In Santina, Osborne has crafted a complex character with greater depth than typically found in YA fare. Lessons in Greek and philosophy are the highlight of seventeen-year-old Santina Pietra’s week, but when a shared passion for... Read More

"The Canyon" features a narrator with exceptionally observant powers struggling to find his place in the world. Scotty, the fourteen-year-old narrator of Stanley Crawford’s novel "The Canyon", is a keen observer of life. “Life” in... Read More

An American airman and a young Jewish boy flee from the Nazis as Allied forces prepare to invade at Normandy in this richly detailed adventure. Mike Render’s "Man of the Sun" is a briskly paced novel that pits a heroic American airman... Read More

A nurse shows how faith in God helped her endure workplace abuse. In Victory Through Faith, Friends & Determination, Noah Lee provides her account of intimidating and bullying behavior she endured from her manager as a nurse in a... Read More

Khatri seamlessly blends the scientific and the spiritual in an unflinching look at MS and its effect on the minds and bodies of patients. In Healing the Soul: Unexpected Stories of Courage, Hope, and the Power of Mind, Bhupendra O.... Read More

This is a personable and approachable treatise on fixing the US education system. The Nurture Loop: The Key to Effective Schooling, by Neil Helgeland, is the late author’s unfinished monograph on public education. The author’s family... Read More

"Dawn and Sunset" is a well researched, nicely written, organized account of early Mesopotamian history. Some of the world’s first cities emerge, prosper, and decline over the course of several millennia while their citizens chart... Read More

A fun ride and a pleasure to read, "Saint Wally" subverts classic expectations of heaven and hell. Walter arrives at heaven’s pearly gates just in time for everything to go to hell. Courtney Taylor’s "Saint Wally" presents a... Read More