A tender exploration of childhood grief, faith, family, and the journey from sorrow toward hope Joy Overcame Sorrow follows ten-year-old Joy Marie Carter as she navigates the devastating loss of her father, Steve, who dies suddenly in a multiple-vehicle accident. What begins as an ordinary bike ride with her best friend, Bella, quickly becomes the […]
A daring rescue mission turns into a fight for survival, truth, and justice in this adventurous thriller. A rescue mission is supposed to end when the person being rescued is finally safe. For Marshall Morris, however, finding a missing teenager in the Rocky Mountains was only the beginning of the trouble. What started as an […]
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Just the Good Parts by Robbie Couch
The candle on the kitchen counter is shaped like a mitten and smells of pine. Clyde, a lanky business student with red hair and suspenders who has moved in upstairs that morning, has lit it and closed his eyes, and when sixteen-year-old Caspen touches his shoulder to say goodbye, the floor drops away. A breath […]
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Christmas Staycation by Meghan Quinn
The magic carpet at the sledding hill moves slowly, which is the point. Each time it hauls the sled back up the slope, Nolan Hart uses the ride to tell Taran Taylor something he knows about her. Her birthday and her star sign. The way she hates lateness because time cannot be refunded. The fact […]
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Land of Ghosts by E L James
At the graveside, a single cloud drifts over Canterbury and slowly takes the shape of a crocodile. Emily Beauchamp almost turns to point it out to her brother Billy, who always saw dragons and giants where she saw dogs and horses, and then remembers that he is in the smallest of the three coffins being […]
After the death of his twin brother, 7th grader Colton struggles with grief in this raw, sensitive look at a family’s loss. A simple bike ride along main roads suddenly becomes the scene of a deadly hit-and-run when young Cade is struck by a car. His twin brother Colton sees it happen, seemingly in slow […]
There’s a reason so much horror these days is set in the past: nothing is quite as creepy as the unfamiliar and unknown. For so much of human history, we’ve worked on hunches and guesswork to explain the world around us. Out of this guesswork grew the myths we all know and love today about […]
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Time-Stopper by James Young
A man with a unique gift to stop time faces life, perfectionism, love, and work in this sci-fi-infused literary novel. What would you do if you could stop time? Would you ensure flawless punctuality, utilize your unlimited time to catch up on work or rest, prevent clumsiness, or simply give yourself pause to escape the […]
Lauren is counting down the register at closing time when her best friend calls to say she is getting married. Noel has been stuck in a small northern town for three days waiting on a car part. Now there is a bearded man in red flannel on the video call, a very large diamond on […]
The first exchange of letters is about a pen. Aidric Dawson sends Mira Winters a scroll arranging their next meeting and adds a smug postscript praising enchanted ink, which writes for you before your fingers move. Mira answers by rolling up her plain fountain pen from the non-magical town where she has been hiding, and […]