Jane was a clumsy giraffe who roamed with a group of giraffes on the African plains. Jane went for a walk one day and at the riverbank, Jane met an elephant who was drinking water. He dipped his trunk in and sucked up the muddy...

Joan Sloane’s Wiggle your Hips Wildebeest is a short story about two wildebeests named Waldo and Wilma. It is finally the end of the dry season. Waldo and Wilma thought it would be the perfect time to throw a party and celebrate it with their...

I Hear Some People Just Have Sex: An Infertility Memoir with an Ambiguous Ending by Sandra Vasher is the autobiography of the author's journey through the long and narrow alternate avenues to conception and live birth when the simple act of intercourse is not quite...

Judy Bishop delivers another exciting, macabre mystery in Haunted River, the fifth book of the Detectives Daniels and Remalla Series. Detective Aaron “Rem” Remalla arrives in the small town of Dumont to help his friend, Detective Gordon Daniels, clear his grandfather’s house. A chilling scene...

Spirit of the King is a work of fiction in the fantasy genre and it forms the first book in the Spirit of the King Trilogy penned by author Amy Hay. The book follows a spiritual vessel named Aria as she journeys through her world,...

Prison From the Inside Out by William ‘Mecca’ Elmore and Susan Simone is subtitled ‘One Man’s Journey From a Life Sentence to Freedom’. It is the story of William Elmore’s journey from a challenging world that presented him with irresistible temptations to mistakes, trial, prison,...

The Eclectic Table: Timeless Recipes For The Eclectic Palate by James Sklar shares mouthwatering recipes with readers and reveals the author's passion for food, cooking, and bringing people joy through eating. His recipes show his passion for food and he uses food to make an...

A Gay Man's Guide To Life: Get Real, Stand Tall, and Take Your Place by Britt East is written for gay men and represents life seen through the lens of a gay man. The author's story is a good tool for gay readers not to...

A Toxic Ambition by Erik A. Otto is a dystopian science fiction novel that takes place in the bleak landscape of San Francisco. As a result of a radioactive event that resulted in a harsh, toxic environment, the sharp divide between the well-off and the...

Milcreek Pond by Kay Carroll is a true-to-life story about fourteen-year-old Molly, an African-American/Native American girl in 1879 Mississippi who refuses to “stay in her place”. Molly’s mother, Enola, worries constantly that her daughter is headed for trouble if she continues to want more out...

The Covid-19 pandemic has made life difficult for a lot of people. Children especially find it difficult to understand. They still want to play at the playground and visit with their friends. Murphy really wants to play with his best friend, Daisy. He’s sad when...

Horatio Mortimer loved music so much that he always looked for music in everything around him. He plucked a musical note from the wind in the trees and from the waves crashing onto the shore. He took it from the birds, from the poet's words,...

In Rich Pickings by Axel van Reenen, as Jake Egerton leaves Oxford University, he is looking forward to beginning a new chapter in his life in the financial sector of London. He becomes an investment banker for Brasher Menthol in Canary Wharf and sets his...

“We will never know the truth of his death regarding the motivation or circumstances. Yet we as people are designed to question and wonder, which in turn leads to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding about his culture and our own.” (Author’s Note, XIV). In...

Garkain: Book One of The Uluru Legacy by Anna J. Walner is an exciting urban fantasy novel that bends the genres and breaks the rules. The story opens with lead character Amelia musing on a flight back to the States about wanting to delete her...

Timmy wished his mother good morning as he sat down for breakfast on Monday morning. His mother placed a bowl of warm oatmeal in front of him. She had made a smiley face using raisins and they grinned at him. Timmy refused to eat it...

Indivisible by Julia Camp is a serious book. You know a book is serious when there’s a suicide on page two and when tears are streaming down your cheeks on page three. Charlie and his best friend Wes enlisted together in the war in Afghanistan....

Under the Blue Comet by Tom Hoffman is the first book in The Comet Kid Chronicles, a well-crafted story for fourth to sixth graders. It is filled with adventure and magic. Eleven-year-old Max Underwood’s life changes on his birthday when he becomes conscious of his...

From Daylight To Madness by Jennifer Anne Gordon introduces us to the mysterious journey of a broken woman. When her newborn son left this world after living a mere three minutes, a part of Isabelle also died with him. Her manipulative mother-in-law conspired with her...

The Family Tree: Finding Beauty in the Mess is a collection of very short stories by author Susie Stephens, captured from reminiscences and observations in her life experiences. Each of these stories is unique, some are very funny while others will make you cry, and...