The Independent Filmmaker's Guide to the New Hollywood: Success in the Era of Netflix and Streaming Video by Gabriel Campisi is a comprehensive book that provides a first-hand account of the transformative nature of the visual entertainment industry and the radical shifts evolving within and...

Thadeus Thayn's Guide to Unicorns by Ryan Law is an imaginative story for young children. Can you name the different unicorns? If not, don't fret, this book has the information you need to identify them. Thadeus Thayn is an explorer. His passion is finding every...

Storybooks come and go, but The Wind's Tale by Paul Steven Stone will stay in your heart and mind. It opens with the profound analogy of our bodies being houses where on the inside, a quiet person can see all the magic in the world....

Rey A. Banda’s children’s book, Bean’s New Home, is inspired by actual events. The book tells the story of Bean, the runt of his litter. To make matters worse, his brothers and sisters had orange stripes, while his fur was black. He felt that he...

Willie Wombat learns to deal with rejection in Willie Wombat’s Walk by Sandra Swain. As a parent, I am sure you have felt rejection in your lifetime. By now, you may be able to shrug off rejection with a “who cares” attitude. However, for children,...

Natasha's Prison: Healing From Your Prison I Never Knew I Was In by Stefan Stevens portrays the rise and cataclysmic crash of a relationship, told from the point of view of the narrator named Harry. How Harry and Natasha originally connect is unclear, but when...

Do you like bugs? Ants crawling on your bare legs? Caterpillars dropping into your hair? I have to admit, bugs make me a bit squeamish. They’re not my favorite critters. Lelia feels the same way. But, like Lelia, we’ve both learned that bugs have their...

The Superhero’s Mask is a work of fiction in the drama genre and serves as the final installment in The Pandemic Series. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author Lisa Creech Saleh. The book follows the author's grief at...

When Hattie flees from her husband, it is with a world of hope in her heart. Her story is told in A Room in Blake's Folly by J. Arlene Culiner. Blake’s Folly feels like an appropriately hidden location to land in. Unfortunately, the only available...

A Caregiver's Love Story and Reference Guide is a self-help guidebook/memoir in which former registered nurse Nancie Wiseman Attwater recounts her personal experiences of taking care of her husband, Bill, during his terminal illness. Bill and Nancie's blissful marriage of over three decades hits a...

David fell asleep in class because he was tired from studying the planets the previous night. He had the most amazing dream while he was asleep. He woke up on Mercury and was the first human to visit the rocky planet. In David’s Space Flight...

Madelyn Brighton is happy living her life as a loner and she has learned not to trust anyone, no matter who they are. In The Counterfeiter's Daughter by Victoria Marswell, her world is turned upside down when she receives word from her stepmother that her...

Fans of Alice in Wonderland will love this book! Mimicking Lewis Carroll’s style down to the last detail, Lenny de Rooy gives us another chance to go on a crazy adventure with Alice. The story starts with Alice falling into a lake. She soon discovers...

The strength of the human spirit weaves a magical spell in The Puppet Maker’s Daughter, a mesmerizing work of historical fiction by Karla M. Jay. It’s March of 1944 and like most Hungarian Jews, nineteen-year-old Marika Tausig and her family don’t seem overly concerned that...

A Sister’s Promise is a work of fiction in the historical drama subgenre. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Evelyn Zivalic. Set during the interwar years between the First and Second World Wars, we follow the...

Imagine you have just got married and are enjoying a honeymoon on your sailboat when the next thing you know is that you’re being forced to alter course and make an unacceptable delivery at gunpoint. Charles Abood explores this dilemma in Anybody's Daughter. The cost...

David's Sling by Andrew Ceroni is an action thriller with a hardheaded protagonist and cunning antagonists. The CIA agent didn’t know his current case would become such a hassle, or else he would have prepared himself better. An evil killer named Franz Altmann from a...

The Elephant(s) in the Room: Another Sammy the Weasel Story by Denny Laake and Monica Laake Beavers is a cute and fun adventure featuring Sammy, a self-assured weasel who fancies himself to be a great detective, and Kramer his companion, a schnauzer dog. Kramer spots...

Holding Superman's Hand: Under the Bar Lights by Amy Katherine is one of the best contemporary romances I have read this year. Amy Emerson is on top of the world. She has a college scholarship, and she has a job at Azure, the most happening...

Mr. Owl's Classroom Presents: Allie the Alligator by Will Kelly is the story of Mr. Owl, who teaches a class of animals. The most intelligent animal in class is Allie the Alligator. Allie always has the answers to Mr. Owl's questions, and she loves that...