In Spell My Name: A Modern Witch’s Tale by Amy Raines, a young witch awakens in a field. She remembers absolutely nothing about the circumstances that brought her to the field and neither her name nor the fact that she has any particular powers. She...

Metamorphosis: The Girl with No Face by Ivy Logan is a dark and fractured fantasy about Amelia's quest to uncover the truths beneath past secrets. In Peradora, South America, Siobhan, the queen of the Heichi, is just beginning to discover her self-worth. Pain is as...

Domestic violence is a deadly demon at whose hands many women suffer in silence. The abuse can be physical, emotional, or a combination of both, and it generally takes away the victim's power and control over their lives or any hope of ever finding happiness....

Charity Jackson’s Something Beautiful is really something beautiful! It’s a love story, but it’s also about folly, redemption, forgiveness, and unification. Grayson is a rock star gone over the edge into drunkenness and despair after the death of his grandfather who taught him to play...

Getting a kid into bed is usually a mission in itself, so making it a literal space mission is a genius move. In Zoom to the Stars, Megan Erin Hamilton shows how Aaron turns a boring bath and pajamas into an astronaut’s adventure. I loved...

In Disorganized Thoughts, author Zeek visits the inner being of his mind. His goal to record random thoughts and musings during the Covid-19 2020 global pandemic results in this engaging monologue. The random thoughts and jumbled fears reflect the uncertainty of the times as well...

This ABC book is about teaching ABC’s to children using Rap. The story uses a little bear named Little ABC to teach the ABC’s. The first few pages introduce the reader to the little bear and to using Rap to learn the ABC’s, telling them...

Yokai Blues by John LaTorre is the story of Nick, a detective that deals in Yokai Relations. Nick finds himself being stalked by a demon that kills people with a toxic cloud of cigarette smoke, evidently not only by the stench, but a yellowing of...

Eye Contact Over Truk by Stephanie Woodman is a thrilling story of two men who go on a wreck-diving excursion in the South Pacific Islands for different reasons and experience something life-altering. Set in 1985, the story follows Nick Mitchell as he reeled from losing...

The Choice Within by Stephanie Woodman is an absolutely riveting and fascinating tale of World War II told from two vastly different perspectives. Jeannette Crawford is a committed young nurse working out of a Honolulu hospital, taking care of those wounded in the Pacific War....

"I" Can Relate by Wanda L. Scott is a devotional book about developing relationships in the right perspective: God first, then man. The author teaches the importance of self-evaluation using biblical principles and profound teachings as readers enter moments of "I can relate," or "I...

J.T Lewis is back with another gripping mystery to tackle "Gabriel’s Revenge". When investigator Gabriel Celtic receives a one line telegram notifying him of the death of his former investigation partner and best friend, little does he know the power that he is up against...

“Pepper and Longstreet Mysteries: The Complete Series” by J T Lewis contains every episode of the “Pepper and Longstreet” mystery tales. Very similar to “The Hardy Boys” and “Nancy Drew” mysteries familiar to those of us considered “boomers”, Pepper Jones is a 14 year old...

Jay-Jay and his Island Adventure is a children’s book written by Sue Wickstead and illustrated by Jon Mitchell. Jay-Jay is a double-decker, Supersonic Playbus, which travels from town to town and is greeted by many excited children, each of whom cannot wait to play with...

I thoroughly enjoyed Courage by Lauren H Salisbury. It’s a science fiction re-imagining of the story of Moses from the Bible. Instead of Israelites suffering as slaves at the hands of the Egyptians, Courage gives us the human race enslaved by a more powerful alien...

Pirate Bear is a work of children’s adventure fiction written in verse, penned by author Sonya Annita Song with illustrations by Javier Gimenez Ratti. Written as a picture book with a strong moral lesson, the story follows the central character Pirate Bear as he begins...

Sonya Annita Song’s A Little Nutty is a children’s picture book about a character named Peanut Butter who seems to live a pretty eventful life, getting himself into rather sticky situations, but never claiming to be the troublemaker himself. The narrative is told in enchanting...

In this children's picture book titled, Do You Know What Your Parents Do When You’re Asleep?, author Sonya Annita Song demonstrates how parents can have fun too. Parents can still be child-like, in other words. At least that is how the illustrator Kate Fallahee shows...

Imagination is a powerful tool and dreams can come true – within reason, of course. When a little girl’s Nana asks her what she wants to be when she grows up, she replies, “A unicorn.” Can people grow up to be something other than a...

Then She Roars by Vanessa Evetts is a wonderful story that explores emotions of pain and joy, of hope and despair. Avery Bishop has an enviable job, a great body, and a very good life. That is until a routine checkup offers disturbing revelations: She...