Gus and Jack watch the kids getting into the yellow school bus every day and they are envious of them and the fun they have traveling on the colorful bus. They hope to be on it someday. When the driver gets out and leaves the...

No Room for Numbers: The 123s ask the ABCs to Share Their Song by Kaine and Duds is totally silly. In the spirit of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, the numbers try to finagle their way into the alphabet song that every child...

Legend of the Storm Hawks: Book 1 of the Rootstock Saga is an epic fantasy by L. H. Leonard. In the south of the medieval-like kingdom of Innis, a king sits on an uneasy throne. Forces human and otherwise, treacherous and true, struggle for dominance....

Anna's Refuge: Wrackwater Bridge, Book One by Kerryn Reid is the story of two brothers, both fighting over the same woman - Anna Spain. Lewis loves her, but his wicked brother Gideon steals her away. Months later, Lewis tracks her down, but she is now...

Sophisticated Palate: A Taste of Northern California is a nonfiction cooking/food book written by Johanna Harlen. Harlen’s love affair with the culinary arts and writing about food began when she submitted a recipe to the Service Inspired Restaurants Corporation of Ontario’s contest. Even better news...

Kila has everything a girl could want: A happy family, more than one best friend, a boy who adores her, and a killer playlist. Her only problem is that the boy she likes isn’t the one who wants her. There is also someone else who...

Seven Circles of Light: How They Were Born and What They Became is a children’s concept picture book written and illustrated by Maryann Lucas. Until that sharp desire sparked and woke up the Brightest Light, it needed and wanted nothing more than to exist in...

When an attorney's aunt unexpectedly dies, she discovers her aunt's life was more complex than she realized in the legal mystery, The Advocate's Labyrinth: The Advocate Series Book 12 by Teresa Burrell. When attorney Sabre Brown's Aunt Goldie dies from a heart attack, she becomes...

A Life Cycle: A Guide to Healing and Rediscovering Yourself by Nicole Asherah is a thoughtful, resonant collection of poems that searches the human soul to uncover depths of trauma and instill a sense of hope. The collection follows the process of renewal from an...

A Buss from Lafayette by Dorothea Jensen is a historical fiction tale set over the course of a week in the early 19th century, as narrated by a fourteen-year-old girl named Clara Hargraves. She lives in a small town in New Hampshire with her father,...

A Good Lie by JL Bowers started with Anna Bradley waking up on the grass with clusters of trees around her. She has a terrible headache, with no idea where she is or how she got there. She started remembering passing a bright yellow house...

The Bush Clinic by Stella Atrium is a speculative fiction novel and the first book in Atrium's new Tribal Wars series. The Bush Clinic is unique in that it harnesses the powerful evocation of futuristic human off-planet space colonization against a social structure that has...

The political science fiction series The Tribal Wars is back with its second book, The Body Politic by Stella Atrium, which I was fortunate enough to read just a couple of weeks after finishing book one, The Bush Clinic. Women are burning themselves up in...

Layers is a collection of eight short slice-of-life stories by Zuzanne Belec. These imaginative stories put a lighter touch on the darker aspects of life. The book opens with "The Christmas Charge," where three elderly sisters jump at the chance to spend Christmas on an...

Scribbles from the Middling Cat is a collection of prose and poems by R.S. Vern. Inspired by the scribbles of Haee, a meddling cat, the author has written a thought-provoking book with captivating art. The book covers insecurities about having a crooked tail, ways to...

Home Rule is a work of fiction in the science fiction, interpersonal drama, and sociocultural writing subgenres, and is the third novel of The Tribal Wars book series. The work is best suited to the general adult reading audience. In this compelling and psychologically rich...

By day, Maj Newhouse is a proficient mechanic with a grateful list of clients. When she is not working on faulty vehicle parts, she and her friends Aimee and Kevin Cole, talented siblings, engage in some rather peculiar activities, challenging the authority of demons and...

Joel R. Dennstedt’s I, Robot Alien is a bold, immersive work of science fiction that echoes the spirit of the genre’s golden age while carving a path distinctly its own. The novel follows a robot designed by alien beings incapable of surviving Earth’s environment, whose...

Animal non-profit rescue centers, dedicated veterinarians, and passionate local volunteers continue to work tirelessly to preserve, protect, and rehabilitate wildlife despite the challenges posed by habitat loss and climate change. F. Stone's Wildlife's Second Chance features inspiring true stories of dedicated individuals who have selflessly...

Plateau - Beyond the Trees, Beyond 2012 by Tina Frisco is a book with spiritual undertones. The protagonist is a 15-year-old tribal girl, W'Hyani. She is born as the keeper of the Crystal Heart which is the key to the Great Mosaic of Life. This...