Buddy of a Hundred Days by Claire Pence is a sweet tale of friendship and love set against the backdrop of 1960s small-town America. The story follows young Ivy Scott as she navigates life after moving from her grandparents’ farm to the city, facing change,...

The 1960s saw profound social and political change, particularly in the United States of America. It was in this world that Helen Miller spent her formative years as a young black woman at a time when the civil rights movement and black consciousness were making...

Learning the alphabet is the groundwork for reading and writing. Ella Minnow P, written by Trisha Fleming and illustrated by Emanuela Mannello, is a sweet concept picture book focusing on learning the ABCs. The story begins on Ella’s first day of school. This is a...

In Do Not Resuscitate by Scott Eveloff, MD, Harry Lindmark, an intern at Narragansett General Hospital, experienced the loss of a young patient who was not meant to die. Doctor Travis, a patient of Harry, warned Harry that years ago, he had alerted his colleagues...

Don’t Be Mean to 13 by Douglas Harris is an exploration of superstitions, particularly the fear of the number thirteen and Friday the 13th. Written in a lighthearted tone, it aims to demystify these irrational beliefs and encourage readers, especially older children, to think critically...

It is 1949. Margaret Butler, born Margaret Long, cannot put into words the pain she feels at losing her sixteen-year-old son, Thad Butler. Found dead and bloodied with gunshot wounds in a ditch in New Harmony, South Carolina, it was clear Thad had been brutally...

Qarsoon by David C. Jeffrey, Space Unbound book four, is set in the 23rd century. Book one sees Earth’s decline, and a failed Martian settlement threatens humanity. The discovery of a living planet becomes central to human continuity through Aiden Macallan’s direct linkage. In book...

Elizabeth Kellam's Chopin’s Last Manuscript begins in 1971, when a Polish craftsman renovating Eugène Delacroix’s Paris studio discovers a hidden leather portfolio beneath the floorboards. Inside are a manuscript signed by Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin and a diary that appears to chronicle his private account of...

Robots, Please is an eclectic collection of loosely connected short stories by Jared M. Bentley. A newly created forestry robot unwittingly causes unrest among politicians, military strategists, and environmentalists alike, until it unexpectedly gets a promotion. After offering a ride to a hitchhiking andro sapien,...

Project H.E.A.L. by E.T. Darkmore is a science fiction tale for children. Maverick and Maddi are spending the summer break at the St. Magnus Memorial Hospital because it is where their parents work. It’s a very strange place. As they explore, they notice weird things....

Proof Positive is the fourth installment in the Lauren Beck Crime Novel series by award-winning author Donna Huston Murray. The story takes us to Worthy, a small town in Ohio, USA. Thirty-two-year-old Lauren Beck, a former police officer, is looking for her mother, Nina Claire...

Destined Hearts, Dangerous Secrets: Hearts of Sparta Trilogy Book 2 by Anthea Laurelton is a love story for every historical romance lover. Xanthia was left to die as an infant. By the grace of the gods, she was rescued by two helots and raised in...

Bodies of Water by Marylee MacDonald is a collection of original short stories. Each story ranges in length and content, but all are about people whose lives change when water enters the equation. In The Ark Encounter, Pearl loses her house to a hurricane, then...

Salvatore A Trancucci III’s Sonny and Teresa begins in postwar Leavenworth, Kansas, where Sebastian “Sonny” Grasso has returned from Army service in Japan to play for the minor league Leavenworth Braves. Teresa is an Iowa-born student nurse at St. Mary’s when a baseball game introduces...

Are We Twins? by Jill Ammon Vanderwood is a fun and creative book for children. Following on from the first installment, Persephone, aka Purdy, and her friends find themselves with yet another mind-boggling investigation. A new girl at school resembles one of their friends a...

Jeff Horton’s "Cybersp@ce" is a fast-paced technological thriller that acutely captures events which may unfold in the very near future. The United States has just suffered a chilling attack which has led to the wasting death of a hundred thousand people. And that is just...

"How to Get It Right: Being Single, Married, Divorced and Everything in Between" is one of the best books I have ever read on all the deep questions involved in this topic. It does more than just provide opinions; it gives scripture to look at...

Birds of a feather… or perhaps cougars of a feather come together in Terms of Temptation, a continuation of the lives of the Cantrell family by Lorrie Farrelly. Kinley Cantrell has a heart for taking on wild animals which are injured or sick, but she...

In Mira's Diary: Bombs Over London by Marissa Moss, Mira has a gift. Actually, her mother has the same gift. They are both time travelers. Mira hasn't seen her mother in a long time as her mother has been traveling through time, trying to fix...

Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s Four Spooky Short Stories is surreal and its haunting theme will keep readers turning the pages. The collection opens with Ghost Brother; the tragedy of a man named Bobby, who’s manipulated by the ghost of his dead brother, Gerald. I sympathize with...