Thanks for the Love by Melissa Baldwin is about a young woman escaping from Orlando to Miami to start a new life. Her engagement with Dustin breaks up after she finds him with her best friend Amber. The betrayal shatters Gabby Marshall’s life as she...

Megan Gordon tells me in one of the poignant short stories in her anthology, You Can't Get There From Here, that I am “the cure and the sickness, the cause and the remedy.” Of course, she didn’t aim that at me directly, but story after...

A young Spaniard must find his way home from the future to save his sister and help his family escape a Native American uprising in the stunning historical era novel, The Blue Mesa by Olivia Godat. In 1664 Don Rafael Montez took possession of his...

The Freight Train in the Sky is a sweet, easy-to-read chapter book for children. Author Holden Russell introduces young readers to an orphan named Paul, who lives with nuns in an orphanage because his parents died as a result of widespread disease. Although well cared...

Gritty. Unapologetic. Engaging. This is the essence behind My 730 Days at the Gates of Hell: Writings from the Inside by Philip van Heusen. The reader is given a personal, behind-the-scenes account of the author's day-to-day life in prison and its impact on him. Philip...

An irrational fear of holes becomes the source of horror in A.G. Sullivan's Trypophobia. Young Ben Brennan is the unfortunate trypophobic in this tale, and his father, Brian, will bear the brunt of his anxiety disorder. It begins when Brian is awakened one night to...

How to Slow Your Inner Flash by Kenneth Rogers, Jr. expands on the definition of workaholism and helps the reader in understanding how to overcome workaholism as a coping mechanism for childhood abuse. People are forced to decide whether they will begin the healing process...

Curious World of Dandy-Lion by Lorraine Hawley is a children's adventure book about a gifted and curious fifth-grade girl called Meredith Smart. Meredith has a wild imagination, and she's friendless. Well, she has friends, but imaginary ones. In her journal, she wrote down her most...

"Do you fear yourself as you truly are? Come. I am the Lich beyond name. Come. Join the Coven. There is much to be done." Mikayla Meyers invites readers to let their imaginations wander in the eerie world of The Farmhouse (Country Tales of Terror)....

The Visionary Brand: The Success Formula Behind the World’s Most Visionary Brands opens with an interesting case study about Oakley and how it almost lost its cultural direction as a brand and regained its footing by re-aligning its brand identity. Author Bryan Smeltzer shares his...

In K. Thomas's Not Right Now, Senlis is a Nephilim. It was normal for her to be beyond empathic. She absorbed emotions and energy from people, but she couldn't control it, nor could she remember the past that should have come to her so easily....

How do you help athletic children with lots of energy but not enough sportsmanship? Scott Charles explores the options in The Breaking Game. Rebecca is 12 years old and loves to play soccer. She tends to get extremely aggressive and over-competitive, especially when she thinks she...

In Daniel Weisbeck's sci-fi biopunk thriller Moon Rising (The Upsilon Series, Book 1), a young girl is held captive in a basement and forced to live the life of someone she has never met by her captor. Her everyday existence is a nightmare until an...

Leonard, Becca, and Johnny are three British children who are in for the adventure of their lives. It is Christmas Eve Day and a frigid day at that. Serena Fadlun shares their experiences that day in the book Leonard and the Knights of the Square...

Love at the Salted Caramel Café is the latest romance novel by author Angie Ellington. This book is a contemporary tale set in scenic Virginia and follows Sierra Blake as she returns home after a break-up leads to her losing her job. Sierra is a...

Liza Morado’s Rat on a Rat: A Memoir With A Peculiar Twist is a unique story that takes place in White Hall, Maryland, in 1956 and beyond. Liza describes specific memories to give a description of the experiences and how she perceived living in a...

Hearting With Herman is a children's book written by Kerry Keegan and illustrated by Li Liu. Standing at the beach and staring at the ocean, young Sasha feels sorrow and so very alone. When she asks why this feeling overwhelms her heart, Sasha hears a...

Play It Like You Mean It! Supercharge Your Playing and Let Your Piano Work for You by Emile Pandolfi shows readers how to play those keys not just by ear but also by heart. If you love playing the piano, this book is for you....

And Tyler No More by Stan Haynes is a fictionalized and exciting look at a purported plot to assassinate the tenth president of the United States. The reader is taken back in time to an era rife with political and social conflict as the Civil...

Taming the Wish is a work of fiction in the literary genre. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by Sava Buncic. The book follows Petar, a doctor living a normal life who suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of the...