A Christmas elf is assigned to a family to send an annual report to Santa in the comical family story, Letters from a Christmas Elf: Unexpected Humor For Any Season by Kurt and Kirsten Johnston. Santa has assigned his best and brightest elf graduate from...

Letting Go: Stories by Len Joy is a collection of twenty-one short stories of varying lengths, ranging from less than half a page to five pages or more. Some are written in the first person while others are in the third person. Riding a Greyhound...

Library Planet is a literary science fiction novella written by Tom Hendricks. Street and Smith is a solitary man who finds great pleasure in the company of books. Being a wealthy man, both through inheritance and his own industriousness, he was able to take advantage...

The seventh installment of the Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery Books series, Lie Like a Rug, finds Gin tangled up in a courtroom drama. While escorting a troubled student to his appointment with a judge, she finds out that her childhood babysitter, Charlie, is on trial...

As I read Buck Brennan’s Life Champion, the name of a hilarious British sitcom kept springing to mind: “Some mothers do have ‘em!” Yes, some moms do have children like Buck, boys who grow up believing they will never amount to anything thanks to what...

Life Sliding is a young adult coming of age novel written by S.L. Mauldin. Though he had indeed handcrafted the persona that made him the kid everyone wanted to emulate, even Gavin Bailey found the yearbook title, “The Most Looked Up To,” somewhat tedious and...

Lose Weight? Exercise More? I Don’t Think So! by Kristen Carter could well be the refrain from all of us when faced with the doctor’s inevitable advice. The purpose of this book is to demystify that famous advice from doctors the world over – “you...

Dana Brown’s Lottie Loser focuses on Charlotte "Lottie" Luce who is a fierce, beautiful woman with a successful career in the bag and a handsome lawyer boyfriend on her arm. Everything seems to be perfect in her life, but her perspective changes when her ex-best...

Love Notes in Christmas Falls by Beth Labonte is a continuation of the Return To Christmas Falls series, built around the small Tennessee town of Christmas Falls. When Caitlin Cook graduated high school and headed off to Harvard with a full scholarship, her future seemed...

LUCKY 13: Mort Cooper and the Jinx That Led to a MVP Season by Michael Murphy is a breezy and enjoyable read for sports fans. A compelling story that centers on the superstition in sports. From the very start, the author notes that superstition has...

Lying with the Devil by Lana Lindemann is a psychological thriller. Mary is nothing special. A student who doesn’t know what she wants out of life until everything changes. Kidnapped by a serial killer, Mary expects to die but, instead, she is kept chained in...

Magdalena Gottschalk: Lindtzl Kingdom is a work of fantasy fiction for preteen children, penned by author M. Gail Grant. The third book in the series which follows title character Magdalena, this one picks up right where The Slippery Slope left off. Entering The Enchanted Forest...

Magdalena Gottschalk: The Crooked Trail by M. Gail Grant follows Magdalena upon her thirteenth birthday when she discovers secrets in her quaint town of Lily Brooke. After an exploration through the woods with her friends, Gabriel and Hubert, leads them to a hidden cave, they...

Magdalena Gottschalk: The Slippery Slope is an action and adventure fantasy story for preteens written by M. Gail Grant. Magdalena was finally feeling healed after her extraordinary adventures that fall. Just sitting in the park watching as the Christmas season unfolded around her and wrapped...

Seven and a half-year-old Kevin Ootee never believed in Santa. Things changed when he went on a magical journey to Glamarama Mall the day before Christmas. It was something Kevin never imagined ... that the reindeers inside the Christmas snowglobe collection on his dresser would...

Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard is a nonfiction narrative that will immensely appeal to fans of military books. It is a record of the author’s experience in combat, fighting the orchestrators of the 9/11 tragedy. Growing up in...

Me: Life Guide and Guided Journey by Journal Featuring 11 Weeks of 7 Soul Minds Exercises by Jennifer Ayers-Belinkis is a wonderful guide to self-awakening, a book that sets the reader on the path to embracing the old adage from the Greek philosopher, Socrates: “Man,...

Midnight On Mars is a science fiction adventure novel penned by author M. C. Glan. Written for adults due to its explicit language and violence, this short, sharp shock of sci-fi adventure focuses on immediate danger and interpersonal drama with high stakes consequences. Kari travels...

Mirrors of Life: What is Your Life in the Mirror? by Neal Owens is a riveting young adult story that explores racial themes, family, faith, and what it takes to succeed in a society where one's background already sets one up for failure. Yvonne is...

Momentary Illumination of Objects in Motion by Jason Arias features quirky characters, impressive and unusual story lines, and critical themes. The collection veers off from common ideas to present stories that highlight the brokenness in our world and the sheer effort by many to survive...

Andy was surprised when his cousin, Craig, suddenly passed away in an unfortunate accident. More surprises came when Craig made Andy his sole beneficiary. On the surface, it seemed the inheritance only included a run down house, a stripped car, a moped, and empty bank...

Move over Shakespeare: Tales from the Baron by Billy J Barnum is a collection of interesting poems that cover a wide selection of themes: nature, personal relationships and intimacy, dreams, self-introspection, adventure, life and death, and many others. Each poem has its own style, and...

There is good magic and bad magic all around us and when witches and warlocks plot their battles, good against evil, anything can happen, especially on Halloween. Elliott is a boy growing up in a non-magical world. But he has the potential to do magic....

My Dad is a Mad Scientist is a science fiction adventure book for children penned by author Matthew Cox, and forms the first book in The Adventures of Ubergirl series. Twisting the traditional conventions of the superhero genre in new and interesting ways, we meet...

Bullying has become a serious topic and some might say it has become an epidemic in schools and homes over the past 20 or so years, especially with the creation of the internet and its many ways to communicate via websites. Bullying was once perceived...

Life is complicated when you're a teenager. It is full of ups, downs, and discovery. If one of those discoveries happens to be an item belonging to a goddess, then that's a whole new Pandora's box. While helping her Grammy relocate, Mylee came across the...

Napoleon’s Secrets to Getting What You Want is a wonderful book with a theme of helping children succeed at something they really want. Author I. St. Auburn Rowe has created a rhyming story worth reciting over and over again. Who can ignore the advice of...

Never-DEAD by Ann Greyson is an interesting story that will appeal to fans of science fiction that features zombies. Humanity is facing a very serious threat: a powerful virus is resurrecting the dead. It is up to Julie Mehta, a virologist, to invent a cure...

Things We Lost in the Night: A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves by Larry J. Dunlap is an honest memoir in which the author has carefully depicted his years as a young and struggling musician,...

No Achy Joints! Discoveries on the Path to a Pain-Free Body by Carol Merlo, M.Ed tackles the subject of osteoarthritis pain and provides solutions that will help to avoid taking medicine and possible surgery. A lot of people suffer from osteoarthritis pain and since it...

In a unique and creative read by the obviously talented author D.L. Finn, No Fairy Tale: The Reality Of A Girl Who Wasn't A Princess and Her Poetry is a read like none other. A work of non-fiction, autobiographical in nature, the story is actually...

In No Good Deed by Rosemary Reeve, we again meet Jack Hart, the litigator who works out of a prestigious law firm in Seattle and his best friend Mark, plus Harmony whom he would very much like to marry, and his rather undisciplined but loveable...

No Romance Allowed is a work of chick lit and women’s fiction penned by author Kana Wu, which is suitable for readers of all sensitivity levels. Our central character is Rory, a young woman living in Irvine, California, who is determined to keep up her...

Nobody Knows Where Frank Hutchison Is Buried by Richard Siciliano is an interesting, character-driven story with strong social themes. Meet Frank Hutchison, aka Peter Sanchez, a sophisticated character with powerful dreams. Frank knows nothing about his father or his ancestors from his father’s side. But...

Nondisclosure is a thriller on a medical and academic theme, penned by author Geoffrey M Cooper. Focused on the themes of sexual misconduct in academic medical life, this intense work is recommended for mature audiences due to themes of rape and murder. Set in a...

Not An Ordinary Death is a work of murder mystery fiction penned by author Sharon Scarborough. Filled with intrigue and deeply buried secrets that are tough to uncover, the central action centers around Ranger Oz Nightingale. When Oz discovers a body at a construction site,...

On Swift Wings: The Travails of Cygnus by Brett Wiens is a meld of adventure, fantasy, and humor, a novel filled with humor and fun moments. The protagonist is Cygnus, a young man who survives a plane crash in the ocean, and unwittingly finds himself...

On the Occasion of a Wedding: Eclectic Love Poems by Ollie Bowen is a gorgeous collection of love poems and these poems are just awesome, a reflection of the beauty of love. And talking about love, the very first lines of the collection already give...

In Only the Good by Rosemary Reeve, we meet up with Jack, the kind-hearted litigator, his girlfriend, and long-time friend Mark, not forgetting Betsy, the dog with attitude. Jack still hates his job in the Seattle law firm, but he finds himself in deep water...

Outbreak by Joshua C. Chadd is a zombie apocalypse story told from the point of view of three men who were uniquely prepared for the event before it even started. In other words, they have all the weapons, equipment and vehicles needed to give them...