The Fish Who Changed the Game by Barbara Pinke is a charming and uplifting children’s story set in a vividly imagined underwater world. It follows Seassy, a young seahorse who wants to participate in the Great Ocean Games. She even dreams of winning. She should...

Melissa “Mel” Noblett, a journalist and environmental activist, is in Milan gathering information from a whistleblower about a new bee virus, but is disappointed by the lack of progress. To salvage the trip, her editor sends her to Bologna to interview Dr. Daniel Woodruff, a...

Janell Strube’s Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution is set in eighteenth-century Paris. Adélaïde Labille dreams of becoming a professional painter despite laws and artistic institutions that reserve this arena for men. Encouraged by her father while facing relentless pressure from her mother to secure a...

The Day Satoshi Returned by Taimour AlNeimat is set in 2044. Daniel Mercer’s job is to decide what counts as truth inside a system where a citizen ranking called Trust Tier controls access to all sectors of life. When he detects a cryptographic signature linked...

In Dangerous Books and the Magic Within Them by R. H. Buffington, twelve-year-old Michael loses his grandfather and is forced to live in a foster home with Perry and Linny. Once there, he stumbles upon a mysterious trunk with ties to his family. Inside, he...

Lynn Hesse’s Part of the Stars begins in 1878, Arkansas, when midwife Myra Logan vanishes after visiting the McCurdy family and wakes inside a mountain cave ruled by pale beings. Her husband Zepeda searches across the winter frontier while Myra’s aunt, Nellie Gatewood, presses officials...

In Kris Nedy's The Fairy of the Enchanted Lake, Michaela is a girl from Summerscent, a mountain village. Children mock her appearance until she follows a butterfly into the forbidden forest and finds the Lake of Lacrima. A fairy grants her wish to become beautiful,...

Corporate Undertaker is a firsthand look at what happens when businesses hit the wall, drawn from Domenic Aversa’s 25 years as a crisis manager. Aversa’s job was to step into the middle of chaos—dealing with everything from delusional owners of apparel giants to machine builders...

Stikki the Squirrel: Tree Spirits is a children's book by Jane H. Wood. It's been a harsh winter for Stikki the Squirrel and his family. In fact, all the animals in the woodland have been affected by the cold and snow. Stikki leaves his mate...

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...

In the fifth book in C.J. Adrien’s Saga of Hasting the Avenger, The Empress and Her Wolf, the Viking anti-hero Hasting and his hardened, oath-bound crew sail deep into the treacherous heart of the Byzantine Empire in the ninth century. Empress Theodora hires Hasting to...

Without Reservations: Roadmap to Romance by Shonda Ramsey is a gentle, faith‑centered second‑chance romance that brings Tess and Luke back into each other’s lives after more than two decades apart. Once high‑school sweethearts who spent several summers building a quiet, hopeful love, they were separated...

Linda C. Wisniewski’s Time is a Pilgrim is set in 1830 Podhale, where Regina arrives in Biały Kot to help her daughter Marianna through childbirth as the halny, a destructive mountain wind, sweeps the villages. The baby, Halina, is born with a red mark across...

The Warrior Spirit Murders is the fifth book in the Leilani Kealoha Island thriller series by Chuck Morgan. Three bodies are found at Kaena Point, a place whispered about as where everything ends. The bodies are staged in positions that resemble ancient burial rites. The...

Nursing Her Fractured Family by Louis Tong is an enthralling novel. Penny's father has just died, and from now on, she has to take care of her mother and younger sister. Penny, at twenty-four, thinks more about her sister, how to protect her from their mother, who...

Belle is only a little dog, but she’s full of curiosity. In A Christmas for Belle by Cindy J. Vanous, the little Yorkie begins to notice all kinds of changes when she goes out for a walk. There are men in red suits everywhere and...

Jack's Noisy Day: A Raucous Romp Through The Alphabet, written by Sarah Tinney and Illustrated by Ricky Audi, is an entertaining and fun-filled children’s book that aims to present the alphabet in the most entertaining way possible. The story follows the journey of Jack’s actions...

In J. Luke Bennecke’s Blackout, the US president is assassinated via a wave of drone strikes to pave the way for a coup, and civil engineer Jake Bendel is thrust into a national nightmare, looking for answers and working hard to stop a complete blackout....

In GTFU: A Journey of Faith, Adan Castillo tells his life story and his healing journey through faith. Born in Tulare, California, Adan was raised by his mother, a Mariachi singer who sparked his love for music. Adan grew up to become a bouncer, a...