Alora Factor is a young adult fantasy novel by D.L. Williams. With the advent of her upcoming thirteenth birthday, Alora Factor will inherit her grandmother's supernatural powers, unique to the female members of the Factor family. The female Factors have always defended the weak and...

Written by Holly DiBella-McCarthy and illustrated by Pradyut Chatterjee, the children's counting book Dilly Duck Plays All Day takes readers on a day in the life of a pond duck named Dilly. Dilly finds herself on the edge of a lake alone and bored, and...

The Price of a Contract by Ellen Kingman Fisher is an epic historical fiction novel, taking the reader on a magnificent journey from the East to the West Coast during the late 1800s. Kate Sinclair is not the type of woman who wants to marry...

Strategic Creativity by Robin Landa is a thought-provoking book about igniting creativity in business and forming a shared purpose that is effectively communicated amongst all stakeholders in the creative process, including the creatives and the executives. Landa highlights the significant matters between advertising agencies and...

The Bush Clinic by Stella Atrium is a speculative fiction novel and the first book in Atrium's new Tribal Wars series. The Bush Clinic is unique in that it harnesses the powerful evocation of futuristic human off-planet space colonization against a social structure that has...

T. Kennington and C. Roth have created a suspense story featuring Caden’s post-traumatic stress disorder in Karma (Karma and Fate Duet Book 1). Caden James was riddled with guilt. Caden was living with his younger brother Declan in Panama when he purchased his childhood home...

The political science fiction series The Tribal Wars is back with its second book, The Body Politic by Stella Atrium, which I was fortunate enough to read just a couple of weeks after finishing book one, The Bush Clinic. Women are burning themselves up in...

Peace, Joy and Love: Christmas in Africa by Terry Lister recounts the ways Christmas is celebrated in various African countries. It may come as a shock that Christmas is even celebrated in Africa but as you will come to find out each country has its...

On the Waterfront by Mike McCoy is the coming-of-age story of thirteen-year-old Danny Novak, a child of divorced parents in the early 70s who was eager to get away from his unhappy family by getting a job as a summer camp staffer. He first saw...

Faith is described in the book of Hebrews as "the substance of things hoped for" and "the evidence of things not seen." In The Evidence of Things Unseen: Faith Revealed in a Family, in a Community and a Nation, Jerry Aveta describes it as the...

The World of Agartha: Cathedral of Time is a young adult fantasy novel by Stephen Thorpe. The book follows Makayla Brown as her investigation into local folklore leads her into a whole new world that exists aside from the one she knows. When she finds...

Tales from a Lady’s Bower, edited by Isabella Berdyna Zysk, commences with “The Tale of Lindy and Kenric” in which two people discover feelings based on compatibility. “The Tale of Edmund and Ellinor” shows two teens who are reluctant to marry brought together later in...

Rub-a-dub-dub, it's time for some fun in the tub. Kathleen Gauer's Bathtime Fun! is a great choice to read before or after some time in the bathtub. This rhyming tale begins with Mom scrubbing the hair of her red-haired child. After the business of washing...

The Hollow Boys is the opening installment in Douglas Smith’s Dream Rider Saga series, an urban fantasy aimed at young adult readers. The book follows Will Dreycott, a teenager with the power to walk through the dreams of others. Cursed with a crippling fear...

High in the Sky by Kathleen Gauer is an unusual story in that it tackles the question of boredom head-on and suggests how the imagination can be used to overcome that awful feeling. Beautifully illustrated by Sari Richter, the first picture shows a child who...

Threshold by Kevin Barry O’Connor was written over a period of approximately 2 months in 2021, highlighting the devastation that Covid19 caused and the reaction of certain disenfranchised groups; how they try to take advantage of a world trying to recover from a devastating situation....

Author Melissa Jacobus has raised two adopted children, both diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), an invisible but preventable developmental disability. FASD is caused when a mother consumes alcohol during her pregnancy which can present in the child in various ways. The main factor...

Dogs of Warr III: Chasing the Ghost is a work in the military, action, and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is best suited to a mature reading audience due to graphic violence and explicit language throughout. Penned by TR Gabriel, it explores the gritty world of...

Flight of Sparrows by R.A. Lingenfelter is a young adult science fiction story and is the second installment in the End of Crows series. After the attack by the Dominion, Willow feels betrayed by Bradlee, whom she thought was a friend, and angry about the...

A genuine spiritual journey begins when we commit ourselves and strive to improve as individuals. It is not necessary to abandon our ordinary life or our responsibilities. Instead, we can advance in our lives despite difficulties while we act with faith and a good disposition....