Maneuvering Your Career by James K. Lehman is a succinctly written, brilliantly conceived, impeccably organized, and eminently practical guide for coming out ahead in planned or unplanned career transitions. In twenty brief, easy-to-digest chapters linked by the umbrella metaphor (from Lehman’s childhood) of guiding a...

Zanib Mian and Bill Bolton have written an absolutely adorable story in Oddsockosaurus. Most preschool and young elementary age children love dinosaurs. Mian and Bolton will draw in parents and young readers quickly and easily with the colorful, playful, and funny images within Oddsockosaurus. The...

It Must Have Been You is a children's picture book written by Zanib Mian and illustrated by Fatima Mian. It's the story of a young girl who just keeps on getting into trouble. She's bored and hungry, so first she tries to reach the pie...

What a fun read! Those were the words that came to mind when I finished reading Famous Penultimate Words by Roberta Pearce. The book starts with the protagonist, Adelyn “Adie” Wilding, being surprisingly shot and dying. Thankfully for her, and for me as the reader,...

In a brand new novel by debut author Mara Powers, Shadows of Atlantis: Awakening, readers will be taken along on an absolutely epic journey to amazing Atlantis, focus of stories both old and new. The Atlantis of author Powers’ work is a beautiful paradise, one...

In Perception of Power by Bruce Thomason, Denise Adams, a small town mayor, is in love with a senator busy with his election prospects. Advised by his team that the present lady love is not a good fit for a presidential campaign, the senator is...

Author Shannon Perry defines the word “stand” as: A. An attitude toward a particular issue; a position taken in an argument. B. Have or maintain an upright position, supported by one’s feet. C. Withstand an experience or test without being damaged. In her nonfiction book...

A Different Truth by Annette Oppenlander takes place in 1968, the year when the Vietnam War was at its bloodiest. Along with his best friend Tom, sixteen-year-old Andy Olson is banished to Palmer Military Academy. Oppenlander deftly weaves an insightful coming of age story in...

Summer Fling by Jerica MacMillan is a powerful opening to the Players of Marycliff University series, a powerful contemporary romance with multiple plot elements that will positively surprise readers. Abby isn’t an outgoing kind of girl and she uses her brains more than her heart...

Garbageman by Erik Dean is a horror story to beat all others. The night started out well; it should have ended as the best night of his life, but things go horribly wrong. David and his new fiancée June find themselves in the wrong place...

Life for Sparkles had many stages as it does for everyone. Sparkles hatched from her egg as a caterpillar, ate leaves, built a cocoon, and then woke up from a deep sleep as a beautiful butterfly. Life didn’t begin the way Sparkles thought it should...

Sweet Glory by Lisa Y. Potocar combines elements of adventure, history, and coming of age to offer both young and adult readers great entertainment. Disguised as a man, Jana Brady joins the Union Army to defend her country. With a new identity, she meets a...

In Immortals’ Requiem by Vincent Bobbe, there are creatures that only live in our nightmares. The bloodthirsty, vicious creatures that lurk in the recesses of our imaginations. An immortal beast thought vanquished two thousand years previously has returned, emerging from the ground, and its sole...

Krikkit’s Shoes: D’Arragon Prophecy by Jessie L. Best takes readers on an imaginary journey along with ten-year-old Krikkit to the magical kingdom of D’Arragon. Krikkit lived an ordinary and boring life and she wished her life was as exciting as the books she read; full...

From the award-winning author of Sweet Glory comes an exciting love story, Train to Glory. Jana Brady is finally home after her period of spying on the Confederacy, a job filled with many dangers. Now she must find her sweetheart, Keeley Cassidy, who’s gone missing...

I Love Being Different is the first book in the Lolli’s Happy Heart Rhymes series, written in rhyme by Elena Paige and illustrated by Josef Hill. Each of the book’s poems comprises eight lines, presented by Lolli and Licorice from the Land of Color. The...

I Love Trying New Things: Lolli's Happy Heart Rhymes Book 3 by Elena Paige is a delightful book of rhymes that revolves around the characters of Lolli and Liquorice from the Land of Color. Lolli inspires children to be more creative and imaginative, and she...

I Love Being Free: Lolli's Happy Heart Rhymes Book 2 by Elena Paige is an entertaining picture book with beautiful rhymes and illustrations that introduce two lovable characters, Lolli and Liquorice from the Land of Color, who teach readers about life and living. The 14...

Where Do They Go? (Part One) is a children's adventure mystery story written by B.D. Donaldson. Jaylen Williams has started noticing that his socks are disappearing while he sleeps. Mom is frustrated and suspicious. If Jaylen doesn't produce his missing socks soon, Mom will take...

Shortly after the death of his paternal grandparents, Alex Priar’s world is thrown totally upside down when his parents disappear and strangers burst into his home in time to save his life in An Empire of Dreams by Lewis J. Jones. With tremendous destruction happening...