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A family vacation turns into a real-life treasure hunt in this action-packed middle grade mystery. The Hunt for Yamashita’s Gold is an adventurous middle-grade historical novel that carries readers across the Philippines and into the enduring mystery of a World War II treasure legend.  Beneath its action-filled treasure hunt lies a story about family, history, […]

Some love stories ask what happens when two people find each other. This one asks a stranger question: what happens when one of them decides to unfind the other on purpose? The Good Parts by Evann Normandin opens with a letter that arrives eleven hours too late and a woman who has swallowed a pill […]

A compelling real-life drama featuring a contentious battle over the nomination of a judge to the United States Supreme Court  Supreme Pressure adeptly highlights the polarized environment of 1930s America, along with the progressive groups advocating for change in the status quo. Author Victor Li proficiently chronicles the key figures at the center of the […]

Carnal desires and inexplicable supernatural encounters abound in this seriously twisted collection. Ten stories. One town. An abundance of corruption, taboo, and raw humanity. Everything comes back to Salem, Virginia, a small Appalachian town populated by the dedicated worshippers of Crucible Church, the sinners on the outskirts of the church, and strange supernatural entities—the likes […]

A fulfilling narrative about one man’s search for deeper meaning in his vocation Lilli’s Question tells the story of Jim McGann, a young man who plans to enter the priesthood but begins to question his path after a chance encounter while traveling in Europe. A story with heartfelt and poignant moments galore, Jim’s spiritual journey […]

There is a particular kind of reader who treats romance novels as a safe room, a place to sigh, swoon, and close the cover before anyone gets hurt. Roxie Mitchell is that reader, right up until the moment fiction stops playing nice. That collision of comfort and chaos runs through If Books Could Kill by […]

Some sequels tread water. This one rides the swell. Picking up in the ash-choked aftermath of the first Storm Weaver book, Tides of Fortune by Lauryn Hamilton Murray pushes Blaze Harglade out from behind palace walls and into open country, where a crown means far less than the wits it takes to keep breathing. It […]