Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer by Marty Essen is an entertaining and enlightening ride through the author's ups and downs. Although he became a popular campus speaker and sought-after author, the road to his success came with twists and...

Painting the Past: A Guide for Writing Historical Fiction by Meredith Allard contains valuable advice on how to write creative and engaging historical fiction. Its first and second chapters discuss the aspects of historical fiction that make it unique and the purpose for writing books...

Singing Grass by Ian M. Evans interweaves New Mexico’s complex history with a thought-provoking case between a clinical psychologist struggling with a difficult, crushing past and a man whose story possesses a troubling likeness to American frontiersman Kit Carson. When Dr. Richard Young accepts the...

Draconium Carbide: Casus Belli by Alan Ray Argente is an epic fantasy novel with plenty of action, dragons, and war to keep you entertained for days. The war between the Blessed Lands of Javyria and the Empire of Ardynia is ready to boil over, and...

Handee is a planet of hands that spins in the sky around the Nameless Star. Monster C on the Hands’ Planet by Loreta Yono tells readers that the inhabitants of the planet are all hands and that everything on the planet is hand-shaped. Handee gets...

Deirdre Flynn is a wise, feisty, and kindly 70-year-old. When she accompanies her adopted niece, fear-filled Leah, and Leah’s wild and wilful 17-year-old step-daughter, Belinda, to the sunny beaches of France, none of them expects to find dead dogs on their doorstep, massacred chickens, and...

The police force is in over their heads when a power-hungry criminal with an insane desire for immortality targets their detectives as a means to achieving his dream in the breathtaking suspense novel, Of Breath and Blood (Detectives Daniels and Remalla Series: Book 6) by...

Nancy M. Churchill has written a masterpiece. Through the Tunnel to Win the Heart is superbly written and kept my interest throughout. Each page is filled with intrigue and keeps you engaged to see what happens next. This book tells the story of Nancy when...

The Healing by Lynda Faye Schmidt is about a woman who sets out on a quest after enduring more than two decades of an abusive relationship. This is a novel about healing and personal empowerment, and this bears repeating: it’s about healing and personal empowerment....

The Oinkiest Oink by Lanea Brumfield is a 39-page-long illustrated story for very young readers (3-5 years of age). It is about a pig who wants to learn how to make his native sound, “oink”, but does not get any help from any of his...

Checking Our P.U.L.S.E. for Kids: A Personal and Practical Guide to Effective Educational Leadership by Robert Nelson is a non-fiction self-help book that utilizes the steps in its titular acronym to reassess and strengthen the role of the chief administrator in school environments. For most,...

Mermaid Tears by Susan L. Read is an educational book that will appeal to children coming of age, parents, and teachers. It tells the story of Sarah, a young child in middle school, who felt different from the rest. She had two brothers who got...

Red, White, and Boom by Tonya Penrose is the second book in the Shell Isle Mystery series. Page's inklings are at it again just in time to disrupt the 4th of July celebration. Page and her cousin Betsy act as sleuths once again after Page...

Have you heard of Caroline Herschel? Or, for that matter, what about Maryam Mirzakhani, or Maria Ylagan-Orosa? If you haven’t heard of these outstanding women, you’re not alone. However, perhaps you (and I and all other females) should take a closer look at what these...

The Power of the Emerald Ring: A Dragonstone Story is a work of fiction in the fantasy genre and the second book in the Dragonstone series. It is aimed at children and young people new to reading and was penned by author Mark M. Even....

In Quest Like You by Keosha Sath, readers see a family of four traveling the world. Mommy tells the baby everyone needs a passport to travel outside the country of their origin and return to their birth country safely. The little girl finds a pink...

Chaos Rising is a work of fiction in the science fiction, action, and adventure sub-genres and was penned by author P. D. Blackwell. The work is intended for the general reading audience, and it forms the first novel in The Erstallius Chronicles. Our protagonist is...

The Rhysu Alternative is a work of fiction in the science fiction, action and adventure, and interpersonal drama sub-genres, and was penned by author P. D. Blackwell. The work is intended for the general reading audience and follows on from Chaos Rising to form the...

Limerick Comics, written by Robert Hoyman and illustrated by Steve Feldman, is a collection of original limericks about wild and varied topics such as the color of octopus blood, what Jesters do for a living, the function of all four tentacles on a slug, and...

Selected Poems is an award-winning poetry collection written by J.C. Mehta over two decades (2000-2020). J.C. Mehta expresses her own trials, tribulations, hopes, and desires through a set of intimate and personal poems that showcase the various stages of her life. Murdered & Missing Indigenous...