The Backpack Years: Two Memoirs, One Story by husband and wife authors Stefanie and James Wilson is the story of two young people from different sides of the Atlantic who meet and fall in love in Australia while they were both on their overseas experience....

Available As Is: A Midlife Widow’s Search for Love is a work of non-fiction in the memoir subgenre. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author Debbie Weiss. The book follows the author’s journey in the aftermath of her husband’s...

J. Barrett’s fantasy story, Orabelle, is the first book in The Keepers Of Imbria series. Orabelle is the Queen of Lehar and can control water. Tal, her guardian, is also the man she wishes to spend her life with, but her father Chronos has other...

Rub-a-dub-dub, it's time for some fun in the tub. Kathleen Gauer's Bathtime Fun! is a great choice to read before or after some time in the bathtub. This rhyming tale begins with Mom scrubbing the hair of her red-haired child. After the business of washing...

Artfully Annoying by Annika Champenois should be at the top of every romance reader's to-read list. Surrey, our heroine in this rom-com, is gorgeous, the kind that attracts admirers like bees to honey. Except that every one of her boyfriends, just when she thinks they...

The Faction by Kimberly Hill is a speculative fiction novel that revolves around a young woman named Charlotte in the post-pandemic United States where the plague has wiped out most of the population and the government has implemented a system of near-ultimate control. When Char's...

The Great Animal Race: A Chinese Zodiac Tale for the Lunar New Year by Paula Zhou is an updated twist on this centuries-old tale. The Chinese Zodiac is divided into a twelve-year cycle, where an animal represents each year. The emperor decides to celebrate his...

Debbie Russell's Crossing Fifty-One: Not Quite a Memoir is a touching reflection on familial history that doubles as a personal exploration of the author's own identity. The book follows Russell's journey as she faces her father's terminal illness, exploring her ancestry as a means of...

The Misery House is the first book of a planned trilogy of psychological thrillers by David Kummer. It's been decades since anything unusual happened in the humdrum town of New Haven. But that all changes the day George's departmental store shockingly burns down, with George...

The Meaning of Okay by Cortney Raymond focuses on rebuilding and learning about self-love. Ten years ago, Kennedy Ellis was raped by a neighbor, which has had a lasting effect. She thinks she can move past it, but the experience haunts her, affecting her relationships...

A Smoke and a Song is a powerful memoir by Sherry Sidoti, who shares her life from childhood to old age. Along the way, we meet her mother, her sisters, and the men she loves. Her childhood was painful with a single mother who...

After he had searched fruitlessly for a devotional with the names of God, Chris Solaas wrote the devotional, 365 Names of God. Each daily entry explores a verse of scripture with a reference to God, an assignment to read that portion of the Bible, a...

The Poems of Everyday by Vikas Parihar is a collection of original poetry that is primarily in free verse. It navigates themes of temporal existence and the struggle to find permanence within transient emotions and experiences. Take, for instance, A Preoccupied Man, which dissects the...

The Anti-Semite Next Door? is a work of fiction in the legal thriller, mystery, and suspense subgenres, and is part of the Zachary Blake Legal Thriller collection penned by author Mark M. Bello. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience owing to...

The Modern Man: Short Stories is a work of fiction penned by author Vikas Parihar in the drama, anthology, and slice-of-life subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience. This collection of five stories delves into the complexities of the human mind,...

The Platinum Sword and the Kingdom of Reveal is a work of fiction in the fantasy, action, and adventure subgenres. It is best suited to adult readers owing to scenes of violence. Penned by author team Cherry-Ann Carew and Dean Antoniou, this action-packed novel thrusts...

Treat yourself to a collection of inspirational poems with Vikas Parihar's The Poems and The Poet. The book opens with "Sorrow and Happiness," an illuminating poem that shows how we can find the light in our darkest times through empathy and understanding. "I, Me, and...

When I read A River in My Heart, a collection of 71 poems by Vikas Parihar, I immediately realized what’s been missing from my reading choices for several decades now. What a superb pleasure to discover not only a prolific poet but an excellent one....

Birdie and her father moved to Fenske Lake in Minnesota to start a new chapter in their lives in Ember of the Woods by Christene Kamberis. Upon arriving at their cabin, they realized it wasn't what they had expected, and Birdie was devastated. She missed...

The Heron Legacy by Leona Francombe revolves around Charles Fontaine, who is deeply connected to his past in the Belgian Ardennes, cherishes his uncle Theodore's teachings about their ancestral lands, including Blancheron Castle and its folklore, and has always been fascinated by the legend of...