), is a profoundly moving and inspiring Christian historical story set in Judea in the first century AD, in the time of Yeshua of Nazareth. Zara is a young Judean Jew from a wealthy family....

Elaine Hsieh Yu’s Ugly Dumpling: A Memoir follows the author’s childhood after immigrating from Hong Kong to Hawaii in the 1970s, where she grows up in poverty with her mother and brothers after a violent separation from her father. Yu describes vivid scenes of life...

Sara Verrall’s Mexico Amiga! is a captivating memoir that describes four consecutive winter escapes to Mexico with her Swedish partner, Jan, whom she affectionately calls “My Viking.” The memoir takes readers on a journey that ignores the typical tourist trail and traverses the Pacific coast:...

The Gift follows Butch Blackwell, a boy raised by his mother, Pansy, inside the strict world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses after his father, Ace Sharkey, disappears before his birth. Butch grows up in rural California under rules that shape his life, while rancher Steve Bultemeyer...

The Warrior in the Garden by Keith Thorn is a beautiful, reflective book that narrates the story of young Kaori. She starts her journey under the watchful guidance of her Sensei in a dojo. Most stories about any martial art focus on the discipline of...

In Chris Stevens’s Untimely Deaths, history teacher Dan Parker unwittingly discovers a mysterious brass time-travel device beneath the Harrington House Museum in New Chapel, Ohio, and his life spirals into chaos. What starts as a curious exploration quickly turns into a time-altering catastrophe when he...

Jerry Morton’s memoir, Finding My Way, traces a remarkable life across the American landscape, from being born into a roving Coast Guard family through the rough Wisconsin subdivisions, Pittsburgh suburbs, and Illinois trailer parks, to college in Kentucky, Army service at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina,...

In Fractured Memory by Robbie Sheerin, the year is 2045, and it has been twenty years since the UN and WHO established the Human Preservation League (HPL). HPL was tasked with enforcing a government ban on AI and digital technology. Since microprocessors and CPUs were...

Rusty Blackwood’s Before the Grandeur: The Making of a Horsemaster is a gritty historical prequel about Cyril, a young Englishman who refuses to be limited by his meager beginnings. The story starts with his impoverished childhood in 1913 England and carries through the crushing weight...

Sarah Barry's 9 Habits of Happy Retirees approaches retirement as something beyond our typical idea of retiring, which is focused on one thing: massive financial achievement. Barry walks readers through the emotional, physiological, and psychological landscape most of us often miss. From leaving a...

Love by Michael S. A. Graziano is told from the perspective of a street artist who sketches strangers in a metropolitan park. If passersby see him at all, it is often with disgust at his chronically disheveled appearance. The artist uses his talent as a form of...

In her memoir The Great Triumph, Jeanne Estelle Saddler follows the life of her mother, Thelma, from a childhood in a South Carolina sharecropping family to adulthood in Detroit. After the Osborne family joins the Great Migration, Thelma's intelligence brings her into the home of...

In Painting Over Cracks by Lee Bukowski, Beth and Danny were in an accident. They were hit on Danny’s side of the car; he was thrown out and died at the scene. Beth survived with a few injuries but now faces life without Danny. To...

In Nero's Nile by Rowan O'Neill, the story starts with a brutal bang in 60 AD Britannia. General Titus Statilius Taurus pulls off the daring assassination of Queen Boudicca to end a tribal revolt, hoping he'll finally be able to settle down on his farm....

Jory Perry's children's story is a fun, engaging, and delightful read. The Tail That Told the Truth follows a young fox named Felix who lives in the heart of the Whispering Woods. He learns the consequences of lying the hard way and discovers the benefits...

That McKenzie Girl by Jesse Gordon is a fun, lighthearted, slice-of-life story. Twenty-one-year-old Victor Navarro lives with his best friend, a gamer who livestreams in his underwear, called Brand. Victor isn't at a great stage in life, but Brand needs him—he's in free fall after...

Muriel Finch and The Missing Key by Deborah Erdmann introduces us to Muriel, a sharp-eyed retiree who notices absolutely everything and has zero filters. Her peaceful retirement in Seaglass Cove takes a bizarre turn when a stranger (Norman) wakes up in her flowerbeds smelling like...

In Sandra L. Huska's Think of the Sunflower, Nikee Madison travels from Pittsburgh to rural Pennsylvania for her twentieth high school reunion, expecting an uncomfortable weekend. Instead, a locked metal box hidden in her late mother’s attic leads her toward a buried secret connected to...

Many of us live life without critically examining our path or learning the lessons taught by our successes and failures. In sharp contrast, Costantino Delli has come to understand his life as a learning process, constantly reviewing the events as they unfolded and asking searching...

Voices on the Wind -- Assault by Helena P. Schrader is an epic story of courage and defiance in the face of a relentless enemy and incredible deprivation. The first of a series based on the historic defense of the island of Malta by the...