A Purpose for Patches: A Story of Compassion for Others and Learning Survival Signs and Tools by Gail L. Oxford with illustrations by Melissa Fox is a colorful and lively children’s book that tells the story of Patches, a guide dog. Patches’ purpose is to...

Think Mortally! is a comprehensive survival guide for young adults by B. Ryan Teller, featuring illustrations by Andrew Slobodianyk. It covers a wide range of essential life skills and safety tips, providing practical advice on topics such as sleep improvement, stress reduction, and good hygiene...

It’s picture day at school and Miles notices a green spot on one of his front teeth. What should he do? He can’t very well smile for the picture when he has a green-spotted tooth, now can he? In LaTonya Butler’s The Tale of Fuzzy...

Women of the Wind tells a fascinating and heartbreaking true story of neglect, abandonment, abuse, and abduction. Angela Gail Griffin shares her mother's family's childhood memories and tales that she passed down to her. The recollections span three generations of women intertwined with 19th- and...

In The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired by Kelly K. James, she decides to take a corporate job after freelancing for 22 years. Freelancing is very different from having formal employment, as she soon realizes. Freelancing offered flexibility in her working hours, and the...

This week I’ve been enjoying Cecilia Copeland’s science fiction novel Surviving The Gauntlet, which is the first entry in the Taltrix series. The story focuses on the journey of Redder Torch – a.k.a. RT – as she forges a path for herself in the...

Ghost by Lea Tonin is one of the most unusual memoirs I have ever read…and I have read a lot of memoirs! When Lea is 14, going on 15, she can no longer withstand the constant brutality of her Japanese stepfather. Any infractions or challenges...

Dr. Tonya T. Strickland’s Who Generated My Cheese? is an eye-opening yet approachable guide for anyone interested in AI. With humor, real-life anecdotes, and clear insights, the author takes a complex topic—generative AI—and makes it accessible to readers at all levels of tech knowledge. The...

"Hip Hip Hurray We Found Teddy" by author Silvia Sullivan allows the reader into the life of a mouse whose life is very orderly and tidy. Mouse enjoys his routine and finds it fulfilling, even the town he lived in was called "Everything Has A...

The loss of a loved one is a painful transition that, unfortunately, many people are forced to experience. Though the mourning process is spent with many dark, difficult days, the power of words have served to comfort those in need. In A Far Cry...From Home...

Rarely does a book come along that so positively mesmerizes me that I read it from start to finish in a single sitting. Yet that is exactly what I did with Embracing the Wild in Your Dog by Bryan Bailey. Bailey opens the story with...

In I Want Superpowers by Steven Bereznai, sixteen-year-old Caitlin Feral undergoes the greatest challenge of her life to define her place in an evolved, dystopian, and segregated world. It is set against the backdrop of a dystopian world where humans (Dregs) and super-powered people (Supergenics)...

Adobe Moon, Wyatt Earp: An American Odyssey, Book 1 by Mark Warren maybe answers the question, when did Wyatt Earp become Wyatt Earp? Adobe Moon begins in 1862 with a young teen aged Wyatt who is anxious to grow up and get off the Earp...

Don't Expect Me To Cry is a powerful autobiography by Janet Bentley, relating the horrors of mental, physical, and sexual abuse she endured from infancy. In an amazing piece of writing, Janet tells her story, reflecting her thoughts and experiences at critical stages of her...

Born to the Badge - Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, Book 2 by Mark Warren is a tribute to its author as a well researched telling of the years when Wyatt Earp began a career as a lawman in the Old West towns of Wichita...

The Hands That Held Me is a dark and terrifying dive into the life of author Lisa Jo Symonds and her battles with addiction, abuse, pain, and suffering. From around the age of four, she had experienced the worst that this world has to offer...

Linda Kopec has given everyone who has ever been affected by cancer a true gift of love in her book Cancer Gifts: Lessons in Gratitude, Acceptance and Perseverance. Linda invites her readers on a journey of hope and inspiration. Cancer does not just affect the...

Pharmacy Girl by Kate Szegda is a story of The Great War, Spanish Influenza, and the Truth about Billy Detwiler. It’s 1918 and a war is raging. The First World War is still being fought but another deadly battle is also being fought, one of...

This is the story of two sisters, Lindy Logan and her sister Jo. Lindy did not want a baby sister, just her doll and her mama. Her mother promised she would love her just as much as the new baby, but it was quite evident...

Delani Bleu returned to the profession of teaching after a cushy job. While her major was educational journalism this is the first time she’d had the opportunity to teach it. To prepare for the year she took a graduate class to learn the computer programs;...