It was spring and there were signs of new growth everywhere. Down the road, a small shoot of green stretched upward to feel the sunshine on its leaves. She wondered what type of flower she would be, and wished to be a rose. The little...

In Michael Santino’s original and witty crime novella, The Frontline: Season 1 Episode 1, a small-town restaurant blows up, bringing together two very different investigators to investigate the bombing. Christopher Odacio, a special agent with the FBI, is paired with Brett Bonner, a senior police...

The Mystery at Moz Hollow by A.K. Hicks is a charming adventure set in the Minnesota wilderness with a fun scavenger hunt and mystery that allows Emma to get a look into the past. Emma and her best friend Laura tag along with Emma's mother...

The Cookie Caper by Caron Pescatore takes sibling rivalry to its legal limits. Carmen Diaz accuses her brother Robbie Diaz of eating the cookies she baked to raise money for the pet center. Robbie is well-known for his sweet tooth, but he claims he is...

The Twelfth Boy by Milan Sergent is a psychological thriller. Savannah Grayson gave up hope of ever being loved until she meets Scotty. Giving birth to Noel on Christmas Eve, Savannah believes her life is complete – until Noel turns six. He loves elves and...

Are you ready to take a trip down memory lane with Timothy Neff Gocke? He has authored The List: Shooting for Another New Old in which he shares life as a high school student in the mid-1960s. Timothy’s book is a delightful tale of life...

The Munchkins is a children's book written by Candice Zee. How many times did your parents tell you never to talk to strangers? I know mine did a lot. Perhaps the adoptive father of thirteen extraordinary children should have told them as well. When a...

The Bedtime Story Race by Shel Curry is a fun and fast-paced picture book for young children. The book focuses on two siblings, Ethan and Sophie. Ethan is eager to show off his reading skills to his older sister but when their mother says, "The...

The Boy Who Breathed Underwater is a picture book for young readers by Izzy Rees. Do you wish you had some superpowers? Perhaps you wish you were the strongest person, or you could be invisible, or perhaps you could breathe underwater while swimming. All these...

When people vote to elect the President of the United States, they are voting for someone who will not only make decisions about how things are done in the US Government at home but also how the United States will function in the world. Voters...

The Trouble with Belonging: A Novel by Magdalena Stanhoff is an engrossing, character-driven young adult novel you will cherish for a long time to come. What happens when Chen Kehuan, an eight-year-old lone wolf, meets a little girl named Niki that changes his life...

Doing the same thing every day can become tedious. The Martinez children have just started their summer vacation and already they’re complaining about being bored: breakfast is boring, playing in the backyard is boring – there’s just nothing new and exciting to capture their attention....

Consider this: how would you like to be able to predict what will happen to you in the next few seconds, or what people will say or reply to a question you haven’t yet asked? Before you think that’s a handy ability to have, enter...

Earth Remains by Shelley Burchfield spans many years. The story starts in September 1848 and takes us late into 1922. It was bad times in the South, both before and after the Civil War was fought. Polly Burgiss, a white woman, is the main character....

Gregory Diehl breaks new ground with The Heroic and Exceptional Minority. He explores the concept of heroism with all its positive attributes and links it to the search for something beyond mediocrity. There are intelligent and talented people in the world, but they are a...

The Abhorrent is the second book in the Obsidian Blade series by authors Nathan Wilson and S. E. Nin. The story of Shindara and his companions continues as they travel to Yomi to get some much-needed answers. Shindara’s curse was slowly but surely ruining his...

The First To Tell by Milan Sergent is a black comedy. Cooper Pearmain is looking forward to retirement and has big plans. He knows a devastating secret about Lilibet, his wife who wants to remain in the limelight forever, even though her career is over....

The Secrets We Live In: A Novel is a work of fiction in the thriller and espionage subgenres. It is aimed at mature readers and was penned by author Fazle R Chowdhury. The book follows Ambassador Zain Auzaar who has been sent to Paris to...

The Blue Butterfly is a work of fiction in the historical fiction and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author Leslie Johansen Nack. In a fictionalized account of a real-world relationship, the book follows Marion Davies...

The Strength of Silk by Lakysha Laing is a non-fiction story filled with the author's struggles in her life. First, she had to go into foster care and deal with the grief of losing her twin sister. Then, she struggled as a black woman in...