I Want to Be a Singer and a Lawyer: Lainey's Singer and Career Series, Book 1, is a children's book written by Garrett Carter and illustrated by Anahit Aleksanyan. Carter is concerned that there aren't enough books featuring children of color, and his Lainey and...

Madness or Love describes the start of a relationship between Victoria, an aspiring hotel manager in London, and Ian, a Hollywood rising star, who stays at the hotel. Despite Ian's popularity, Victoria does not relate to him in a star-struck way like the other female...

Harry The Hip Hop Hippo by Jane Finch is the delightful story of Harry the Hippo who loves to dance. Unlike other hippos who like to splash in the water, bathe in the mud and soak up the heat, Harry loves to dance. But he...

Fenceline and Other Stories is written by Jeremy Sayers. He has compiled actual tales and facts from his family’s history, repeated from generation to generation. In Fenceline, Henry Jenkins spends a harsh winter alone in a remote line shack on his employer’s ranch. He is...

303 Red Dead Lane by Jordan Deen, Elizabeth Sharp, and Emma Bloom is the story of a house you might not want to live in. 303 Red Lane, called Red Dead Lane by the locals, is a house with a terrible history, and the inhabitants...

The Quiet Girl by Dolcie Truman Jaxon is a heart-wrenching memoir about overcoming negative emotions like depression, anger and hatred, and developing self worth, self esteem, spiritual happiness and healing. The author takes readers into her personal life from childhood where she is abused by...

On That Night Called Halloween by Kris Knight is a collection of poems for kids that revolve around the theme of Halloween. The poems are funny and full of whimsy. The stories told through these poems are cute and they are perfect for a child...

From cute to sassy and naughty to thought provoking and deep, author Kris Knight filled the pages of Two-Story Outhouse: And Other Funny Poems with joy for school age children. The pictures help the young reader visualize the creative poetry of this wordsmith and gain...

In 1877, things in the West are still wild. Emmitt McGowan, range detective, is working for The North West Cattle Coalition. While traveling to Austin, Texas, for a meeting with the Governor on behalf of his employer, he is bushwhacked, a clear case of mistaken...

Keith Yatsuhashi’s Kojiki introduces Keiko Yamada, who is searching for a particular ‘gate’ described by her late father through a cryptic message and a death poem. When she thinks she finally discovers what she’s looking for, chaos erupts and an ancient malevolent god, Vissyus, appears....

Head of Household by Dominique Wilkins is the story of Bruce who has been bought up in a single-parent family with his mother and sister. As the only male, Bruce has led a life of male dominance where his mother and sister dote on his...

From the Ashes of Strife by I.J. Sarfeh opens with the explosive events of the Iranian Revolution. As the privileged son of a general in the Shah's army, Sohrab experiences the political tension from the safety of the family home, but when the family emigrates...

The Mind Trap (The Dream Hiker) (Volume 2), by Padmaja Khanna, is a continuation of a young adult adventure that involves 3 students accidentally getting into each other’s dreams. In this episode, they determine to meet in real life at a summer camp and continue...

Together Everyone Achieves More, by Dr. Charles H. Clark Jr. and Shemon J. Reaves, was written to help understand the real happenings and lives of parents, students, and teachers in today's educational system. It takes the system to task for being too reactive, and attempts...

Do Not Worry, Do Not Be Anxious, Do Not Be Afraid: Self Help Manual for People Who Worry a Lot and Suffer Anxiety and Fear is written by Thomas Lamb. If you haven't convinced yourself to stop worrying yet, then this book gives you plenty...

Nelson Mandela once said that a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. Ghislaine Dean's novel shows us how one of the "advanced" countries in the world deals with its prisoners -and it's not a pretty...

Irish Dancing Girl is a cute illustrated work from Mamma Macs. The simple and childlike rhyming scheme will have your little ones rhyming every other sentence and laughing about the fun moves and costumes in the story. I liked how there is an element of...

Lies That Bind: Emma’s Story by Leigh Michaels presents the friendship between Emma and Kendall, and a tragic event that threatens to rip the pair apart. Emma and Kendall are inseparable, ever since they met in the third grade. Kendall appoints herself a sort of...

Love is not real. It's a myth fabricated by a hurting world. Rona knows this. She knows it has to be true. But after an encounter with an immortal god, Rona is appointed as the savior of true love. Being the savior of something you...

Listener in the Snow by Tim Jollymore tells the tale of Native Americans who are resistant to yielding to modern methods of conceptualizing and interpreting the world. Tatty Langille is a Floridian and a Mi'kmaq story teller who is in a fifteen-year marriage with Mary,...