Hidden Demon by Fish Phillips is a futuristic action thriller designed to keep you breathless and unsettled until the last page. The year is 2044. Despite taking a bullet for the U.S. president, Secret Service Agent Dee Johnson is considered a failure in her mission...

Those Darn Stripes is a work of non-fiction in the memoir genre. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by Tyrel Nelson. The book is a reflection on the author’s life during a period of intense turbulence and change, in which...

Space Jelly by author and illustrator Reginald P. Howard is a humorous graphic novel suitable for adult and young adult readers. Sports fans everywhere are so turned off by the amount of time devoted to political and social issues during coverage of televised events that...

Reginald P. Howard both wrote and illustrated Here Come the Mice. His story is the tale of a low-ranked college basketball team that amazingly advances to the championship against the Big Cats. The Big Cats are favored to beat the Muskogee Mice by a margin...

It all starts when two young siblings, Reese and Dean, come across a special sea turtle video online. Consequently, they both get hypnotized while watching it, and with colors swirling around them, they find themselves on a beach that turns out to be part of...

Soulful Holidays by Ciara L. Hill is a beautifully crafted rhyming story that reminisces on the traditions many African American families know and love. The poem instantly sparks nostalgia with references to holiday foods, musical selections, and activities. Then, readers are gently pulled into the...

A Christian fantasy science-fiction novel that delves into the riddles of life and death, The Gatekeeper’s Descendants by Johanna Frank is bold and imaginative. Pipiera arrived in the form of a curious young teenager and is still reluctant to enter the gate to the kingdom....

Ten Thousand Rocks by Ndirangu Githaiga introduces us to a married couple who had first met when they were in middle school. William Henry Young is a medical doctor and black, and his white wife Laura is a teacher. William, known as Will, has a...

In Pam of Babylon by Suzanne Jenkins, Pam comes to the hospital after learning that her husband had a heart attack on the train. Not only does she discover him dead upon her arrival, but she learns that the strange woman at his bedside is...

Dahlia loves animals, particularly horses. She grew up around them with her mother, Marilyn, being a star jockey. Marilyn had hoped Dahlia would follow her example and become a jockey, or at least a trainer. At nineteen, though, Dahlia was more interested in university grades...

In the Fullness of Time by Carolyn R. Russell takes us into a world ravaged by climate change, overpopulation, and by humanity eager to get rid of mankind’s most dangerous foe: mosquitoes. Unfortunately, the extinction of mosquitoes unbalances the ecosystem, and the world has been...

Josh Anvil and the Gathering Storm is the third offering in Bruce E Arrington’s Josh Anvil Series. Our fourteen-year-old hero is back on Earth. No one believes his story, and he loses his credibility at school. His godlike powers that come from another world could...

Whatever Tomorrow Brings by Claire Nance takes me back to my high school years with hanging out at lockers, sliding into class as the tardy bell rings, and all of the drama with boyfriends and girlfriends. The story revolves around Dee Anderson, her boyfriend Slate,...

Yalgaar: The 1659 Event That Changed Hindustan's Destiny by Arnold Boleman takes us back to seventeenth-century India before the arrival of the British when large swathes of India (Hindustan) were ruled by a coterie of Muslim Shahs and their armies. The Hindu religion of the...

A mother battles her fear to save her daughter from intruders in the thriller Dark was the Night by Tania Lorena Rivera. Lucie has an abnormal fear of the dark. It has haunted her since childhood. After years of battling it, Lucie's husband Michael convinces...

Princess Caroline of Basset Hound Kingdom is off on another adventure with the twins, Willow and Daisy. It all starts when they scrounge around in the dark, dirty castle cellars, their own version of a treasure hunt. They find a journal written by Knight Theo...

People's diverse experiences in different situations make life such a beautiful journey. In Zennfinnity Was Here, Jeff Pearson narrates eleven stories that depict our diverse world and the varying struggles and emotions accompanying them, including loss, pain, frustration, joy, fondness, and more. The second story,...

Jojo is a very happy, healthy, and intelligent little boy. He loves to play with his toys; he loves his trucks, and he's very friendly with others on the playground or at school. But Jojo is a little different from other children (but we're all...

The Interlopers by Paula Welch is an intriguing, absorbing sci-fi drama for preteens. This book is a standout for young readers who like science fiction and the thought of communicating with aliens and life in outer space. This drama begins with seven-year-old Charlie witnessing a...

Fifteen-year-old Kalamiti Sol lives a hard life with the members of The Crew, a group of young teenagers who commit petty crimes to survive on the streets of Chicago. However, her life turns upside down when she's sent to juvenile prison for stealing a car....