Robbie Ducharme finished leading a group of canoeists down the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande. They made camp and had dinner around a crackling fire. This would be his last trip for the season. When he got home, the local sheriff said that after...

Gavin Discovers the Secret to Happiness by Albert Ramos is a heart-warming and educational book for young children. The story follows a two-year-old Goldendoodle named Gavin who often finds himself feeling jealous of what the other dogs have compared to what he has. One day...

Current events have all of us wondering what’s happening with the world. Certainly, it isn’t what it was and some are even asking if we’re in the end times. That’s actually a question that has haunted reality, and it’s a question that Arnold V. Page...

The Discovery of Germs by John Krieger is a fascinating exploration of humanity’s developing understanding of germs and disease through history. Krieger’s main focus is from 1600 onwards, carefully charting the development of the microscope, the beginnings of the scientific method, and then the gradual...

Treble Damages by David L. Elkind is a slice-of-life novel following the life and career of a gifted lawyer obsessed with winning at any cost. Raised by a strict authoritarian of a father who used to physically beat him, Jack Pressler grows up angry and...

In Tom Sawyer Returns by E.E. Burke, Becky has not seen Tom for many years when he falls into her kitchen, injured and suffering from some memory loss. She doesn’t know whether to be happy, angry, or sad to see him but she nurses him...

Sheela Word spins a tale of living without modern technology in her book All You Need. Luisa Morales is taking her daughter to Oregon to stay with her father, Dirk Farone, for the summer. While Teresa “Terry” Morales spends time on the farm, Luisa will...

Bloodlaced (Youkai Bloodlines) by Courtney Maguire centers on Asagi, a beautiful servant who was considered neither man nor woman. Unable to protect the boy he saw as his son from his abusive master, Asagi was sold to the gentle, kind, and generous young aristocrat Mahiro....

Blood Pact (Youkai Bloodlines) by Courtney Maguire centers on Hiro, a male geisha of unknown origins who works in the okiya of the woman who found him as a child. Hiro has always felt out of place, even in this odd setting. It is only...

The collection Silhouette: Poems by Nancy Viera covers the movements of life from love to seeking freedom and experiencing rejection and explores the emotions in each of these shifts. “I Am” is an emphatic poem in which the narrator sheds the labels imposed on her....

Legacy of Power is the first installment of a new series by C.C. Bolick. Charlie’s mother is dying, but not of cancer as she thought. When their home is invaded by strange men intent on taking her mother away, Charlie’s world turns upside down. She...

Gemini Divided by Lauren Kristen Roberts is a page-turning mystery that follows Jen, a hired assassin who has spent the past several years getting rid of bad people. When her next assignment brings her into contact with her idol from a famous TV show, Gemini...

The Return to Deephaven is the second book in The Adventures of Crimson and the Guardian series by Karen Cossey. Twelve-year-old Kinsey is tired of reading the enormous pile of books entrusted to her by her father, Lord Eric Bardin. When she discovers that she...

Joey Blade was the football star of Shadow Mountain High School. He had a bright future with tons of scholarships awaiting him. However, the night of Joey’s eighteenth birthday, which also ushered in the new millennium, signaled the beginning of his nightmares. After his ex-friend,...

Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts is an autobiographical memoir relating the experiences of author Melanie D. Gibson with the Korean martial art of taekwondo that changed her life. Since her teenage years, Melanie suffered from bouts of anxiety and depression...

In Grandma, I Don’t Want To Go To Sleep: A Forever Love Tale by Richard Ceasor, we are introduced to a little boy who is troubling his grandma because he doesn’t want to go to bed. His grandma tries to explain why it is necessary...

A Touch of Romance is the second book in the Romantic Encounters series written by Paullett Golden. While attending a writers' retreat at her friend’s estate, Leila Owen waits for her father to return from India with her betrothed. It is an arranged marriage to...

The Prancestor Project by Christine Morse is a work of contemporary speculative fiction with a strongly tied counterfactual history component as it delves into the discovery of a possible ancient indigenous hominid-type advanced civilization, one which ruled the planet before any meaningful knowledge of the...

The Memory of Sydney by J.A. Hailey, the 7th book of Chronicles of a Stolen World, follows the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Sydney, Australia. Sydney is no more. Burned to ash and radioactive dust. However, it's not just the 'real' world that deals...

A Most Efficient Murder: A 1920s Country House Mystery by Anthony Slayton is the first book in the Mr. Quayle Mysteries. Lord Unsworth hosts a party that quickly becomes a mystery perfect gathering with red herrings, misleads, and scandalous secrets. Not to mention the body...