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The Well

by Tara Knight

As a teenager, Autumn wasn’t expecting her strict and religious parents to call her bluff when she threatened to move out, but they did and now she’s on her own, trying to survive in a tough world. Five years later, after enduring hardship and hunger, Autumn reconnects with her godparents, who make her a tempting offer. The feisty high school dropout can live with them, but she must meet two expectations: she needs to get her GED, and she needs to get a job. That’s how Autumn, who has seri... more

Some People Wonder

by Marisa Recker

Ellie Clark is a high school sophomore who believes her biggest struggles in life are her next homework assignment and what she and her best friend, Shelbie, are going to do after school. She, like every other teenager she knows, wants to fall in love. Unfortunately, the only way she seems to find love is in her daydreams of Daniel Branaur, the tall, blue-eyed quarterback of the football team, star basketball player, and every girls dream. When Shelbie finds love, Ellie is left aloneuntil she... more

The Gospel of Catherine Deare

by Mike Colahan

On the morning of September 11, 2001, a woman driving the back roads west of Philadelphia spies a hitchhiker and impulsively gives him a ride. They engage in an odd conversation in which he seems to know more about her than a stranger should, and after dropping him off she convinces herself that he was Jesus Christ.

Hard upon this come the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and her safe, routine world is upended. When her family takes her suspicion as evidence of possible men... more

Demons & Thieves

by Brae Wyckoff

A thief in search of his destiny. A man in search of his son. The Messiah fated to meet them both. Demons & Thieves is a fast-paced, riveting tale of demonic powers that bring destruction, of unconditional love that brings restoration, and of man’s ultimate choice toward one or the other. In this brilliantly crafted historical novel, master storyteller, Brae Wyckoff, weaves together the account of the two thieves on the cross and the Gerasene demoniacs in an action-packed, epic adven... more

A Travel in Time to Grand Pré

by Michele Doucette

A Travel in Time to Grand Pré is a historically informative adventure, tying the history of the descendants of Yeshua to modern day Nova Scotia. Madeleine Sinclair feels disconnected with the era of her birth, yet aware of herself in another time period. Traveling back to 1754, she comes to learn, live and experience the lives of the French Acadian people, meeting Michel LeBlanc. Through the loving guidance of fellow time traveler, Madame Pêche, she comes to understand the predetermined course o... more

Riley the Brave

by Jess Sinarski

Riley Bear is on the adventure of a lifetime as he learns to be brave like a cub. He has always been courageous and clever, but his journey with some safe big critters might just unlock his guarded heart in new ways. This super-cool cub is ready to rise to the challenge! Includes informative afterword for adults.

Hush, My Inner Sleuth

by M.E. Meegs

In the fall of 1947, the pulp-inflected ghost of Skip Ryker—a recently atomized Hollywood detective—hijacks the head of a literarily precocious young woman named Willie Tigue. The results are anything but predictable. The serpentine saga opens at a New England women’s college, where the ever-playful Betty escapes a meddlesome narrator by slipping her friend Willie a mickey and assuming her identity. Undaunted, the plucky storyteller adopts Willie as her new protagonist and travels with her to... more

Tales From My Back Porch

by Darrell Case

n the evening, the back porch of the country home took on an aura of enchantment. As dusk settled and the lamp was lit, children wandered in from their play to sit on the floor or snuggle in their parents' laps. Glasses of iced tea were refilled and someone would settle back, look up at the stars and say, "I remember when..." Thus began one of many tales, often embellished with some distant imagining. Each one taught a lesson of life. Once they were tucked in bed, the children would drift off wi... more

Nobody should read it

by Tina White

nobody is together. everybody is alone.

Cambridge Street

by Steven Decker

Cambridge Street picks up the Tomaso saga on a sweet-smelling farm in Sicily. Tomas and Katerina have three boys: Paolo, Renzo, and Leonardo. On the verge of poverty and after getting caught up in a Mafia web of violence, the family decides to send their sons to America. It is a heart-breaking separation: each must say good bye to the people they love knowing they will likely never see them again. In America, at the dawning of the Roaring Twenties, the arrivals must adjust to life as unskille... more

Cinderskella

by Amie Borst

Middle school is scary. So are skeleton girls. To win at both, you’ve got to put some skin in the game. Cindy might appear to be your average twelve year old, but since her mother’s death she has a secret. Every night she turns into a boney, white skeleton. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Cindy’s dad is afraid of her. She has an evil stepmother who makes her do crazy chores, some of them with a toothbrush. And then there’s the werewolf who intends to make Cindy his midnight snack. The... more

Worthy

by Judy Salz

Dr. Jenny Gordon's life as a physician and mother should be satisfying, but something is missing, leaving her discontent. Dr. Mark Stewart's childhood was perfect, until an unexpected event nearly destroyed his life. Chaplain Joseph Waters' faith sustains him, but his relationship with God is unclear to him. The three are thrown together after an earthquake strikes the hospital where they work. Strong and lasting friendships form, as they struggle to overcome their early troubles.... more

The German Half-Bloods (The Half-Bloods Series Book 1)

by Jana Petken

Germany, September 1939. At the outbreak of War, Dieter Vogel and his family face catastrophic events and separation as each member embarks on their deadly paths towards survival, love, and freedom. Dieter Vogel, a German industrialist, believes in protecting his family at all costs, but in a bid to keep his English wife and children safe, he is plunged into a well of deceit that tears the family apart. Doctor Paul Vogel is coerced into working in the Nazi eugenics programme and soon disco... more

Danethrall

by Gwendoline SK Terry

Pillaging. Violence. That is what the Norsemen were infamous for, and when they invaded the Kingdom of the East Angles in autumn 865, that is exactly what they did. Aveline, an Anglo-Saxon child, is taken captive by Birger Bloody Sword and stolen away to Roskilde, Denmark, where she finds herself alone, abandoned by her God.

Five years have passed. Adopted by her captor, Aveline is an outsider to the Danes and perceived as a traitor by the Anglo-Saxon th... more

Stuck in the Onesies

by Diana McDonough

You’ll fall in love with Barb and Ellie, two Donna Reed era moms raising kids and husbands during the tumultuous 60’s in the suburbs of DC. It’s the story of relationships, and how they evolve along with the times without intentionally taking part in the bra-burning activities that swirl around them. Living near the nation's capital, Barb and Ellie get tangled up in the issues of the 1960s, civil rights, women's rights, and the anti Viet Nam war movement. You'll laugh, cry, and learn a litt... more

Don't Look at Me

by J.P. Grider

A severely disfigured newscaster and dishonorably discharged ex-soldier must adapt to life in their new roles in this reversed retelling of a Beauty and the Beast tale. Because it's about time the pretty boy falls in love with the ugly girl.

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