Eloquence That Feeds the Soul should be the subtitle for A Sword Song for Blood Roses, a poignant offering of poems by Joan Wiley. While relatively short insofar as books go, A Sword Song for Blood Roses definitely packs a huge emotional punch. It’s divided...

Sasha Savvy Starts It Up is an educational novel for middle-schoolers and preteens written by Sasha Ariel Alston. Sasha’s excitement over starting the new school year as a sixth-grader became even more intense when her mom announced there was going to be a hackathon at...

For eighteen years, Clover’s life has been close to perfect. Nothing ever goes wrong for this girl; it’s as if she’s a living good luck charm, like the four-leafed clover after which she was named. But, everything changes on her eighteenth birthday; everything she believed...

The Secret of the Magic eyePad by Marsha Tufft is a beautifully written story for fourth to sixth graders, featuring an interesting female protagonist: Putney Hicks. She is an imaginative twelve-year-old girl with a magic eyePad, an aspiring artist who is worried sick over her...

Putney Hicks is at it again in The Buoyancy Project: Putney Hicks Inventor Adventures – Book 2 by Marsha Tufft. Not intentionally, of course, but somehow she always finds herself sorting through some new mystery and solving problems along the way. As usual, she has...

Have you ever wondered how a butterfly flies? How does it manage to lift off? Putney is studying her butterfly image in an attempt to improve her butterfly stroke in swimming. She has a swim meet in about a week’s time and she has to...

This children’s book teaches a universal lesson – how children can manage their strong emotions, especially anger. Otto lives with his mother in England, and one day his father disappeared. Otto has had no contact from him and often feels angry. “He screamed, slammed doors,...

Edward the Egg: Coloring Tales of Adventure, crafted by Julia Fagundus, is a wonderfully delightful children’s book. It begins with a presentation page for the child, noting the child is an amazing person and the giver believes in him/her. The book has five adventure tales,...

I’m Glad I Was There! The March on Washington by Juanita Gordon is a first-person account by a nurse who marched for Civil Rights in Washington DC on August 28, 1963, when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president. This march motivated President Kennedy to introduce Civil...

The Insurance CSR Sales Master Class Handbook by J. Sheldon Snodgrass is a non-fiction business guide that promises increased sales through a tried and true method established by the author for other customer service representatives. Over the course of five distinct modules, Snodgrass applies a...

The Last Lumenian is a lavish and engrossing work of fiction in the fantasy, action, and adventure sub-genres, and was penned by author S. G. Blaise. Written for young adult and adult readers alike to enjoy, this immersive tale introduces us to a princess unlike...

The Market Stall Girl by AnneMarie Brear centers around Beth Beaumont, a young woman who lives with her middle-class family on a farm and spends her day at the stall selling their fruits and vegetables. Noah Jackson is a coal miner living with his brothers,...

Five-year-old Oliver loves living on a pirate ship with his pirate parents. He loves being a pirate and playing around on the ship, but being around everything piratical also gives him a wild imagination. Oliver is a sick little boy, and while he is in...

Dinosaur Adventure: A Field Trip to Remember is a children’s educational storybook written by Kelly Santana Banks and illustrated by Dipali Dutta. What could be more exciting than going on a field trip to the dinosaur museum? Once the class got there, Miss Gina separated...

Bubbly By The Sea by B. K. Sweeting is an aesthetic collection of short poems with diverse themes. It will take readers on an exciting journey that will pull them into the poems to feel, see, and learn. The collection has been divided into two...

Jimbo The Farting Robot is a children’s humorous picture book written and illustrated by Momo J. Pug. The inventor’s laboratory is filled with amazing creations: a superpowered cleaner, a poke-bot which ensures the inventor never snoozes on the job; there’s even a trapper keeper bot...

Who Are Our Heroes? A Reminder to Say “Thank You!” in the Time of Coronavirus and Beyond is a children’s social issues picture book written by Eliana Melmed and illustrated by Amy Tian. Many of us visualize caped crusaders when we think of heroes, but,...

Detective Nick Larson and his partner, Detective Victor Sacco, are overloaded. New York Police Department's Sixteenth Precinct in Manhattan is at minimal staff with the flu, and the cases keep pouring in. When Nick is called to an apparent suicide, his instincts immediately tell him...

Sanctuary is the second book in The Dark Days Series by Christopher Cole. After the zombies attacked Fort Denver, Sonny and his friends Ashley and Carrie had no other choice but to run for their lives. Miserable and scared out of their minds, they found...

When a powerful magical artifact is stolen, a family of witches scrambles to locate it before the thief wreaks havoc on the world in the exciting fantasy novel, The Dagger (The Madigan Chronicles Book 1) by Marieke Lexmond. The Madigan family has been hiding a...