Embodied Grace by Stacey Webb begins with a moonlit night in India, where Webb hears a call to stop withholding love from herself. From that moment, the author presents grace as something the body can receive before the mind has words for it. The guide...

Dona Masi’s The Taking follows Vera Diparma, a girl in rural New England whose childhood is marked by lights in the sky and missing hours she cannot explain. Her father, John, raised her in an old house near Pangea after her mother, Suzy, disappeared under...

Vietnam's Modern Day Boat People by Shira Sebban follows Vietnamese asylum seekers returned from Australia after arriving by sea, beginning with Tran Thi Thanh Loan, a Catholic mother facing prison in Vietnam after officials sent her family back. Sebban enters the case through a newspaper...

Jeff Nesbit’s Autocrat is satirical, grotesque, and timely; it follows a narcissistic reality TV host named Rex Vanner who launches and wins the 2015 presidential campaign. But his leverage is a network contract, and what he succeeds in summoning is the darkest impulse in the...

Anthony is on the dock, fishing pole in hand and line in the water. His older brother and sister play cards nearby on the deck of a cabin while his parents put together dinner. Suddenly, there’s a pull on his fishing line. Anthony is worried....

Some of life's biggest lessons come from the simplest stories. In The Red Letters: Parables from the Gospel of Matthew, Angela Fincham introduces young learners to some of Jesus's best-known parables and their lessons. The book begins by defining what a parable is, using language...

In Painting Over Cracks by Lee Bukowski, Beth and Danny were in an accident. They were hit on Danny’s side of the car; he was thrown out and died at the scene. Beth survived with a few injuries but now faces life without Danny. To...

In Nero's Nile by Rowan O'Neill, the story starts with a brutal bang in 60 AD Britannia. General Titus Statilius Taurus pulls off the daring assassination of Queen Boudicca to end a tribal revolt, hoping he'll finally be able to settle down on his farm....

A beautiful flower farm is the setting for Willow Tales by Joni Franks. Granny Bloom has grown and sold flowers for as long as anyone can remember. Helping her is a Welsh corgi named Sebastian. The two are inseparable and make a great team running...

David Boito’s Fatal Castle opens with the Kohinoor’s arrival at Queen Victoria’s palace in 1850 before moving to the Tower of London in 2023, where the diamond’s colonial history lingers in the Crown Jewels. Ashley Bellamy, a UCLA history student and lifelong diamond obsessive, has...

A is For Amy by Steven Crandell is the delightfully sweet tale of Amy Dellaconta Franklin, an independent mother of three who, at 26, never knew her life would turn into such a train wreck. Drowning in debt thanks to her late husband, Amy tries...

Get Through This Book by Brett Rumfelt is an interactive picture book that follows a bright green character who desperately tries to make it through the pages of a story. Convinced the book looks boring, the character decides the quickest solution is simply to get...

Jo-Anne Duffett’s novel, Adrift in Time, is a captivating and thrilling romance of two time travelers from two very different centuries. In 1626, Ralph Exmore, 32, of Oarlyn, England, is aboard the merchant ship Zest, bound for India. The ship is under attack by pirates...

For a long time, organizations have relied on psychology and behavioral science to market and sell their products. How do startup founders make sure customers get what they want? Colin Hodge is a startup founder with over two decades of experience in the tech industry....

Don't Tell by Teresa Schapansky is a deeply personal and harrowing memoir based on the life story of Troy Edward Eklund. The book walks you through Troy’s painful childhood, his addiction, and his fight for a better life—all before his sudden death in 2025. Troy...

Chaos is Coming by Dani Donari follows FBI agent David Rickman after a bomb detonates at Atlanta’s MARTA station during the morning commute. Ordered to determine whether the attack is connected to a Charleston park bombing, David discovers that both crimes belong to a wider...

In The Long Journey Home, Wes Lewis opens up about the exact moment he realized his decades of military discipline and career success were just walls hiding a deep emotional distance. After a lifetime of constant moving, broken marriages, and a chaotic phase where he...

In Mitchell Hadley’s The Book of Revelations, at age eight, Nan Jaffe loses her parents after one frightening night in Indianapolis. She is taken to Illinois by her grandparents, who rename her Robin and sever her past. Years later, she lives in San Francisco as...

When There’s Skin in the Game by D. A. Williams is a thrilling read. David Allen Winston, better known as Win, was a dedicated Navy officer with a promising career; that was until the death of his sister, Laura. She was the accidental casualty of...

China Time by Jeff Pepper is a fascinating exploration of how ancient Chinese civilization understood, measured, and organized time. Rather than focusing solely on clocks and calendars, the book examines the cultural, scientific, philosophical, and practical systems that shaped the Chinese view of hours, days,...