The Boy Scout by Vanayssa Somers is a new kind of fairy tale. It has kings and queens and fairy wizards. And a shaman, with a magic carpet. Vanayssa Somers also uses time travel in a unique way. Another one of those...

Metaphase: Beauty in the Chaos by M Street took me by surprise. Metaphase is the second novel in M Street’s Mitosis series. In this installment, readers are given a flashback to Piper’s literal infancy and, soon afterward, it picks up where the first novel left...

Davy wants to play outside where there is lots of snow and likes riding down the great hill. Davy wants to go outside and play but his mother wants him to finish practicing violin first. Davy gets his violin and plays Bach. He gets ready...

After a traumatic encounter, a famous rock star abandons his family, fading into obscurity, until his daughter unwittingly walks into his bar in the urban fantasy Song of the Vampire (The Vampyr Trilogy Book 1) by K.M. McFarland. After spending a night he doesn't remember...

Paloma’s Dream is written by Florida middle school student Paloma Rambana. Paloma has grown up with Peters Anomaly, a rare eye condition which results in what she calls “low vision.” With only 20/200 vision, she is legally blind, but with the aid of modern technological...

The Legend of the Lightscale is a work of fantasy fiction penned by author A.R. Cook, and forms book two of The Scale Seekers series. Set in a fantasy realm very far from our own world, the story picks up the action with our heroine...

Reichfield High is comprised of mostly white students and over the past years it has lost almost all the games played against North Prep, a school frequented by mostly Brazilians, Filipinos, and Mexican students. To turn the tide, Addie and his white supremacist friends hatch...

In Your Tummy by Courtney Sexton is an informative and educational book that tells children about the importance of eating healthily. Nori is working hard in her garden so that she can feed her hungry friends. Nori is growing carrots, blueberries in her blueberry patch,...

Poof ABC: Touch and Learn Alphabet - Ages 2-4 for Toddlers, Preschool and Kindergarten Kids is an educational picture book written by Arielle Berg and illustrated by Isabel Casal. Aiden the astronaut has an emergency situation in outer space. His spaceship, the ABC, is being...

Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance, and Precognition. A Short History of (nearly) Everything Paranormal by Terje G. Simonsen explores the idea of the paranormal through what Simonsen calls the big five: telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, and healing. Something not as prevalent in modern society, the...

With The Dream Traveler Book I, author Ernesto H. Lee begins the Out of Time series, a time-traveling, cold-case detective story that impresses with verisimilitude and fast-paced action. Detective Constable (DC) Sean McMillan has a unique ability to travel back in time through the medium...

The Prototype by Sam Mitani is a cleverly plotted crime novel with sophisticated characters and a plot that takes readers to places they never could have imagined. I never expect a good story to feature a plot where one thing leads logically to another. No...

Full-color illustrations invite the young reader into the children's picture storybook, The Backyard Adventures of Anna and Andy Hummingbird. Children and parents will enjoy reading this book and discovering more about hummingbirds. Written by author Linda P. Young, this children’s picture book follows the adventures...

In The Yiddish Gangster's Daughter, author Joan Lipinsky Cochran introduces us to Becky Ruchinsky, a forty-something mother of two who finds her life moving in some totally unexpected directions. Her two sons have headed off to college, leaving her at home with her husband, Daniel,...

The Lazarus Continuum by Ken Fry is the sequel to his earlier blockbuster, The Lazarus Succession. In this story, the heroes from the first book, Brodie and Ulla, are still present, but the mantle is picked up by their daughter, Martha. The painting of Lazarus...

In her newest book, In Her Own Words: Women's Wisdom to Move You from Surviving to Thriving, Alison Braithwaite shares her story, and explains with clarity how the stories in this book empowered her and offered her the wisdom she needed to pull her life...

"When I met her for the first time, I knew straight away that she was the woman of my life." So states Tommaso at the beginning of Her Name Was Aprile by Elisa Barbaro. Tommaso is certain Paola is the woman he is destined to...

Travel with Number 10: New York, Boston, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. by Ronit Tal Shaltiel is the third book in the series, The Adventures of the Numbers. Numbers 1 to 9 and Number 10 traveled together and when they reached New York, Number 10 liked...

Being Bree: Bree and the Loose Tooth Worries is a story book for children, grades K-3, written by Christine Sromek Laforet and illustrated by Lisa Rush. Bree was about to lose a tooth. Her mom said it was hanging by a thread which made Bree...

Same Starry Sky by Erin Christie is a beautiful story about the challenges faced by the families who have a parent deployed in the military. The child in the story feels sad when her father goes away on duty. His presence is missed because there...