For eighteen years, Clover’s life has been close to perfect. Nothing ever goes wrong for this girl; it’s as if she’s a living good luck charm, like the four-leafed clover after which she was named. But, everything changes on her eighteenth birthday; everything she believed...

Using free and narrative verse, Vivian Zems’ chapbook, Time Passes Differently Here is a collection of 2020 musings: of lockdown days, grief, sorrow, nostalgic memories, what is life and time. The first line of the first poem caught me and wrapped me in its hypnotic...

We all have our fears. There are times when we’re too frightened to try. But, with courage, we may try and then we feel good afterward, realizing that the greater fear is really the fear of not trying at all. Ramone is a baby ruby-throated...

In This Land of Plenty by Mary Smathers introduces the reader to Nicole Sinclair. A woman who finds DNA documents that show a history far different than the Northern European background her father always said they had. With the help of her great-grandmother, she dives...

Punny Jokes To Tell Your Peeps! (Book 4) by Lisa Ayotte is an adorable children's book for the funny bones of all ages. Children love to laugh and be funny, and most people like trading jokes, especially puns. This cute book, number 4 in the...

Unraveled by Laura Cook Boldt and Tom H. Boldt is a non-fiction memoir co-authored by mother and son as they allow us into their journey out of addiction. The narrative moves back and forth between each of its authors in an interesting string of chapters...

Hiba Shublak’s Where is Bejou? is a children’s picture book that has a sweet-natured narrative throughout. It focuses on a little girl who is searching for her beloved dog Bejou and comes across a variety of other creature characters that point her in the direction...

Swarm: Artificial Intelligence Decodes End Time Prophecies by Guy Morris is a deftly plotted and brilliantly written thriller that will entice fans of conspiracy and espionage. Derek Taylor is a fugitive hacker and contractor for the National Security Agency, using the name of a murdered...

One More Year by Allison Ione Ballenger, with illustrations by Carlos Velez Aguilera, is a children's picture book that takes a reader through the imagination of two young siblings as a brother tells his little sister what she may experience on the birthdays that follow...

The Moon brightens the night sky, sometimes making the stars giggle as they twinkle brightly. The Sun brightens the daytime hours, encouraging all loving creatures to come out and enjoy its warmth. But one day, the Moon decided it wanted to have all the attention,...

Norway to Washougal: An Unusual History Book Inspired by Homesteaders Anna and Engel Engelsen is a work of non-fiction in the world heritage, history, and culture sub-genres, and was penned by author Susan Tripp. Looking into the author’s own past and ancestral family life as...

Brad Goldfarb’s “You’re Kidding, Right?” is definitely not another book on how to make money investing in stocks and bonds. In fact, he never attempts to give advice on how to make money by investing; rather, it’s the opposite. He tells you what you do...

Who by Nanette L. Avery begins with a classic Agatha Christie setup. We meet a collection of men and women who have been invited to an all-expenses-paid weekend at a manor house. Some know one another to a greater or lesser degree, some are strangers....

Harrison Waits by Missy Hagen is a 30-page long children’s illustrated story about a very young boy named Harrison. He looks to be about three or four years of age, and this is a very busy day for him. He is obviously anxious about something...

In Ruby's Christmas Gifts by Nancy Oswald, Ruby is expecting a big Christmas Eve surprise, and as she waits for the surprise she goes stargazing, one of her favorite things to do. But her donkey, Maude, lets Ruby know her foal is missing, so they...

Peace by Marie Feather is a thought-provoking and insightful book that will help readers look into themselves, believe in themselves, and find themselves. The crucial part of life's journey is how to deal with personal emotions and get to know more about the self. The...

Operation Varsity Blues is Timothy R. Baldwin’s third book in his Kahale and Claude Mysteries. After amateur detectives Marcus, Alissa, Nate, and Janice come to Marcus’s father's aid in Shadows of Doubt, he commissions their help again. They have accepted a high percentage of Lenape...

Between Tads and Toads is a work of poetic and lyrical storytelling in the animal and nature fiction sub-genre, and was penned by author Christine May. Packed with gorgeous illustrations in a hand-drawn classic style, the story is told entirely in verse but is intended...

Litost: Sliced Stories is a collection of short stories around a similar atmosphere and mood, written and compiled by author Samir Satam. Written for adult reading audiences owing to their dark emotive themes and the presence of some contextually relevant abusive language, this is a...

Calm Brain Powerful Mind: Abolish Stress to Unleash Your True Potential by Aziz Velji is a non-fiction self-help guide with the aim of burrowing down to the root causes of stress to eliminate them as opposed to simply learning how to cope with them. This...