Ronke is an energetic and vibrant young girl with a healthy curiosity and a tendency to get into trouble. She likes to play dress-up, school, pretend cooking, and many more. She also doesn't always like to be stuck hanging with her little brother, Bobo, and...

Sometimes, unsung heroes of the written word are the most instrumental in creating a final product worthy of its intended audience. Susanna Skarland and Elle Blackwood demonstrate this to perfection in their clean, crisp collection of speculative short stories, Beyond the Latch and Lever. Editing...

Grandmothers are special. We love to do all kinds of things with Grandma: read together, cook together, go to the museum, play games and so much more. For any child with a special Grandma, there is a treasure chest of memories of all the wonderful...

I Can Sleep When The Wind Blows by Heather Davis is a fun story about Jim, a farmhand whose ways of communicating are unorthodox, to say the least. A farmer is looking for help on his land, but this 17-year-old is the only applicant. So...

A story that spans generations, The Call To See by Sara Enochs is the story of Ava Andrews and her legacy of helping save the world from environmental destruction, all through her elaborate daydreaming. The early chapters begin where we are introduced to her life...

Have you ever asked yourself, or someone else for that matter, what is the meaning of life? It’s a profound question that haunts all of us at one time or another and many of us spend our lives searching for the answer. There are other...

The Big Weird: Haikus in Times of Pandemic and Chaos by Z.J. Czupor is a collection of haiku poems based on how current times have affected people, and how it has made social, cultural, and economic changes. The haiku in the collection will have a...

When Allie Petrenko's father is murdered, she retrieves the contents of his bank box and contacts Grady Jamison. Petrenko's warning to his daughter was to trust no one but the Jamisons and to clear his safety deposit box. Now Allie and Grady are on their...

Neola: A Fight For Freedom, penned by author Steven Weaver, is a work of fiction in the action and adventure genre. It is aimed at young adults and contains only some mild scenes of violence. The book follows the life of Brad: a young man...

Adjustment Year by Melina Druga is the conclusion to the author's World War 1 trilogy, which covers the period of history during the First World War and just after. The focus is on Henrietta, "Hettie", now pregnant, and her struggle to return to normal civilian...

Dark Secrets of the Bayou is a work of fiction in the murder mystery genre. It is aimed at all ages and was penned by author Kim Carter. The novel follows the homecoming of attorney Tink Mabry as she visits Kane, Louisiana with a co-worker...

Island Girl is a work of fiction in the epic fantasy genre and serves as the first book in the Strands of Existence series. It is aimed at older readers and comes with a content warning for threats of sexual violence. It was penned by...

Scamper and the Magic of Appreciation written by Michal Y. Noah, Ph.D. and her daughter Loren Noah, and illustrated by Favreau, is an entertaining picture book in verse about how daily self-affirmations can positively impact your outlook on life. Focusing on the daily appreciation of...

What Does It Profit A Man? by Jon Bulgari is an imaginative chronicle of an Italian family’s rise to affluence. From a small village in northern Italy, the family moves to the UK and the U.S. When WWII is declared, Tommy Beales, the main character...

In the beginning of Gillian Thorp’s intensely personal and moving memoir, The Colour of the Sun, an early reader remarks: “… there are some stories that don’t just stick with you; they become a part of you.” I quote this observation because it’s true. Sometimes,...

In this collection of short stories, prepare to be immersed in the day-to-day activities of some charming characters from different walks of life. David Joseph combines several romantic and dreamy themes in The Old Men Who Row Boats and Other Stories: boat rides, art galleries,...

Flying Free: Poems for Pilgrim Hearts is an 82-page book of poetry by Ruth Fanshaw. The book consists of many different types of poetry and the author makes a concerted effort to make this known from the beginning by adding a brief description of how...

Charlie and the Catmas Tree, written by Cindy Lazann Shirley and Emerson Cochran, is a children's book that places a reader in the home of Emmy Taylor in the heart of the Christmas season. The book begins with Emmy hanging the family stockings above the...

Can a baseball team depend on winning with one of their players having extremely stinky feet? This is what Little League Baseball team The Mighty Hitters think about Pete McGee's extra smelly feet and his lucky stinky socks. Just maybe this has been their good...

Lost Carnival by Andy DeJong is a Wintervale Tale. Toby Larkin is the new kid in the small town of Wintervale and it hasn't been easy to make friends when he's always been a little bit weird and his dad won't drop his baby nickname...