July 18, 2023
Like a series of inspirational classroom posters in book form, My Friend Charlie presents short, life principles packaged with illustrations and photographs of dogs.
This picture book is nonfiction, but doesn’t have the typical focus on nature, outer space, transportation, or other categories that dominate early reader nonfiction. Instead, My Friend Charlie pairs advice with […]
July 4, 2023
Revisiting the darkest period of his life, Ken Guidroz shares the story of his transformative struggle with fatherhood and faith in Letters to My Son in Prison.
Lucas Guidroz was high on heroin “and a week into a raging drug-and-alcohol binge” when his car hit a 53-year-old bicycler, killing him instantly. While he “saw the […]
July 4, 2023
Donald J. Fraser’s clearly written work proposes that a “great flip” in U.S. politics has seen liberals and conservatives switch positions on activist versus hands-off government.
Here, the two main roles go to “liberal” Thomas Jefferson and “conservative” Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson’s egalitarian vision required the economy to remain largely agricultural and the government mostly inactive. […]
July 4, 2023
The third installment in David C. Jeffrey’s Space Unbound saga continues the rousing, grand-scale science-fiction adventure featuring commander of the Sun Wolf Aiden Macallan and his crew as they battle a villainous mastermind whose ultimate goal is nothing short of annihilating humankind.
Set in the year 2218, Macallan and crew are given a top-secret mission […]
June 6, 2023
This rhyming children’s picture book offers wisdom from various anthropomorphic animals, including a lizard, hen, gopher and turtle.
Jimmi and Wise Dog are canines with a sense of fashion. Wrapped in chic looks that change from page to page, they ponder the different ways they approach the world: “Wise Dog is careful and knows a […]
June 6, 2023
In Crossing the Swamp, entrepreneur and investor John Shen recounts his path to success in order, he writes, “to support the growing interest in entrepreneurship in the US.”
Shen’s book opens in crisis: During the 2008 crash, as his Orlando-based real estate collapses in slow motion around him, he considers jumping out a hotel window—but […]
May 30, 2023
W. Royce Adams’ Scar Songs is an engaging collection of short stories that showcase characters coping with life events and the residual feelings stirred by those happenings, including loss, regret, jealousy, betrayal, and even an ultimate breakdown.
In the opening story “Thief Catcher,” a young grocery store clerk has second thoughts about reporting an elderly […]
May 30, 2023
A shocking violation of faith and innocence forces an Italian-American Catholic priest to reflect on the course of his life—and the paths not taken—in Vincent Panettiere’s decades-spanning contemporary novel.
Readers are introduced to Monsignor Steven Trimboli in 2006. The 70-year-old pastor of Brooklyn’s Queen of Peace is disturbed by the Catholic Church’s growing list of […]
May 23, 2023
Set predominantly on Nera, a nanotechnology-powered planet comprising socially stratified super-cities called Metros, Justin Hale’s Runners is a cyber-punk thriller chronicling the exploits of a group of outlaws led by the charismatic captain of the spaceship The Misnomer.
Mr. Zan and his motley crew are gunrunners trying to make ends meet. They trained as elite […]
May 20, 2023
Gutted, by Anna Madorsky, is a psychological thriller about two damaged young people who meet late one night and are drawn into a strange, dark romance.
Elliott, emotionally damaged by her family, constantly berates and belittles herself. She thinks she’s unlikeable and unlovable, yet she has friends who care for her, and she provides support […]