Canyon Echoes by Miranda Nading takes place in Yellowstone National Park. Scenic. Dramatic. Beautiful. It is home to maintenance crews ‘Canyon Village’ and ‘Lake.’ The teams take residence before the tourists pour into the area and competition between the two is palpable. When Lester...

Dragon Speaker (The Shadow War Saga, Book I) by Elana A. Mugdan centers on 14-year-old Keriya Nameless, who is born without a family name and without any magic. Treated badly by the people of Aeria, she gets the opportunity to prove her worth when the...

Tyrabbisaurus Rex by A.J. Culey is a delightful story of a bunny who dislikes being held prisoner in an elementary school classroom. He wants to escape from the monstrously huge creatures called children and wants to be known as Rex instead of Cuddles. The story...

A Silver Medallion (A Crystal Moore Suspense Book 2) by James R. Callan is the thrilling sequel to A Ton of Gold. Crystal Moore finds a runaway slave in an old shed while visiting her grandmother. She is outraged at the suffering and abuse the...

Little Muffin Mae is a fairy. She can do all kinds of spells just like the other fairies, only she usually gets the spells wrong and something disastrous happens, like when she exploded an oven full of cookies. All Little Muffin Mae wants is to...

Upside Down Mr. Brown (Neighborhood Pond), written and illustrated by Shelley Westbrook, is a cute, colorful children’s book about morals and character. Mr. Brown was an unhappy fellow. He would lie, catch flies, and stir up the hornet's nest. Mr. Brown knew that he behaved...

Be Still the Water by Karen Emilson is a historical novel set against the backdrop of the tranquil shores of Lake Manitoba in the early 1900s, a story centered around the immigrant Gudmundsson family and their struggles to settle among the Siglunes in the early...

Oubliette: A Forgotten Little Place, an offering by debut author Vanta M. Black, is a dark and twisty story that kept me up way past the time I should have been asleep! What is an "oubliette," you might ask? It's a hidden dungeon, one that...

Believe it or not, minorities are experiencing various forms of mental illness and have done so for decades. Mental illnesses tends to sit in the background in silence in minority households. Yassin S. Hall walks us through the shadows of her life as a child...

Wow! That’s exactly what I thought when I finished reading the wonderful book by debut author Krista Lynn, Blood Stones: The Haunting of Sunset Canyon, Volume One. This story line is one that will keep readers engrossed from the first page all the way through...

In a unique and creative read by the obviously talented author D.L. Finn, No Fairy Tale: The Reality Of A Girl Who Wasn't A Princess and Her Poetry is a read like none other. A work of non-fiction, autobiographical in nature, the story is actually...

Shalilly by Elizabeth Gracen is a young adult romance plus fantasy, a fantastic debut that will be welcomed by young and adult readers, a work of great creativity and genius. Elizabeth Gracen creates a magical world that will excite the imaginations of many. Sixteen-year-old Fippa...

Michael Gordon Bennett's 7-10 Split: My Journey As America's Whitest Black Kid is a non-fiction memoir. Bennett's parents were teenagers when he was born, and his dad decided to join the armed forces to make sure he could provide for his family. The author's first...

As a victim of child abuse myself, I have a pretty thick skin when I read stories similar to my own. But Where Children Run by Karen Emilson shook me to my core with its depiction of violence against children, especially since it is a...

Facing Cancer as a Friend: How to Support Someone Who Has Cancer is Volume I of Heather Erickson's "Facing Cancer ..." series. Facing Cancer as a Friend is a simple and direct look at the many aspects and possibilities of everyone - from closest friends,...

Santosh the Little Elephant is a children’s book written by Gilbert-Ian Rueda and illustrated by Gülistan Yildiz. Santosh is much smaller than other elephants his age. Avoiding all talk of the upcoming move, Santosh pretends to be asleep and overhears his parents discussing how they...

Seeing Through Sampson's Eyes by Pamela Schloesser Canepa is an intriguing science-fiction novella set in 2054, introducing the issues of android rights. Norrie's father has passed away. Although Norrie had a beautiful childhood and wonderful parents, she feels the need to meet her biological parents....

Ember hoped that things would be right again when she brought Quinn back, but nothing is the same. The pack isn’t sure how to react to the changes that have happened in their lives. Mace is out there somewhere, sending cryptic messages to Ember in...

The Trouble with Antlers is a novelette written by A.J. Culey and illustrated by Jeanine Henning. When veterinarian George Finch takes up a post in the new town of Shifterville, he and his daughter, Amelia, become new residents not realizing that the rest of the...

In another time, in another place, far away and long ago, those with the knowledge and studies were called Keepers, and they advised the Queen as well as studied everything. Alaric was a Keeper, but for the last year, instead of doing his duties, he...