“Most people are afraid to take a chance with their lives,” muses Walt Ryder, a carnival operator of unusual magnetism, in the early pages of S.M. Fernand’s debut novel. That sympathetic recognition is part of what draws teenaged... Read More
Leave it to a retired naval officer turned doctor of divinity to take what he learned from the military and apply it to his ministry. Realizing that so many of the men he was trying to reach through traditional Christian teaching methods... Read More
In "Almost Armageddon", a sexy Soviet assassin known as Venus (for the flytrap, not the planet) patriotically and ideologically justifies her assignment to kill Mikhail Gorbachev during the final days of the Soviet Union by arguing... Read More
In the Enchanted Forest, everything is magical, the animals never eat each other, and a talking frog might really be a prince. Be forewarned, however, that magical does not mean perfect. Sometimes a leprechaun has a little trouble with... Read More
At nine, Orbie seems to live his life along a precipice. He is burdened with an overabundance of difficult choices which would be beyond the capacities of most boys his age—but Orbie is about to discover that he’s no ordinary boy. In... Read More
This debut novel from Lyle Blake Smythers is a quest fantasy featuring poet and warrior Catalan and his band of mercenaries. On their way back from an assassination, the group chances upon a barely breathing young man named Talin, to... Read More
This book focuses on a fear so profound that most parents dread to acknowledge it. Thousands of books and articles warn of online predators who victimize children, but the notion that one’s own child might become a cyber-bully, hacker,... Read More
Archeologists continue to study the remains of villas built during the Roman Empire to learn more about how the emperors and other people who inhabited them lived. In the past, far too many objects disappeared from these sites, taken... Read More