Operation Space Cats: The Rescue Mission is a children’s book written by Lesa McKee and illustrated by Heather E. Culler. Ten-year-old Darla’s parents mysteriously disappear whilst on a mission in outer space, visiting the planet Candar. When news of their disappearance is brought to the...

Yara and Purr: The Rescue of a Purring Monkey, written by Yossi Lapid and illustrated by Joanna Pasek, is a children's eco-picture book that revolves around its titular characters, a young girl named Yara and a baby Caqueta Titi monkey named Purr. Purr is feeding...

In Peachy The Warrior Princess by Gabriela Duran, Gaby has been rescuing dogs her whole life. Her dream is to see that all pets live a happy and free life. She thought she had seen it all as far as the suffering of dogs is...

Soferton takes one last look at the little bottle and throws it into the ocean as far as she can. She hopes her friend Doonsey will get the message in Doonsey's Return: The Great Rescue: Part 2 by Rhonda Paglia. Doonsey has just returned from...

"Bounty Hunter: The Beginning" is the story of Ben, an orphaned 16 year old boy whom we first meet when he is living alone in his father’s cabin. The story is set in the troubled years after the Civil War, and as Ben is growing...

No Road to Khartoum: From Dublin to the Sands of the Desert (Part I of The Michael McGuire Trilogy) is a sweeping epic military fiction by Nigel Seed. Set in Egypt and the Sudan from 1883 to 1898, it recounts major events of the Sudan...

Mutiny! The War for India (The Thomas Mason Trilogy) by Nigel Seed is the third and final installment of this author’s wonderful trilogy that focuses on the Mason brothers and their sojourns in India and Crimea for both the British East India Company and the...

Realm Travellers: The Forbidden Passage by M.J. Raco is the third book in the series. It all started when a group of teenagers discovered a portal to another world during an ordinary camping trip. The discovery was anything but ordinary when the teenagers develop amazing...

Sandy’s Story is the first book in The Island Dog Squad series, written by Deb McEwan. The tale unfolds as a dog named Sandy (aka Fish), having lived through untold horrors and been rescued when near-dead and suffering from amnesia, takes us through her before...

Piper Learns to Serve is the second book in Dave Osborn’s Adventures of Piper series. Piper the rescue dog is about to undergo something quite spectacular—she's training to become a therapy animal, but it’s not going to be easy for her or Dave. They both...

Piper is a black Formosan Mountain Dog with piercing black-brown eyes and a permanent smile, but Piper’s beginning wasn’t as pleasant as her looks. Piper was a stray dog who ate whatever was available and slept wherever she could find. One rainy day, a muddy...

Duke “n” Matt, Rescue Road Warriors is an educational book by Rhonda Paglia, aka “Grammy Pags.” Duke is a cute red beagle who was adopted by Matt Pi in 2009. They are now members of the Rescue Road Warriors. Their jobs include transporting dogs in...

Sometimes an author speaks so clearly and so honestly, the reader feels body-punched by the truth. Grant M. Whitus honors us with his gut-pummeling book, Bullet Riddled: The First S.W.A.T. Officer Inside Columbine…and Beyond. The down-to-earth authenticity embedded in his gritty voice starts immediately with...

Butters Comes Home is a children’s book written by Claudette Melanson and illustrated by Rachel Montreuil. Butters is a rabbit who lives in a shed which contains tiny cages, all stacked on top of each other and side by side. Other rabbits live in the...

Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters, Lizbeth Meredith’s personal narrative of regaining her kidnapped daughters, is nothing if not poignant. Of course, the subtitle tells us the story’s resolution, but reading about her herculean struggles to get her daughters back from the unscrupulous clutches...

Poor Teddy: The True Story of a Poodle Named After a Noodle is the incredible story of shelter adoption, written by Lisa DePriest and illustrated by Ignacio G. Abandoned and tied to a shelter door, Teddy growls out of fear when strangers approach him. Having...

Hidden Coven: The Complete Series by Kim McDougall comprises five novellas: Inborn Magic, Soothed by Magic, Trigger Magic, Bellwether Magic, and Gone Magic. The main characters are Bobbi, the incompetent witch who is inherently more powerfully dangerous than she guesses, and Quinn, Head of Security...

The prophecies said that there would be no horses in Cirg for two hundred and twenty-two courses and then they would disappear forever, but before that time, a Horsecaller would come. Raver: Book One of The Horsecaller, by Candace Carrabus, is an exciting and suspenseful...

Project Onion by Karen Stensgaard is book one in The Melville Consulting Series. Kat Jenson has a new job as an audit consultant at an investigation company called Melville Consultancy. Assigned to Project Onion, Kat’s job is to investigate the bank accounts of a...

The secret behind Give Us This Day lies in the subtitle: The Merthyr Rising. The setting is the coal mines and ironworks of South Wales as they existed in the early nineteenth century. On one side are the wealthy mine owners and ironmasters. On the...