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Nobody sits on a pedestal quite like the President; often enigmatic individuals whose reputations are driven through manipulative media and fierce opponents. Having been heavily invested in Rapid City’s ‘The City of Presidents’ project, to establish bronze statues of all former Presidents on downtown corners, Nancy Todd Engler’s research led her to identify common threads in the personal lives of former Commanders-in-Chief.

With global church attendance declining at an alarming rate, the Christian community is having to work harder than ever to keep people engaged with the Bible and empowered to explore its concepts. Michigan’s Phyllis J. Cole has stepped in with an unlikely yet hugely-powerful tool – a Bible activity book that uses well-crafted challenges to help literally anyone grow closer to their faith.

During a “walking meditation” workshop on the Big Island of Hawaii, Dennis Spain did more than just ponder life; he mentally outlined a fascinating and illuminating story that would see one young Muslim woman triumphantly walk the path to enlightenment. Spain spent over a year completing the screenplay, before transposing the story into a wholly-unique graphic novel that has been making waves since it was published last year.

Manhattan’s private social clubs are awash with the region’s elite; scholars, entrepreneurs and hereditary millionaires that band together to run the city through glasses of single malt and newspapers with stories that most don’t understand. Okay, let’s quash these stereotypes right now; author Richard Smiraldi has visited almost every club in Manhattan – drawing from his experiences the inspiration for a novel where society’s elite are far from lucky.

With the abundant influence of Santa Claus, Christmas trees and brightly-colored lights, every Jewish parent faces a huge challenge when trying to tell their children that these annual delights won’t be gracing their house. Noemi DeLeon Bruyndonckx was in that boat for many years, until she created a Holiday miracle of her own – The Chanukah Fairy.

Millions spend their entire lives trying to experience a bold transcendence of character that will lead to an existence beyond the normal physical level. In his compelling new book, Raven Higgs deploys this same concept to tell humanity’s collective story through the eyes of a talking raven.

While Nathan Lobell’s prestigious law degree allowed him to bring his children up in the affluent suburb of Great Neck on New York’s Long Island, he himself grew up in without electricity in the teaming tenements of the Bronx. This rags-to-riches existence wasn’t rare for fellow Jews who grew up in the Southeast Bronx in the early 20th Century and, almost forty years after putting his early life on paper, Lobell’s fascinating memoir has finally been published.

In 1948, San Francisco’s Fillmore District was designated a redevelopment area, sparking tumultuous decades in which, according to city officials, 883 businesses were shuttered, 4,729 households were forced out, and roughly 2,500 Victorian homes were demolished. While this unfortunate gentrification may sound like a historical mistake, metro cities across the nation are currently facing similar fates. It’s a subject that rarely makes it into fiction, but one Burnita Bluitt tackles with gusto in her latest novel.

Domestic and international violence against women continues to dominate global news agendas, but few are aware of the origins of sanctioned violence against women and the true nature of its epidemic. Dr. Rona M. Fields has dedicated her life to working with women who have become victims and survivors of conflict, and her game-changing new scholarly book exposes the problem in a shocking yet vitally-important new light.

In his new book, Benjamin Portnoy picks through the enigmatic human psyche to expose a proven formula for destroying fear at the source and attaining any goal with gusto.