You Are Not Alone: A Heartfelt Guide to Grief, Healing, and Hope by Debbie Augenthaler is the author's personal story of grief, trauma, and loss after losing her husband. Grief connects people and there is no particular way to grieve. It can be messy, chaotic,...

The Gathering Dark by Brett Armstrong is the first book in the Quest of Fire series. Jason is on the run and looking for a place to hide when he stumbles into an inn to find the owner sharing a fanciful tale. The story follows...

Lack of forgiveness is a pandemic among Christians, between the lack of forgiveness for our own shortcomings and for those offenses committed against us. The Power of Forgiveness by T. K. Ware and his special guests deal with the pain caused by unforgiveness. The first...

In One for Love by Carol Steeger, Lonnie Wade dreams of becoming a successful singer, and her dream seems to be within her grasp when she is offered a gig in the Stardust Lounge with her band. However, the owner and local Mafia mobster, Frank...

Mama Kangaroo Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times, by Cassandra Lennox, is a 44-page-long children’s picture book that mimics the nursery rhymes I grew up with but are set more for today's youngsters. The rhymes are positive, bright, and often funny. The pictures are colorful with...

The DNA of Democracy by Richard C. Lyons is a wonderful book for readers interested in understanding the origins, evolution, and intrinsic nature of democracy and its nuances. The author takes readers through a historical journey that begins from the faint idea of democracy from...

Donna Gielow McFarland’s Follow the Star: Christmas Songs for Piano—Level 3 is a fun collection of Christmas songs with a variety of pieces for Christmas presenting different challenges for the Level 3 piano student. The selection is a good one, combining the traditional (such as...

All Because of Hannah by Danielle Patarazzi is a contemporary fiction novel about a woman who has just given birth to her second child. Due to medical negligence, her daughter is born with brain damage and cerebral palsy. However, Jillian Moore has an older daughter,...

In Dragon’s Shadow by Allison Morse, royal twins separated at birth will find out whether they'll fight side by side or against each other. After the death of her mother, Kylie has a tough time adjusting to normal life, particularly school, due to her rage...

Meet Colt, Addi, Annie, Brit, Cora, Cash, Piper, and Bandit in the story Oak Street Treehouse: The Day They Messaged God by Dick Daniels. The six kids were playing games on Saturday morning and Brit took the tablet. Annie's mom let them use it in...

Meet Asher who is an artist in the story The Very Hungry Artist by Matt Upholz. Asher takes us through his art gallery to show us his paintings. Asher's parents are very supportive and they help them prepare his supplies every night. Though they don't...

The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High by Elizabeth Eckford, Eurydice Stanley, and Grace Stanley is a non-fiction memoir of what happened in the early days of desegregation and, specifically, when a young girl became the first black student to enter an all-white...

Sharing Sea Glass by Susan Jean Ricci is a short, breezy read that is so captivating it keeps the reader racing through the pages. It begins with Jo Harrison drowning and at the very moment she believes she is being swallowed up by the ocean,...

Last Night in Granada by Chris Pellizzari is an unusual yet compelling account of one man’s struggle with the memories of his past. Besieged by anxiety and consequently an inability to sleep soundly, Chris visits a doctor and is prescribed strong medication which will enable...

Jill Hand offers this delectably irresistible blurb to introduce her delectably irresistible novel, White Oaks: “Billionaire Blanton Trapnell is about to turn ninety. He's asked his three children for an unusual birthday present: he wants to know what it feels like to murder someone and...

The Open Portal by Michael Scott Clifton is the first book in the Conquest of the Veil series, which centers around a teenage girl named Mona who makes a life-altering (and potentially world-altering) decision. Mona feels she can no longer cope. Alone without friends or...

What’s a father Pug dog to do when his four children ask him for the one thing that would make them the happiest pugs in the world? Move heaven and earth to give it to them, of course! Grubson Pug’s Christmas Voyage by Jane-Anne Hodgson...

Memoirs of a Transferable Soul is a work of curious and intriguing literary fiction by author W. Town Andrews. Fictionalized in part from strange experiences of a real-life figure, the plot focuses on a dying man who discovers a method of survival by inhabiting others...

The Water Tower Club by BK Mayo is a story filled with drama, suspense, and mystery. It has been a decade since Darryl Coombs left his hometown of Grotin, Kansas, just after graduation from high school, escaping his painful past. When his sister, Libby, is...

Meet Frannie, a pampered and innocent girl who has moved away from home to attend college in The Wake-Up Call by Joy Don Baker and Terri Goodman. Frannie is anxious when her father leaves her at Hadley Hall but she motivates herself by saying she...