Hope Verdad Presents: The Bench by Francesca Flood is a captivating collection of stories that explore the mysteries of life and death. Seated on a park bench, Kip, a man who has lost his wife and everything he owns, receives a sense of divine peace...

How Liberals Changed the World by Marcelo Brazzi is a wide-ranging and well-researched book that looks at the long history of political and social progress in the United States. Marcelo Brazzi explains how liberal ideas helped shape the freedoms and rights Americans enjoy today. The...

Dogfish and the Gift of Inclusion is a children’s picture book written by Rita Reed, with illustrations by Craig Cartwright. The story follows Dogfish, who has been invited to celebrate his friend Wally the Whale Shark’s birthday in Los Cabos, Mexico. Excited about the invitation,...

In Holly the Holstein's Farm Friends by Mandy Dawson Farmer, Holly the Holstein cow introduces her calf, Heather, and explains the roles of the various farm animals. Chickens lay eggs, while roosters wake up the farm and protect the flock. Sheep provide fleece for wool,...

Herbert I. Burns Jr.’s A Quote Could Lead the Way is a delightful collection of motivational and spiritual reflections centered around the power of simple yet profound quotes. The book features hundreds of carefully chosen quotations with biblical insights, encouraging readers to see each day...

Elisse and her sister Lenore live in Wiston, where Elisse has been thinking a lot about her friend Drance, a soldier in the Agan army, who has gone off to battle to defend their people from the hostile armies of Forsene. During one of her...

Muzzle the Black Dog by Mike Cobb is a gripping psychological thriller steeped in atmosphere and literary depth. Set in the remote backwoods of North Carolina, the story follows Jack Pate, a reclusive former dentist haunted by personal loss and an undefined past. His solitude...

Cap Hillis has retold the story of the slaying of the Firefish over and over; as legends tend to do, it has grown with each telling. People came from far and wide to see the great Packer Throme or catch a glimpse of Panna, the...

David Eckman draws from his own experiences and those of others in Knowing the Heart of the Father. He begins his book by explaining why God is worthy of being called Father. Eckman explains four experiences that are essential to living a full Christian life. 1.       Sense...

Louis Alan Swartz' collection Constructed of Magic and Other Poems on the Immortality of the Human Spirit is poetry after my own heart. I fell in love with it from the very first. There are many deep, philosophical poems that will set you to thinking....

Be ready to get inspired when you read A. Jordan Fischette’s book, To: The Ambitious, From: The Experienced—26 Letters on Leadership. This book is a compilation of 26 views from a variety of occupational backgrounds on what is leadership. Occupations as diverse as The...

Somewhere Between the Land and the Sea: A Worried Mum by Ian Humpheryes explores the wonders and mysteries of the rockpool. One of the inhabitants of the rockpool is Clear Shrimp. She is off to play a game of hide and seek with her friends,...

Hymie Anisman’s Before the Beginning and After the End: Holocaust Survivor True Stories is a unique addition to Holocaust literature, bridging personal trauma and collective memory through the stories of survivors. Anisman creates a narrative that is both intimate and illuminating, grounding his reflection in...

Sirius, the Brightest Star in the Sky by Sue Elias opens with a young boy pointing to a star and asking his mother its name, which is Sirius. His mother also tells him that a long time ago Sirius was a kind and helpful star,...

Marcia Breece's Yutka and the Voyage of the Parita depicts the incredibly true story of Yutka Lipka’s daring escape from Nazi-occupied Poland. During the rise of Nazism throughout Europe in the 1930s and 40s, Yutka decides to forge a better life for herself. She boards...

Church Dog and the Girl in the Mirror is another of Tracy Matte’s Christian adventure stories for kids. Tayja is a happy child and can’t wait for her first day at school. But when she gets home, it’s clear she didn’t enjoy it, and her...

In Classical Arabic and the Hibernation of the Arab Mind, Walid Khalil discusses the impact of language development on modernization in the Arab world, attributing the region's slow progress to the lack of a standardized written system for spoken dialects. Arab societies rely on oral...

Sherri the Shrimp Saves the Day by George J. Linsenmeyer, III is a cute children's picture book. Everyone is in an uproar – their best friend, Octavius the Octopus, has disappeared and is nowhere to be found. Then Steve the Swordfish announces he has found...

Poetry and Allegory From the Land Beyond the Crystal Sea by Edward N. Brown is an interesting and unique retelling of Creation, Satan's deception, and the ultimate loss of souls as a result. The author leads us through the vast emptiness, the great plan, a...

In Within the Haunt of the Unseelie Court, R.C. Davis crafts a chilling and fantastical tale set in 1935, following Janey Carter as she returns to her hometown of Gowan, Massachusetts, after two years away at a teacher’s college. However, Gowan has changed significantly in...