Maverick's Endeavors: Journey to the Alumia is a young adult epic fantasy novel by Christine Finch and Janay McTigue. Sixteen-year-old Maverick does not consider himself a warrior, much to the chagrin of his father, Dran. While trying to retrieve medicinal leaves for his ailing grandfather...

What Do You Do? When the Life of a Loved One Has Come to an End by Everly Cade is a beautiful picture book for young children based on losing a loved one. A young swan named Crane is suffering from the loss of his...

People who laugh tend to live longer. Not only that, but in over 40 years of marriage counseling, I have never seen a couple headed toward divorce who remembered how to have fun and laugh together. There is an old saying that laughter is good...

Island Eight is a work of fiction in the fantasy subgenre and it serves as the first installment of the Ataraxia Series. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by M.Z. Medenciy. The story follows the protagonist Sophia, an...

Snoodles in Space: A Snoodle, the Zoodle Kidoodles, and One Happy Schmoodle by Steven Joseph is a humorous book in the sci-fi genre for children from 6 to 10 years of age. Set in the future, a great scientific breakthrough awaits humanity. Herbie Snoodleman will...

Undercover Mage by Kaaren Sutcliffe is the first book in the Mage and the Bird Caller fantasy trilogy. The story follows the young spy mage, Everand, who is sent on a covert mission to Riverfall to investigate incidents of sabotage before a festival of dragon...

R. Peter Ubtrent’s first book of the Mordiar Opus series is Mordiar’s Hymn. The Confederation had pronounced Mordiar as a war criminal after he threatened to go public with a massacre. He followed orders to destroy four transport ships with dangerous chemicals. The ships held...

Wight's Wraith by Kevin A. Davis is the story of Ahnjii Fate, a woman from another planet who finds herself on Earth, specifically Tallahassee. She has tried to make a life for herself, making friends and finding a job at a law office, but she...

Saturn Conundrum by Dan Bishop is a science fiction novel about astronauts in space that presents a very realistic “what if” scenario. Rae Ann Chavez and two other astronauts are on a historic mission to be the first astronauts to set foot on Mars. On...

Kevin A. Davis shows us a world that is hidden within our world in Atlanta’s Guide to Cryptids. Kristen, a witch, and the latest recruit to the Department of Realm Containment, has no time to adjust to her new crew. They get a case on...

Sword and Mirror by Melissa McGehee is a captivating fantasy for children that follows the journey of Princess Moray in the Kingdom of Velis. In this kingdom, regardless of their background, children undergo ascension on their 10th birthday. During this event, they discover their unique...

Colony's Dawn by N. Joseph Glass commences with Raffaella discovering a secret chat embedded in the data logs she was required to log. This leads to a meeting with a secret action group that believes the rules constraining colony life are based on propaganda. Then...

Forged by Light and Fire is an epic fantasy graphic novel by Rommel Ortega, Ranica Meralpis, and April Sabbaluca. Before the creation of humans, djinns and djanns roamed the world of the lower realm, forever engaged in a neverending war, until the advent of Jann...

Mirror Image by Rachel E. Croxton is a chilling opening to the Saffron and Locke Saga series, blending family drama with supernatural horror. The story revolves around Saffron and Locke, a divorced couple estranged for five years, during which Saffron has been separated from their...

Second Life by James Sniechowski follows two intertwined couples, one from 1505 and the other from 2005. Emile Chevet, a priest, and Justine Foirere are imprisoned and tortured during the 1505 Papal Inquisition for heresy and fornication. In 2005 New York, Jessica Fortin gets into...

Stormy Normy Finds His Forever Home is a charming children's book written by Leisa Fail, with illustrations by Amy Rennie. Set in the Australian outback, it tells the tale of a Brumby colt named Stormy Normy. Born during a thunderstorm to a mare named Midnight,...

Linda, a dedicated teacher, retires after 35 years of hard work. She is heartbroken that the American education system puts too much unnecessary pressure on students and teachers instead of nurturing the human spirit and building interpersonal relationships. Linda's health starts to deteriorate. She is...

It all started with her decision to move to Mars, a colony of Earth, to be with her husband. Little does Michelle Arensen, a linguist from Earth, know that nothing would ever be the same again. Without warning, a faceless race of aliens raids 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...

Entangling is the first book in the Kirin Lane Series by Kelley Griffin. Kirin adjusted to life after her husband passed away from cancer. When Kirin receives a phone call about her father, she is plunged into confusion as she navigates his funeral and the...