Sometimes the hardest battles are the ones no one else can see. Gr8_Nate by Christina R Adams opens as Nate is about to graduate high school. Instead of being excited, he's overwhelmed by anxiety, self-doubt, and a deep sense of isolation. To make matters worse,...

Grandpa Day: Nurturing Grit, Smarts, and Love in the Next Generation by Perry Solomon is a guide that digs into how new grandfathers often feel at a loss about their own relevance, and gives his ideas on presence and attention as the backbone of effective...

He Chose Me: Reflections On Living A Christian Life by Diamante Lavendar features artwork and inspiration from her faith journey with Christ. Lavendar communicates her beliefs through poems, prayers, and wisdom she has learned and experienced as a Christian woman and the hope that others...

In He Feeds Dinosaurs, Daniel and Kristan Dow recount the birth of their son Elijah, who enters the world after a prolonged delivery followed by seven minutes of not breathing on his own. After his NICU recovery, Elijah comes home to San Francisco, where his...

Fourteen-year-old Amanda Jones lives with her mother, Patty, and her mother's boyfriend, Chad. She doesn't get along with the latter very well. Amanda often daydreams, finding herself in a fascinating Victorian house with many doors. When she finally opens one of them, she discovers a...

Helpers and Healers: A Book of Cat Rescues by S. Mathur follows a group of cats, the people who help them, and community members in western New York. They’re all connected through the work of a local cat shelter. It blends rescue stories while also...

“With grown-ups close, we laugh and play,/ Keeping us safe in every way.” Sometimes all we want to do is play and have fun. But there are times when we must place safety first. In Dave W Ball’s Hiccup’s Safe Splash Spectacular (I love the...

Dave W. Ball’s Hiccups Again is brightly and boldly illustrated by the graphic design service Design Pickle, with twenty pages of absolute fun for preschoolers. With scenes ranging across a wide spectrum of places (from a toy factory to a pool and water park) and...

Honeysuckle Playground is a young adult drama by Adrian Heflin. Set in the 1980s, the book follows the story of Geraldine, a teenager growing up in the small town of Talmadge in Georgia. Raised by a single mother, Geraldine has a lot of anger in...

In R. A. Dines’s How I Hacked the Moon, thirteen-year-old Moon Girl has spent half her life at the Lunar Coding Complex, a corporate school where children maintain the artificial intelligence systems housed in server farms. She is the only fifth-standard Lunie admitted to an...

Hueslandia: At Another Time . . . At Another Place is a work of fiction with strong themes of social issues pertaining to race and inequality, amongst other issues, and was penned by author Michael Murphy. Alongside illustrator Carissa McDonald, this informative and engaging book...

Hysterion by Stephen Kagarise is a thought-provoking poetry collection that delves into various themes and emotions, drawing inspiration from historical news articles and phrases. The poems touch on various topics, including social issues, politics, war, and human nature, weaving together a poignant and introspective narrative....

In I Will Walk With You, Julie Thomas Tullos shares a deeply personal story that feels like sitting down for a long talk with a close friend. The book follows the life of Susan and David Lee, starting all the way back with their blind...

Caroline Bella Kennedy’s I'll Be There: Vignettes of an Intrepid Traveller is a fascinating journey through the eyes of a fearless woman who has traversed some of the world's most treacherous terrains and rubbed shoulders with the most iconic figures of the 20th century. Her...

Joel R. Dennstedt’s I, Robot Alien is a bold, immersive work of science fiction that echoes the spirit of the genre’s golden age while carving a path distinctly its own. The novel follows a robot designed by alien beings incapable of surviving Earth’s environment, whose...

I, Robot Soldier by Joel R. Dennstedt is hauntingly beautiful and poignant beyond compare. In a post-apocalyptic world, a solitary soldier robot calling itself One Shot awakens after the war. It comes across a young human girl, Amy. Its primary directive is to protect her....

In I, Robot Tessa by Joel R. Dennstedt, Tessa works as a Cranial Augmentation Technician in a future city. This is a place where robots must obey any human who asks for help. During a nighttime walk with her robotic dog Tucker, she discovers a...

Illicit Passion by Sarah Stuart is the story that made me say, “Oh, my Gosh,” by just reading the blurb. But you know what, I absolutely wanted to read the story. I even broke my own self-imposed rule of not reading novels whose first parts...

In the Shadow of Silence by Rae Dumont examines the complexities of family relationships, mental health, and the lasting effects of loss. The story focuses on Eva, a psychiatrist, mother, and widow, as she deals with the aftermath of her husband Lyman's suicide. Through her...

In To Me You See by Leo and Debbie Hamblin is a bold, unconventional memoir about two people who found each other as teenagers in 1979 in Monett, Missouri, lost each other to life, religion, marriages, and distance, and then found each other again nearly...

Initiate of Darkness (From the Darkness) by Barb Shadow is suspenseful horror fiction. Olivia is close to her foster brother, Seth, and always has been. But when his friend dies, Seth struggles to cope, becoming angry and depressed. Olivia has a fascination with all things...

How much do we know about insurance? Kevin L. Glaser asks if readers are paying too much for insurance and whether the coverage is adequate. He sets out to educate readers with Inside the Insurance Industry. He points out that insurance is about risk management,...

Finding a portal through an Ouija board, a demonic entity destroys lives for over five decades in the paranormal horror novel, Invitation to Darkness by Barb Shadow. In 1939, Maggie Borden dies leaving behind her grieving husband, Ezra, and her young son, J.P. Blaming J.P....

It's Time to Turn Up! No More Trauma is a work of non-fiction in the self-care, advice, and guidance subgenres, and it forms the first book in the Life Change Series of useful and emotive guidebooks. It is best suited to the general adult reading...

Itchiwan by J.J. Cunis is an extraordinary book. We follow the adventures and misadventures of four young boys, Amos, Vernon, Brett, and Timmy. The four discover a hole in the ground that leads to a translucent orb. Amos is the first to enter and sees...

Jamie's Journey: Cancer from the Voice of a Sibling by Sharon Wozny is a thoughtful children's book for all the siblings of cancer patients around the world to help them understand that their feelings are valid. The lives of thirteen-year-old Jamie and her ten-year-old sister, Jordan, are...

Jimmy's Christmas Present by JR Wirth presents a cute story of a 24-year-old college student, Jimmy, who is performing a college psychology study by going to the mall during the holidays and pretending to fall and drop presents to see if anyone helps him, and...

Judah's Scepter and the Sacred Stone by D.A. Brittain is a Christian historical romance novel that would appeal most to a diverse audience of young adults and adults who enjoy biblical fiction with elements of romance. Princess Teia is the daughter of Judah’s last king,...

Raz Mihal weaves the theme of divine love into his contemplations in Just Love Her: A Poetic and Inspirational Journey into Love's Divine Essence. It is a tale of unrequited love, a story of a heart that yearns and a flame of love that never...

Katherine’s Safe Haven by J.L. Stone follows Katherine Sanders, a teacher who suffers an unjust heartbreak. She leaves town to discover her new path after Frank, her admirer, reveals that he is romantically interested in another woman. While at the stagecoach office, Katherine learns about...

Kids Say the Darndest Things to Santa Claus by Don Kennedy is a charming and delightful collection of various moments he has experienced volunteering as Santa Claus. After a friend got sick and he filled in as Santa Claus for a Christmas party, Kennedy found...

Kids Say the Darndest Things to Santa Claus Volume 2: 25 Years of Santa Stories is a work of non-fiction in the comedy, holiday reading, and true to life sub-genres, and was penned by author Don Kennedy. This is the second book in the series...

Kids Say the Darndest Things to Santa Claus by Don Kennedy is Volume Three in the 25 Years of Santa Stories series. A collection of lovely, humorous, and heartfelt stories serves as an inside perspective on what children say to Santa, which ranges in tone...

Sometimes what you’re missing most can turn up when you least expect it. In Kris the Cat by Ross Hewitt, Kris has a pretty good life with Queen Helga in an Icelandic castle. He has plenty to eat and an important job chasing the mice...

Lady of the Manor by Adrian Q. Heflin is my favorite kind of book. Not since V.C. Andrews’ book, Flowers in the Attic, have I read about so much family drama and so many secrets. The story follows the lives of the Creek family. Rosemary...

Lady of the Plantation by Adrian Heflin is an extraordinary story of love, slavery, survival, and a craving for freedom. It showcases the pain and harsh realities of living a life of oppression on a tobacco plantation. Sylvia's story starts near Charlottesville, Virginia, on the...

In his memoir Last August, Joe Gulla shares the month he believes will be his mother Mary Ann’s final one at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. Alzheimer’s has brought Mary Ann to the hospice, where ordinary conversation has stopped, yet Joe keeps arriving with the...

Meet Bridgette Connor. When luck is being issued, she must feel as if she is the last person in line receiving the good stuff. As her life plummets from bad to worse, she throws up her hands in total despair, and runs. Her heart is...

Lethal Obsessions by Sarah Stuart is a DCI Gerald Croft Thriller that pulls Croft into a series of disturbing cases triggered by the discovery of human bones at a worksite. A young woman is left traumatized by a rape no one will admit happened, a...

Hop on for an action-packed space odyssey with Grayson Gray's Light Speed: Destiny's Passage. With the miraculous discovery of the interstellar tunnel, Captain John Burke and his crew of the ESS Destiny have the chance to explore the unknown. On their very first mission through...