The Shadow of the Slave Ship by Wendy Leighton-Porter is a whimsical journey through time to eighteenth-century Bristol and London. Slavery is still legal in Britain, although the tide is beginning to turn on public acceptance, and there is a growing movement calling for its...

The Declaration, the Sword & the Spy: Epic Order of the Seven Series, Book 6 is a work of fiction in the historical and animal adventure subgenres. It is intended for younger readers upward and was penned by author Jenny L. Cote with this audiobook...

The Start of Something Lovely is a children’s picture book written by Jean Moore with illustrations by Katie Waugh. It follows the story of Rosy, a middle child who feels anxious about her first day of school. At home, Rosy has been taught the importance...

What happens when a unicorn doesn’t want to be in a unicorn book? In The Worst Unicorn Book in the Whole Entire World, author and illustrator Joey Acker flips the usual sparkly, rainbow-filled narrative upside down—and the result is a hilariously grumpy unicorn who wants...

The Kids’ Book of Worries by Catherine and Jenny Stephenson addresses children’s worries with compassion and understanding. A multitude of ideas and easy-to-implement practices are provided to ease anxiety and calm day-to-day worries. Young readers are encouraged to recognize different emotional states while being assured...

In today’s society, a little bit of kindness goes a long way, and to build kind, safe communities, it is important to teach the next generation about the value of being warm-hearted. In The Kids’ Book of Kindness by author Catherine Stephenson, the definition of...

The Accidental Educator: Life-Defining Stories of Rites and Wrongs by Dr. Eric Reno is a memoir that explores the educational journeys of a professional educator and a lifelong learner. This book stands out for its introspective look into how formative experiences, from childhood through retirement,...

The Composer's Legacy by Michael DeStefano is a beautiful work of fiction, based on a historical personage, that combines the arts with the great skill of storytelling to offer readers an amazing treat. David Whealy is a renowned California music professor who tumbles on an...

Twenty-two-year-old warrior Tara is on a quest to seek a great wizard, Duphrene duLac, who lives in a white tower in the far west. Her task is to give the wizard the knowledge that she inherited from the monks to save the world. It is...

The Last Seven Pages by James Pinnick is an incredible true story of a young man’s journey of faith as he watches helplessly while his wife loses her battle with cancer. This is not a “woe is me, why did this happen to me” kind...

The Joy of Argument: 91 Ways to Get More of What You Want, and Less of What You Don’t is a non-fiction self/help, business/philosophy book written by Albert Navarra. The author presents a definition of the term 'argument', shows how the concept evolved from its...

“The Life Cycles Revolution” by Neil Killion is the kind of book that attracts spiritually attuned people, open-minded individuals, intelligentsia members or “left-field” thinkers like me. The basic premise is that your life changes in 12-year intervals and is marked by Trafalgar Moments (low points...

Thea isn’t quite your average girl. Sure she has the normal teenage girl problems like which clothes to wear and how to make her school uniform more unique and of course there is the fact that her parents just don’t understand her. But there is...

After thirty-six years of serving in the Philadelphia Police Force, Andrew Wolcott Ransunski is appointed chief of the police department in Endora, Pennsylvania, having moved there four years back in search of a slower paced and quieter life. Unfortunately, crime seems to have followed...

The Alphabet: Learned Quickly and Easily is a guide to pronouncing the letters of alphabet, as well as how to draw them. Teacher and author Brenda G. Martin has developed a method for teaching the alphabet that teachers and parents can use to help children...

The Legend of the Dragon Child is the first book in a young adult fantasy series by Cheryl Rush Cowperthwait and details the legend that is to bring two warring races together. Kaida is a young girl raised by dragons, until she is snatched from...

The Lebensborn Alliance, Book II is a work of fiction set during the opening of the Civil Rights movement in the late 1950s and was penned by author Joyce Yvette Davis. Set eleven years after the events of book one, we discover the continuation of...

Every so often, there are books that grab you at the beginning and hold you spellbound to the finish. The Legacy Letters by Carew Papritz is such a novel. A man and a woman have a misunderstanding and the man goes his separate way, uninformed...

The Little Firefly, by Sheri Fink, is an adorable tale about a young firefly who longs to shine. He watches the older fireflies glow and dance and play exciting games of Fire Tag. As he watches, he dreams of the day he will be able...

The tales in The Princess Fables have a special meaning. Author Marc Clark’s young daughter did not want to go to school, so he told her these stories while getting her ready for school. It was later when he wrote the stories down that this...