Marcia Fry-Galbraith’s The Power of Joy details practical approaches to cultivating lasting joy by aligning daily actions with evolving life goals through ongoing self-reflection and adjustment. Fry-Galbraith contrasts joy with fleeting happiness and their fundamental differences. She identifies barriers like stress, trauma, and social pressures,...

Blood of Time by Scott Swisher is the second book in the Ring Fold Chronicles, taking its already high-stakes time-travel premise to new heights. We're with rogue agent Darren Kraus, who returns with a new breed of weaponized time travelers. Jordan and the members of...

The Champagne CEO is Terri Eagle’s memoir, detailing her journey through multiple leadership roles in the luxury retail and fragrance industries. Raised in a restaurateur family, she started in pharmacy sales, then advanced to L’Oréal as an account executive, winning Account Executive of the Year....

The Library of Wonder by Lizy J. Campbell is a charming and endearing middle-grade fantasy about a lonely girl named Emma, who discovers an abandoned library and finds herself pulled, quite literally, into the pages of a book. Beginning as a mysterious adventure, it evolves...

Michael Trudeau’s The Absurd Christian looks at suffering, meaning, and suicide through philosophy and Christian theology. Trudeau speaks on Camus, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and others on nihilism and absurdism, leaning into Camus’s rebellion against meaninglessness. Trudeau critiques secular and religious responses to suffering, saying that Christianity...

In The Fin-Tastic Cleanup, author Laura Mancuso introduces young readers to three spirited mermaids, Sara, Alix, and Lucy, who live in a cheerful undersea village. Their joyful world takes a serious turn when they discover pollution harming their ocean home. From a cracked bottle injuring...

What is better than animals going to a party and learning along the way? With adorable full-page illustrations by Farrukh A. Ahmed, Marcy Pusey’s picture book, The Survival Squad: Friends, Fear, and a Jungle Journey, is a sweet story about friendship and the power of...

The Vatican Barber by Sparky McLaughlin is a gripping and ambitious debut novel that blends elements of espionage, science fiction, and theological intrigue into a high-stakes narrative. The story follows Thomas Ashton, known as "The Barber," a seasoned CIA operative thrust into a battle against...

The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair by Meg Myers Morgan centers on Gemma Sinclair, a married mother of two. Gemma can’t catch a break. Having given birth a few days ago, she can’t shake this insurmountable feeling of pressure. However, she’s not entirely sure where...

The Syndicate Executive by Robin Alden Howard is a gripping psychological thriller steeped in control, obsession, and the brutal complexities of power dynamics. Rachel is scarred by her past and surrounded by predators cloaked in wealth and charm. She finds herself caught in the possessive...

The Dance of Vipers by A.K. Nairn transports readers to the shadowy court politics of 1517 Scotland, a land where peace is a performance and treachery simmers beneath every alliance. French diplomat Antoine de Lissieu, who is no stranger to the games of European power,...

The Stormy Kromer Kitten by Erin Byrnes Bailey narrates the fascinating history behind the Stormy Kromer cap while featuring an adorable calico kitten. The story introduces us to George Kromer, a young man residing in the small town of Kaukauna, Wisconsin. He falls in love...

Rick Smith’s The Scapegoat explains the biblical concept of Jesus as a substitute who takes on humanity’s guilt and punishment, using the metaphor of a scapegoat. He details how sin entered the world through Adam and Eve’s disobedience, leading to humanity’s separation from God and...

The Magical Red Kimono by Jan Morrill is a thoughtful children's picture book about the beautiful friendship of two young girls from two different cultures. Sachi and her best friend, Jubie, enjoy spending time together. While sitting under a big oak tree that grew outside...

The Whiskey Gentleman by Robin Alden Howard is a slow-burning, emotionally charged romantic thriller that blends psychological tension with sensual depth. At the heart of the story are Rachel Vos and Harrison Montgomery—two people with jagged pasts and guarded hearts. Rachel has been running from...

The Ghosts We Know: A Walk Through Lifetimes by Joe Trabocco is a collection of original short stories that represent the lives and memories compiled through different passages of time. In The Last Honest Thought, a child imagines becoming a kite, symbolizing the transition from...

David Loux’s historical novel, The Lost Seigneur, is a gritty, gripping, and engrossing saga of the Laux family set in early 18th-century colonial America and France. This is a sequel to the first novel, Chateaux Laux, in the Chateau Laux Odyssey. I was able to...

Authors Uzma Farooq, Samir Ahmad, and Amani Ahmad bring readers Aesop's thirteen fables in The Boy Who Cried Wolf! And Other Great Stories With Lessons. Immerse yourself in the story of the tortoise and the hare, where the hare faces the consequences of overconfidence and...

This is the story of an unlikely hero by the name of Packer Throme. The young man was expelled from a seminary. When he returned to his village, he saw that the people needed help. He sets out to find the Firefish in order to...

This is another great book by Michelle. "Sunsinger Chronicles Book Four" is as entertaining and full of new plots as the first one. A Sister High Scholar by the name of Marnya is on a secret mission and soon her whereabouts become too obvious. She...