The wind was blowing a large silver cloud across the sky just after sunrise. Many raindrops lived inside that cloud until the day they had grown big enough to be part of a storm. Young Maxwell the raindrop could hear the excitement of hundreds of...

The Outside In View Of Uncommon Bostonian: What an Autistic Black Woman Sees by Yvonne Christian is an engaging and powerful story of an autistic black woman diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, and her incredible journey past abuses, both from family circles and society, and how...

Readers are taken into the African jungle where the Congo River flows in The Blue Crocodile by Sarah Case Mamika. Here they meet a rare crocodile who is blue in color instead of green. Everyone is afraid of the Blue Crocodile and he has no...

When Danny returns to New York for a friend's engagement party, he also returns to ghosts of his past. For five years he's been hiding in Florida and from that fateful August night five years ago when his friend, Timmy, drowned during a stupid dare....

Book One of The Demon Door Series: The Sand Prince took me totally by surprise. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was certainly not this rich, textured tale of magic and wonder. I loved it. This is one of the most complex...

Passing Through by Jenny Sundstedt follows Dana as she goes about her daily routine, helping people in limbo deal with their unresolved issues in order to move on to the afterlife. A new and difficult client named Dominic challenges her in ways she never expected....

Road Trip Home (A Bahá'í Vision of Hope) by Steven E. Ellis is an inspirational novel that would appeal most to a mixed audience of adults and young adults interested in tales of hope, religion, and spirituality. Rose is an eighty-three-year-old Alaskan Native who has...

The Crystal Dragon of Nital is the third book in The Dragons of Nital series, written by Vik Walker. When Nathan and his magical ‘cat,’ Zaaz, make their way to Gimblet’s Book Store, they are shocked at what they find. With the store completely...

When sixteen-year-old Audry's father dies, he leaves her in a difficult situation, as she comes under the protection of her elder sister, Alis, and her husband, John. In Roanoke, by Kathryn Sommerlot, John and Alis have determined to make a new beginning and in 1587...

Where We Belong: Time Between is written by Lori W. Duncan. When Addyson Caldwell lands a job as a tour guide, she is delighted. In addition to her being pleased at successfully landing a summer job, she will also be away from home for the...

The Dorm by Terri Weinmann is a young adult fiction novel about coming of age. This is a book that would appeal most to an audience of female young adults who enjoy coming of age novels with a dark feel. Blair Palmer has just begun...

Blood Moon: A Captive’s Tale by Ruth Hull Chatlien is a powerful tale. Part of the strength of this novel is the fact that it is based on a true story and Ruth Hull Chatlien tries her best to be true to that story. And...

The old Val would have been attracted to the new guy at work, but the new Val knows that someone that good looking and charming has to be nothing but trouble, and she’s not going for any of that. She has someone safe and stable...

Flash Tales is a collection of six short stories that provide wonder and entertainment. A beautiful, imaginative illustration by Fleur Camacho on the front cover invites readers to take a look inside. What a Clown Reads is a humorous and thought-provoking story. Author Chess Desalls has...

Bianca is a pampered young lady, but she is also a lady with a caring heart. She never knew her mother and her father is very distant. Little does she know that her pampered existence came at a price and her father is the evil...

After d Dark by Aderonke Moyinlorun is a powerful novel with great psychological undertones, a story of abuse, revenge, and murder. Miki Daniels has suffered a lot from her childhood, including rape. After experiencing an abusive childhood and surviving the worst imaginable form of sexual...

I must admit that these days my mind is very preoccupied with China. I live here and I teach here and I think it is good for everyone when America and China get along. We need to understand each other. America is the largest economy...

I liked The Zeta Grey War: New Recruits by DF Capps. It has a lot of the elements necessary in a good, action based science-fiction, military style novel. The science is good. The aliens are believable. They are not monsters but intelligent beings who happen...

Juggling two worlds at once is hard for any person to do, especially when that person is working for someone who’s impossible to please. In R.J. Castille’s Goddess, Executive Assistant Leila King works for big-time lawyer Gordon Roth, a man who seems content with sabotaging...

Please Love Umma by Gracie Kim is the story of Jenna Kim, an eleven-year-old Korean-American, which is loosely based on some historic events and real life experiences. Jenna Kim is brought up in an atmosphere where she has an overprotective mother and an understanding father....