When Strange Calls You Home by Kelly Punton is an excellent collection of twelve short stories. A teenage girl tries to figure out what she wants from her somewhat dull life. A man takes a chance on an epic space adventure. Another man struggles with...

Kill for You by Ayden K. Morgen places you right in the middle of a bloody war between two of the deadliest gangs in the Los Angeles area. Faith Donovan is dazed when the shooting starts, tearing up the bar in which she works. She...

Not Everything Happens For A Reason: Finding Peace in the Gray Areas of a Polarized World is a work of non-fiction in the self-help genre, written for adults by author Rebecca Janes, LMHC. This concise but information-packed guidebook focuses on the idea of retaining some...

Meet the Number Nibblers, written by R.E. Hoskins with illustrations by R.E. Hoskins and Jody Dawaliby. The number nibblers are the creatures that live off a diet of specific number-shaped foods. For example, Neo eats only ones and Venes eats only sevens, Wot only eats...

STAZR The World of Z is the first book in The Dawn of Athir series by Dr. Anay Ayarovu, and it is an epic fantasy that features Lael, the unusual protagonist who finds himself caught up in a mystery that is about to blow his...

Long Nose Legacy: A Dog's Story of Royalty and Loyalty by J.G. Eastman is a modern-day fable about the adventures of royal Russian Wolfhounds, specifically the sisters Carnegie and Madison. As grandchildren of Tresor and children of Gracie, both prize-winning dogs, they are a privileged...

At some point in our lives and on several occasions, we all need help - whether it's a listening ear, words of wisdom or some type of guidance. In the self-help book, Writing Through the Muck: Finding Self and Story for Personal Growth, Healing,...

Before Pearl Harbor: China, FDR and the Plot to Bomb Japan by Michael Lemish is a well-researched and lucidly written account of a historic moment in WWII. The author opens this narrative by offering readers a glimpse of an ordinary day in Pearl Harbor, early...

The Last Goodbye is the first book in the Seaside Sisters Series by Kay Lyons. This is the story of Dominic and Ireland as they realize how love has a way of coming into their lives without them looking for it. Ireland Cohen is a...

Andres and His Rubik’s Cube Madness is a children’s non-fiction storybook written by Andrea Alvarez and illustrated by Ana Sebastian. Andres was a boy who became fascinated with the Rubik’s cube when he saw other children solving it. He decided he wanted to learn how...

Crisis Interrupted is a work of non-fiction that offers parenting guidance and was penned by author Lucy Pritzker. Subtitled as “A Parent's Guide to Residential Treatment for Children, Teens and Young Adults”, this concise and specific guide takes readers through an exploration of how residential...

There are some pleasures of which one never grows tired...like getting stuck into a new book only to find you can’t put it down until there are no more pages to read. For me, The Alaskan Alibi by Stephen Frost was one of those pleasures....

Namesakes by Miriam Cumming is A Wicce Novel. Medusa isn’t the prettiest girl in school and, desperate to reverse a curse, she turns to Wicca, joining her best friend’s coven. Wicca gives Medusa what she has been looking for and draws her deeper into a...

The Binding of the Three Roses is a work of fantasy fiction in a quest style subgenre and was penned by author Jason Hubbard. Written for mature audiences due to the presence of some explicit language, sexual situations and graphic violence, this novel brings The...

Thriving After Sexual Abuse: Breaking Your Bondage to the Past and Living a Life You Love by Denise Bossarte is the heartrending memoir of the author's story, that of being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and overcoming incest by her maternal grandfather. The book...

Did you know there is a flower called the balloon flower? It’s so named because it puffs up like a balloon and then pops open. But can it talk? Alex thinks she hears them talking. Only she’s not quite sure what their “Pop, pop, bop”...

Wildchilds by Eugenia Melian is the story of a woman who is forced to confront her past if she wants her future to be happy with her daughter. Iris rebuilt her life as a sculptor and left her past behind in Paris. Living in California...

The Woeful Wager is the first book in The Race to the Blackened Nevers series by Douglas Bain. What do you think would happen when the worlds of gods, mortals, and fantastic creatures intertwine? Chaos! Everyone wants something, everyone needs something and there isn’t much...

The Warning Signs by Terrence Loftus is a terrifying tale set in the future. Robots are everywhere, even assisting in surgeries in the hospital where Dr. Jack Hyland works. He has a story to tell, a story of how the robots became autonomous, working...

How Our Skin Sparkles: A Growth Mindset Children's Book for Global Citizens About Self Acceptance And Diversity by Aditi Wardhan Singh is a great story that teaches children about diversity. A young boy wonders why he looks different from so many of his classmates, and...