Billie Shakespeare by Cathy McGough is about a mouse who has a dream of becoming an actor. Billie and her three-generation mouse family live under the theater, so she can watch plays from under the seat. She has a Hamlet costume and a sword and...

Lots of Love and a Little Nonsense by Lyn Kulow is a whimsical and colorful series of mini-adventures told through verse in the style of nursery rhymes. These delightful rhymes promote a child’s imagination, their understanding of love, and spark them to find genuine happiness...

Native Companions is the first book in the Dreamtime Mysteries by Jenni Barnett. This extraordinary historical tale is set in Australia and follows two timelines: modern-day Rex Graham, a mixed-race Indigenous anthropology student, and the stories about his Aboriginal grandmother’s people. Rex, who suffered in...

Better Endings is the second book in the Tammy Mellows Series by Tina Hogan Grant; an engrossing novel with a strong female protagonist. Having had her share of heartache and abuse, Tammy Mellows finally escapes from Steven, the heroin-addicted father of her son. Now she...

Ryan McDonnell's acting career is falling apart in Delancey Stewart's Happily Ever His. He's not a bad actor, just a victim of badly-written films. Juliet Manchester is dubbed as America's sweetheart, the hottest actress in Hollywood today. But she's having a rough time after divorcing...

Images of America: Dunmore is a nonfiction historical book written by Stephanie Longo. Longo has been the Dunmore municipal beat reporter for Go Lackawanna, a position she admits some journalists dread. For her, however, the assignment has enabled her to trace her family’s hometown since...

Lashonda's Book of Poems and Songs is wonderful for addressing emotional situations such as love, nostalgia, the beautiful things in life, and finding courage in oneself through poetry. Lashonda Beauregard splendidly uses harmonious poetic elements to orchestrate short poems, the representation of her own experiences....

Brotherhood of Secrets & Lies by Lashonda Beauregard, the second book in The Drama & Secrets Series, takes readers into the tense and secretive world of Bayoutown University. This standalone novella follows Shawn, a freshman athlete, as he navigates the campus's fraternity politics while grappling...

Boon on the Moon is a work of children’s fiction focused on science fiction and space travel, penned by author John Huddles as part of The Booniverse. The central titular character is Byron ‘Boon’ Barnett, a highly imaginative boy who is often told off for...

Meet Vinny the vegetarian vulture who lived in a verdant valley on the verge of a volcano in the storybook Vinny the Vegetarian Vulture: A fun read-aloud illustrated tongue-twisting tale brought to you by the letter V by Sally Lee Baker. He went to the...

The Man Who Figured Out God? by John Fischer is an intriguing, well-plotted and well-written novel with visionary themes. It begins when Jason received the devastating news about the death of his friend in a fatal accident. The details indicate that it happened during an...

Have you ever wondered what you want to be when you grow up? Well, Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers by Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneideman gives an in-depth look at twenty-six different STEM careers that use STEM superpowers: observation, imagination and curiosity, problem-solving, collaboration,...

Control is the third collection of poems written by prolific poetess Kara Petrovic, preceded by Beyond Rock Bottom and Forget-me-not. In another deeply personal, soul-baring compilation, Petrovic delivers over two dozen free verse poems divided into three distinct sections, each titled Methods of Coping and...

Path of the Spirit Runner: Book 2 of the Rootstock Saga is an epic fantasy by L.H. Leonard. Ten years have passed since King Walter abdicated the throne of Innis and the northern clans retreated in the face of the forces supporting his sister. But...

Invisible, as Music by Caren J. Werlinger is an engaging, character-driven narrative with hints of romance. At almost forty, Henrietta Cochran is a loner, a woman who still suffers the effects of polio contracted in 1945. Physically limited, she pursues her artistic passion, and that...

The King and the Quirky: A Memoir of Love, Marriage, Domesticity, Feminism, and Self by Heather Siegel is one hell of a memoir, one of the best I have read about marriage and what it takes to make it work, and also about the journey...

Pursuit into Darkness is the second book in the War of Destiny series by Theresa Van Spankeren. This vampire novel takes place in 1582, in London, and focuses on the main character, Julia, and the vampire Resistance group, the Ka-tet. Julia and her lover, Adam,...

Let's meet Chicken Lips, the most energetic calf the farmer had ever seen in the story Chicken Lips by Kristy Hamby. He liked swinging his head back and forth so that the bell around his neck chimed and loved doing giant belly-flops into the pond....

Northern Wolf is the first novel in the Northern Wolf Series by Daniel Greene. While the whole country was ravaged by the Civil War, Johannes Wolf was kept out of the war because of a busted leg. However, he inveigled his way into the Union...

Grief: A Dark, Sacred Time by Darrelyn Gunzburg discusses surviving loss and finding strength and meaning in the dire moments when we traverse the dark waters of grief. No matter our status in life, we do get hit by grief when we lose a loved...