The Adventures of Samba Rat and Friends in Sherman the Last Dragon by Steven and Mary Munsie is an exciting tale of a rat, a squirrel, and a porcupine who have to find a home for the last dragon on earth. Samba Rat, Squirrely, and...

Jay Raval's 15 Killer Ways of Marketing and Sales discusses 15 ways to promote your product. He talks about using YouTube and social media and how they can help you. Jay Raval also explains how they help you so you can decide which ones you...

The Scream Behind Her Smile by Athena Daniels is a romantic thriller. After reluctantly agreeing to accommodate her husband's old school friend until she finds a job and place to stay, Claire finds herself increasingly sidelined in her own home. While Claire is a successful...

Puffy Gets Angry is a children’s picture book written by Rich Pfeiffer and Susie Post Roberts. Puffy is a puffer fish with anger management issues. When he gets angry, Puffy puffs up into a round ball with spikes, scaring his school friends away as a...

In Harold Peabody and the Magic Glasses by Dawn Kopman Whidden and O.M. Faye, Harold is travelling back to his mother's childhood town in Louisiana after his Navy SEAL father was killed in Afghanistan. Harold hopes they can begin to rebuild their lives and he...

Are you a true crime fan? As someone who has always clung to the adage that truth is stranger than fiction, I certainly am. And when it comes to the content and characters in Out Here in the Darkness by Abra Stevens, I know that...

My Dino Ate My Homework by Ingrid Sawubona is a fun, brightly illustrated children's book for younger readers. A little boy has the perfect reason for not handing in his homework: his pet dinosaur ate it! This is a bit different from the usual "my...

Katelyn’s mother has recently died, and she is left living on the farm with her father and brothers who are not very nice people; her mother told her to escape the farm and go and see the “enchanted Thousand Islands." Katelyn is lucky enough to...

The Quarry is the second novel in the Firehouse Family series by Laurie Loveman. Set in 1933, the story follows a group of characters as they navigate the adventure called life while trying to survive. Life in their small town is not that interesting so...

The Farm Fires by Laurie Loveman is the third book in the historical fiction mystery series, the Firehouse Family, preceded by book one, Memories, and book two, The Quarry. Reading as a stand-alone (but definitely enhanced by the first two installments), Loveman returns readers to...

Treasure Fever: The Hunt for El Dorado is an action and adventure thriller novel written by James B. McPike. Max Finley knew his superior at the NSA would have loaded the training exercise sprung upon him with the unexpected and the unpredictable, so moving the...

I don’t know who Ted Halstead is, but I know one thing about him for sure. While writing The Second Korean War, he did his homework. I spent four years in the demilitarized zone in the 1980s. I've walked in a couple of tunnels big...

All Our Girls is the fifth book in the Firehouse Family series by Laurie Loveman, a well-crafted novel with strong themes and compelling female protagonists. It is the 1930s in New York, and the sex trafficking business is flourishing. One of the people with the...

Ernestine Lambert is the "lucky" heroine that gets stuck in the past. It all starts when the history grad student gets a job as an assistant to Professor Ed Roberts, who sparks her interest in the Super String Theory; she finds herself in a strange...

The Rogue by Lee W. Brainard has a fascinating plot. It’s 2018 when astronomer Irina Kirilenko detects an extremely large comet out beyond Neptune. It’s not yet visible to telescopes, but the comet’s trajectory shows that it will come dangerously close to Mars in 2024....

Hundred Percent Chance: A Memoir by Robert K. Brown is a meld of coming-of-age and an inspiring journey with cancer. Robert was diagnosed with leukemia when he was twenty and studying abroad. In this memoir, the author documents his journey towards healing, navigating the rugged...

You Can Call Me Katelyn by Keri T. Collins is about a little girl, Katelyn, whose actual name is Carly Ashley Myers. Her parents decided to name her Carly after a singer. She was too small to speak and cried and cried because she did...

Cut Reality by Zack Hacker is a psychological thriller that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who enjoy amateur detectives, reality TV, and mystery thrills, and who do not mind a bit of explicit language. Jason Debord was one...

Man In Command: How To Be A Great Husband and Dad by Dr. Judith Rolfs is an insightful book that gives men guidance on how to be a good husband and father. Practical and spiritual experiences and scriptures from the Bible play a key role...

Summoned: The Song of Adam by Susan Jay is an urban fantasy with strong hints of romance and magic. Adam Levi Tolsen had seen her in the crowd several times at their concerts since the first day she appeared. She’d lock eyes with him and...