In Punk Wig by Lori Ries, we are introduced to a little girl whose mother has cancer and who is going through treatment. She finds the hospital strange, with her mom hooked up to a lot of machines. Her mother tells her that the medicine...

A Black Horse by Michelle A. Sullivan is a fantasy novel about good and evil. Lev Avatov is the kind of man you admire and fear in equal measure. He rose from nothing and built an empire that was respected worldwide. Lev lost everything after...

Thadeus Thayn's Guide to Unicorns by Ryan Law is an imaginative story for young children. Can you name the different unicorns? If not, don't fret, this book has the information you need to identify them. Thadeus Thayn is an explorer. His passion is finding every...

Friends Come in All Sizes by Raven Howell tells the tale of two young friends who seek adventure and companionship in the oddest of places. They think about befriending a snake, an elephant, an ant, or even a bear but there are so many reasons...

Almost by Amy Booker is the first book in the New Adult romance series, Near Miss. The book is narrated in the first person and dances between its main characters. It is set in a small town in Ohio where everyone knows everyone else and...

Itchiwan by J.J. Cunis is an extraordinary book. We follow the adventures and misadventures of four young boys, Amos, Vernon, Brett, and Timmy. The four discover a hole in the ground that leads to a translucent orb. Amos is the first to enter and sees...

When Secrets Come to Light by George R. Hopkins is an enthralling crime mystery where a retired detective, Tom Cavanaugh, goes on an investigation to uncover the secrets of his childhood friends. The reunion of the grammar school gang, who went by the name of...

Maven: The Reclamation is a work of fiction in the social issues, action, and adventure subgenres and serves as the opening installment of the Maven Chronicles series. It is aimed at young adult readers and was penned by author F.C. Nolan. The book follows teenager...

Santa and Elvel are identical twins. Their birth parents couldn’t afford to raise them, so they gave them up for adoption at a nearby church. However, upon leaving them on the church’s doorstep, something almost magical happened and the two babies were separated before they...

Welcome to My World is a collection of poems and verses by Gary Trudel. Drawing inspiration from the likes of John Trudell, Van Morrison, and Leonard Cohen, and becoming captivated by their music and poetic magic, Gary chose to carve out his own path, letting...

A former detective and one of the best active Private Investigators, Tom Sipowicz just found out that he had a brother. They never met because of circumstances beyond the control of their parents. Tom’s brother, Nicholas Stachowiak, was a software engineer he found through ancestry.com....

Noelle Bensen presents two people who never thought they could move on from their pasts. The Night I Found You opens with Gemma struggling through a snowstorm in Vermont. Abandoning her vehicle, she has become disoriented and can’t move. She smells smoke and sees a...

Death by Poison by Abigail Keam is another tale in the series following Josiah Reynolds, a curious woman who always finds herself involved with some kind of trouble. Josiah is having trouble with her new neighbor, Hildegard “Bitsy’’ Beamer, although it would seem the entire...

Have you ever heard of the rainbow bridge? It’s a special bridge that takes beloved pets to their forever home beyond this world. A little girl grows up with her best friend, a lovely black dog. They were both young together. They shared a special...

Known: A Study of the Good Shepherd by Lisa Derhake is a ten-week guided lesson and devotional on the intricacies of Psalm 23. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” This is possibly the most well-known line of the Bible, even for those...

S.H.R.E.D.: Gorgon Rising by Stu Jones is the origin story of a new superhuman series revolving around a young Hawaiian environmental activist named Sasha and the night that changed her life and her body forever. The book begins with Sasha aggressively subverting Russian whalers in...

Magic Thinking for Kids by Marrielle Monte, illustrated by Steven Celiceo, is an adorable children’s book intended for young kids. Its main aim is to enable them to feel confident, positive, healthy, and happy. It is also to help them become happy and healthy grown-ups....

In A Mother's Journey: A Story About How We Became a Family by Kimberley Hall, we have a new mother writing to her child about the struggle she had to bring the child into the world. She wanted a baby so badly, but year after...

At times our children are sheltered from the lives of others. It's our job as parents and guardians to develop well-rounded children and we do this by helping them to discover the world around them. Children must learn that the world extends beyond their front...

How does a Jacaranda tree who struggles with feeling alone adjust to being in a place where no one seems to like her? When a stranger takes Jaca to a new place when she’s a seed, she grows slowly but not as vibrantly as was...