Icicle is back with her family in the storybook Icicle Dreams (And Discovers Dreams Do Come True) by R.W. Thompson. Icicle wanted to be famous like her older sister, Fluffy, who was a good swimmer and faster than a leopard seal. Icicle was not a...

Blinded Authority by Chad Boles is a political and financial thriller that delves into the dark underbelly and machinisms of corruption in a fictional Florida county's economic affairs, where transparency is as elusive as the truth, and the truth can be just about anything, depending...

Who Is Johnny Pistolseed by Larry Kaiser is an engaging crime story with exceptional characters. In the town of Ak-wy-yeth, Indiana, a deputy sheriff shoots and kills Billy Redcrow, a teenager and a Native American who happens to be a friend of fifteen-year-old Culture Duboreaux....

Warning: Reading Steffen Hou's The Deprived: Innocents on Death Row might destroy any trust you have in the justice system. It might destroy your confidence in the integrity of those who purport to work toward making our society a safer and better place for all....

Steven M. Moore pens an apocalyptic thriller in The Last Humans. Penny Castro left the US Navy and became a forensic diver for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Penny and her fellow deputy George are called out to locate a victim offshore. Penny plunges into...

The Consultant by Tj O'Connor is a fast-paced action thriller in which Jonathan Hunter, an AWOL CIA consultant, learns that running from life has a way of catching up with you in the worst way possible. Jonathan and his brother Kevin have been estranged for...

Raccoons Don’t Use Spoons, written by Sharon Hanzik and illustrated by Bobbi Switzer, is both an introduction to raccoons and an introduction to respecting wildlife. The illustrations and the text show how clever raccoons can be. The book also shows why you shouldn’t feed them...

One of the most interesting history books on entrepreneurs that I have read is Innovation on Tap: Stories of Entrepreneurship from the Cotton Gin to Broadway’s Hamilton by Eric B. Schultz. The stories on each entrepreneur are well crafted and relevant, always emphasizing the impact...

Boston Teran’s How Beautiful They Were reveals the prevailing spirit of the theatrical stage. Jeremiah Fields, the behind-the-scenes stage manager of Colonel Tearwood's American Theatre Company, shares his relationship with the infamous Nathanial Luck. As with all great storytelling, Jeremiah begins at the beginning, before...

Travels with Elly: Reflections on Canada by an RVer and His Dog by Larry MacDonald is a non-fiction memoir about Larry’s road trip across Canada in his RV. In this book, Larry starts off with a brief introduction to how and why he came up...

Maximillian’s Treasure is an exciting legal drama tale by James D. Bell. Law partners John Brooks and Jackson Bradley assumed saving the farm for their Choctaw Indian client, Frank Dalton, would be easy. That was before they realized how desperate and dangerous some people were...

Death is a Grizzly by J.C. Graves is an engaging story, featuring interesting characters, including a Kodiak grizzly bear. The bear is wounded by a Cheyenne who shoots an arrow that penetrates the skull of the animal, but not enough to kill it. The animal...

War Serenade by Jill Wallace is a touching love story between an Italian prisoner of war and a young woman in South Africa during World War II. Despite his low birth, Pietro was a famous opera singer in Italy before being conscripted into the Italian...

The preface to The Book of Agnes by Michael Pedretti reminds us that we are all descended from the same gene pool and may be related to every other living person on the planet. This book divided into Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. Air is...

Monkeys on the Road: One Family's Vanlife Adventure South in Search of a Simpler Life by Mary Hollendoner is the award-winning part memoir, part travelogue of one American family's trip to the most southern point on the globe--fun, funny, heartwarming, heart-pounding--a rollercoaster ride in a...

The business environment is changing rapidly and the old paradigm is no longer valid amid the chaos and uncertainty. In addition, the pace of change has speeded up and the past is no longer a reliable guide to the future. Unsettled Disruption is a step-by-step...

The Sleeper List: A Spy Novel by Patrick Oster is a work of fiction in the thriller, suspense, and espionage subgenres. It is intended for the general adult reading audience owing to some moderate sexual references and the occasional use of explicit language. In this...

Believing In Horses Out West is the third novel by Valerie Ormond featuring “horse crazy” teenager Sadie Navarro. Now 14 and living in Maryland, Sadie is the proud owner of a beautiful show horse and is active in horse rescue programs but worries that Sunny,...

Stories about aliens and how they are secretly walking among us continue to hold a special place in our imagination. It Gives You Strength by Philip Raymond Brown is one such story, and it offers more. Welcome to the 1920s, where hooliganism is rife along...

The Red Sandals by Jing Li is a moving memoir about a strong woman who overcomes tremendous odds to leave her home country, travels to America, and builds a life for herself, her husband, and her daughter. The story starts in China when the author...