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What would it look like to have a superhero, fully human, walk amongst us?To get the answer, you’ll have to search the Lion’s Den. Johnny Slater’s life is anything but typical. His father, Daniel Slater, runs a martial arts studio by day, but he is a prolific political activist by night. His older brother, Benny, […]

Witty dialog and broad satire make for some humorous courtroom drama. Legal fiction often leans toward high stakes and moral seriousness. Courtrooms become places where reputations collapse, fortunes disappear, and the law itself carries the weight of consequence. Comedy appears less often in the genre, though the legal profession—with its rituals, technicalities, and endless arguments […]

In the early hours of November 29, 2019, a surveillance camera mounted on the headquarters of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service captured a slender figure pacing the balcony of a lit flat across the Thames. The young man paused at one corner, crossed to the other, returned to the middle, and jumped. What followed, and what […]

A smart, loving treatise on animals’ true role in God’s universe Humans aren’t alone on Earth. We co-exist, interact, and observe life in various forms everyday, but how often do we approach our relationships with those beings with godliness? Dr. Ashley Cooper is a doctor of ministry and a community chaplain who asks us to […]

A loving salute from child to military parent Kacey Hoysted has created a thoughtful resource for the military family with My Dad, My Hero. This short rhyming picture book is about a kid whose dad might be in the army base or away on duty, but his love bounces around the walls of his home. […]

There is something uniquely grotesque about a room full of men in tailored suits bidding on human lives while lobster and champagne sit on ice. Sadie Kincaid knows this, and she does not let you forget it. From the very first pages of The Auction by Sadie Kincaid, you are placed inside a holding room […]

Ten years have passed since Juliette Ferrars brought down The Reestablishment. The world breathes differently now, looser, louder, less afraid. But that hard-won freedom is cracking at the edges, and Release Me by Tahereh Mafi arrives as the second book in the Shatter Me: The New Republic series to press its fingers directly into those […]