Wedding at Mistletoe Chalet by Dani Collins is the quintessential feel-good holiday treat. Kristen is a busy manager at a big hotel chain who finds herself alone for Christmas. Rather than sit at home by herself, she takes a short term job at a bed...

Maggie Vaults Over the Moon by Grant Overstake is an inspiring audiobook that follows the story of Maggie Steele, a farm girl from Grain Valley, Kansas. Maggie suffers a devastating loss when her brother, Alex, dies in an accident, but she refuses to let the...

Codename: The Rift is a work of urban fantasy fiction with plenty of action, adventure, and romance themes, and was penned by author duo Cassandra Featherstone and Gail Jericho. Written for adult audiences, the work does contain the use of explicit language, scenes of a...

I was truly unsure about Women: Down Through the Ages, How Lies Have Shaped Our Lives by Jerry Schaefer. A book about women and their plights written by a man? Surely this is going to be a disaster. I am ecstatic to say that I...

Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex: A Superhero High School Adventure by Carole P. Roman is a remarkable young adult novel about kids with special needs overcoming their handicaps and facing simple challenges of everyday life. Grady Whill and his best friend, Aarush Patel, hope...

We all have our favorite restaurants and we all enjoy certain foods. How many of us consider the work that goes into preparing those foods? This embraces the person who creates a masterpiece for our culinary enjoyment, the years of training undergone to become the...

Jubilee and the Stinky Fish by Alice V. Walters is an exemplary middle-grade story that masterfully explores many children's issues. When Jubilee’s family experiences a devastating tragedy, they are forced to make changes and leave their neighborhood. As Jubilee prepares to join Washington Middle School,...

In Water the Colour of Slate by Mary Ann Noe, the author has taken a subject that even to this day is very sensitive; that of a mixed-race child and how the world feels and reacts to the situation. The author has written the story...

In Ancient Mysteries of the Urban Legion by Dave Agans, Roger Landowski believed no one would show up when he saw the social media appeals to protest against Master Chuushin, a peaceful guru. Lynn, who was raised in Chuushin's neighborhood, insisted that they travel there...

Losing a loved one is never easy. But toward the end of one's life, people can sometimes forge inexplicable connections that force us to rethink our own preconceived notions. What is the meaning of life? What happens in the afterlife? In her moving memoir, Shared...

Fear is the most powerful and paralyzing of all emotions. Emotions are natural and everyone has them, but the trick is in how to control them. Willow the Skunk has to face a typical fear of school-aged children in Willow the Skunk Gets Schooled: On...

Where the Seams Meet by Patrick Holcomb is about growing up, coming to terms with life, loss, and dealing with family issues. Frank Romano was on track to become a college athlete. Sure, his academic progress was a struggle but his talent on the baseball...

Pip the Bird by Rachel Florence Myer is a children’s picture book designed to teach speech and language development at as early an age as possible. Pip the bird is quite happy, perched up in his tree, watching the world go by. One day, he...

Summer of the Waxman by Brent Brantley is a compelling story of unconditional love, faith, the power of resilience, and forgiveness. The protagonist, Deke Campbell, returns to his hometown to take up a deputy position in the sheriff’s office, where he works alongside a childhood...

In Search of the Holy Grail by Teresa Anne Power is a heartwarming introduction to chapter books for children in grades K-3. The story follows Little Mouse, a yoga-loving city mouse who moves to the countryside with his family. Sad to leave behind his best...

Gabriel and the Special Memorial Day is a children's picture book by Sherry Roberts. Today is a very special Monday. Gabriel is a young boy eager to spend the day outside celebrating the occasion. But when he looks at his parents' faces, he realizes something...

Jake Fortina and the Roman Conspiracy by Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke begins with Blake Conners, a former U.S. Army Special Forces sergeant, leading a team of international operatives to steal three priceless Caravaggio paintings in Rome, and orchestrated by Russian oligarch Anatoly "the Wolf" Volkov....

Nina Winter and the Age of Darkness by T.S. Maynard is a dark and exciting story about a young girl, Nina, whose life in the Dark Ages revolves around her struggle to cope with the loss of her father while growing up in a small...

Grasp of the Night by Sadaf Zulfikar is a paranormal novel about Alice, a woman who has lost her memory, identity, and family. As she grapples with fear and the unknown, Alice is drawn to Derek, her neighbor's boyfriend, while haunted by feelings for a...

In her memoir After the Crash, Kelly Tuttle recounts her experiences with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) following a car accident, laying out the initial unawareness of its severity and the subsequent challenges she faced, including memory loss, emotional instability, and cognitive fatigue. She speaks...