In Michael J. Malone’s supernatural thriller "The Murmurs", a hidden family history in the Scottish Highlands carries a terrible cost. A drowning and a suicide shatter the childhoods of Annie and her twin brother Lewis. Annie loses... Read More
A compelling corporate-history-cum-guidebook, "Engage!" models business operations in depth for those looking to emulate WD-40’s story of success. Stan Sewitch’s instructive business book "Engage!" chronicles how the WD-40 Company... Read More
Gregg Olsen combines the action and mystery of a thriller with an added layer of memoir in his coverage of the murder of Ida, an Amish woman. On July 12, 1977, a mother in Ohio, Ida Stutzman, perished in a barn fire. Olsen first... Read More
A heartbroken woman who’s estranged from her father confronts her relationship fears while exploring German cooking in Sara Brunsvold’s homespun Christian novel "The Divine Proverb of Streusel". Though her boyfriend, Isaac, is eager... Read More
Creativity in all its forms is celebrated and encouraged in this picture book that calls to the artist in all of us. “If you are an artist,” the book asserts, “blue is not just blue,” “you daydream adventure,” and... Read More
Love blooms between a renegade Christian and a jailer’s daughter, but is threatened by controversies, in Jamie Ogle’s invigorating romance novel "Of Love and Treason". In third-century Rome, Iris was blinded in an accident. She longs... Read More
Intentional and poetic, the historical novel "The Girl in the Water" follows a Soviet Union coming-of-age. Joseph Howse’s charming bildungsroman "The Girl in the Water" is set in Ukraine in the 1980s; in it, an observant girl becomes... Read More
A rainy day, a teacher’s headache, and a canceled trip to the zoo spell disaster for the class of Room 4 in this humorous picture book. First, Flynn blows a raspberry; then, twins Ruby and Phoebe start calling one another ugly. One by... Read More