“Helping others is awesome, as you can see!” That’s what Dolly the Doodle believes as she prances around her neighborhood all day. In Melissa Eastin’s Dolly’s Kindness Journey, Dolly finds many ways to show kindness, from helping her friend Sami the Sloth down from a...

In What’s Your Nineveh? When Running from Your Calling Becomes Its Own Kind of Hell, Keith Thorn turns the biblical account of Jonah into a question of what happens when a person keeps refusing the duty God has placed on them. In the Bible, Jonah...

What I Hope You Remember by Keith Thorn is an introspective memoir that blends heartfelt storytelling with life-earned wisdom. The book is a collection of letters and reflections addressing healing, forgiveness, and the transformative power of presence. Thorn writes with unflinching honesty about the struggles...

Dolly Parton once said, “The magic is inside you. There ain’t no crystal ball.” In C is for Courageous by Shanita Liu, young readers are taken on a warm, upbeat A–Z journey that shows them how courage is something they already possess. They just have...

In his memoir Last August, Joe Gulla shares the month he believes will be his mother Mary Ann’s final one at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. Alzheimer’s has brought Mary Ann to the hospice, where ordinary conversation has stopped, yet Joe keeps arriving with the...

Final Departure (Death is Never on Time) by Jeff Walton is a Christian fiction novel that would appeal most to a predominantly Christian audience made up of young adults and adults. Dan Lucas is a retired NCIS Special Agent who is heading home to his...

Do you have a deep need for friendship? Connection? Then it is time to plug in. The Friendship Upgrade: Trade Clickable Connections for Friendships that Matter by Heather Dugan demonstrates the reality of life as it exists now. The author speaks about her loneliness and...

Sadia: The Eighth Circle of Heck by Dale E. Basye is such a delightful read that it should be on the list of today’s bestsellers in its category, a work of great imagination, featuring wonderful characters, an exciting setting, and a plot woven to a...

Replays: Short Stories by a Jersey Guy by Gary Hawthorn takes readers on a captivating journey through New Jersey's suburban landscape. This collection of stories centered around life in suburban Trenton and its surroundings captures the essence of everyday life through a lens of humor,...

What does it take to have dreams and to achieve them? In Move Forward or Move Aside: How to Play the Game of Life to Win, Ron Malhotra offers timeless insights on the secret of beating the odds and achieving anything one wants to achieve...

Written from three points of view, personal, team and corporate, Purpose: The Extraordinary Benefits of Focusing on What Matters Most by Ben Renshaw offers essential advice on what encompasses the guiding element called purpose. According to Renshaw, purpose is what steers and really gives fulfillment...

Ask older attendees of a memoir writing workshop what the subject of their intended memoir will be, and 90% will reply that, encouraged by their families, their memoirs will be a recollection of the most memorable events, big or small, in their lives. Finding Joe...

The Ambient Christ: The Inside Story of God in Science, Scripture and Spirituality by Joseph C. Masterleo is a book I have long wanted to read, only it wasn’t written yet. Finally it is here — a brilliantly articulated argument that reconciles science and faith,...

In a fantastic start to a new series authored by MK McClintock, Gallagher’s Pride: Book One of the Gallagher Series is a great Western read with plenty of romance thrown in. In it, we find Ethan Gallagher, head of his family and living in the...

Tom Miller's Star-Born Universe -- Episode One: Necessity is a sci-fi adventure novella written by Peter Doran. Tom Miller, a CAD operator, lives a humdrum life on the outskirts of Los Angeles. In constant conversation with his inner self, Greyum, Tom accidentally discovers futuristic technology...

Spinner is another great book by the author Michael J Bowler, who also penned the Children of the Knight series. Spinner tells the story of a teenage boy, Alex, who suffers from Spina Bifida and has to use a wheelchair, and his gang of special-ed(ucation)...

Fate’s Fables is the amazing debut fantasy novel by T. Rae Mitchell. Fans of Gail Carson Levine and Cassandra Clare will want to add T. Rae Mitchell to their reading list. Mitchell has been quoted asking the following question, “Who wasn’t either bored or troubled...

The Crazy Christmas Caper by Andrew C.F. Guile is set against the backdrop of Christmas. Skinny Finny and his twin, Tubby, wake up on Christmas Day to find out that their parents have gone missing. Their Christmas has been ruined and they set out in...

Faith Alone, the second book in Ruth E. Meyer’s Sola Series, is the story of Grace Neunaber and her family. Grace and her new husband, David, struggle to adjust to their new life together. Managing money, grocery shopping and balancing home and work schedules are...

Ruth Meyer’s heart-warming Christian fiction novel, Hope Alone, chronicles Faith Williams’ journey through devastating lows that deepen her faith in God. While in high school, Faith falls pregnant. The one man she hoped to count on during and after the devastating discovery turns his back...