As the third entry in the Elemental Witch League trilogy, The Fog raises the stakes to biblical proportions, opening with Satan and the Nephilim unleashing a supernatural “end-of-days” weapon meant to drown the world in terror and death. From there, the novel widens fast—into a globe-spanning, good-versus-evil conflict where a young “Fundamental Witch,” Susan, and her …
Veteran educator and author Margaret Stenerson announces the release of two powerful books that shine a light on the transformative power of knowledge, curiosity, and lifelong learning: My Noble Profession (Third Edition) and The Joy of Knowing: Everyday Wonders and Science Stories. Together, these titles offer a heartfelt tribute to teaching as a calling, and …
The Jesus Trail: Following in the Footsteps of Christ by Pierce Kelley is a deeply moving and contemplative novel that follows sixteen-year-old Mekhaeil Zacharias, a Coptic Christian, as he undertakes a pilgrimage from Nazareth through the Galilee to Jerusalem. Still reeling from the horrific murder of his two older brothers and nineteen other Coptic Christians …
The book opens with a counterintuitive premise: The “less we believe, the closer we get to religion.” While doctrines, creeds, and articles of faith are ubiquitous across the world’s largest religions, from the Abrahamic faiths to Buddhism, Pritikin argues that those seeking genuine spiritual fulfillment should learn from mystics rather than strictly adhere to a …
Set in a post-human future where remnants of humanity are treated with suspicion, this thoughtful graphic novel follows Quirk, a teen robot struggling to connect with his peers and understand his place in society. Everything changes in a hidden bunker filled with relics from the human era, including a diary, a pink hoodie, medical testing …
Nicolina is from the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of a money manager who’s currently in jail for insider trading. The family’s fortunes have thus fallen, and Nicolina takes a job with charity group the Red Crest; she eventually becomes “assistant director of operations for the entire Middle East.” Moving to New York City, …
Fifteen-year-old Malanthia Duvenne has spent her life in the town of Briel in the kingdom of Athergard, knowing little about the mysterious power that runs through her father’s bloodline. When a carriage bearing a strange crest arrives at her family’s home, she’s taken north to Stonemouth Keep, where her name, identity, and future are systematically …
In the rearview: her old band, Spinning Birds, on the verge of possibly making it—and her former band mate and newly minted ex, Matt Turkish. Ahead of her, a dark highway, the promise of a rented room from Craigslist, and the ghosts of her past. Back in Nashville, Maggie returns to her old haunts to …
I wrote recently about the 60 percent growth in audiobook listening reported by Spotify in 2025. This week we have figures on the whole of the audiobook market (in the US at least), which help to contextualize that growth. The figures come as the Audio Publishers Association announces the findings of its two annual surveys: …
The author, a historian, interrogates the life of Donald Trump and the rise of Trumpism in U.S. politics by elevating recent history to the level of scripture. Calder (signified by the title “the scribe”) begins with the story of Donald J. Trump’s rise to becoming one of the most recognizable figures in real estate, finance, …
On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway reports on a week dominated by good news for readers and indie authors alike. He covers new social reading partnerships — Kobo with StoryGraph, and Everand with Fable — that let readers track, share, and experience books together. He reports on the American Booksellers Association’s announcement …
Greyson Grim is a grumpy old man—and understandably so. After all, as the current owner of the world, he’s solely responsible for ridding it of all the bad things in it, which are referred to in the ownership manual as “Thingamajigs.” According to the hefty tome, the only way to void the world of its …
Fourteen-year-old friends Nick Yarrowby and Khenan Kimetto are looking for a way to earn enough money to fly to Boston to see the Bruins hockey team play, since their single parents can’t afford to send them. A crime-scene cleanup TV show gives Khenan an idea—and Gross Busters is born. The boys’ “no job too foul” …