In a world filled with violence and war, a young boy seeks to find a foothold amidst the chaos and the danger in The Three Kingdoms: The Sown Seed by Mark J. Musser. After being insulted and treated as outcasts, the people of Surx begin...

Journey to Zentobia by Stacy D'Alessandro is an exciting, colorful sci-fi fantasy adventure that children will fall in love with. The main characters are siblings Maggie, 10, and Peter, 13. The fun begins when they are transported by a rainbow portal into a fantasy land...

Tracing Footsteps: The Frasers of Scotland to Frazers of Virginia and West Virginia by Lillian M. Frazer is a detailed non-fiction documentation of William Frazer’s descendants. Frazer was a Scottish immigrant to America who descended from the Scottish Highland Clan Fraser of Lovat. Records show...

In the extraordinary novel The Cardiff Giant by Larry Lockridge, Jack Thrasher, a journalist for Discovery Channel, arrives in Cooperstown, New York, to investigate the disappearance of the Cardiff Giant. Following the discovery of the Cardiff Giant in 1869, its home had been a shallow...

When a famous psychic predicts a murder that leads to a mass grave site, she becomes the prime suspect in the paranormal novel, Familiar by T. J. Blake. From childhood, Arabella led a lonely and abstract life. Misunderstood, her closest friends were not among the...

Victoria worried about a lot of things, she worried about playing in the park, trying new food, her hands sweating, her tummy hurting, and her knees shaking. Baxter, her favorite teddy, knew how to help her. He told Victoria every time he got worried he...

Changing Worlds is the first book in The Dharalyn Chronicles by Donald Dambois. Danielle Walkerman lost her mother, and nothing was ever the same. She felt incredibly alone. However, that all changed when she met Dharalyn under suspicious circumstances. Sticking to each other from the...

A Dog Named Trouble Goes to a Forever Home by Anthony Gonzalez is a feel-good story about a huge Saint Bernard. Trouble starts out at a shelter where his new Mom and Dad pick him up and bring him home. Trouble has some anxious moments...

Niya Hicken's Look at Me! is a creative children's story about the power of the imagination and the importance of encouraging child exploration. Look at Me! also expresses the importance of fostering the belief that children can be anything they want to be. Look at...

Suddenly Singapore (Coral Cove Book 3) by Laura Kennedy is a young adult thriller/mystery that centers around the adventures of a seventeen-year-old Floridian beauty, Brooke Bentley. Brooke should be experiencing her senior year at high school in Florida, enjoying her friends and the attentions of...

The Amalgam is the first book of The Aberration series by Michel Prince. The Aberration Laws were passed when all children born in the year 2000 suddenly developed supernatural abilities out of the blue once they hit puberty. With authorities seeking to capture him, high...

I enjoy taking walks outdoors for my health, both physical and psychological. I am also a student of history and current events. That is why I enjoyed reading Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island by Melanie Choukas-Bradley. Not only a book about a little-known island...

Luke doesn't think he has a chance with the office manager as she is so beautiful she could have any guy she wanted. However, as clumsy and unattractive as he thinks he is, Mary is secretly thinking similar thoughts about him. Mary can't help but...

Christine Paik's The Girl in the Gold Dress is a story about Hannah, a 12-year-old girl whose family is originally from North Korea. Hannah is preparing to perform in her elementary school talent show. She is doing a traditional Korean fan dance while wearing a...

Susan Jean Ricci, in Running on All Fours, has found my soft spot. Being the parent of a differently-abled child myself, I empathized when reading about the problems Susan and her brother endured at the hands of an abusive “father” and struggling mother. Too often...

When a young helicopter pilot from southern California completes two tours of Vietnam, he decides to book a seat on Pan American Flight 001 instead of returning home. He knew that there would be no gratitude or celebration of his service to his country waiting...

It was Ralph the pond frog's birthday, and Billy the tree frog was excited. Billy wanted to give him a scary party. Though Ralph was a pond frog, he and Billy were best friends. Billy invited all their friends to the scary party and worked...

Everything About Veganism by Jaya Sinha is exactly what it says: a comprehensive book about everything you need to know to become vegan and improve your health. All aspects related to veganism are tackled. You can, for instance, learn about the benefits of veganism to...

Impermanent Universe is a sci-fi thriller written by Vern Buzarde. Tess Carrillo, a lead computer scientist at NASA, loses her semblance of a normal life the day a mysterious software hack leads to the death of two astronauts, including her boyfriend Ryan Quinn, aboard the...

Bodies: A Romantic Bloodbath is a work of fiction in the science fiction genre. It is aimed at adult readers and was penned by Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev. This story follows Vince Nilsson, a brilliant but unstable high schooler who creates an optimized version of his...