Bella: Beyond the Bark is part of Lana Stasek's Voices Within series. The audiobook tells the story of Bella, a dog who spent eight years bouncing between crates, streets, and shelters before she finally found a real home. She becomes a bit of a local...

In her memoir Piece by Piece, Sheryl Hauk tells the story of how she survived an abusive childhood and built a life centered on music, teaching, family, and creativity. Even though her father no longer has control over her, the effects of the abuse continue...

Children will be amused and delighted as the letters of the alphabet leave the page and take a seafaring journey. Sailing the ABCs is a fun story where the letters A through Z become characters in Ophra Ashur’s tale. Along the way, the letters form...

Justine and Becca, mother and daughter, have been close for the past nine years. Becca is the eldest daughter, and her mother expected her to help raise her two younger sisters. However, by her teenage years, Becca began to feel as if her mother was...

Destiny Nakita Arnold’s memoir, Destiny Legacy: Becoming Her, follows her real-life path to finding her own voice after surviving an unstable childhood and the rigid environment of the U.S. military. Growing up in Atlanta without anyone looking out for her, Destiny deals with cruel labels...

Beyond the Lies by Kimberli Edmonds is a heartfelt guide about breaking free from limiting beliefs formed during your most difficult life challenges. The author uses her own experiences with early trauma, teenage pregnancy, and corporate climbing to explain how we can sometimes get stuck...

When sixteen-year-old Michael and his younger fourteen-year-old brother, Max, came up with the plan to build the National Hall of Champions and Learning Center on Childhood Cancer, they hadn't realized their idea would lead them to become champions of hope. Dream Big: The Hall of...

Jesse Sloane’s What I Thought Loss Meant is a deeply moving memoir about navigating unexpected endings over her lifetime. Jesse shares how she managed the big shifts in her life, like moving six times as a child, with only a teddy bear named Ted for...

In Andrew C Merrick’s Between Fleets, Luke MacLaughlin is a young Casarian naval officer serving aboard the destroyer HMS Snug Varanid of Endicott when he is asked to help locate Raekhuna, the lost homeworld of the Kherrian Peregrine Fleet. Shaera is a Kherrian engineer beginning...

In Wade Prull’s Black Tank, Gary is a former infrastructure specialist who has spent four years traveling alone in the motorhome he chose with his wife Claire. At Ridgeline State Park, the afternoon light matches a place Claire once circled in their road atlas, but...

Bones: A Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Brian Doe follows Brom Bones three years after Ichabod Crane’s disappearance, when life has become far from the victory he thought he'd won. His marriage to Katrina is strained, his home is full of tension, and he’s too...

Robert F. Glahe’s Rattz On The Prowl follows Christopher “Sludge” Dragoon, a veteran Frontier Space Marine whose mission on Genesis Minor ends with his squad dead and his body carrying ten young Rattz. The creatures are hybrids of Earth rats and Blazant biology whose spread...

Voices Within: Life Before and After by Lana Stasek tells a deeply personal story of survival, mapping out the inner lines that can divide a person’s life into two distinct halves. Stasek walks us through her past by exploring complicated family relationships and major historical...

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...

Sometimes, in the midst of reading fiction, I enjoy reading poems for a change, so I chose Nadia Brown’s book of poetry to read. As I read each poem, I enjoyed sensing her personality as she puts her beautiful creations in writing. Some of the...

"A Summer in Oakville" by Lisa J. Lickel and Shellie Neumeier is a novel of four family members and how their lives become connected during one summer. Tessa Murphy, her daughter Lindsay, her brother Art and his son Andy make up the main characters of...

When I read the words, “Have you felt lost, misunderstood, desperate, and helpless?” on the rear cover of this book, I knew that I had to read it. Who among us hasn’t felt this way at one time or another? Although I have never...

Remember how Dan Brown’s “The DaVinci Code,” while being fiction, got people talking about their beliefs or lack of belief in organized religion? “The Jesus Factory” by Scott Lindquist is such a book. Through a fictional story, Lindquist presents a story about the lost message...

Chessie Madrid wants a sister. She wants to fall in love. She wants her father to pay for what he did. And most of all, she wants to live a long and happy life. But Chessie has a serious disease that has been threatening her...

The Little Firefly, by Sheri Fink, is an adorable tale about a young firefly who longs to shine. He watches the older fireflies glow and dance and play exciting games of Fire Tag. As he watches, he dreams of the day he will be able...