‘Some birds cannot be caged, and I’m one of them,’ says the title character in Ameerah by Rebekkah Ford. Ameerah is an eighteen-year-old young woman living in the heyday of Prohibition, living her life by her rules instead of those of her upper class, snobbish...

A Tall Tale About a Dachshund and a Pelican: How a Friendship Came to Be by Kizzie Jones is a beautiful story about a young dachshund named Goldie. One day, a little girl and her dachshund Goldie were walking along the beach. Goldie sees...

Holiday by Joanna Warrington is a humorous fiction novel about a family and their histrionic holiday journey across western America. Lyn has been separated from her partner for eleven years and feels that she has raised their three children alone. For her fiftieth birthday, Lyn...

Todd Montgomery ends up experiencing what many men fantasize about in White Magic Woman but he is not happy, especially when it interferes with his relationship with his loving wife, Simonia. Ju Ephraime steamily portrays the paranormal possession of Todd by an extremely powerful sorceress...

Lakeside by Leo Ladia is the story of two teenagers from opposite sides of the high school hierarchy, but there is something about them that draws them to each other. The story is set in Australia where Rylie Hillcrest and Matthew Banks are both at...

Tigger and Jasper's New Home by Cheryl Gillespie is a fun, beautifully written children's book that follows two adorable, curious young kittens. The two kittens live in a barn, but they want to find a forever home, just like their brothers and sisters. One day...

In The Bear Barr Wants To Play The Guitar by Sigalit Haber, children are introduced to Bear Barr who learns to play guitar. His mother buys him a guitar. Bear Barr goes for music lessons and realizes that first he has to train his fingers...

Spud's First Day Surprise (Chompy and the Munchy Bunch volume three) by Nancy Beaule is a fun children's book that follows a young potato named Spud. Spud is beginning at a new school, and it's getting off to a rocky start. He bumps into the...

Oh boy! Can Cher Smith ever write a gripping, tension filled, page-turning thriller. Tracer is all of that, and one of the most enjoyable and engrossing reads I've had in a while. The very premise of Tracer captured my imagination before I even started the...

Countdown 'Til Mommy Comes Home by Kristin Ayyar is a brilliant book that combines the art of storytelling and illustrations to offer ideas and insights on how to survive the painful period of waiting for a parent. So, the little boy’s Mommy must go on...

Delilah Dillard is a happy little red-headed girl with freckles. She lives with her grandparents in a small town and walks to school every day with her best friend and body guard, Diesel, a rowdy red-headed rooster, tagging along. There were two mean bullies at...

The Full Catastrophe: A Memoir by Karen Elizabeth Lee is an engaging memoir about a professional woman who finally gets her life back on track after going through an abusive marriage. The author begins her story with the funeral of Duncan, to whom she was...

Make A Wish For Me by LeeAndra Chergey is the story of the author’s son, Ryan, and the struggles of the family as they come to terms with the diagnosis of autism. Told from the mother’s point of view, LeeAndra begins her story with the...

The rule of the Red King, Barry, has driven the people of Edenshire to the brink of devastation. Even the Seer can divine only destruction before them, and it is a path he himself had brought to pass. He had ended King Manfred's reign by...

I’ll be honest. I’m more used to the lone hero in a story. Sometimes it’s a girl, but usually it’s a guy. A story with four female protagonists is unusual for me. I haven’t seen that many in a long time and I read a...

The After War - Part I To Alice by Brandon Zenner is a dystopian fiction novel that is the first book in The After War Series. This is a book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who enjoy...

The Weight by award winning author Hubert Crouch is a unique thriller and the third book in the Jace Forman legal thriller series. After Leah Rosen, a young reporter, publishes her article “Texas Justice Gone Wrong,” she receives an unexpected response from Cal Connors, a...

The Duke’s Magnificent Bastard by Sandra Masters is a spellbinding historical novel that features interesting characters and a gripping plot. Meet Thorn Wick, the bastard son of a duke, who is doing everything to win his father’s good graces by working hard to achieve recognition...

The death of a parent is, for most of us, one of life’s major challenges. In a moving and beautifully written tribute to her late father, Lisa J Shultz’s A Chance to Say Goodbye drives home the importance of accepting the inevitability of death, and...

Quit Crying and Keep Trying: Struggles and Triumphs on the Journey to Me is a non-fiction memoir written by Fabian D. Robinson. Robinson grew up in the Westmoreland area of Jamaica, an agricultural area that was defined by sugarcane production. While his grandmother ensured that...