Willow Rose by M. Kevin Hayden follows Alder, a debt-ridden and troubled emergency physician on the verge of burnout. In the backdrop, a strange comet, Comet Goodwin, throws the world into an unexpected twist of events. That night, Alder drives home after an exhausting shift...

Keith Thorn’s No Mud: No Lotus uses the metaphor of mud to describe difficult life experiences such as grief, loss, burnout, and depression, which often precede healing or renewal. He argues that cultural habits encourage avoiding pain, but meaningful change requires fully experiencing discomfort rather...

Window of Lies by Lilly Collins is an intriguing novella that blends women’s fiction, psychological thriller, and crime mystery. Sarah Hill wakes up from a dream of running with a baby on her back. It has been a year since she moved out of her...

Marie Turcios's memoir, Hakuna Shida: Memories of a Guatemalan Family in Africa, traces how her family came to live in Africa. She recounts the 2007 move to Kenya after her husband accepted work with an international agricultural firm. The family settles in Thika for several...

The Other Shoes of Larry Martin by Pavane Ravel follows Larry Martin, a young reporter in Atlanta whose employment and housing collapse in quick succession after dismissal from his work with an extremist website. After eviction, he moves through the city and nearby towns,...

In No Regrets: The Freedom Beyond What Can’t Be Changed, Keith Thorn traces how he spent years chasing achievement, and the journey to finally turning toward the memories he had spent much of his life trying to outrun. As regret surfaces in middle age, Thorn...

In This Kindness Prepares Another, Keith Thorn isn't interested in giving us a polished, ego-driven victory lap. Instead, the book feels like a quiet, almost startlingly honest dismantling of the person he used to be. Thorn deconstructs the defensive walls he spent decades building, looking...

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...

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...

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...

"Sarah’s Gift" by Skye Wieland is an uplifting novel about a young girl who is starting a fresh life after living through a traumatic childhood experience. Sarah leaves her homeland in Australia and makes South Africa her new country, working and living at a safari...

Forty Grains of Black Powder is a generational saga about a fictional mestizo family in Mexico. It is book one in the tale of the Cordero Clan. The story starts in 1862 when the young Marietta, the mother of the protagonist, spots a handsome stranger...

The Effort by Santonu Kumar Dhar is a captivating story of a little boy from Calcutta, India, who faced the difficult task of caring for his sick father just years after his mother's death. Written in the first person, The Effort is very descriptive, allowing...

Leo Learns to Swim by Caren Cantrell is about a baby sea turtle who discovers, upon hatching, that he has one flipper shorter than the others. Unable to swim, Leo is too scared to follow his siblings and cousins into the ocean, but he knows...

The Stone of Courage is book two in the Centaur Chronicles by M.J. Evans, a beautiful mix of fantasy, sci-fi, and adventure that presents a delightful experience for young readers. In this spellbinding fantasy, readers are introduced to exciting characters on the quest for the...

Hoot Hart is a 12-year-old boy who enjoys exploring the woods and open lands around his home out in the country in The Ghost of Saddle Mountain by Fred Whitman. Not part of any group at school, Hoot is at home in nature and loves...

The planet has evolved and Earth has been utterly transformed. Under the United Planetary Congress, alien races coexist with each other, but huge trouble starts when an encrypted code that can cripple the artificial earth is stolen. The famous agent of the Galactic Interpol Society,...

In the small town of Bloomtown, teenager Anna, the daughter of a paranormal investigator, is deemed weird by her peers at school. She is teased, bullied and nicknamed Goblin Girl. Her ability to make contact with spirits and trickers is something that causes her distress,...

Timothy's Lessons In Good Values - Volume 2 by Christopher Gordon is a children’s book on the importance and instillation of good values in children. In this book, Timothy, a young boy, is the protagonist and he tells his story and experiences in his own...

It is a joyous day in the Kingdom of Lavindeya as Princess Sydneya is about to wed her true love, Prince Nicholi. However, the happy event takes a drastic turn when Nicholi goes missing. It turns out that he has been abducted by intruders from...