Being a parent can be challenging at the best of times. Add the additional factor of a special needs child and the workload multiplies substantially, but, then again, so does the love and the inevitable learning curve that goes along with these needs. Jess was...

The Sea Turtle Spy Project (Putney Hicks Inventor Adventures–Book 4) by Marsha Tufft is a children’s adventure story that would appeal most to a mixed audience of children and preteens who enjoy mystery adventure stories. Putney Hicks is a 12-year-old self-proclaimed wannabe artist/inventor who has...

Salt Island by Lisa Towles is a suspenseful thriller that forms the second book in the E&A Investigations series. In this installment, we find ourselves back with private investigator Mari Ellwyn and her new partner and former detective Derek Abernathy on a whole new case....

Being a military spouse is physically and emotionally challenging. In You Are Not Alone, Jen McDonald gives tips and uplifting words to help military spouses cope with this new way of living. She discusses the merits of maintaining your individuality, career, and identity. She encourages...

The Anti-Semite Next Door? is a work of fiction in the legal thriller, mystery, and suspense subgenres, and is part of the Zachary Blake Legal Thriller collection penned by author Mark M. Bello. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience owing to...

Dervla returns from her New Orleans vacation to learn that her long-time boyfriend and business partner, Emil, is leaving her for another woman. Heartbroken and outraged, she finds solace in the unconditional support of Emil's grandmother, Lula, and his great-aunt, Mari, also known as the...

Lunch is ready, and humanity is the entrée in Dissonance, Volume I: Reality by Aaron Ryan. The action picks up on page one, with Cameron (call sign Jet) and his brother Rutledge (Rutty) running for their lives. Their reality is a constant fight for survival...

Bella Santini in the Land of Everlasting Change by Angela Legh is a delightful middle-grade coming-of-age fantasy novella. Bella Santini is a fourteen-year-old, ordinary-looking girl living an ordinary life. She wants to spend the summer inside, painting all day, yet her parents dragged her with...

Weird & Wacky Creatures: Strange, Weird Animals That Share Our World!: The Weird & Wacky Planet Series: Volume 1 is a non-fiction, educational picture book for children written by K.B. Carr and illustrated by Kelsey Leigh. In this information-packed book, Carr introduces eight “weird and...

On the Occasion of a Wedding: Eclectic Love Poems by Ollie Bowen is a gorgeous collection of love poems and these poems are just awesome, a reflection of the beauty of love. And talking about love, the very first lines of the collection already give...

Exiled by the very people he tried to liberate, Adrian Pryor is left to eke out a living for himself on the few jobs he can garner online without raising too many eyebrows. His life turns upside down when an important scientist is found dead...

The highly creative and motivated forty-two-year-old Mark Gray yearns for something new even though he is a celebrated gamer with a loving wife and child. He feels his life has gotten quite repetitive and mundane, which leads him to a fling gone wrong with a...

Sarah has a large family, seven kids in all, but life is only good for a short time before something evil appears in the woods near her home. Sarah has the ability to recognize it, although no one else does, because she comes from a...

The Ice Bridge by Kathryn Meyer Griffith is a gripping murder mystery. Charlotte has come back to Mackinac Island, back to her Aunt Bess, after her fiancé runs off with her best friend. When the summer tourists have gone, Mackinac closes and the only way...

The Dance Towards Death: The Brotherhood Chronicle is a work of fiction in the thriller, crime, and suspense subgenres, and was penned by author Tejas Desai. Written for the mature adult reading audience, the work contains some explicit language, graphic violence, and sexual situations, and...

The second book in The Brotherhood Chronicle by Tejas Desai continues the story with The Run and Hide. Niral Solanke has lost his faith following the actions of some rotten apples in The Brotherhood. But Niral will continue his journey into the underworld as he...

Welcome to “The Sword of Steel: Save the World Academy Part I” by James K. B. Brough, where the fate of the world lies in the hands of our youth! Jade Steel’s twisted father has big plans; he wants to take over the world and...

Haee's Quest for the Greater Prairie (Haee and the other middlings, #3) by R.S. Vern is the third book in this trilogy. In this story, Haee leaves Whie and by doing so, he bids adieu to his life at Green Alley. He has nowhere...

Resistance, by Jaye L. Knight, is the first book in the Ilyon Chronicles: a Christian Fantasy series set in the mythical world of Ilyon. There, a small and widespread group of people secretly worship the One True God, Elôm. The majority of the population, however,...

The King's Scrolls by Jaye L. Knight is the second book in The Ilyon Chronicles. It is an excellent example of Christian fantasy. A lot of the story is told through the eyes of Rebel twins. Another thread involves the spiritual leader of an oppressed...