The Wolf and the Lion: A Medieval Novel is the first entry in The Chronicles of the Coin by Alaric Longward. It is a powerful tale with characters of substance, set against the backdrop of feudal Germany in the medieval era, a society characterized by...

Shannon and Dana are sisters, and even though Shannon is older, her younger sister, who is sixteen and acts sometimes as though she was ten, is more vivacious, more beautiful, and more loved by the people than Shannon. Shannon envies her, because she is prettier,...

The Balloon Man by Carla Trueheart mixes mystery with romance to tell a delightful story that will mesmerize readers. It is springtime in New England and a mysterious man catches the attention of Cammie York. Cammie finds herself following this man as he hands out...

How We End Up by Douglas Wells is a contemporary drama that explores the relationships we form, the actions we take, and the consequences that flow from them. Jackson Levee is a Florida teacher who longs for recognition of his poetry. He considers poetry to...

Fairy Wobble by L.L. Walters is an interactive, creative approach to a children’s book, with an engaging story line combined with built-in activities for read-aloud sessions. The book has five chapters and follows the adventures of the child being read to as they imagine themselves...

For thousands of years Diomedes had protected humans from afar, but never had his actions been preemptive or unprovoked, so why Queen Mab had suddenly put a bounty on his head for the murder of Lord Indronivay is beyond him. Nor could he fathom what...

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Gray was an enigma to everyone that knew her. When she was found dead, hanging from a tree, it shocked everyone. The case becomes more mysterious when the police find out that she had no birth records. Mack Mackenzie, Lillian Harris, and Vanessa...

Invincible Assassin: IA 2.5 is another thrilling supernatural adventure from the pen of John Darryl Winston. Slotting in between the events of IA B.O.S.S. and IA Union, I’d strongly recommend that you read this entire young adult series to follow Naz’s journey as he uncovers...

Ben is a beagle. He’s always on the go and he wants to be everywhere at once. He loves to go on car rides. Living on the farm, there’s lots of vehicles with wheels. He wants to ride them all, but his owner keeps telling...

History is History by Thom Kudla begins with an aging man, ill and regretful, thinking on a life spent on performative intellect rather than living deeply. Though surrounded by books, he rarely read them meaningfully. He suffers from déjà vu and emotional detachment, worsened by...

From Madness to Mad Pride by Thom Kudla is a telling memoir of a man grappling with a bipolar mental condition. The only child of a teacher and a professor, Thom is an above average junior high student. In Hudson High School, he is quite...

In The Unicorn Tree by Cynthia Collins, 17-year-old Lisa Duncan misses her older brother, Matt, who’s one of the crew of the clipper ship Northern Star, embarking on a voyage across the Atlantic. She and her friends visit a 19th-century estate known as Mirabelle Manor,...

Zoey Kinsman gives us a vivid picture of the blossoming love life of Anne Sullivan and Paul Wickham. Anne is a middle-aged, successful businesswoman with insecurities and a past abusive relationship. Paul is a young man beginning his career as an actor. Both are in...

We all like to dream big and no one likes to lose. But, sometimes, the odds are stacked against some of us and it’s very difficult to have a fair chance. That didn’t stop Reya. She lived in a box-shaped house, an apartment, with her...

In his novel Where Summer Strives, Thomas Thornburg takes us on a journey to a working class neighbourhood of a Midwestern city, towards the end of the Second World War, where social and racial divides are very much still the norm. When a wealthy, educated,...

A Quiet Hero: The Life of Charles W. Denko, PhD, MD by Joanne D. Denko, MD, MS is an inspiring true story about the life of an unsung hero: Charles W. Denko. A first generation American of Russian descent, his life unfolds in Cleveland where...

Written in a style that embraces simplicity, Stellar by Kevin Hollingsworth is a gorgeous collection of poems covering a variety of themes — love and intimacy, patriotism, nature, solitude, friendship, adventure, self-discovery, and a lot more. The poems have different lengths and the style allows...

My First High School Musical: From Auditions to Opening Night and Everything in Between by Joanne Vassallo Jamrosz is a succinct, useful guide that will help you prepare for your first or next musical. At the preparation stage, she provides useful tips on how you...

Despite his privileged life and a prepared position in the lucrative family business in Boston, Rolfe Honeywell is disillusioned with his future. Unable to take his nonchalant approach to life any longer, Rolfe’s stepmother, Metta Maria, sends him to Mira Loma, her family's ranch in...

Henri by Douglas Bosack is a collection of short stories which also includes two chapters from another of the author’s books, Caduceus. They range in length and subject matter from quite brief as in the case of ‘The Short Order Cook’ (don’t read this one...