Rita Reynolds happily redecorates her son Zack's old room. She has many plans for this summer which Rita hopes will become the mother and son's long-awaited reunion. Instead, Zack and his girlfriend, Angie, are heading to a distant and very dangerous place, in Rita's opinion:...

When Cardinals Appear by Katie Eagan Schenck is a good, old-fashioned love story that will tug at readers’ heartstrings. Lanie McAllister is struggling to deal with her mother’s early death from cancer. She’d moved away from their hometown of Cedar Haven to Seattle, to study...

By day, Maj Newhouse is a proficient mechanic with a grateful list of clients. When she is not working on faulty vehicle parts, she and her friends Aimee and Kevin Cole, talented siblings, engage in some rather peculiar activities, challenging the authority of demons and...

I Swear Somewhere This Works: Selected Poems 2013-2023 is a work of non-fiction in the poetry, relationships, and reflection subgenres. It is best suited to mature adult readers owing to themes of sex and sexual assault and the use of explicit language throughout. Penned by...

In A Second Bite, Robert E. Kearns beautifully depicts the story of Cathal Dunne, an elderly man longing for a fresh start in life. The narrative captures Cathal's deep reflections on a journey filled with hardships and missed chances. His quest to rewrite his story...

Ian Lewis’s The Camaro Murders is a distinctive supernatural thriller. This is the story of a small town’s murders from multiple perspectives and times. You see the perspective of a sheriff and the people who have died. The book is divided into multiple sections (not...

Tractor Worries, written by Kristyna Skriczka and illustrated by Johanka Vlkova, is a delightful and imaginative children’s book that follows a boy named Max on his various adventures around the planet. Max usually lives on Earth, but he also has an amazing rocket, which he...

You Paid for This: My Twenty-Five Years Investigating Insurance Crimes by Richard Wickliffe is remarkably entertaining, thought-provoking, and informative. It revolves around the work of a member of the Special Investigation Unit for an American insurance company. The unit is not a law enforcement agency...

To Kill A Unicorn by DC Palter centers around SuprDupr, a startup tech company in Silicon Valley. One day Sumire, now a lawyer, walked into her ex-boyfriend Ted Hara’s office. The last time they saw each other was years ago. Ted thought she came to...

Ditch the Glitch by Camille Smithson features Brooklyn, a fifth-grader who never shies away from crazy science experiments. Her unconventional practices, however, always end up in a mess. As Brooklyn’s glitches keep getting her into trouble, her father transfers her to a new school to...

Despite her mother’s insistence, Penthesilea refused to believe that she and her elder sister, Hippolyta, were daughters of the war god. Growing up on a lush island with an all-women populace, the differences in the sisters’ life choices were evident from childhood. After decades of...

Saturn Conundrum by Dan Bishop is a science fiction novel about astronauts in space that presents a very realistic “what if” scenario. Rae Ann Chavez and two other astronauts are on a historic mission to be the first astronauts to set foot on Mars. On...

Benign Dystopia by Kody Killam is a gripping and thought-provoking science fiction novel that combines elements of cosmic horror, space exploration, and the enduring quest for salvation. In this imaginative tale, readers are taken on an epic journey through a dystopian universe, where the fate...

Goodnight Sunshine is a bedtime storybook written and illustrated by Rebecca Porter. It narrates the story of the sun as it prepares to sleep after a long day. Just like our little ones, the sun slowly drifts into slumber with the knowledge that new adventures...

The Bayrose Files by Diane Wald is the story of an aspiring journalist who gets into a morally questionable situation that she later regrets. Violet Maris was twenty-six years old and a budding literary critic for a minor Boston newspaper when she heard of "The...

Malcolm had been brought up in London, and with encouragement from his teacher, he had made a name for himself in acting. Soon after, he found himself in Hollywood, where he met Diane, who became infatuated with him, and she suggested that they marry. Diane...

Cinzi Lavin’s A Strand of Truth weaves an intriguing tale of dual identities, high-stakes danger, and moral dilemmas. The story follows a flamboyant hair stylist who leads a secret double life as an undercover federal agent. When a chance encounter with a desperate genealogist named...

In one of his final speeches, Barack Obama made a telling comment that echoes one of the illuminating themes of How to Stand Up to Bullying. Bullying is not acceptable in any context. The contentions put forth by M.C. Ryder establish that such an unequivocal...

Glenda was feeling guilty about her previous life, having abandoned her children to go be with her new lover, Rich. Her life had not been easy, having lost her father to alcoholism at an early age and getting pregnant at the tender age of sixteen....

Bubblegum Heart and Other Elastic Things by Quazaye Konkel includes a variety of poetry themes from love, abundance, wisdom, and pain to loss that readers will be able to easily resonate with. As the author divulges the various aspects of relationships through words of transparency,...