Language is beautiful because it's connected to culture, creates connections, and builds unity through expression. There are several languages that I love to hear due to their rhythmic, harmonic sounds like French, Italian, Spanish, and Hindi. These languages are also much simpler in comparison with...

The war was on in the late 60s, and Katya had it rough. Katya was a Polish girl from a traditional family that didn’t value female education. She also lived in a state that suppressed women’s rights to decide what happens to their bodies. Katya...

It’s not often that I think, “This one is perfect for my daughter!” But that’s exactly my reaction to Stella’s Umbrellas by Julie Reed. Stella’s Umbrellas is a magical poem set to pictures. The well-crafted rhyme is complemented by the lively illustrations of young Stella....

Andrew's Awesome Adventures with His ADHD Brain by Kristin Wilcox is a thought-provoking and informative book focusing on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The book consists of two parts. The first part is from the point of view of Andrew trying to cope with inattentive...

Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System is a work of non-fiction in the political subgenre. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Patrick K. Lin. The book scrutinizes the machine-based aspects...

Last At Bat: Small Town Big Secrets by Mark Donahue is a remarkable story of the human spirit in its capacity to beat tremendous odds. The story opens with the crash of a passenger airplane where baseball star Dylan Michael is among the passengers. The...

If your idea of an exciting read is a story that stretches the boundaries of mental and sexual morality and reality, you’ll love Fat Girl by Mark Donahue. As the title indicates, this psychological thriller is centered on an 800lb woman, Sara. When readers and...

A Scribble Where it Shouldn't, by Paul Wennersberg-Løvholen, is a 34-page-long children’s picture book about Luna, her parents, and two naughty scribbles. The artwork is mostly watercolor. As the book opens, it appears as if the parents are demanding and rigid, laying down a lot...

Safety first is something that we should always keep in mind when a situation occurs, but how to teach it to children in a fun and entertaining way? For that, we have First Aid Adventures of Pauly and Friends. Through short stories and the intrepid...

House of Hoops, the fourth book in the Hillary Broome Novel series, by June Gillam is a brilliant and glorious tale about the dynamics of societal change and its impact on two opposing sides of redevelopment. Hillary Broome Kiffin is promoting a soon-to-open community center...

Addison Braves Brazil, written by Laura James and illustrated by Jasmine Smith, is a mid-grade interactive storybook that takes readers into South America through the eyes of a young girl. Addison is introduced as an upbeat girl from Arkansas with a mother who is a...

“My Dad was standing with his plate,/ but only on one leg./ “A BALANCED breakfast,”/ he explained,/ while chewing on his eggs.” Have you ever tried eating standing up? On one leg? Does it create a ‘balanced’ meal to eat it standing up on one...

Leaving Phoenix by Jafe Danbury is a powerful suspense thriller about a young woman, who, in tracking her mother’s killer, discovers more about her dark past. Rose LaFlamme is having an abortion after being impregnated by a ruthless man that she calls the Pirate. This...

Pool Man is a psychological thriller/horror novel written by Dan McDowell. It's the year 1991. Greg Preakle, a one-armed pool man working at The Oak Hollow Hotel, has his life turned upside down after finding a dead body floating in the hotel pool. Jobless and...

Devilish Dust is a horror novel by the multi-award-winning author Erik Dean. Dust storms are pretty common in Arizona and the authorities have told the public what to do if caught in such a storm. The general public is advised to turn off all their...

In C. Vonzale Lewis’s urban fantasy Zealot: Blood and Sacrifice Chronicles Book 2, Ronald Stewart is mocking Nicole. Goading her. Sending pictures of the people he had killed, people who looked like her. He was killing her in his mind over and over. Killing the...

Fruit is a short and crisp novella written by B.B. Calais. Twenty-seven-year-old Raff Thompson considers himself a prime Casanova, breaking hearts left and right without any repercussions in his own life. But his hedonistic lifestyle turns upside down the day he meets eighteen-year-old Julie Hayes...

Forty-three-year-old Emerson Vaughn married right out of college. Unfortunately, life dealt her a cruel hand. Emerson lost her husband to a younger woman, and her eighteen-year-old daughter also left for college, making her a jobless empty nester. After licking her wounds, she contemplated a change...

Reunion by Darin Miller is the first book in the Dwayne Morrow series. Richard Dwayne Morrow, better known as Dwayne, has returned to his hometown for a high school reunion, expecting to get together with friends he hasn’t seen in years. However, disaster strikes right...

Anasazi Medium by GG Collins is the fourth book in the Rachel Blackstone Paranormal Mystery series. Nine signs signal the end of the Fourth World of the Hopi, which sets Rachel on a new mission when the spirit world comes asking for her help. To...