The Golden Bowl: A Book To Help Children Cope with Grief is a beautiful Christian children’s book by Linda Matesa with illustrations by Oksana Kindzer. This illuminating story sheds light on the difficult subject of grieving and loss gently and lovingly. A mother explains to...

The Art of Conscious Balance: Breaking Free From Your Conditioned Self is an inspirational memoir by Santosh Nambiar. Growing up in a tiny village in the southernmost state of India, Santosh had a first-hand view of the casteism and class differences prevailing in Indian society....

Sunsky has long been perceived as the highest of all the gryphon citizens and was predicted to be the next ruler of Gryphonia. Worrisome dreams added to her anxiety about her approaching courtship and reign. She remained indecisive about crowning Dreamspinner, the mighty opinicus,...

The Magic of Misty Nook, Kitty Kat Rescue by Christine Skippins is Little Frank's Story. Little Frank is a little cat, only four months old and already two lives down. First, he was taken too early from his mum and, second, his humans didn’t look...

Why! How many times in a day do we hear that persistent plea? Children are full of questions, mainly why questions, and want answers. So when Ben takes his daughter, Belle, for a walk in the woods, it’s a challenging but delightful day full of...

Phoebe Chen is an eight-year-old girl who loves to solve mysteries. She wants to become a detective like her father. To improve her investigative skills, she reads and rereads Nancy Drew books. Phoebe has two friends, Luana Porcello and Becky Marshal. One day, after finishing...

The Magic of Misty Nook: A Magical Misty Nook Festival by Christine Skippins, the fourth book in the series, is a funny and engaging read for children and adult animal lovers alike. The elves that live in magical Misty Nook love to arrange a festival...

The Stranger's Bed is a psychological thriller by Oliver Sands. It's been three months since Anna Moriarty's best friend and housemate disappeared without a trace. Plagued by grief and guilt, Anna still hasn't given up on her missing friend, even though everyone else seems to...

The Round Prairie Wars by Aden Ross is a mid-century historical fiction novel set in Nebraska, where siblings Jeb and Sam Wilder navigate a frequently nomadic existence through imaginative play. The Wilders park their trailer in Round Prairie, a rural community of staunch religion and...

The Aurora Antidote, the first book of the Aurora Anthology, offers a story that leaves readers eager for the next adventure. ELA Hugh masterfully weaves a tale that transports us into the lives of the resilient Dylan Dubois and the enigmatic Kit. Following a tragic...

In The Galaxy According to Cece, a middle-grade story by Sherry Roberts, Cece Laurence is happy with her group of friends as they prepare for their soccer season and middle school. But her father suddenly upends her life when a university offers him a professorship...

Author Marj Charlier takes us back to the dying days of the Roman Empire in The Candlemaker’s Woman. Melia was sold into slavery by her own tribe as part of the deal to allow her people to move west, away from the hordes advancing from...

This week I’ve been thoroughly engrossed by Charles Paul Collins’ historical novel The Remembering: Of Leather & Stone. A fictional account of the lives of real members of the author's family throughout the ages, this book manages to give a compelling insight into the history...

The Vatican Deal by Michael Balter is part of the Marty and Bo thriller series. Marty and Bo are back with a bang, and this time they are on their way to Italy. They need to close a multi-million-dollar deal with the Vatican, but things...

Kevin J. Parham’s The Vineyard We Knew: A Recollection of Summers on Martha's Vineyard is an engaging memoir of an African-American who spent the summers of his growing up years in what is considered the playground of America’s elite. In the 1930s, Kevin’s grandmother, Carrie,...

The American Deluge by Uri Norwich is a political thriller. There’s a new President in the White House. Before he was sworn in, he snuck in and sat in the Oval Office and tried to feel as though he belonged. The exiting President visited him...

The Day My Teacher Came to Tea by Ruth Whenham was a funny and cute book. Matt has the meanest teacher in the whole school. Because he keeps playing pranks on her, she decides to go for tea at his house in order to talk...

The National Debt Crisis: America's Armageddon by Morris V. Franco is a book on the National Debt crisis and a wake up call to every person to notice what is happening around us. Given that America is considered to be a super power country, many...

The Case of Dr Dude: A Michaela McPherson Mystery is a private sleuth mystery written by Judith Lucci. Michaela was enjoying her retirement from the police force and had finally opened up Biddy’s Irish Pub in honor of her parents. She still remembered sitting in...

The illustrations by Siera Tomczak in The Color of Beauty are very realistic. She adds so many tones, shadows, and highlights that really give contrast and bring the illustrations to life. The poetry or musings on color by Goob are very well written. The author...