Squire With Fire: Disappearance of Luka is a story about a white dragon named Luka. Luka's color and the fact that he is unable to breathe fire make him different from all the other dragons around. Because of this, the other dragons like to bully...

Stealing Freedom by Sylvia Leontaritis is filled with history, romance, and adventure. The story takes place during the buildup to World War II on the Greek island of Kalymnos, which was under an Italian occupying force. Popi, a sixteen-year-old girl, loves her Greek island world...

Chris Lengle introduces The Male Nurse Survival Guide as “a real, no-b[…]-s[…] survival guide” (elisions my own) to the world of nursing. As he notes, “[t]his is the raw, real, and uncensored guide to surviving as a male nurse” in the United States. As such,...

An Instrument for Florenda by Tomeko Brown and Christopher Smallwood is about a young girl who wants to learn to play the clarinet after the school announces that they are introducing their first band after the summer vacation. The school hired a teacher who had...

The Animal Squad and the Mystical Topax Amulet by Jan Sier involves an elite team of agents who resemble half-man and half-animal. They are undercover to capture criminals and keep our world safe. They are the AIT (Animalis International Team). However, one member, Croc, has...

Jacquelina could never have imagined herself living anywhere else or far from her father, let alone outside Panamá. Living with her sister Nana and their grandmother in the village, Jacquelina hardly saw her father who worked in the city of Colon. Their mother had left...

The Emerald Princess is a work of fiction in the science fiction and thriller subgenres. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author J. D. Richards. The book follows out of work pilot Ann Raymond after she gets hired to...

Better Off Here is a collection of dystopian short stories by Melissa R. Mendelson. The book begins with the story "In Jellyfish, We Trust," where a young student must pay a hefty price to stay alive. A person fights to live out their numbered days...

The Magical Guide to Bliss: Daily Keys to Unlock Your Dreams, Spirit and Inner Bliss by Meg Nocero is a fabulous self-help book. The cover, title, and sub-title immediately caught my eye. It is as much fun and as useful as the title and sub-title...

Angelfyre is a work in the science fiction, adventure, and action subgenres. It is suitable for middle-grade and young adult reading audiences but can also be heartily enjoyed by adult readers. Penned by Lydan Francis, in this immersive and immediately engaging work, we are introduced...

Half an Arc & Artifacts & Then the Other Half by Dan Tremaglio is the story of a man named Z who receives a visit from his twin sister for four days. Her visit comes after their mother's death and amidst the recent death of...

The 716 is the first novel in a series by S.J. Pratt. Set in the future, society as we know it was destroyed by the Wars of Men, and it was rebuilt with women in control. While women got to be the leaders with all...

Secrets In The Mirror by Leslie Kain is the story of two twin brothers who diverge toward two very different paths in life due to their upbringing and environment. Gavin and Devon DiMassi couldn't have turned out more different if they were not related. Bullied...

Bright Mind, Happy Heart, Best Life by Deanna LoTerzo is a self-help book about realizing and accepting that your mind and heart are connected. Your words and emotions affect you physically, and you decide how you will be affected. Words are powerful, and if you...

When I saw this book's cover and read the story blurb, I immediately thought of Alfred Hitchcock meets Rod Serling in Vanished by Cynthia Fridsma. What does Alex Gibbon missing without a trace, the charred dead body found in a car, the word Dreamscape written...

Living Inside The Testimony (3rd Edition) is a work of non-fiction in the Christian literature subgenre. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author Betty Collier. The book sees the author candidly share the ups and downs of her life,...

Surrounded by God’s Blue Sky: Christian Affirmations for Chronic Pain by Susan Montgomery is a book of encouragement and healing. Having suffered from chronic pain since the early ‘70s, I found this book most delightful. The fact that it contains both affirmations and Scripture is...

Fractured Shards by Stephen Kok and created by Dan Feuerriegel and Shaun Keenan is a comic book-style graphic novel. Join Detective Vetro as he solves the most horrific and gruesome murders from both worlds of District and the Lights. Being an enforcement officer can be...

In Circumvention: Dwayne Morrow Mystery #2 by Darin Miller, readers discover that while following Alan Carter, Dwayne found a body in an alley. The victim was brutally murdered by the Eviscerator killer. Brady, from the Columbus Dispatch, wants them to work together to find the...

Chinese Wall is a fascinating legal thriller involving the FBI. After hundreds of innocent people die when a bomb explodes in the middle of the San Antonio Riverwalk Marketplace in Texas, only one of the four suspects is found dead. After a short time, the...