A Hop By The Sea by Laurel Lorenzini, illustrated by Amanda Letcher, is an amazing picture book about otherness, friendship, and spending time together. The illustrations are beautiful, sweet, original, and lively. The themes are essential and the story is extremely moving. These are supported...

A Place in the World by Cinda Crabbe MacKinnon is set against the backdrop of Colombia. Alicia, a young American, marries into a wealthy Colombian coffee growing family. A biologist, she is transported into her husband Jorge's world where she lives on a coffee finca....

A Fragile Hold: Living with Multiple Sclerosis and Other Uncertainties by Ruth Cotton is a poignant autobiography reflecting the author’s life and experiences after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ruth’s narrative follows a distinctive pattern as she...

Understanding that God won’t give us more than we can handle is at the heart of A Call to Love by Rebecca Sundberg. Maddy Walker’s life was turned upside down when her husband Lane rushed into a burning barn to save a neighbor’s little girl....

A Great Move: Surviving and Thriving in Your Expat Assignment is a nonfiction occupational resource book written by Katia Vlachos. Vlachos describes herself as a “seasoned expat” who has lived in a number of cities, countries and continents around the world over the last thirty...

Caitlin Buhr's A Sister Ago is a compelling and poignant read. The older sister, Christine, was compassionate and made an effort to watch out for her younger sister. In addition to being obstinate and careless, Rachel also battled drug addiction. Everything appeared to be going...

A Very Strange Zoo is an ingenious, magical tale of an inventor who creates animals by recycling household items. After they get hit by lightning, the animals come to life and build their own homes and villages. Author Chris Stead has written a fun, imaginative...

From Australian author C.V. Williams comes an enchanting eclectic collection of short stories titled A Grain of Truth a Pinch of Salt. This compilation brings together tales of familial struggles, love, protection, exploration, health, and aging. And, under her sure hand, each theme is daubed...

We first meet Adrienne in On Thin Ice when she's a young adult of 28 in Amsterdam. She's had two relationships: Harry, her first, a gentle soul of a man who doesn't seem to make her swoon, and Ethan, the son of a wealthy candle...

In A Sight Unseen by Craig R. Key, humans and elves are bitter enemies. Twenty-one-year-old Saim is a half-elf who quietly lives his hard life as a simple farm hand. Half-elves are considered abominations to both the elves and humans alike. When his farm owner...

A Bend in the Willow by Susan Clayton-Goldner is the story of Catherine Henry who lives with her husband and son in Tucson, Arizona. Circumstances force her to return to Willowood to face her family and her son, whom she gave up for adoption as...

A Vacancy at the Inn by Alice Orr is a heartwarming, feel-good story. Bethany Miller grew up with her two sisters in Riverton, a small town in upstate New York. The Miller family, just like any other large family, is filled with drama and tension...

A Rebel Among Us by J.D.R. Hawkins is a Civil War novel with a powerful setting, great and compelling characters, and a plot that leaves readers no chance to put down the story, even for a moment. After the bloody battle of Gettysburg, the Confederates...

"A Summer in Oakville" by Lisa J. Lickel and Shellie Neumeier is a novel of four family members and how their lives become connected during one summer. Tessa Murphy, her daughter Lindsay, her brother Art and his son Andy make up the main characters of...

A woman boxer? Nowadays, it may not be something to be surprised about, but in the eighteenth century? Gasp! How unladylike. In A Lady’s Revenge by Edie Cay, Lady Lydia Somerset is just that, though only a select few know why. Even fewer understand the...

Write Out Your Drops, by Selin Senol-Akin, will dazzle you with poems about finding the strength to live your authentic self. The themes are wide and varied, from struggling with hard times to finding happiness in unexpected ways. Almost anyone can relate to these emotional...

In A Superpower For Me, Mariana Llanos has written about a superpower few people realize they have. This superpower is a power that people gain as soon as they turn eighteen. It took me a while to guess the superpower and it may be a...

Don’t be fooled by the title. Writing While Female or Black or Gay: Diverse Voices in Publishing is a book for all writers. I think a lot of readers would love it too. If you are a real reader, a lifelong lover of books, you...

A Chicken in the Wind and How He Grew: Stories From an ADHD Dad by Frank South is a non-fiction memoir recounting the nerve-wracking life of Frank South, off-Broadway playwright, long-time television writer, and producer. He explains, in his own inimitable style, how he deals...

Good mystery, suspense and thriller writers know that the best way to keep a reading turning those pages is hold off the "big reveal" for as long as possible, even to the near end. That's exactly what Jana Rieger does in A Course in Deception....