Hero Learns About Diversity is a children’s story written by Anita Polly and illustrated by Julie Ibarra. Hero is surrounded by people with different tastes, preferences, features, and backgrounds in his community. One morning, on the way to school, Hero confuses a man’s home country...

Schnooks, Crooks, Liars and Scoundrels: A Field Guide to Identifying Political Buffoons by Gene Berardelli is an informative and thought-provoking nonfiction guide to exploring the intricacies of government and politics. The author explores the impact of factors like derision and ridicule on American political culture....

Through the Witches Stone by Scott A. Johnson introduces Hadley, who wasn’t so sure about spending the entire summer with Grandma. Isolated, out in the woods, with no cell service, no television, and no neighbors, it sounded, quite simply, bleak, not to mention boring. It...

Is love the solution to our problems? Can good intentions build a solid moral compass? A Compromising Position by Diane Merrill Wigginton is a romantic suspense story reflecting the change that love can bring into someone's life. We learn about Catherine Lawrence, a newly appointed...

In the summer of 2018, Josh Wood decided to part ways with his old Ford van and put an ad on Craigslist, leading to an overwhelming response from people that inspired him to recount anecdotes about his own family and life through his book Struggle...

Graceful Agony: An Intimate Memoir of Living with Fibro & Chronic Fatigue is a heart-wrenching memoir by Debra Morgan. Living with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, Morgan takes us on an intimate journey of how the disease has transformed her life. Raised by her grandmother and...

Flight attendant Lauren Cooper is approached by a military officer, Major Chris Thomason, and three Ukrainian children at Frankfurt Airport. The major asks her to take the children to America and keep them safe while he recovers from life-threatening wounds. Lauren promises to protect the...

Moojag and the Lost Memories is the sequel to N.E. McMorran's award-winning sci-fi novel, Moojag and the Auticode Secret. After reversing the code of the Gajoomstik robots with her friends, thirteen-year-old Nema travels back to the underground world of Gajoomdom to bring her brother Moojag...

In The School of Failure: A Story About Success by Rosie J. Pova, some of the fairy-tale characters in this account fail to measure up to expectations during auditions. Those that were not successful are taken to the School of Failure. While trying to...

The Texan’s Favor is a historical romance by D. K. Deters. In Texas in the year 1877, Katlin (Kat) Collins and Jake Fontaine have a chance meeting in which she saves him in a shootout against three outlaws - one of whom had killed Jake's...

Mason, The Blue Boy Puppy by Millie Donofrio is a children's picture book about friendship and finding a forever home. When Melissa gets a blue and white-furred dog for her birthday, she is excited and names him Mason. The two became instant best friends, spending...

Mohsen Estesnaei shares his mystical understanding of overcoming poverty. His book—The Depth of Vision: Screw Up Poverty with This Vision—presents the advice of several mystics, especially Rumi, the famous 13th-century Persian poet, and mystic, for those who do not know. Mohsen records a group of...

The Lodger by Robert E. Kearns is about a recently graduated woman, Alice Foley, who accepts a position in Dublin. The trouble was finding suitable accommodation there. Her friends warned her that it might be a nightmare. Alice struggles for a while but eventually finds...

Lady of the Plantation by Adrian Heflin is an extraordinary story of love, slavery, survival, and a craving for freedom. It showcases the pain and harsh realities of living a life of oppression on a tobacco plantation. Sylvia's story starts near Charlottesville, Virginia, on the...

Sol Luckman has eloquently written a witty, insightful memoir in Musings From a Small Island: Everything Under the Sun. As an art major, I thoroughly enjoyed Sol’s humor and philosophical thoughts on the elusive purpose of art and his expression of life on his small...

Using the rule of nines, she estimated his burns at 80 percent. Not much could be done for him apart from a generous dose of morphine. When Cathy held his hand, the skin on his palm sloughed off. Earlier during orientation, she had done an...

In the paranormal mystery Whatever Happened to Emmeline? by Nicole Schubert, Clara is haunted by recurring dreams, suffers from severe asthma attacks, and is emotionally weakened by infertility and loss. Clara leans on therapist Dr. Goldberg for support in all of this, as well as...

Charlie the Champion by K.R. King is a story about hard work and a mindset change written for a young audience. In the African savannah, Charlie the Cheetah watches his father win races and daydreams that he could one day win one too. However, he...

The Chancer is a comedy by Fiona Graham. Donnie, who was raised on a farm near a tiny Irish village, had dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Donnie’s younger sister was the only member of the family who thought that he could succeed as an...

In Call Her Janie by S.R. Fabrico, Lizzie Levine thought she had the life she wanted. She was a busy executive with successful projects, and she loved her boss—both at work and in private—and he showered her with gifts and attention. However, when she found...