Crime Interrupted by Chuck Morgan is a Buck Taylor novel. Durango, Colorado is the target of a Mexican gang, shattering the peace and putting lives in danger. Buck Taylor is a senior officer with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, called in to assist the Durango...

Secret Box: Searching for Dad in a Century of Self by Tony Page is the author's memoir chronicling his own life and that of his deceased father and the family left behind. It starts with Page's earliest memory of abandonment at the age of fourteen,...

Harley Basil is not your average dog, but his family tends to misunderstand him; they think he's lazy. Sure, he appears to be lazy, but he likes to take things easy. Sure, he likes to take naps, even in the middle of the kitchen floor,...

The Art and Craft of PR: Creating the Mindset and Skills to Succeed in Public Relations Today by Sandra Stahl is an excellent read that is a good tool to help readers understand more about PR, especially those who are new to it. What is...

How to Get on the Naughty List is a holiday-themed children’s picture book written by Nic Rock and illustrated by Helen H. Wu. Chooka Chunk was flabbergasted by the note she saw hanging on her family’s Christmas tree. Santa Claus had actually written to her,...

“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” is one of the revolutionary messages of Jesus, one on which hope for humanity should hang. The problem is that few people actually understand Jesus’ paradigm of the fullness of life...

Princess Breeze by Beverly Stowe McClure opens with Breeze Brannigan thinking a lot about Cam. She was wondering why he had not returned to Whispering Springs and she really wanted to know if Cam was okay. That afternoon, while lounging with her friends Amy and...

The Crate: A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice by Deborah Levison is a true crime story that started with the discovery of a crate under the crawl spaces of a cottage owned by the Vadas family in July 2010. In the first part...

Running with the Wolves by J.E. Reed is book one in the author's new series, The Chronopoint Chronicles. After years of shaping and molding a team in an international multiplayer game called Chronopoint, Kiuno wakes to finds herself in the middle of an unknown forest...

Carliss Maddox's #thebuildup: 12 Daily Affirmations for Young Boys of Color covers the important subject of self-belief and how this can be improved with simple daily affirmations. In today's society, children have high expectations of themselves when they are very young, and through media, parents...

Are You Being Set Up To Fail? by Jillion R Rising is a slim but relevant book that explores one of the common experiences of millions of people in America — and elsewhere: the tragic sense of failure. In this book the author identifies a...

Rules Are For A Reason is the fourth book in the Carlo The Mouse series, written by Mrs. D. and illustrated by Chanoa. Against his parents’ wishes, Carlo the Mouse sneaks through the halls of the hospital where he lives. The head chef of the...

Battlefield America by Erich Hartung is a modern day military war story with a twist. Instead of the bombings and battles being played out across the oceans, it is on the home soil of the United States that an unexpected attack takes place in the...

Not all families are alike. There are as many different types of families as there are colors, shapes, and sizes in a handful of buttons. This is the basis of A Handful of Buttons, a picture book about family diversity by Carmen Parets Luque. The...

In Taking On Lucinda by Frank Martorana, in the fall of 1982, Chief Merrill Stephenson discovers Aaron Whitmore has been shot. As he investigates the death of his mentor, a group of animal activists called FOAM descend on Jefferson to protest against the use of...

What Happened to Flynn by Pat Muir follows Afro-American detective Shane Notfarg as she is given a missing persons case to follow. Arthur Flynn disappeared in 2008, leaving his neighbor to look after his house and cat while he went fishing. He never returned. Why...

As a teenager in 1789, Mo’destee Vert was in love and happy with her upcoming role in her home village of Senegambia. A brilliant girl, gifted in so many ways, Mo’destee looked forward to her upcoming marriage to Jabari. Then the white men came, destroying...

Unshaken Wonder: Becoming Playful Elders Together by Lori Kane is an exploration of what we need to do to be the elder that everyone needs. What is a playful elder? How do we become one of these and how do we tap into our own...

James’s Journey: An Amazing Adventure by Asha Khalil takes young readers along on a bicycle trip with James, who cannot wait to ride his new, bright red shiny bicycle. During the next couple of weeks, James spends every free minute learning how to ride his...

LOL! I really don’t know how else to start off this review, because what a fun and humorous concept for a novel. Laura Kenyon brings us Desperately Ever After, which is book one in the Desperately Ever After Trilogy. Our main characters are Belle, Cinderella,...