Origin Andromeda: Insurrection by Christoffer V. Junros is a thrilling science fiction novel and the second book in the Origin Trilogy. The story picks up with Henrik and the alliance grappling with a new threat from the Youllians, a powerful alien race with a formidable...

Kerry ONeal's Obscure Reality is a collection of short stories that offer some deliciously dark and eerie storylines. Cleaner Man presents the life of a sin eater whose practices lead to supernatural consequences. Is That You? tells of the unsettling behavior of a grieving boy...

Do you know what time it is? Do you like to study the clock or a watch and figure out the time? In Julian Hilton’s Time Telling Ted, a bear named Ted loves to tell the time. He depends on his watch to mark the...

James Lamar and the Empty Jar by Haley Argyle is a heartwarming story about using one's imagination to make friends. It follows James Lamar, a young boy who struggles to interact with his classmates during recess. When he gets home, his mother notices his sad...

The J.O.A.T. Life Lessons From a Jill of All Trades by Kristin Massey is a self-help memoir that follows Massey's journey across multiple fields, leaning into the importance of adaptability and combining skillsets, referred to as “Skill-stitching.” She talks about her time in music, from...

The High Priestess of Lumeria by Dominique Wright is a voyage into the sacred and mystical roots of ancient feminine power and collective remembrance. The story follows Solei, a divine-born priestess, who is called to awaken her land and people from darkness. As she reconnects...

Kate Scharff's We Need to Talk About Divorce is a child-friendly guide that covers the different aspects of divorce for children and parents undergoing this emotional and transformative life experience. This book is tailored to help families (especially children ages 10 and above) understand their...

Recalibrating Gravity by Mary Keating is written in verses that capture poignant stories of her life. The author survived a car accident at age fifteen, which left her paraplegic. She begins the story with memories of sitting in the church pew with her family. The...

In Kingdom of the Faeries we meet Queen Admire. She was giving give birth to her ninth child. Her first eight children were all girls and none lived past five days. Her husband King Emporo threatened to leave her if this child was not a...

The Sellites from the planet Valhai have arrived on the distant planet Coriolis to take their new batch of fourteen-year-old apprentices back to Valhai. Among these teenagers are Diva, a daughter of a ruling Coriolan elder, and Six, a nameless, homeless teen from nearby planet...

What a fun ride I have had reading this time travel romance! It is a great mix between ancient Egyptian life and culture and the romance a woman from our twenty-first century. It is beautifully crafted to please historians and romance lovers of every age....

"Beloved Weapon" by Jonathon Price starts out with a bang and continues to involve the reader with Nia's quest to find out who she is and why she has super powers. Unfortunately the super powers don’t keep Nia from making mistakes in whom to trust...

"Stories Not for Children" takes three well-known fairy tales and twists and skews them into adult conspiracy theories and tales. The underlying stories of 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Sleeping Beauty', and 'The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple' are barely recognizable once author Godrak is...

First, I want to say that the cover of this story is awesome. It is eye catching, and really fits the story perfectly. Secondly, I want to say that I really enjoyed this book. It is a children's book but the story is well-written and...

"Anger Management" is Mark Hour's personal account of his struggle to deal with past hurts and manage his own anger. It has come out as a book to help and encourage others to manage their anger in healthy ways to avoid the consequences that Mark...

Jeanne McElvaney begins her book "Spirit Unbroken: Abby’s Story" by defining three types of memories: Ordinary Memories - retention of experiences; Trauma Memories - memories themselves cannot be recalled at will; and Dissociation Memories - a biological response that separates awareness from consciousness. Abby was...

"Walkers of Legend" by Miles Allen is a double first: it’s this author’s debut novel and it’s also the first in what promises to be a very exciting series. The world is ruled almost entirely by the Empire, but this is starting to falter. It...

"Hide! Hide!" is the third book in Scott Ferrell’s series of e-reader books for children. This time we follow Mr. Marceau’s favorite friends, Springer Spaniel Gaston and Gregorie the parrot in an interesting game of hide and seek. Only Gregorie takes this game on a...

Kate usually covered what reporters referred to as "bummer" stories, stories that covered “death, destruction and weeping survivors.” She was shocked when the news director assigned her to cover a human interest story. Someone had left a stack of cash amounting to $100,000 in a...

Catherine Barrett arrives in Virginia as a foreigner to her closest kin and secretly engaged to the one man her grandmother would frown upon — her seafaring grandfather’s apprentice Nathaniel. Add to her troubles the rich and intriguing older brother of her secret betrothed, Dawson...