Revenge is sweet, even if it takes a while, as the murderer knows in George Encizo’s thriller, Descent Into Hell. Sheriff J.D. Pickens comes under pressure when Tommy Benson and Rhonda Hicks are murdered in the small Creek City community. He and his deputies work...

Living with a 98-Year-Old Rocket Scientist: Mister B by Lynn Byk is a memoir that reads like nothing I have read in a long while. It is well-crafted, with details that capture the very essence of the day-to-day life of a 98-year-old rocket scientist, his...

I thoroughly enjoyed Courage by Lauren H Salisbury. It’s a science fiction re-imagining of the story of Moses from the Bible. Instead of Israelites suffering as slaves at the hands of the Egyptians, Courage gives us the human race enslaved by a more powerful alien...

Readers of all kinds will fall in love with Love Letters by Tamika Newhouse, Jasheem Wilson, Phoenix Williams, T.J. Hope, and Shawn Thompson, and which left this reader speechless. Love Letters is the most original anthology ever. Structured like an R&B album from the '90s,...

What do recipes, stories, projects, and hikes have to do with the Bible? Young readers, teenagers, and your family will find these things and more in The Bible Adventure Book of Scavenger Hunts: Plus! Crafts, Recipes, Activities and More... by Kelly Anne White. In this...

Please Stay: A Brain Bleed, A Life In The Balance, A Love Story by Greg Payan is a non-fiction book on a couple’s journey through Holly’s life-threatening illness. Please Stay is written from the perspective of Greg, Holly’s partner and husband for over a decade....

Bold, charming, and inspirational, this is a memoir on a loss that we so often neglect and that leaves a void in many lives - the loss of a family member - and for the protagonist, it’s a dog called Roo. In To the Moon...

Jinxed is a horror novel for young and new adults written by Thommy Hutson. The Trask Academy of Performing Arts was the ultimate in elite academic institutions dedicated to perfecting the already prodigious skills of the young men and women whose parents were able to...

Love Poems by Dr. Tony Beizaee is a collection of twenty-five powerful poems expressing romantic and spiritual love interspersed with beautiful abstract art in vivid colours. The poems vary in length from a few short ones to some that are very long. Together, they cause...

Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See by Frank Harmon is a fascinating book that will give a new perspective on the places we come from and the lives we lead. The author helps us realize that home is just not the place we...

Christmas Charity by Susan G Mathis is set in the late 1800s; a story about an arranged marriage between Susan Hawkins, a 23-year-old young woman, and an older widower named Patrick O'Neill. Susan is a teacher and lives at home with her parents and siblings...

The Legend of the Fairy Stones by Kelly Anne White takes young readers on an enchanting and whimsical trip through a land of fairies who flitted and glittered in glens and glades in the scattered light of morning. When it was noontime, they lolled in...

Life and Times of Jeb Ratliff: Dakota Storm is a work of western style fiction penned by author Jimmy Crisp. Our titular hero Jeb is a man raised amongst the fire and trials of the bloodiest war in US history, the American Civil War. The...

Shadow Kid: Based on Real Life Events by Jennifer Vaughn is a biography that follows the life of eight-year-old Gavin Scott as he grows up in very painful circumstances, finding himself pulled away from a familiar and happy environment in New York and to a...

We are all different and we all learn differently and at different speeds. Roo, or Ruby, is no exception, although it does concern her parents when she can’t do the things they think she should be able to do when they think she should be...

The Broken Canvas: Good Woman Gone Bad by Tai Barnett opens with the thoughts of the protagonist and they represent a powerful internal conflict: “This is the part that I dread the most, pretending like I think I belong on the Red Carpet. Tirelessly writing...

Glue by D.W. Plato is a sizzling romance with very memorable characters and a powerful plot. Dacia’s marriage hasn’t been a happy one and she has suffered a lot of emotional abuse from her husband. When she decides to leave him, she believes she is...

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...

Indy’s Spot of Bother by Lisa Domeny is the ninth book in the Team Golden Oldies series of children’s books. This is a super picture book that follows Indy in a delightful story of accepting herself. Indy was once an only dog, then her mum...

Rabbit Redemption is the third book in the Rabbit Trilogy by Ellen C. Maze. The story of Beth and the Rakum community continues. A battle begins as the story continues. After the Rakum race was almost decimated and only a thousand few remain, a new...