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In The STEWARD Blueprint, author Andy C. Tseng offers a thoughtful, faith-centered approach to living with greater intention, balance, and purpose.

What if leaving everything familiar is the first step toward discovering where you truly belong? Twelve-year-old Johnnie never asked to move to the Dominican Republic. Back home, he had his school, his best friend, his basketball hoop—and a life that made sense. But when his parents move the family to a colorful new neighborhood for missionary work, Johnnie suddenly finds himself surrounded by unfamiliar sounds, unfamiliar words, and a culture he isn't sure will ever feel like home. Then he meets Mateo. With a baseball glove, a quick sense of humor, and plenty of patience for Johnnie's Spanish, Mateo gives the new kid something he desperately needs: a friend. And beneath the branches of a sprawling mango tree, through neighborhood adventures, unexpected power outages, glowing fireflies, and opportunities to serve others, Johnnie begins to see his new home differently. Maybe belonging doesn't happen all at once. Maybe sometimes it begins with one friend, one act of kindness, and the courage to make room for something new. The House with the Mango Tree is the heartwarming first book in the Johnnie in the Dominican Republic series—a faith-centered children's story about friendship, courage, cultural discovery, service, and trusting God through life's biggest changes. Perfect for young independent readers, family read-alouds, Christian families, homeschoolers, classrooms, churches, and children's reading groups. A warm and hopeful story for every child who has ever left something familiar and wondered if a new place could ever feel like home. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hQB22U

Birth of the Vampire Pimp is a story about a vampire queen by the name of Sasha, Queen Sasha's mission was to find a suitable replacement for her fallen vampire king ( King Drake ), Queen Sasha searched deep into multiple universes until she finally found a powerful entity that was even close to the power level of King Drake, where she found this powerful entity was on a planet called Earth, the state was California, and the city was called Oakland, when Sasha arrived in Oakland she found that this powerful entity wasn't a huge monster, a dragon or a beast, it was a man, a normal human that possessed more power than any human she'd ever known, Queen Sasha had to learn more of this human so she watched and waited, when she first saw him he was on a street corner conducting business with his female followers, the women hung on to every word that he said, his every wish was their command and they completed whatever he told them to do with efficiency. When the women called out to him their voices carried through the night and that's when Queen Sasha learned his name, this man that these women adored so much was named JB, JB was a muscular curly haired dark complected man with white gold and diamonds covering his body, his presents was captivating yet dark at the same time, Queen Sasha could tell that JB would do nicely as the new king of Vol'kare, when JB completed his meeting with his followers he got back into the car and he was driven off by his female chauffeur, Queen Sasha followed, the car stopped at an establishment and the female chauffeur got out of the car and opened the door for JB to exit the vehicle. Before JB entered the establishment he reached back into the car and grabbed a shirt by his own design, this shirt was special to him and by wearing it, the shirt made a statement as to who JB really was, JB proclaimed this shirt to be a pimp shirt, JB designed it and it made all other shirts seem dull and boring, JB was always on the look out for new talent and tonight was no exception, JB saw one of the most beautiful women he'd ever seen and she tried to walk past him without him introducing himself to her, after JB made his introduction to this beautiful woman he learned her name was Sasha, JB took Sasha to his office upstairs in the establishment and that's when JB learned Sasha's true nature, Sasha sunk he vampire fangs into JB's neck and drained him of his blood and his strength, Sasha made JB a deal, she would give him everything that he ever desired and all he had to do was drink her blood, JB wasn't conscious enough to make any kind of decision but he drank from her regardless, this act started the transformation of JB from a human to a vampire, after a few minutes JB was dead and his body was taken to the kingdom of Vol'kare where JB would start his new life as a vampire. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4dGz6sR

AI arrived faster than the rules. When a prompt writes your words and an algorithm shapes your invention, who actually owns what? The Steward's Compass is a clear, plain-language guide to copyright, trademarks, and patents in the age of artificial intelligence. Written for the creators, educators, students, inventors, and small organizations who can least afford to get it wrong. No legalese. No fear. Just the bearings you need to navigate what comes next, with clarity and integrity. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/47R3i0Q

In 2069, life was both cheap and precious, and bravery was born of desperation. Amid a late-21st-century climate crisis, a brutal survivalist American-Chinese world government emerges. Desperate to heal the planet, it deploys an AI model for Earth’s Ecosystem (AIMEE) that, designed to restore natural balance, unleashes uncontrolled serial pandemics to curb human overpopulation. At the heart of the conflict lies the Aldrich family, whose fate becomes linked to that of the Earth itself. Aksel is Chairman of the World Supreme Council in Brussels. His son, Weston, is a defiant Air Force pilot, while his daughter, Reyanna, is a brilliant young scientist captivated by AI’s potential to save humanity. With the guidance of an AI avatar and mentors at the AI Institute, Rey devises a solution to counter AIMEE, and drafts a radical reform plan, drawing from history’s greatest political and social ideals to forge a new world order. But when Rey exposes the regime’s atrocities by hacking into a classified data vault, she becomes a fugitive, hunted by relentless agents and harbored by a resistance leader. Forced to break with their father, Rey and Wes decide to rally alongside the resistance and military officers to wage a desperate war against the regime. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4yGXZNi

A suitcase of hidden love letters. Four generations. One family's crossing from a Lithuanian shtetl to Ottoman Jerusalem — and on to Depression-era America. Winner of the 2026 NYC Big Book Award — JudaismWinner of the 2026 American Legacy Book Awards — Best New FictionWinner of the 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Award — Historical Fiction (1900s) Inspired by history and a trove of love letters, The Rabbi's Suitcase recounts how, in the early 1880s, a battered steamship, overcrowded with Orthodox Jewish travelers, makes a treacherous journey from Lithuania to Jerusalem, the home of their patriarchs. On board, Yosef Siev, a twelve-year-old mystic, is entranced with wild-haired Chana. Their story is told against a backdrop of Ottoman rule, the privations of WWI, and British Mandatory uprisings. In 1926 Yosef and Chana's seventeen-year-old granddaughter, Zipora, enters a forbidden relationship with Reuven, a young Lithuanian immigrant destined, as a close ally of David Ben Gurion, to become a founder of the State of Israel. The liaison extracts a heavy toll. With dreams of self-discovery and a better future for herself and her family, Zipora travels to America determined to contribute to Reuven's studies at the Sorbonne. Conflicts arise over issues of politics, gender inequality, and fidelity, forcing heart-wrenching decisions. Robert Kehlmann built this multigenerational family saga from real history and a trove of intimate letters found among his mother's belongings after her death. It is a sweeping immigrant love story and a portrait of Jewish life across three continents and fifty years — Lithuania, Palestine under Turkish and British rule, and the America of the Great Depression. "A poignant, informative portrait of Jewish life." — Kirkus Reviews For readers of sweeping historical fiction and literary family sagas. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hL9q0s

From a late-night visit from a fugitive father to a cat locked in a coke machine, it’s neighborhood lore and barroom brags,hard luck laments and desperate measures. They say write what you know and that’s what I know.TWO STREET TOM LARSENTom Larsen lives in the Pennsport section of South Philadelphia, home to Mummers, Flyers and that “screw you” slant that made this city great. For a writer auditioning characters, the 19148 zip is a casting gold mine. Tom worked as a journeyman pressman for thirty years before scrapping it all for the writer’s life. His work has appeared in Raritan, The Los Angeles Review, Philadelphia Stories Magazine, New Millennium Writing and Best American Mystery Stories. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4s0Atsf

In a story inspired by actual events, a young man is accused of serial murder and to clear his name he must face the truth about his troubled childhood, a mysterious enemy and a secret so dark it will make him question his own innocence. An attractive young bartender goes missing from a popular New York City hot spot and the only evidence found at the scene points to Tommy Sullivan. Fearing arrest, he runs, and is secretly followed by his new friend Troyer Savage. When an even more horrific murder occurs, and Troyer vanishes in its wake, Tommy is left in a stupor, bathed in the victim’s blood. As his blackouts and memory lapses multiply, Tommy becomes lost between nightmare and reality. Things only get worse for him when the police build a case that links him to bodies buried in shallow graves among the sand dunes at Gilgo Beach on Long Island. With the police in hot pursuit and the psychological tension building by the minute, the action never lets up as Tommy pieces together parts of the puzzle from clues buried deep within his tragic childhood. However, the dark secrets from his past may belie the actual truth. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4etzLOp

In The Journey to God, Gary Rodriguez invites you to join him in an honest, grace-filled exploration of how the Creator seeks to reach every human heart - whether through dramatic encounters or quiet, gradual awakenings. This book traces God's beautiful creation, humanity 's fall in Eden, and God's breathtaking plan of redemption through Jesus Christ. With warmth and biblical clarity, Rodriguez weaves powerful stories of unlikely individuals - Rahab the prostitute, Peter the denier, Zacchaeus the tax collector, Nicodemus the religious insider, and Esther the queen - to show that no one is beyond the reach of God's mercy. More than a theological explanation, this is a heartfelt call to move beyond self-effort and religious performance into a vibrant, Spirit-empowered relationship with Christ. If you've ever felt unworthy or exhausted from trying to earn God's favor, this book offers hope: God is not waiting for you to become worthy - He is calling you to come as you are. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4zp5UyF

The Romanov family reaches the shores of London not as royalty, but as exiled survivors forced to carve new identities from the ashes of their fallen empire. Alexei and Anastasia enter university, determined to master the knowledge and power they will one day inherit. They try to blend into their new world, but anonymity is a fragile shield for those whose lineage could topple governments. The dark shadow of the Bolsheviks stretches across Europe. The Cheka—reborn as the ruthless NKVD—dispatches assassins to hunt down every last remnant of the old Russia. Maxim Petrov, guardian of the Tsar's legacy, uncovers a chilling threat: the "Kremlin List," a secret roster of enemies the Soviet state is determined to erase. Amid the darkness, a spark of hope emerges. Alexei learns that Katya, his long-lost love, believed lost to war, is alive in Paris. With her survival comes renewed belief that one day he may reclaim his birthright—and rise as the new Tsar of All Russia. Book 3 of 3. All are available now. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/47jkdsL

Memory is the girl and the girl, memory. Memory is the story we tell ourselves to hide, or to find, the truth down deep. Sometimes those two stories-the one we tell and the one buried deep-are the same. Seventeen-year-old Eloise Goldstein gets picked up for shoplifting at the local suburban mall and spends hours waiting for her narcissistic mother to pick her up. As the security guard locks her in a holding room, she sits with nothing to do but "think about her actions." Alone, repressed memories emerge, bringing her childhood-growing up with a schizophrenic father and depressed mother-into new light. From the author of the award-winning poetry chapbook "Birth of a Daughter" comes a lyrical coming-of-age novel about a young woman who struggles to feel loved and find her voice among a chaotic and confusing household. "What She Stole" explores how one woman, shaped by the dichotomies of memory and trauma, uses writing, mothering, and bodywork to heal. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hDOc4D

At Bernie’s Café, every cup of coffee comes with a story—and some stories refuse to stay buried. Breakfast at Bernie’s: Waffles and Wisdom is a warm, character-driven small-town novel set in Columbus, Wisconsin, where Bernie’s Café serves as both gathering place and emotional refuge. Each morning, a circle of aging regulars—Ed Johnson, Bill Welcher, Grant Belmont, and Leo Gibson—settle into their familiar corner table for coffee, waffles, arguments, jokes, and the kind of hard-earned wisdom that comes only from long lives marked by love, loss, faith, war, and friendship. Presiding over the café with sharp wit and quiet compassion is Lou Dyer, a waitress whose brisk manner hides a painful past and a fierce need to protect the people and place that helped her rebuild her life. At first, the story unfolds through the comforting rhythms of breakfast: Ed’s embellished tales, Bill’s opinions, Grant’s quiet grief for his late wife Eleanor, and Leo’s gentle moral clarity. Their conversations range from politics and religion to aging, illness, estate planning, second chances, and the memories left behind by the people they loved. Beneath the humor, however, the novel explores the vulnerability of later life—the fear of becoming dependent, the ache of loneliness, and the courage it takes to remain open to connection after devastating loss. Grant’s heart trouble forces him to confront his stubborn independence and accept help from his daughter Julia, while Bill begins to wonder whether life might still offer him another chance at companionship. The arrival of Myra Davis changes the chemistry of Bernie’s. Polished, observant, and guarded, Myra enters the café with a notebook, a careful smile, and questions that seem innocent until Lou begins to notice patterns. Myra rents Bill’s duplex, draws him into conversations about old maps and River Road properties, and slowly wins a place at the regulars’ table. Bill, still mourning Helen and hungry for purpose, is flattered by Myra’s attention, but Lou suspects that Myra’s charm conceals an agenda. Her investigation leads to the Deakins family, an estate tied up in probate, and the discovery that Myra may be connected to Edna and Clara Deakins, reclusive sisters whose land and family secrets have long been buried beneath town gossip and official records. As Lou digs through old papers and Myra is forced to reveal the truth, the novel’s cozy breakfast-table world deepens into a story about inheritance, belonging, and the moral complexity of seeking justice. Myra claims Edna was her aunt and that her mother, Ruth Ann, was Clara’s unacknowledged daughter—a child sent away and effectively erased by a family determined to preserve appearances. Myra wants the estate, but she also wants her mother’s existence recognized and restored to the record. Her secrecy wounds Bill and confirms Lou’s worst fears, yet her grief complicates easy judgment. What appears at first to be manipulation becomes a painful quest for identity, truth, and restitution. Through café banter, remembered marriages, wartime trauma, family secrets, and the slow unraveling of a local mystery, Breakfast at Bernie’s: Waffles and Wisdom becomes a tender portrait of community in old age. It asks how people continue after loss, how friendship can become family, and how truth—however disruptive—can create the possibility of healing. Bernie’s Café remains the novel’s heart: a place where coffee is poured, arguments flare, and forgiveness is tested. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4rZc3iK

Thurgan Stonebrow, former mercenary and general, begins his journey north to hunt for the savage Bruimar. But while crossing the harsh Red Desert, he is taken captive and tossed into the back of a caravan wagon because of a bounty on his head. He is saved when the caravan is attacked and taken over by raiders. Left with no choice but to join the leader, Raymar, a man referred to as the Warrior of the Red Desert, Thurgan becomes embroiled in the effort to rescue Raymar's brother from imprisonment at an ancient and formidable fortress, guarded by an army as well as dark and terrible secrets. To succeed, Thurgan and Raymar must ally with an ancient and mysterious brotherhood of warriors called the Dark Order, a band of dubious and ambitious men, who may only be helping to further their own ends. They are all, however, walking into a deadly trap! Will Thurgan and his companions succeed, or will this deadly trap be the end of the Stone Warrior, and his ally the Warrior of the Red Desert? 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3VEuo8F

As the pandemic upends her familiar world, a widowed math teacher in her seventies must confront her grief and protective habits to learn how to care for her younger brother without trying to govern his life.

Love Conquers All is the remarkable true story of an unexpected romance between two people from different worlds. Steve Vincent, a sailor finishing his tour of duty and preparing to return home to South Carolina, had no idea that his life was about to change forever. More than 2,000 miles away, Dr. Guadalupe Espino had just completed medical school and was beginning her career in Mexico. Their paths should never have crossed, yet fate brought them together in a small rural community in South Carolina. There was one major obstacle: Steve spoke only English, and Guadalupe spoke only Spanish. Unable to communicate through words, they relied on smiles, gestures, and the language of the heart. Against all odds, they fell deeply in love. Just a few months later, they were married-with a translator helping them exchange their wedding vows. How does a love story like this happen? The answer begins fifteen years before they ever met. As a freshman in high school, Steve met Patricia Espino, a foreign exchange student from Mexico. Unknown to either of them at the time, Patricia would one day play a pivotal role in bringing Steve and her sister Guadalupe together. Filled with faith, perseverance, adventure, and personal transformation, Love Conquers All is a journey through language barriers, cultural differences, sickness and health, trials and triumphs, loss and blessings. It is a testament to the power of uncommon love, proving that true soulmates can find each other despite any obstacle. A heartfelt story of courage, destiny, and the belief that love truly does conquer all. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4yhebUH