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While the Sci-Fi Fantasy genre has long been a staple of the literary landscape, both readers and critics are currently crying out for wholly unique new narratives that don't succumb to recycling of the 'same old' concepts. Thankfully, author Jeremy Hanson steps up to the plate with gusto, drawing inspiration from his own life.

There's no way to sugarcoat it, Douglas W. Casses hasn't been struck with life's best luck. Aged five he was hit by a car and his mother warned that he would remain in a vegetative state. As a young man, an accident while working as a longshoreman put him in temporary paralysis and he was told he would never walk again. But, against all odds, Casses has emerged victorious from each of his plights.

Like every other child in the nation, Adam Starks would lay his head on the pillow each night with bold hopes and dreams for the future. However, Adam's success wasn't statistically likely – he was one of 500,000 children in foster care, giving him just a 50/50 chance of even graduating high school.

While most eight year-olds come home from school, thrown down their bags and have no intention of picking up a pen until the next dreaded day in school, Florida's Ayla Bell moonlights as an author for fellow children. But it's not something her parents see as unconventional. In fact, Ayla's mother, Guilaine, is also an author – and the two have struck a unique partnership to publish empowering books for children.

There is no way to hide from the facts; the United States ranks #42 for global longevity (source: CIA World Factbook). America's Healthcare System, including prescription drugs, is the Third Leading Cause of Death, (source: Journal of the American Medical Association) and the diet of millions is causing chronic and often irreparable illness at an alarming rate.

With all the decisions people make in life, millions forget that their actions on earth will open one of two doors when their time to pass arrives; one leads to Heaven, and the other leads to Hell. Minister Curtis D. Johnson was once staring Hell's door in the face but, through salvation and the revelation of light, was turned away from his temptations to a new life living by God's word.

In the late 1950s, while part of a scientific mission to investigate a large uninhabited coral reef off the coast of Cozumel, Dr. Glenn Cosh and his team would climb to the top of a local lighthouse at the same time each evening, to witness what they coined "the green flash". This brief but awe-inspiring green blip, occurring just after the sun went down and coinciding with the evening roost of local seabirds, couldn't be explained – but it was a miracle of nature that would change Cosh's life.

While romantic fiction has long been a staple of the literary landscape, the genre falls somewhat stagnant as all too often the books present an innocent young heroine who embraces overpowering men. Stepping into the spotlight to shake things up with gusto, author River Cocco announces a new series with a female protagonist who is anything but a pushover.

While romantic fiction has always remained a staple of the literary landscape, both readers and critics are crying out for wholly unique new narratives that don't succumb to recycling of the 'same old' concepts. Thankfully, Texan Jessica Lane is stepping up to the plate with gusto, throwing her genre's stereotypes out of the window and replacing them with authentic, grassroots realism.

Through all military strategy, public funding and harrowing loss of life – violence in the Middle East ultimately boils down to religious discord. While geopolitics and the world-at-large is at loggerheads about to how to end the conflict, one U.S. man's own explorations of faith could provide the answer.