BOOKLOVES

A seminarian discovers there’s a lot more to life than purpose in ministry in this novel of personal growth and inner strength. John Cheyenne Wilbur’s Grace Notes is part coming-of-age story, part journey of faith, and completely readable in a single sitting. Fast-paced and genuinely funny, it’s nearly impossible not to root for Jerry Cradleman […]

Somewhere in the middle of a firefight, a battle for a city and the discovery of a lost planet, the book stops and hands a chapter to a slug. The slug is called Bob. Bob is a friendly slug. Bob likes friends. And Bob has many friends, and many of his friends are new friends. […]

A thoughtful manifesto on Christianity as a framework for understanding human consciousness “Any system that attempts to eradicate human nature cannot endure; it unravels under its own contradictions.” Why do societies collapse while others endure? Huizhen Sheng, MD, PhD, argues that the answer lies not in economics, politics, or technology alone but in humanity’s incomplete […]

In a growing loneliness epidemic, ordinary kindness can still bloom. There is no easier time to be lonely. Still grappling with the aftermath of a global pandemic, society has undergone a paradigm shift that has proven difficult to reverse. Activities that once invited camaraderie and friendship are now performed largely alone, reshaped by convenience, caution, […]

The pole stands in the marsh at the end of a boardwalk, and on top of it is a nest built by the same pair of birds who come back to it every spring. The male arrives first and adds material. The female follows after a journey of several thousand miles, and he courts her […]

A six-year-old is under a school desk with her hands clamped over her ears. Decades later, the same woman is standing in an emergency department where an artificial scribe is finishing her sentences aloud, a hard drive is dying in the corner with a sound like a wasp, the overhead paging will not stop, and […]

A relentlessly sweet YA romance that’ll have you cheering for love JJ is a brilliant junior with her eyes on the prize of cheerleading nationals. Aang is an equally brilliant boy with his eye on the prize of winning Mathletes nationals and getting into Stanford. They’ve both been knocking on the guidance counselor’s door since […]

A worthy continuation of the Drifters Realm series that celebrates the power of standing together With HalLows Realm, AnneMarie Mazotti Gouveia broadens the world of her Drifters Realm series, transporting readers beyond the familiar magic of Obligations into a mysterious realm where ancient curses, living landscapes, and forgotten history reshape the characters’ understanding of themselves […]

From a third-floor window, a nineteen-year-old watches his hall of residence empty out for the summer. Parents arrive in small cars, tearful or embarrassed or both. The rugby captain is folded into a clergyman father’s Saab, wearing the face of a man being arrested. The New Age anarcho-collectivist becomes Nicola again and packs a Mini […]