Love and Kindness by Christine Topjian is about love and kindness and lending a helping hand to anyone who needs it. It is always important to reach out to those who need help, such as if someone in the class is having a hard time...

White Wine and Medical Marijuana, by Julia Cirignano, is a bittersweet compilation of poems that describe the pain of being in love. Each poem is like a brutal wake-up call to anyone who has ever been in love. From being forgotten to watching a womanizer...

My American Dream and How it Ended is a memoir by Robert Goodman detailing his life growing up in a middle class family in  Beverly Hills during the 1940s and 1950s. Goodman details a modest home life and explores how his parents' childhood and Jewish...

Something isn't quite right in Arcadia Falls, and it's up to a group of teenagers to solve the mystery. Some nerds, later joined by some unlikely additions, find out that something is influencing people's memories: the whole town seems to have forgotten about people who...

It is little Gellini's birthday and she's getting one of the best gifts of them all: her very own big black clown shoes with a polka dot bow on top. Now she can perform in the Big Top with her parents! But it turns out...

Michael Guillebeau's novel MAD Librarian is a comic thriller set in the small city of Maddington, Alabama. Serenity Hammer is the head librarian of Maddington Public Library and is determined to keep the library open after draconian budget cuts by the city council. Serenity...

Love and Pursuit: Three Jazz Age Tales of Crime and Passion is a collection of romantic suspense novellas written by C.K. Charlotte. Ivy Smythe had had to break down well-established barriers to become one of the first women barristers in England. She was thrilled to...

Seasons: Spring and Summer by Cheryl E. Rodriguez is a beautifully constructed selection of short stories on how to appreciate the smallest things in life and to enjoy the simple aspects of life such as nature and family. Throughout the book, you are taken on...

Tuma’s Boot by Gladys T. Kenfack opens with Tuma and his mother going to the river to play. Tuma takes off his boots and sets them down near the riverbank. The wind blows his boot into the water and it floats away. He is very...

Mambo's Toy Collection by author Gladys Kenfack is a delightful children's book full of pages of vivid color, and beautiful illustrations that catch the eye. It incorporates the idea of recycling into the story line, and at the end there is a toy that can...

Waiting For You by Alan Johnson is a story of life-long friendship, love and commitment. It chronicles the life of a group of friends who go their separate ways after graduating from high school. For forty years they keep in touch, supporting each other through...

Murder, politics, small town secrets and a state-wide water shortage draw former Texas Ranger Oswald Nightingale back into action on the orders of the Governor in A Promise of Water by Sharon Scarborough. Sent to accompany the lawyer responsible for getting a reluctant property owner...

In Photogeist by J.K. Battaglia, the city of Justice is plagued by sightings of a ghostly woman who is terrorizing and killing young lovers who have the misfortune to meet her. She is out for revenge and nobody knows who she is and why her...

It’s remarkable that a book this compact can leave you reeling and overwhelmed with sadness at the atrocities one human being can inflict upon another. And when the victims of those atrocities are children who haven’t even hit puberty, as in the case of Yuna...

Friends is a contemporary travel fiction novel written by Gary Hope. Bill was somewhat surprised to hear Allen’s voice on the other end of the line. Allen never called, even though they had literally grown up together and had known each other for decades. As...

Beauty by Lori R. Lopez is about a family's ordinary pit stop gone terribly different. The Aches, who are on their way to see the Grand Canyon, had to make an urgent stop after traveling for hours. They had no choice but to go for...

Hoagie and Katie in Space by Rio Koviak is a delightful tale of two friends. This book begins with Hoagie feeling at home with the capybara herd after being adopted by them. He tells the young ones exaggerated versions of the adventures he has had...

Lily and Lucy by Ed Ehlers is the perfect story for children to read along with their parents. We follow Max and Tucker, two Australian Shepherd dogs, as they go for a walk into the wooded forest with their ‘Daddy’. This is not just every...

Terrorist leaders of the United Islamic State are determined to strike a death blow to their hated enemy America. Having tried a biological attack the year before with some success, they are now even more determined to get it done. Their first step is procuring...

A newlywed couple awakens one morning to find themselves cocooned in spider webs in the horrifying suspense short story Spider Soup by Lori R. Lopez. Jordan and Darcy are newly married and have recently moved into Jordan's Great-Aunt Zinnia's home. When Jordan's eccentric aunt died,...