Boy 1124562 is one of hundreds and hundreds of Boys that follow the same routine day after day, always wanting to be Good Boys and obey the cold steel Nurses. Life is dull and uniformity is the goal – to be a Good Boy you...

Blue Speaks Eternally is a fiction work by Victoria Wagner. It's the story of a blue whale named Kip, who is a young adult traveling with his pod, or family, from their winter grounds near La Jolla, California, up along the coast, to the arctic...

We Whisper: And Other Poems is a touching collection of poetry by a gay black American author, Cedric Jones. Cedric is a talented writer and several themes are addressed simply and poignantly. The poem “I am more” is a stark and beautiful work where the...

Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project by Daniel P. Douglas is a thriller with a science fiction twist. William Harrison used to work for the FBI. Now a private investigator, he is on surveillance one night, watching a cheating wife, when he spots something strange...

Activate Your Passion, Create Your Career by Madison Hildebrand is a powerful memoir/self-help/how-to guide. Most people know Madison as the handsome and sweet Real Estate Broker on Bravo TV’s “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles”, but what you may not know is included in the book....

The Death You Deserve is the first book in Wither The Waking World, a fantasy series by Jonathan Techlin. Its central character is Theel, a lowly squire who desperately wants to be in control of his own life. For now, at least, the orphaned Theel...

In Chances and Choices, Ann Omasta brings us two books that follow the complicated love story of Abigail Brown and two manly hunks, Sam and Seth. Abby is not your run-of-the-mill girl. She is 28 years old and is already divorced. Some bad decisions of...

Have You Ever? is a picture book filled with outrageously funny sentences and illustrations. I can guarantee that you have not even thought about the hilariously crazy situations that this book presents. For example, can you honestly say that a toupee-wearing tortoise taunting a tarantula...

There are so many tales and novels out there about meta-humans. I have read or watched most of them. The best of these tales are awesome, but since I read so many such tales I often find myself disappointed. Yet, I keep buying them as...

Cicada Spring by Christian Galacar is a story of suspense set in 1979, Heartsridge, Massachusetts. An ordinary day in the lives of ordinary people, until 15-year-old Kara Price stumbles home, following a brutal attack and rape. The perpetrator? A highly public figure in the town,...

First, a disclaimer: I have read other Tara Woolpy books and I absolutely love them, the town of Lacland and this author. And I must say, Midnight Supper at the Rise and Shine did not disappoint me in the least. Follow the story of former...

Seven Weeks to Forever is a young adult romantic paranormal fantasy written by Jennifer Farwell. Cassidy knows that she'll be dying yet again in another seven weeks. She's living in the house in Los Angeles that her parents left her, far from the Boston home...

In the cozy mystery Killer Kung Pao by Patrice Lyle, we accompany Dr. Piper Meadows to Florida for a three-day body, mind, and spirit expo. The expo is intended for spiritual/psychic types, and not for someone like the good Dr. Meadows, who is a naturopathic...

Puzzle Trees is a young adult mystery written by Thom Mark Shepard. Joe Sheffield is a freshman in high school. He's pretty much on his own in school now that his best friends, the Brill twins, moved away and his other best friend, Dave, became...

In The Outworlds: War Torrent by Daniel P. Douglas, Zy is looking forward to getting old enough to start service to the others of his bipedal, reptilian race called Angorals. That is until he stumbles on a spy from a rival moon. Sekkalan Angorals launch...

Child of Blackwen (An Artemis Ravenwing Novel Book 1) by Melanie Rodriguez is an epic young adult fantasy about the half human/half vampire Artemis of the fantasy world of Arrygn. Although Artemis is half human/half vampire, she was raised by her late mother's friends, an...

The Great Time Lock Disaster by C. Lee McKenzie is a charming, fast-paced middle grade novel with lots of magic and mayhem. Pete Riley is not a very good wizard. He has trouble with spells and, during a magic lesson with a witch named Harriet,...

Provence, a region in France that stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Alps, features a temperate climate that attracts the rich and famous and has done for centuries. There is a lot of history in the area, many interesting vistas to view, and historic...

Mission: Tomorrow is a novel-length collection of short stories compiled by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, which center on the continuing theme of developments in space exploration. Toeing that interesting line where science fiction often becomes science fact, these nineteen very different but equally accomplished tales take...

Artemis Ravenwing, the rightful heir to the throne of Blackwen City, struggles to accept her dhampir heritage as she plots to confront Arlina, who murdered her mother to usurp the title of Mistress of Blackwen. Artemis and her allies are heading to Westyron, a human-run...