Taking a Bite Out of the Apple: A Graphic Designer's Tale (Hearing Others' Voices) is a nonfiction memoir for young adults written by Rob Janoff. While he had gone to college to study industrial design, Janoff was more intrigued by the creative possibilities that graphic...

Wear Your Life Well: Lessons on the Journey to your Truest Self by Helene Oseen is an uplifting book that speaks about the importance of wearing your life well, and gives new ideas to improve one’s life in totality. The author’s personal stories will help...

Things We Lost in the Night: A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves by Larry J. Dunlap is an honest memoir in which the author has carefully depicted his years as a young and struggling musician,...

In Adele and the Whispering Garden, Polly Richards invites children to discover a love of gardening and magic. Adele is a curious girl with a big heart. Upon moving into her new home, she decides to explore. In her backyard, she finds the entrance to...

Gripping Grace in the Garden of Grief (A Place for the Heart) by Marcia P Earhart is a non-fiction book on grief and hardship that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who have or are currently experiencing grief in...

I really enjoyed Solbidyum Wars Saga Book 1: Battle of the New Orleans. It is good old-fashioned space opera in the tradition of Star Trek and Star Wars. It is the kind of science fiction that I began reading as a boy when I first...

Meet Tuttle the Tortoise and his friends, Scruff, Splosh, Podge, Rainbow, Naughty, Sunshine, Blossom, Angel, Flutterby, Sunset, Autumn, Breeze, and Snowflake in the storybook Tuttle the Tortoise by Marilyn Cook. It was Tuttle's birthday and he thought of giving himself a treat by snoozing in...

Skye the Troll and other Fairy Tales for Children is a collection of short fairy tales and poems for young children. I love how each is broken down into different stories, so you can pick different ones to read each night to your child....

This cute little dog started barking because he wanted someone to take him outside. So he goes to each family member, barking to let them know he wanted to go outside. But each person he went to didn’t have time to take him out. So...

Stacie Webb's Breaking the Chain: Cutting Toxic Family Ties & Reclaiming Your Life addresses an ailment that plagues many people but that many hardly talk about. It is the hurt that people endure because of toxic relationships that can result from dysfunctional family dynamics, unhealthy...

In Taming the Telomeres by Richard Shapiro, we meet Andrew Michaels, an attorney. A Hemispheres airplane crashes, killing his brother and sister-in-law; only his niece Amanda survives. Amanda has a mild brain injury leaving her with amnesia; she must wear a halo until her bones...

Drop the Puck: It's Hockey Season (Official Adventures) by Jayne. J. Jones Beehler is the story of two brothers, Blaine and Cullen, who love the game of hockey and each other. Blaine has Downs Syndrome, but that doesn't deter him from taking an active part...

In the suspenseful romance novel Deception by Design, Isabella Hughes is a successful interior designer and owns a firm in Manhattan. A farm girl who hailed from Ohio, her past is left behind as she becomes a successful businesswoman with a great career and a...

Instructional Design for E-Learning: Essential Guide to Creating Successful E-Learning Courses by Marina Arshavskiy is an informative how-to manual for creating ISD (Instructional Systems Design) classes. Divided into four easy to follow sections, the concise guide combines theoretical and practical knowledge, skills, tools and exercises...

“The world would be in trouble if it needed to be saved by an 11-year-old kid.” That is what eleven-year-old Drew Daley thinks, but he is about to be tested more than he ever could have imagined. Lured by a mysterious drawing tucked into his...

We are not alone. Intelligent Design: Revelations to Apocalypse by J.M. Erickson rewrites not just Earth's history but our entire galaxy's past as well, and offers us a future where humanity must rely on the help of intelligent beings in order to stave off extinction....

Luckey Haskins and the Zoo Adventure by Brian Sooy is an encouraging and educational book for children that will motivate and guide them to go on adventures, unlock their imaginations, make every single day extraordinary, and create magic in their lives. Luckey Haskins was like...

Mumageddon! And the Food Magician by Sonya Anise is the chaotic, comical, and heart-warming book you didn’t know you needed. This brilliantly crafted rhyming tale is a mischievous masterpiece that will have readers of all ages laughing, gasping, and occasionally cringing in delight. The story...

Bird of the Soul is an inspirational story written by Ilchi Lee and illustrated by Jisu Han. It's the story of Jay, a man who has become too busy and preoccupied with life to remember the soul-bird who used to make him so happy and...

In The Blood of the Greeks by Mary D. Brooks is set in the period of World War II. Eva is the daughter of a German commander who has taken the helm of a small Greek town and is “purging” it of Jews. Eva does...