In Kitty Ballou's Sanctuary Zoo by Cindy L. Shirley, Kitty Ballou had been a supporter of animal welfare since childhood. While other girls were playing with dolls, Kitty was rescuing abandoned and neglected animals. When her ambition to become a veterinary surgeon was achieved, Kitty...

Meet William who was happy being alone and in his room in the story How I Made A Friend (My Crazy Stories Series) by Daniel Georges. He liked being in his room and making masks of clowns, pirates, and monsters. He liked to wake up...

What would you choose between a quiet private life and a public life that can be very rewarding but also risky? I think that we have asked ourselves this question at least once in our lives. Richard Robbins asks his readers the same question in...

Exile and Kingdom Come: Elysium by Gregory Wallace features a collection of poems with themes of surrealism, human encounters, nature, perception, and a lot more. The poems are divided into three parts, each comprising poems that are short and succinct, written in a style that...

In Rinn's Crossing by Russell Heath, as Rinn van Ness, a local Alaskan man, slips quietly away from a crime scene and into the forest, he is unaware that a man is about to die. When his former lover, Kit Olinsky, a conservation advocate, is...

Carol Sabala, a private investigator, is hired for an unusual assignment. Wealthy Lucille Barnhart’s daughter, Megan Melquist, has left the country for Cuba. Lucille simply wants to know if she is still alive. Megan’s cancer is now metastasized, and she plans to try an alternative...

On Ravyn’s Wing is a work of romantic fiction in the paranormal and time travel genres, and was penned by author Mary-Lynn Cordero. Forming the opening novel in the Sidesteps Through Time series, this first story focuses on history professor Farrel McQuaid, a mild-mannered man...

Art Drentlau captured my interest in Choose Again! You Are Far More Than You Have Come To Believe! with his claim that by reading his book, you will not only advance your own consciousness but the consciousness of the world. I took that to mean...

Solar Dividends is a work of non-fiction focusing on energy production, penned by author Robert Stayton, which focuses on the concept of ‘How Solar Energy Can Generate a Basic Income For Everyone on Earth’. Bringing economics and social issues together, the text explains the idea...

It was an experience of joy, sadness and of family love that made reading Heart of Steel by Kevin D. Miller unforgettable. We meet young Stanley Pulchalski, his brothers, sisters, mom, and dad and share in their life experiences right alongside them. Heart of Steel...

When Kit Kat is adopted by the middle-aged, childless Anna, what Kit Kat wants most, apart from love, is an identity...her own, including her sad past as the abandoned, unwanted Elektra, daughter of a Greek prostitute. But while Anna looks after all Kit Kat’s physical...

Anand went down the stairs, dragging his backpack. He wiped his eyes and let out a groggy yawn as he made his way to the kitchen for his breakfast. He was grumpy as he climbed onto the chair for breakfast and his mother reminded him...

Kydee by Dawn Doig, with color illustrations by Savannah Horton, is a picture book about a kitten found shivering on a busy street in freezing winter weather. Kydee is only eight weeks old. She’s lost, scared, shivering in the cold, and wondering if her mother...

Long Valley is a work of dark thriller fiction with fantasy and horror elements and was penned by author Robert E. Kreig. The title comes from the small town in which the story is set: a valley surrounded by snow-capped mountains where peace and harmony...

Following her last book, Red Blood, Yellow Skin: A Young Girl’s Survival in War-torn Vietnam, this book, Red Blood, Yellow Skin: Endless Journey, begins towards the end of the 1960s as Linda Loan Thi Baer prepares for her marriage to Don, an American Air Force...

Jay Got Married by James Robinson Jr. is a first-person narrative full of fascinating, entertaining, short, non-fiction essays with accompanying hilarious pictures to drive the humor home. The short narratives can range from barely remembered theme papers from fifty years ago (with funny interpretations of...

Bank Street: A Novel by Peter Cavalier is a mesmerizing story of love, a tale that features an interesting cast of characters and set against the backdrop of a world undergoing strong social changes. Twenty-two-year-old Jerry Flanagan joins a group of young and passionate trainees...

Songbirds and Stray Dogs by Meagan Lucas is a Southern fiction novel that revolves around two characters who have both found themselves in situations that feel impossible, particularly at the tender early twenty-something ages. Jolene has been smacked down by life since her earliest childhood,...

Amidst Alien Stars is a work of action-packed science fiction penned by author Clayton Graham, which forms the second book in the Milijun Series. In this thrilling sequel, we find protagonist Laura Sinclair and her son Jason as the victims of abduction, part of a...

The Jolly Jangles are magical creatures that look like stuffed toys. But toys they are not! It’s winter and the Jolly Jangles enjoy playing in the snow. When their friend Rudolph (Rudy) the reindeer appears, they invite him to join in the fun. But he’s...