Children should learn about diversity from the time they first begin to socialize. At some point, they will either meet people with disabilities, or they may feel different from other children. Parents must explain the subject to them as simply as possible. Marky the Magnificent...

My daughter is a social worker in the foster/adoption field, and Room in the Nest by Holly Marlow does a great job of explaining how that system functions. Every child in foster care has their own story. There are many reasons a child may end...

The Unmooring is a work of fiction in the historical and political fiction subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience and was penned by author Ken Fireman. In this complex and intelligently-penned work, we follow the exploits of our protagonist, Michael McMaster,...

From Where I Sit: A Collection of Short Fiction by Ray LeCara Jr is a touching anthology of five thought-provoking short stories. Titles include Scent of Jupiter, A Life Lost Living, Goldie, One Night in Bangkok, and Old Lang Syne. As the titles indicate, the...

Dark Awakenings: A Collection of Haunting Short Stories by Ray LeCara Jr. is a compilation containing five independent stories, each having a unique terrifying plot. The Awakening takes readers on a transformative journey with a young woman out to right a series of wrongs. The...

The Forgotten Prophecy by Ray LeCara Jr is about Simon and his journey to uncover what is happening to him. Simon experiences weird dreams, which start to include events that happened in town. Simon is also having unexplainable blackouts, and he thinks it has something...

Sam, Tai, and Val certainly were not expecting the conclusion of their middle school concert to be impacted by the roaring thunder of an attack by aliens from another timeline. But this is the hand they are dealt in Future Destiny by Ray LeCara Jr,...

A group of friends embarks on a time-travel journey into the future to solve a mystery and avert an impending global disaster. On their return to the present, they are initially overjoyed to discover their mission created positive ripples in their present timeline but as...

The Power of Empathy: Be the Friend You've Always Wanted is a children’s book by Ruth Maille. Orbit, a personified image of our planet, gathers a group of children together to discover a superpower: empathy. Orbit explains the emotion, and gives some examples, before asking...

When Alice succumbed to cancer, her final request to her friends entailed spreading her ashes in the Ghost Ranch of New Mexico. To fulfill this wish, Cathy, Linda, and Betsy decide to take a road trip in an RV. Driving an RV might be a...

Forget Me Not is a beautiful and poignant children’s book by Carolyn O’Boyle and Lucy McLouglin. This touching story respectfully and lovingly addresses the loss of a beloved pet. Rose and her dog Dotty were always inseparable and shared many adventures together. The loss of...

Death Is Not The Beginning is the fourth and final book in the Alex McKenna paranormal series written by Vicki-Ann Bush. Alex McKenna is a seventeen-year-old who, backed up by the huge talents of his mystical family, helps the deceased move peacefully into the afterlife....

The Wallace House of Pain: A Novelette centers around Xander and his estranged father, Jim. S.M. Stevens uses this short story to introduce us to Xander and his uncomfortable dinners with his father and his second wife, Kathy. Xander and Jim don’t seem to see...

What is stronger than the bond between a mother and child? That’s right! Nothing! My Little Tangerine: To All the Mothers in Our World is a sweet homage to the love between a child and mother. M. T. Fon shares themes of unconditional love and...

Just City is a coming-of-age story by Olga Tymofiyeva. Twenty-one-year-old Nathan is excited to join the New Entrepreneur Incubator, with his friend Jack, to complete his vision of a start-up company. However, to be a founder, he needs $10000 as pre-seed money to enter the...

Pearly Everlasting is a work of fiction in the literary style and family drama subgenre. The work is best suited to the mature adult reading audience owing to its potentially distressing subject matter and the inclusion of explicit language and sexual situations. Penned by Claudia...

My Brother Is AU-Mazing! by Bethany Lynn is an AU-mazing children’s book. While the book deals with the many complications of Noah’s autism, it also deals with his sister. Too often, the siblings of differently-abled children fall through the cracks. Bethany does not say that...

“For God so loved the world he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” This oft-quoted verse from scripture is the foundation of faith. It’s a testament in itself to help us through times...

Love Stories Are… is the second book in the Goodroe Brothers series by Katharine M Sweet. Although it picks up the story from where the first book ended, it nevertheless serves as a standalone novel. Vinnie Goodroe has written a book based on his brother’s...

Einstein Superstar Code is a work of fiction in the science fiction, adventure, and history subgenres. The work is suitable for young adult readers as well as the mature end of the middle-grade reading audience and was penned by author George Hohbach. In the author’s...