Life is challenging and these challenges are different for each person. Our experiences shape us into who we are. In Reflections: Thoughts from a Social Transplant by Choi, the reader may be able to not only take a journey with the author but see themselves...

Mr. Boggarty: The Halloween Grump by Tevin Hansen is a comedy/suspense story about five friends: Trixie, Frank, Darren, Darby, and Preston. Halloween is here again, but this year, the friends decide it’s time to play a little prank on mean ole Mr. Boggarty. He’s so...

Mr. Boggarty and the Haunted Hospital is a children’s adventure story by Tevin Hansen. Trixie, Darby, and Darren were excited to assist elderly Mr. Boggarty and his siblings entertain sick children on Halloween night. But they didn’t know the hospital was haunted by a troublesome...

The Thumb Book by Tevin Hansen and Nichole Hansen is an inspiring story that will guide children to look at the things around them in a positive way, and give a positive spin to all the negative things they come across in their lives. The...

The Thumb Book of Kindness (The Thumb Book Series) (Volume 2) by Tevin Hansen and Nichole Hansen tackles a very important topic; that of kindness and Thumb is going to help. Kindness is being nice and having respect for others. Being kind to each other...

The Short Straw by Irene Mathias is a fun children’s illustrated story about a boy who, upon picking the shortest straw, is forced to go inside the local Haunted House, make it up to the right bedroom window and wave his flashlight to all who...

Felice the Christmas Fairy by Irene Mathias, with full-color illustrations by Anja Uhren, is a wonderful story for young children (and adults who are children at heart.) Told in jaunty rhyme and accompanied by luscious artwork, it tells about Felice, a Christmas tree-topper fairy who...

The Promise by Michelle Vernal is a mesmerizing story that melds different themes into one: an adventure, a romance, and a tale of closures. Isabel Stark is a backpacker from Britain who comes across a car accident on a lonely road in New Zealand. Before...

Billy wanted to play basketball but he rarely got the opportunity to play. The Championship game was fast approaching and he watched how his friends Little Bo, Eli, and Harold practiced. He always sat on the bleachers and dreamed of making baskets. Billy also...

Aaliyah P. Goes To Vacation Bible School: The Little Adventures of Aaliyah P. by Lucinda Weeks is another book in the series which takes young readers to Vacation Bible School at Wyatt Park Christian Church, along with Aaliyah and Grandma Cindy. Aaliyah was excited and...

N.D. Byma’s It’s Not Goodbye, It’s See You Soon is a children’s book that centers around a little boy named Eddie and his mother. The narrative of the son is non-rhyming but there are some areas that do rhyme when the mother speaks. It’s a...

We are introduced to Maddy when she is in her nineties and has been diagnosed as displaying symptoms of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Determined to stay out of the local care home for as long as possible and in spite of the occasional...

The Piraroo is the first book in the Tales from Puffington Hill series, written by Marko Kitti and illustrated by Ant Carlos de Ituiutaba. Max Magee is a ten-year-old boy who feels invisible to his family. His best friends are Gurdimus (a giant tarantula) and...

Amish women are very modest in their attire. Dresses are usually a dull blue, green or grey. But red? Scarlet red at that. Crimson red. The color of sin. Or so Ruby believes as does her Amish community who have shunned her for becoming pregnant...

In The Secret Observations of Liliana Joo by SC McQueen, let’s be clear about the term ‘yaoi’ for the sake of some readers who might have no clue about it. Yaoi is a Japanese term for ‘boys’ love’ or male-to-male romantic relationships. The yaoi genre...

Stig’s Flight of Encounters by Stephan von Clinkerhoffen is a fantasy adventure meant for middle-grade readers but is appropriate for all ages. Stig is a bright boy with a kind heart who loves to tinker and create mechanical devices like the airplane that he uses...

The discovery of a 450-year-old diary by Michael Devon’s friend was the beginning of an intriguing quest. Michael was working on a book on the Shakespeare authorship controversy. An old friend, Hank, (nickname for Henrietta Claudia Wells), owned a secondhand bookstore and loved to find...

Mall Hair Maladies is a young adult coming of age novel written by Kristy Jo Volchko. It was 1985 and, as far as thirteen-year-old Tanya was concerned, Pittsburgh was the center of the universe. She was in the eighth grade now, the last year of...

Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender by Lise Pearlman is a spellbinding biography of an unflagging woman, a powerful lawyer whose contribution helped in shaping the societal conscience of her time, from the McCarthy Era until the '70s. Fay...

Back Story Alaska: Reflections on the Wild Beauty and Characters of the Alaskan Bush by Lance Brewer is the tale of an exciting Alaskan adventure of a life time. In 1993, Lance Brewer accidentally finds himself traveling to a remote fishing lodge located in Chuit...