Shagoon by Victoria Ventris Shea is a sweeping historical novel of life in an Alaskan Tlingit village in the eighteenth century just as the scourge of indigenous people, the colonizers and priests, were first arriving in their lands to change their way of life forever...

It is the year 1728, and piracy has been outlawed by the government of the day. The members of that storied profession are either dead, in jail, or on the run. Casper, a former pirate, finds himself on an abandoned island, one of only two...

Teenage orphan Maia is Vandella’s main character. After losing her parents while she was a child, she was raised by her grandmother. Maia had never been in a relationship and was looking for her true love—someone who would genuinely care for her without any other...

What exactly is reality? How do we interpret the world around us? Are we perceiving the world accurately, or are we viewing it through faulty lenses? If you've ever experienced these thoughts, this book is for you. Welcome to Our Real Matrix is Tom Arant's...

Too many children don’t like who they are. They don’t like the color of their eyes, the color of their skin, or how tall or short they are. Brown Skin, Curly Hair, I Love Being Me! by Paula Swearingen tells the story of a young...

Just a Touch Away by Jae affirms the power of touch as a primal need and as a gift of love. You’ve heard about unusual jobs before, and Hannah Martin has one. She works as a professional cuddler, occupying a weird spot in her clients’...

Timothy by Rosemary O Sheppard covers the first four decades of Timothy's life. From the day he was born in London to a single mother during the Second World War, he knew himself to be special, very special, and with God as his father the...

Larry Lockridge’s Out of Wedlock is part of the Enigma Quartet series. Jess Freeman has spontaneous eidetic imagery as psychiatrists would call it. He will disconnect and go into a trance for hours to escape reality. He also has terrible nightmares that make him scream...

Do Nothing: A Griffin Knight Murder Mystery Thriller by Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. is the first short story in what promises to be a fascinating and gritty series of crime stories involving this protagonist, Homicide Detective Griffin Knight. When Griffin is called to the scene...

A Crime Story: A Mother-Daughter Cozy Mystery by Richard E. LaMotte is a light-hearted thriller about a mother and daughter who get stuck in a small town with a murder mystery on their way to Hollywood. Clair and Mindy decide to start investigating the unsolved...

Little Toy Car is a powerful drama based on the life experiences of author Gabe Oliver. If truth is stranger than fiction, then this autobiographical tale will certainly make you think about the dark side of humanity and the spark of hope on the horizon....

Ann Weiser Cornell's 21 Days to Better Boundaries is a daily companion intended to help the reader engage in a healthier thought process to aid in establishing better-defined boundaries as they learn more about their thoughts and feelings. After defining terms that would be...

Hop Lola Hop: A Yummy Market Day Adventure by Kathy Urban is a delightful children’s picture book about a little girl named Ella and her stuffed bunny Lola that take market day by storm. As they check off the items they need on their list,...

From Where I Sit: A Collection of Short Fiction by Ray LeCara Jr is a touching anthology of five thought-provoking short stories. Titles include Scent of Jupiter, A Life Lost Living, Goldie, One Night in Bangkok, and Old Lang Syne. As the titles indicate, the...

It's natural for all humans to think about where we come from. Especially for adopted children, it can be pretty difficult to come to terms with their own identity, making them wonder who they are. How I Wonder Where You Are is a moving picture...

DanSing Pancakes’ Healthy Choices Musical Story by Joe Coleman is a high-spirited children’s picture book that will have you singing and dancing wherever you are when you read the story. The illustrations by Aubrey Morgan Foster, Tracy Foster Pyke, and Tafgraphics Design Studio Inc. are...

Melinda Deir-Boyette has authored an interesting book in Wake Up Sleeping Church! The title is intriguing. I agree that the modern church is asleep at the wheel and needs to be awakened. However, as you read this book, you may agree or disagree with...

Seven Ghosts is the final installment of the Matt Preston Novel series by Paul Shadinger. Matt Preston was enjoying his hard-earned but humdrum retirement when a newspaper report of a hit-and-run incident involving his former friend and fellow "ghost" Trey embroils him in a deep...

The life of a giraffe is complicated. The dangers that they face are increasing to the point that they are threatened with extinction. That's why Claire Ishi Ayetoro shares A Leaf for Bongani so that children can understand nature's challenges and learn from them. Bongani...

Possibly one of the best descriptors of the self-help entrepreneurial book Business Start Up: Everything You Need to Know by Ted Courtenay can be found in chapter twenty: “A company is only as strong as its weakest link, and if that link is weak, the...