The Grumpy Kid is a children’s book, written in rhyme by Not So Serious Jack (Jack Thompsen) and illustrated by Oliver Kryzz Bundoc. Arin is a young boy whose first day at his new school is not so bright. When his new classmates - Dan,...

The Feathered Crown by Aleksandra Layland is the charming account of the life of Kahutane, a man whose life and future is molded by his family and the traditions of his society. As he takes his place in his community, Aleksandra’s main character works to...

The Broken Branches is a coming of age novella for young adults written by Becky Lee Villareal. Sarafina had big dreams. She loved to write, and Ms. Olivares seemed to think she could be a great writer with the proper education and training. Sarafina wanted...

When it comes to memoirs, there’s one thing writers need to remember: people love happy endings, especially when the writer’s life has been filled with struggle and heartache, as was Jessica Aiken-Hall’s life in The Monster That Ate My Mommy. That monster nearly finished off...

The fifth story in the Captain No Beard series, The Treasure of Snake Island by Carole P. Roman is as exciting as the previous ones and this book opens with the crew watching sunrise. Each of them has their own perspective about how beautiful the...

In The Crew Goes Coconuts! A Captain No Beard Story: Volume 6 by Carole P. Roman, readers are taken to a desert island where the ship has dropped its anchor. It is a hot day and the crew is thirsty. They cannot find a pond...

In The Truth That Hides by A.J. Schmitz, Jack doesn't think of his job as spying. He's merely clicking away at a computer and rating the people he sees on their threat level to the organization. It's no big deal. But then he realizes the...

Magic has almost disappeared from our world, due to the influence of first the industrial revolution, and then the technological revolution, but unknown to most of us mere mortals, magic creatures - werewolves, shifters, vampires, witches, and Fae - still live amongst us. Eleanor Morgan...

You don't make friends in Market World; there are no heroes, no acts of kindness, and especially no gifting. This was the way of life; 'don't pay, don't get.' It didn't matter if someone's life was on the line, if you acted freely you answered...

The Armoire by Ione Joy tells us the tale of Maxine, a psychology major in Wisconsin who returns home for her grandmother’s funeral. Maxine and her grandmother had always been extremely close and she had told Maxine on many occasions that she was destined for...

The Road To Anywhere But Here: A Memoir by Carol Newman is the story of a woman who wasn’t dealt the best hand in life, but she made do with what she had and excelled. This is the story of Carol Newman, a woman who...

The Kokomo Railroad by Susan Giffin and Charles Edward Lockert is not about building a railroad. It is one of the most penetrating stories of investigative journalism that I have ever read! It exposes the deep-rooted malaise of corruption, racism, bigotry and ‘sheer cussedness,’ as...

The Ephemeral File is the third book in The Adam Fraley Mystery series by author Henry Hoffman. Fraley is a Florida-based detective operating in 1995. The story begins as the detective reluctantly takes on a case brought to him by his office manager, concerning an...

The Divorcee is a hot romance novel exclusively for adults by author Treena Wynes. Filled with sizzle, sass and sex, this is the story of main character Allie, who starts out as a severely disgruntled wife with a boring, moody man who wants to control...

Somewhere out there in the galaxy, a dark and evil force is waiting to annihilate humankind... and through the millennia, its purpose has been successfully averted. But its efforts never stop. The Awakening: Fate in Motion is a story of aliens and their part in...

I’m going to pay The Jasper Creed by William Jarvis one of the highest compliments I can for this type of novel. Throughout the book the voice and tone sounded exactly like the late great Pat Conroy. So if you are a Pat Conroy fan,...

The Third Order is a contemporary new adult thriller written by Wendy Sura Thomson. Living and working in New York City was a decidedly different experience for a young woman who had grown up in Fife, Scotland. When Maggie finished her degree in Finance, she...

The King of FU, written by Benjamin Davis and wonderfully illustrated by Nikita Klimov, is a coming of age novel that belongs to a class all its own. This is a memoir written somewhat like a modern epic poem and is divided into three parts....

John Abernathy is still coming to terms with the revelation that he’s part alien, descended from a Sagittarian woman who traveled to Earth with an advance group of colonists. He’s also still struggling to understand his newfound Sagittarian abilities, which include shape shifting and fast...

The Meadows by London Clarke is a terrifying tale of the supernatural. Scarlett, fresh out of rehab, needed a new start and The Meadows in the Shenandoah Valley seemed like the right place. A huge mansion going for a song; she planned to turn it...