The Power In Me by Meaghan Axel is a children’s educational book about anxiety. It is written from a child’s perspective who expresses how anxiety makes them feel. It states that anxiety can strike at any time, and it gives examples of what your child...

When Carmen and her brother Quincy moved with their mother from New York to the outskirts of Hilltop Heights, they could not have foreseen their life would be turned upside down. During Carmen's 16th birthday party, something unexpected happens: her mother is killed, and her...

A Cabin in the Woods by Marek Záhorec will amaze its readers as Damian Noble writes his next bestseller. He experiences writer’s block when his muse leaves him, his wife Dana. Taking a trip to the cabin his father owned when he was a kid,...

Luke doesn't think he has a chance with the office manager as she is so beautiful she could have any guy she wanted. However, as clumsy and unattractive as he thinks he is, Mary is secretly thinking similar thoughts about him. Mary can't help but...

Christine Paik's The Girl in the Gold Dress is a story about Hannah, a 12-year-old girl whose family is originally from North Korea. Hannah is preparing to perform in her elementary school talent show. She is doing a traditional Korean fan dance while wearing a...

Ariela is a ten-year-old girl who is originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She and her family moved to Canada when she was a baby. Every year, she visits her Auntie Tia who lives in Salvador during Carnaval time. She insisted on bringing Samba, her...

Little Miss Grubby Toes' feet were always grubby because she never wore shoes. Outside, inside, all around, you would always find her without shoes. Her toes were the worst because she loved squishing them in the mud. Little Miss Grubby Toes was usually good at...

The House in Mill Street by Jenny Twist starts in the present when the main character has found out that her childhood home is about to be demolished to make way for a shiny new housing estate. The story is told in the first person,...

Anarchy in High Heels: A Memoir by Denise Larson is an intriguing, humorous, poignant dive into the origins of modern female comedy and friendship, beginning in the early 1970s with bra-burning and the demand for equal rights and footing. This memoir begins with a dip...

Kids love superheroes! Even better, kids love being superheroes. Donna Glass has written a cookbook with that in mind. Be a Superhero in the Kitchen enlists kids in helping to make the food that they eat. She starts her book with a list of superhero...

Brian Bradshaw, Josh Joplin, and Thomas Templeton –- a somewhat eclectic group of friends -- are camping at the Blackstone Cabin. One rainy night, Brian, who is sleeping on the sofa downstairs, is rudely disturbed by furious knocks on the door. A mysterious stranger frantically...

Confessions of an Addict in Asia by Chad Vegas follows the protagonist's story as he traverses the world of online marketing and loses himself in Asia. Chad was glad he transitioned from bartending to online marketing. Peru no longer had anything for him, and he...

Two Peas In A Separated Pod: A True Story of Adoption has been written by sisters who grew up totally unaware of each other’s existence. Jeannie Lachman was brought up as a city girl in the Bronx, New York, the second of two adopted children,...

A coming of age story of two vastly different lives colliding, Truth is in the House: A Novel Inspired by Actual Events by Michael J. Coffino is an intense drama with an acute sense of time and place. Based on factual events, it is a...

Rabbit in the Moon by Heather Diamond is a fascinating memoir centering around the marriage between a white American and her Chinese husband from Hong Kong. At forty-five years old and married, Heather is studying in China for the summer when she meets Fred, who...

Clueless in Croatia by Joy Skye is a contemporary romance novel that is fun to read. After Leonard’s messy divorce from Rennie, nothing else interested the movie superstar. He just needed a break from filming to focus and write his music. His agent, Angelica, sent...

Stephanie Scott was a 26-year-old teacher who moved to Leeton, New South Wales. A few days before marrying Aaron Leeson-Woolley, tragedy strikes when this bride-to-be goes missing. In Monique Patterson’s crime non-fiction book, United in Grief: The Tragic Story of Stephanie Scott’s Murder and the...

“Trust in the wisdom of the universe, and in good time the answers will appear.” Trust is a difficult concept to understand, no matter how old you are. How can we trust that what we want to share, what we want to be heard, is...

Psychology is deeply instrumental in our current understanding of bisexuality. In his book The Other Man in Me: Erotic Longing, Lust and Love: The Soul Calling, author Sheldon Shalley offers a profound and articulate journey in his exploration of his other self, as he reconciles...

In Brave in the Water by Stephanie Wildman, we meet Diante, a young boy who is afraid to put his face in the water. We also meet his patient and loving Grandma. She watches as Diante hangs upside down on the monkey bars and shares...