In Ella's Letter to Santa by Ashley Hohmann, young Ella is the only girl in a family of four brothers, and her greatest wish is to have a baby sister. She eagerly wishes on a wishing star each night, imagining a sister to share secrets...

Adam's Favorite Things by Ashley Hohmann follows Adam and his Creepy Crawly Animal ABCs. Adam’s love for reptiles and creepy crawlies shows in this alphabetical journey through the world of reptiles, spiders, insects, and amphibians. Every letter of the alphabet has a different creature with...

Santa Overboard is a slice-of-life holiday romance by Carolyn McBride. Katie Young, a fifty-one-year-old mother, is slowly getting her life back on track in the small town of Occoquan after separating from her ex-husband, James. Furthermore, she recently lost her mother to COVID-19 and now...

The Healer Cat by Tuula Pere, illustrated by Klaudia Bezak, is an adventurous children's book that follows Celesse, a healer cat known for her gentle demeanor and magical abilities. One snowy night, her tranquil life is interrupted when a frantic mother hare arrives seeking help....

Hitchens Manor by Zachry Wheeler offers a fun and quirky spin on the haunted house theme. For two hundred years, the manor has seen its share of owners, all of whom seem to face some spooky fate thanks to its ghostly inhabitants. However, when the...

All hell was about to break loose for the CIA, but Agent Dave McClure was about to face the biggest challenge of his career. It all starts in Jerusalem, Israel, where after several abduction attempts on US embassy officials. Dave is sent to help the...

Katie Otey beautifully and humorously captures the struggles of growing up with siblings, especially when they have differing personalities, as is often the case, in this endearing, illustrated children’s book, Izzy’s (Almost) Epic Day. Izzy is an eleven-year-old sixth grader with an overactive imagination that...

Alex Blasts Off (Alex the Astronaut) by Ashley Hohmann invites young readers to join Alex, an imaginative young boy with a passion for space exploration. In this delightful story, Alex dreams of being an astronaut, setting out on his rocket adventure to study aliens. His...

Adam the Alligator by Ashley Hohmann is part of The Adam Series of books for kids. Adam loves reptiles; he especially loves alligators, and he dreams about being one. One day, he lets his imagination take over, and using information he gained from reading books,...

Tales For Tra-La-La-Day by Steve Michael Reedy is a collection of six captivating fables with beautiful illustrations by Tom Fee. The stories are told by a traveler on his way to celebrate Tra-La-La-Day under a full winter moon and each of the stories connects to...

Charlie and Sophie’s Great Escape is a delightful children’s picture book written by Farial English, with illustrations by Patrizia Donaera. It follows the adventurous tale of two dogs, Charlie and Sophie, as they explore their surroundings after a rainstorm. When their owner, Nicky, returns to...

The Aristocrat’s Wife by Jodie Leigh Murray goes beyond the typical romance narrative, offering a captivating story filled with meaningful life lessons. Georgie, as she prefers to be called, is deeply unhappy in her marriage to Charles, who is controlling and overbearing. After being falsely...

Chico, by Cheryl Spears Waugh, is a story told in the first person from the standpoint of a young calf by that name. The book opens with Chico in trouble because he is an orphan. But he finds a home and becomes good friends with...

In Adventure on Christmas Street, a children's picture book by Kristina Raevsky, Christmas is nearly here, but not everyone on Christmas Street is looking forward to it. On her way home from the library, Holly runs into an evil snowman who chases her down the...

A chess game within a chess game and metaphors within metaphors make up The Pawn Against The King, a short story by Giorgos Katsoulas. As a powerful despot searches for a game worthy of his supposed magnificence, he encounters a lowly commoner bearing a wooden...

How far can a parent’s love really reach? In I Love You to the Moon! by Ashley Hohmann, a bedtime conversation turns into a playful journey across the solar system. When Mom tells Alex she loves him all the way to the sun, Alex insists...

In Adele and the Whispering Garden, Polly Richards invites children to discover a love of gardening and magic. Adele is a curious girl with a big heart. Upon moving into her new home, she decides to explore. In her backyard, she finds the entrance to...

Finding Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: An End to the Search by Amanda LaPera is a deeply personal memoir of her ten-year journey to reconnect with her father, Joseph, who has lived on the streets with untreated severe mental illness since his diagnosis at age fifty-three. Following...

The Landlady of Maple Avenue by Suzanne Elizabeth Gillis is a poignant and humorous literary family saga inspired by true events. Set in the 1950s, it follows the aging Marceline Gillis, an immigrant mother of seven, as she plots to reclaim her position as the...

Mother's Bread Dough by Tuula Pere begins when Leo and his mother are forced to flee from their beloved home due to the worsening war. They board a truck and slowly depart from their town, carrying only a few loaves of bread, a kneading bowl, and...