A Pastor’s Pit by Judge Roy Sparkman toys with your rational thoughts and challenges your beliefs about religious liberties, with no guarantee of protection of constitutional freedoms. Pastor Preston Curtis has been indicted and put on trial for preaching from the Bible. It sounds harmless,...

Seven-year-old Madison is excited to be taking tennis lessons. However, things don’t go quite as she thought they would. After watching tennis on television, she dreamed big about succeeding on the tennis court. At first, she couldn’t even hit the ball. With lots of tears...

Kate and Harry met at university, and while they claimed to have different motives, love conquered all. They got married, Kate had a lucrative job, and Harry’s laundry business boomed. Harry expanded his business, and all hell was let loose. He started cheating, but when...

A Mother's Tale & Other Stories is an amalgamation of interconnected stories set during the Vietnam War. Written by Khanh Ha, the book contains eleven short stories loosely connected by the characters and themes. "Heartbreak Grass" focuses on a newly recruited soldier of the North...

In A Cobra's Bite Doesn't Hurt by Anil Nijhawan, one of its most memorable themes is that its main character, Kalu, narrates his story and records it for the prime minister of India to let him know of his sad plight and of others like...

Kevin Rogers in A Simple Model of Discipleship causes the reader to think. He presents a fresh look at an old question. Since discipleship is based on our love for God and His love for us, Kevin starts by presenting to his readers a good...

A Republic's Rise by Clinton Aldrich is a tale with a strong appeal to fans of historical novels, especially those with a setting evolving around WWII. Before WWII, the Reich Chamber of Culture orders Derek Schorr, an art graduate student at Berlin Academy of Arts,...

There is a childhood story I always enjoyed, The Little Engine Who Could by Watty Piper. What a refreshing, encouraging story about determination and never giving up. What about a weak little tree? Blown about by strong winds, almost trampled by big feet, flooded roots...

A Mother's Journey of Love, Death, and Forgiveness by Jackie Loret De Mola is a compilation of social media posts, photographs, and journaling that she had the presence of mind to articulate in the aftermath of the death of her son, Frank Loret de Mola....

Sometimes, a really good book will convey the same kind of human warmth embodied by close friends gathered together on a cold winter’s day. Such is the case with Jeff Turner’s heartwarming (heartrending) novel, A Rescued Soul. While his narrative literally includes those familiar winter...

Arthur Yavelberg has authored A Theology for the Rest of Us, resisting the usual theological jargon and dogmatism. When I saw this title, I thought it would be a Christian volume written on the layman’s level. I was dead wrong. Arthur incorporates Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism,...

S. Jones-Marshall is a poet. One does not usually think about those in the military reading poetry, but Jones-Marshall writes with them in mind. Many of our men and women in uniform have sustained Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and too often feel their life is...

A Murder of Principal by Saralyn Richard is a pulsating murder mystery set in a black majority Midwestern high school in 1993. RJ Stoker is the new principal at Lincoln High. Determined to shake off the old way of doing things, Stoker tries to enable...

A New Dream Arises by Gregory Kopp is part of the Kopp Chronicles. In A New Dream Arises, the author opens the American connection with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, and how Vice President Andrew Johnson felt about what President Abraham Lincoln...

Have you ever seen a homeless person in the area where you live? Have you ever taken the time and shown the compassion to buy that person a meal? Have you ever thought, “I wish there were something I could do to help the homeless?”...

Cricket is angry. Her parents lied to her, taking her from her home and friends on their distant, dying planet to live on Earth. She has to go to school like a human teenager and do her best to fit into this strange, desert town...

A Chronicle of Angels by Vincent Thomas Vok is an inspiring poem divided into sections: a poem about angels that presents an insightful allegory of spiritual and human encounters. The author writes about his experience with angels from human and spiritual perspectives. Some angels can...

A Siblings Guide To Autism is about a girl whose twin brother is on the spectrum and is writing this book for her little sister so she knows what to do when it comes to their autistic sibling. The narrator of the story wishes sometimes...

“Can I have...,” little Stevie continually whined as he rode the grocery cart while his Mommy did the shopping. “No Sweetie,” she repeatedly answered. Stevie wasn’t about to give up. He wanted to know why she could buy what she wanted and he couldn’t. It’s...

A Constitution For A Democracy by Rohit Kajaria is an illuminating non-fiction book seeking a way to establish a perfect democracy devoid of the ills of the prevalent governments of the world. Kajaria cites the examples of two of the most powerful nations of western...