Riverboat: The River Raft (Riverboat Series Picture Books, Book 1) is a children’s animal picture book written by Ingo Blum and illustrated by Tanya Maneki. There was once a trio of best friends who liked nothing better than going out on the river in their...

Meet Middle Pip, the third out of five kids, whose actual name is Menachem Pinchas in Middle Pip gets the Evil Eye: Middle Pip, Volume 1 by Shaul Behr. MP shares the bedroom with his fourteen-year old brother, Avner, and they spend a lot of...

The Princess of Baker Street is a young adult coming of age novel written by Mia Kerick. Eric Sinclair and Joey Kinkaid had always been best friends, and they were the focal point of the Baker Street gang, five kids who ran and played and...

Venice, a city known for romance and intrigue, proves why this is true in A Season for Masquerade by Robbi Perna. Chiara Davis and her stepbrother Chas travel to Venice after her grandmother, Francesca, is found dead in a hotel room. Francesca’s reason for traveling...

Self-assured, beautiful, funny Rose Badger is rarely caught off her game. All the boys in town know it and she knows they do. Rose is always in control, but when newcomer Jonah Livingstone enters her vintage boutique in Blake’s Folly, she senses a slip in...

A Daughter’s Secret by Jacqueline McDonald is a personal account of what a simple DNA test can uncover. Jackie’s biological mother and father have not been together since she was a child, having broken up and gotten back together so many times, no one ever...

Candy Cutter is a supernatural thriller by S.J. Romero. After a freak accident in a swimming pool, seventeen-year-old Candace Marie Cutter (Candy) awakens from a coma with superpowers from Sunesis, a demon from Hell. Sunesis offers her a deal in which she must kill demon-possessed...

Toby, an Islamophobic ex-special-forces soldier, had just killed his latest victim before shooting himself. Having killed more than a few dozen Muslims, Toby had made peace with the idea that he would end up in hell. If only he had the slightest idea of what...

In J.P.H. Tan’s Kate in the Land of Myths and Wonders, we discover that Kate is an only child, and a rich one at that, due to her father's and her grandmother’s wealth. Raised as a church-going girl, she is having a crisis of her...

The Engine Woman's Light by Laurel Anne Hill is a coming of age story with strong characters and an adventure that is as action-packed as it is mesmerizing. It is 1894 and an alternate world in California. Fifteen-year-old Juanita gets a vision in which a...

In ancient history, paradise was destroyed by man’s desire for more. Eve, the first woman of Hebrew and Christian tradition, ate forbidden fruit and subsequent generations sought to discover the secrets of God by building a huge tower to breach heaven. Eve: Pangea Book 1...

Looper is a sports fiction novel written by Michael Conlon. Summer had always been magical, especially on that last day of school when the long vacation yawned wide and gleaming, full of promise and adventure, but this summer was particularly significant. Ford was graduating from...

Regression is a non-fiction memoir written in the first person voice by Twilah Hiari on her struggles with mental illnesses and trauma. Regression starts off fairly chronologically and initially begins with childhood reminiscences, early childhood experiences, how she felt growing up, her relationship with her...

Jai the Albino Cow: Jai Ng’ombe Zeruzeru is a bilingual (English and Swahili) story book for children written by Gloria D. Gonsalves and illustrated by Nikki Ng’ombe. Lutalo and his brother, Tokei, were Ankole cows who lived on the hillsides with their parents and their...

Petunia Skunk grabbed the strongest bottle of perfume she owned and sprayed and sprayed before going to school. Petunia stunk like a skunk and her tail had a mind of its own. It would always raise and spray whenever she felt any type of strong...

Midtown Madhatter by Matthew Monda is the story of a man named Peter Walsh, a man who is forced to take a closer look at his life and the way he has been living it when he is invited to an old friend’s wedding. The...

Between Two Doors by Taya DeVere is the first entry in the Borderline series, an engrossing story that follows a Scandinavian girl as she is faced with difficult choices after the death of her father. She can choose to return home to the familiar places...

Fall Gourmet Mag: The Red & Orange Issue by Claudia Rinaldi explores Italian culture, history, and cuisine. It presents a variety of tantalizing dishes and treats from all parts of Italy, especially those related to the fall season. The recipes are accompanied by wonderful snippets...

Broken Heart Attack by James J. Cudney is the second book in the Braxton Campus Mysteries. A night out to see a dress rehearsal becomes a tragedy when one of Nana D's friends dies. Nana D doesn't believe for a second the cause was a...

Scabland by Adam Smith is a mind-blowing psychological thriller. What an engrossing and frightening read! This story is one where an original victim of gang rape, Melissa Cohen, is as much to be feared as the twisted rapist, “Spider,” who orchestrated Melissa’s sexual abuse some...