Sam Lerner tries to return to the comfort of his roots after the death of his wife, but finds that things are not always what you remember in Inside Sam Lerner by Gwen Banta. Depending more and more on alcohol to ease his pain, Sam...

Where is Opie? by Steve and Dannie Maiolo is the first of four delightful books packaged together based on one continuing story. The four books, series of the Little Red Barn Books, are beautifully illustrated by Mickey Eves. The series is comprised of Where is...

Balance is book one in The Amped Series and I can say that it’s a great promise of what readers should expect in the entire series. The opening takes readers on a rollicking ride into the hearts of two powerful and genuinely flawed characters. Aidan...

Alex’s Adventures in Wonderland: I Wonder about My Family is a children's learning adventure written by Lia Bebelia and illustrated by Christine P. Flores. Alex is a little boy who learns karate, loves to cook, wants to learn to swim and loves reading. While reading...

Breathe. Taste. Savor. Smile. Mind to Mouth: A Busy Chick’s Guide to Mindful Mealtime Moments by Heather Sears is a book for all readers as it discusses the topic of food and what it means to nourish oneself with real food. The author’s journey about...

Mystery at Point Beach: Pirate's Booty by Kate Jungwirth and Deborah Ann Erdmann takes the young reader on a journey through time as it notes some fascinating details about pirates, their lives and what that may have been like. The story is an enchanting mystery...

Go-Cart Gertie is an action and adventure, social issues graphic book for children and preteens written and illustrated by Cindy Shirley. Ten-year-old Gertie wished that she could hang out with her big brother and his friends. She was tired of going to school and coming...

A.D. Pritchard’s young adult novel, The Pebble Champion, tells the poignant story of fifteen-year-old Chris in the aftermath of surviving the car crash that killed his mother. Sent by Auntie Wendy to live on the Isle of Wight with the father he has never known,...

A Song for Birdie: A Child's Journey with Autism is a social issues story book for children written and illustrated by Cindy Shirley. Birdie Williams was in the second grade now, and her teacher, Mrs. Andrews, wanted to speak with her parents. Birdie wasn’t really...

Kinetic: Psychic Crossroads, Book 3 is a paranormal romance novel written by Anna Durand. Sean Vandenbrook’s first meeting out-of-doors in several months was faltering along with quite a bit of concern emanating from David Ranson, his mentor, friend and sometime surrogate father. David and Grace...

Send Packs! by David Paul Kutchinski is an exciting foray into American history and those momentous facets that were scintillating episodes of bravery and courage during the tumultuous period of the American Civil War and its immediate aftermath. The Union forces fought the rebellious Confederates...

It All Comes Back to You by Beth Duke is a deceptively simple story about Ronni Johnson, a licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, who meets Violet, a glamorous and vivacious elderly resident at Fairfield Springs, an Assisted Living residence. Violet, who captivates audiences just...

Hamartia by Raquel Rich is a science fiction story with strong plot points, a powerful conflict, and characters that readers will love. Grace's son Jordan is dying from a terrible disease, one that tears the soul from the body before killing the person. It is...

Incompatible with Nature: A Mother's Story by Tracie Frank Mayer is a poignantly written, engrossing, and hugely inspirational story, a memoir that brilliantly captures the essence of a mother’s love, redefining what it means to be a parent. Afro-American Tracie Frank Mayer doesn’t speak German....

Jake Hedgehog loves to play with his friends, especially his best friend Sam. They play together all the time and have sleepovers during weekends. One day Sam gets a new phone and is busy with it. Jake wants to play with him but it seems...

Emma and Sonnet, two look-alike girls, are suddenly transported into each other’s lives due to identical, ongoing, local mystical storms when each teenage girl enters the same closet space a century apart. Culture and identity shocks initially wreak havoc for them, but as they each...

Erica had always felt protected and cherished by Dante from when she was still a child, always making her feel as though she mattered. Her respect for Dante grew into longing for him until the moment he broke her heart. She ran away to Paris,...

I first discovered the concept of submissive and dominant in Fifty Shades of Grey, but Master Me by Sayara St. Clair takes the concept to a new level, introducing a conflict of wills that defines the complexity and the sophistication in character development. A sizzling...

MOMcarcerated is a humorous fiction novel about aging written by M.R. Abbott. Hedwig Elisabeth Dorner, or Mom, was a sprightly and relatively agile woman of seventy-six years, who still loved to take care of her garden, itself a glowing testament to the skill and green...

In Mystery at Point Beach: Alien Invasion by Kate Jungwirth and Deborah Ann Erdmann, a small group of mystery-solving kids gets a phone call about the possibility of alien activity. As Dominic, Forest and Sailor find clues that make the mystery much deeper than just...