In Oil and Water, Lara Ann Dominick presents a female protagonist that is as real as she is fun to follow. Elsie Taylor lives a normal life, but she’s always had fantasies of embracing danger and doing something out of the ordinary. At twenty-eight, she...

Karen hasn’t been back to her hometown in South Carolina since her twin brother killed himself years earlier. Getting a call from her alcoholic mother on the day she finds out her husband has been seeing another woman, she heads back to the place where...

Deborah Bronson pens a story that nourishes the heart and soul in Gather Rosebuds: While You May. Nestled on a hillside near Bethlehem, Alisa gathers honey near her family’s farm. While she is gone, a Philistine raiding party destroys the farm, her parents are slain...

GermAttaxx! Superheroes Unite! by Fari Eliassi is an educational and informative story about good hygiene and health. Spot the dog was happy that Jasmin and Justin were home but Justin was sick. Spot was upset because it was the third time Justin was sick since...

The Bards of Birchtree Hall by Amanda Maynard-Schubert finds Neala Moran and her mom embarking on the next chapter of their lives when they move to Ireland. Neala expected a few growing pains as they start their new lives, but the last thing she expected...

Soulstealer by Shane Boulware is the story of Nythan, a young man who is an Air Force Training Officer. He is starting out in life, trying to make something of himself when a strange encounter changes everything for him. A burglar breaks into the home...

From a Rectangle is an educational concept picture book for children written by Najah A. Jabbar and illustrated by Craig Ledger. It was nothing more than a rectangle drawn on a sheet of paper until a hand turned it onto its side. Adding in two...

The Old Patriarch Tree: An Ancient Teton Pine Shares Stories of the American West is an educational historical storybook for children written by Tana S. Holmes and illustrated by Mahfuja Selim. Families have patriarchs, defined as the oldest living males in each family, and Grand...

Summer of L.U.C.K. by Laura Segal Stegman is a delightful, middle-school-targeted adventure that finds three different but uniquely linked young pre-teens attending summer camp at Camp Inch, Michigan. Darby is a talented, young equestrienne but she is threatened by a recurring stutter that her mother...

A grieving widower and a young woman working to become a doctor in the Colorado Territory during the mid-nineteenth century strive to make a difference for a physically challenged boy in the sensational historical novel Fear Caller by Beverly Hamowitz. Life has not been easy...

Suicidal, NOT: Maximize Your Mental Health by Ranequa Kelley-Boyd is about battling mental illness. The author discusses this unfiltered from the perspective of a black woman suffering from bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations. The book has been divided into two parts, which are...

Suicidal, NOT: Maximize Your Mental Health (Volume Two) by Ranequa Kelley-Boyd is part self-help, part-inspiration, designed to help readers grapple with life's pain and self-defeating thoughts and behaviors from a biblical, spiritual angle. A lot of mental health guides are helpful and insightful, but not...

The Gopher King: A Dark Comedy is a work of fiction in the surrealism, military fiction, and psychological drama sub-genres, and was penned by author Gojan Nikolich. Exploring the workings of the mind of the Vietnam veteran, the work does contain violence appropriate to wartime...

I Am Because I Choose is a children’s educational picture book written by Patrice McLaurin and illustrated by Dian Wang. The little boy in this story knows how important it is to make good choices. Making choices is his superpower. He can make good or...

Behind the Red Veil: An American Inside Gorbachev's Russia by Frank Thoms gives glimpses of the author's travels to the Soviet Union and the other layer that exists there which he terms 'the red veil' - the face of Communism that Russia projects to the...

Clarisse, a German Shepherd, is excited about Christmas. When the Droolmeister, her Great Dane godfather, gives her a magical dog toy, dressed like a toy soldier, (“a Muttcracker,” her godfather explains), she is transported into a fantasy world of doggie wonders. There’s a battle between...

In Elephant, Please! by Maureen Kauzlarich, when a little boy decides that the perfect pet for him would be an elephant, he thinks finding one will be easy. He dreams of all the exciting things he and his new elephant pet can do together. He...

Epidemic by Quentin Cope is a stunning thriller. Billy Bright is ambitious. He’s also a top criminal. He makes the acquaintance of a French aristocrat who possesses drawings of a WWII tunnel; Billy intends to excavate the tunnel starting in England but he didn’t bank...

Divine Consciousness: The Secret Story of James the Brother of Jesus, St Paul and the Early Christian Church by Reena Kumarasingham is an interesting book with a strong appeal to Christian readers. In this book, the author examines the works of two prominent Christian leaders...

Henry's New Glasses is a children’s concept picture book written by Katie Specht and illustrated by the Creative Illustrations Studio. Something strange happened one afternoon as Henry and his dad began assembling a jigsaw puzzle. The two of them had lots of fun putting puzzles...