Cynthia Schumacher’s "Prose Pizza" is a charming, thoughtful collection of nine stories that reveal the extraordinary layers beneath ordinary lives. With a warm yet incisive eye, Schumacher explores private desires, social expectations, small rebellions and the moments — quiet or sudden — that reorient a life.

The opener, “Sunless Sea,�...Read more

In "The Treasure Within," debut author Matt Adcock invites readers on a gentle spiritual adventure to stop searching aimlessly and start discovering the riches already planted in our souls. Built on the solid foundation of Scripture and personal faith, this uplifting book takes us through life’s darkest valleys and brightest moments with the ...Read more

One of the girls gave me a tube of lotion guaranteed to reduce neck wrinkles in 14 days. “Thanks,” I said, “but it took me decades to develop these wrinkles. They’re not going away in two weeks.”

“How do you know that for sure?” she asked.

“Because I bought a tube of this myself a year ago.”

The only wrinkles I’ve had ...Read more

In "The Dark Birth of the Secret Council," Tracy Cavelli takes the reader on a journey with Trisha as she attempts to make sense of God’s messages to her in her dreams while evil forces are building a secret council.

Two storylines — good and evil — Trisha, a writer and champion for God, and Charles, a powerful businessman. Charles ...Read more

Thomas Schlesser wears many hats as an art historian, college professor, foundation director and author of several well-regarded nonfiction books. His second novel is the international bestseller "Mona’s Eyes," first published in Europe in 2024. It was translated from the original French for this English language edition by Hildegarde Serle ...Read more

Author C.M. Evergreene’s writing debut, "Echoes of Descent" is an impressive and memorable effort exploring the adventures of Miranok Danse, the heiress to the kingdom of Corticia, and how her first journey outside the royal confines becomes a formative and transcendental experience. Evergreene’s prose is vivid and her characters are ...Read more

In this groundbreaking book – the first in Calhoun’s seven-part “Faith at Work” series – the author bridges two worlds that rarely meet: timeless spiritual principles and the demands of contemporary project management.

Unlike generic business devotionals, "If Jesus Was a Project Manager" zeroes in on the specific responsibilities of ...Read more

Christmas holidays generate a lot of togetherness. A lot of togetherness means cooking, cleaning, searching for kids’ missing boots and gloves, digging through trash for a gift card accidentally thrown away, separating grands leg wrestling on the family room floor and plunging the kitchen garbage disposal.

It’s a lot of merry.

Ho, ho, hold...Read more

What would you do if you know your exact point of death? What if death is encoded into our DNA at birth? Imagine the possibilities. They’re hard to grasp, right?

John H. Thomas delves into those very questions in his new novel, "The Terminal Gene." The novel’s far from an existential crisis, but instead it is wrapped around a techno-...Read more

Some losses feel like mountains you’ll never climb. Some griefs linger in the quiet corners of your heart. And some questions have no easy answers. Yet in those moments, certain books become companions, guides, even lifelines.

The following memoirs do exactly that. They explore grief, faith and the stubborn courage it takes to keep moving ...Read more

If you’ve had a cold recently, you know the drill: You drag yourself to the store and prepare to spend the next four days scanning row after row of cold meds. By the time you find the meds that fit your symptoms, your cold will be gone.

All the fine-print ingredients and warnings on the boxes, bottles and origami folded sheets of paper inside...Read more

The labor and delivery portrayed in the Christmas story has been highly sanitized. We have softened the realities of Christ’s birth with pillowy mounds of straw, cattle gently lowing, moonlight streaming in through strategically placed windows and an inexperienced husband attending the birth like a seasoned OB/GYN who has delivered hundreds.

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"Thunderbird Rising" by John H. Thomas launches listeners into an alternate history thriller set in September 2001. Former Army Ranger Maxx King is pulled into a covert conflict between the U.S. and China after a violent encounter with a spy. At the center is a mysterious device capable of triggering catastrophic natural disasters … and every ...Read more

"The Chronicles of Durajan" invites readers into a sprawling yet deeply intimate fantasy world where exiled outcasts band together to create something extraordinary.

In the remote canyons of the Durajan – a harsh land of banishment where the “branded” are cast away – a new settlement called Dothemia is born from the hopes of those who ...Read more

I talked to Santa by phone today. Truly. He was in St. Louis getting ready to head out for an afternoon shift at the mall and after that a couple of runs on the Polar Express.

Mrs. Claus was helping with the custom-fit red and white suit (which his daughter makes for him), the belt, the hat, the boots, the gloves and the signature beard.

Santa...Read more

Midway through "The Bone Thief," Vanessa Lillie’s new thriller starring Cherokee B.I.A. archaeologist Syd Walker, this interaction between Syd and Shawna, a Narragansett woman who interned with the B.I.A, hit me in the heart.

“No, not artifacts, not objects … This basket is a story about how we’re connected to the land, to our own ...Read more

Some psychologists spend their lives writing polite articles about human behavior. Others walk straight into the storm and pull truths out of the chaos. The books below follow the second group, the thinkers who argued, obsessed, unraveled and rebuilt everything we thought we knew about the mind. Their lives were messy, bold and sometimes ...Read more

There are days I feel like the last surviving gatekeeper to tradition. My mission is to keep the holidays from crashing into one another.

In my rich fantasy world, Labor Day is followed by Halloween, Halloween is followed by Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving is followed by Christmas. Never do they meet, mix or mingle. Welcome to dreamland.

The ...Read more

"My Mountains: Our Family’s Story of Adventure, Mysteries, and Tragedy" opens on a blue-sky Colorado day and a text message no parent wants to receive.

From that first, shattering scene, author Chris Smith carries readers into a life measured not only by summits and trail miles, but by the stamina of a family learning to love through pain. ...Read more