Bentley and the Magic Sticks, written by Claire Eckard and illustrated by Anne York, is a children's picture book centered around a big, lonely, domestic canine. Bentley is of a giant unspecified dog breed and his enormous size makes normal day-to-day living different from dogs...

Lace Curtain by Jeanne Charters is set during the Civil War from 1857 and begins on Mary Boland and Daniel Kelly’s wedding day in Massachusetts. Daniel becomes one of the best lawyers in Boston and Mary opens a birthing clinic. They have one daughter, Nellie,...

Galen’s Way: A Starquest 4th Age Adventure by Richard Paolinelli is a paradigm shift to a galaxy as distant in the future as it is in space: Andromeda, a place Captain Galen Dwyn calls home. As a mercenary in charge of the space ship Tempest,...

Oliver Gilmore is a dachshund puppy with a lot of spunk, energy, and zest for life. His Dad adopted him when he was six months old and the two have been together for some time, sharing all kinds of adventures at home, on boats, on...

Rose was wild and free. While she was born of noble blood and was expected to act like a proper lady, she chose to defy all of these odds. The only one holding her back was her mother, Anne. Christina Tsirkas has crafted The Night...

In June of 1879, Brett Tompkins traveled by train from Baltimore to Snow Shoe via Arlee to visit his father, who worked for Stewart Creek Logging Company. Brett stops in Arlee overnight and stays at a hotel owned by Hank Johnson and his wife, Nancy....

Set in 1529 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Heart of the Highlands: The Raven by April Holthaus follows the experiences of Adelyn Scott, a descendant of Roland de Velville, as she seeks refuge from her cousin, King James V of Scotland. Pursued by powerful men for the...

The Crazy Life of a Kid From Brooklyn: My Crazy Life in History, with Hilarious People, Celebrities, with Travel & with Business by Bill Morgenstein is a powerful, sometimes moving memoir of a man who made his mark while maintaining character, integrity, and honesty. Told...

"Their skin appeared scaly, dark brown in color, and their elongated faces displayed sharp features, which to Hannamyer appeared satanic, in an archetypal sense." In Unwinding the Serpent by Robert Paul Blumenstein, Earth is under threat as a ruthless alien race, the Cacatoids, intend to...

Lodi is a dark comedy thriller written by Bill Weberg. Set in 2003, the book follows thirty-eight-year-old pet food supervisor Tim Goodwin, who feels unfulfilled at his job while being trapped navigating a loveless marriage with his wife Melanie, an ambitious real-estate agent. On a...

Explaining Gravity by Bob Ticer describes gravity as part of our universe in a way that makes it easy for the reader to understand. Existing literature is also referenced with examples of work from Einstein, Hawkins, and The Big Bang Theory. Bob methodically explains his...

Our Lives by Ken Kirkberry is the story of four British women who are tightly knitted together yet competitive when it comes to men. They are all good-looking, stylish, well-off. We meet them through the co-protagonist named Debs, as she rides the train from Manchester...

Clouds at Play by Brian Jay is a fun and imaginative picture book for children. The book shows images of clouds that have shapes hidden within them and provides a rhyme to help the young reader guess what each one is. Each page becomes more...

Cruise by Jerry Johnson has a surefire way of involving readers by giving us a character who gets into a caper in which he is not supposed to be. Joe Green is a software engineer who runs a coding team for Intel at an Austin...

When I Last Saw You by Bette Lee Crosby is the life story of Margaret Rose living in Georgia in 1968 and her mother Eliza Hobbs who lived in West Virginia in the 1900s. Margaret’s husband, whom she has been married to for many, many...

In the novel 1877: A Northern Physician in Southern Ungoverned Spaces by David Cornish, MD, there is a questionable presidential election result, increased racial tensions, white supremacy groups causing terror in cities and towns, rigged elections, a depressed economy, and health crises as well. Sound...

Barnabee Believes (in Himself) is a children’s animal picture book written and illustrated by Cazzy Zahursky. Barnabee loved spelling; it was so much fun to figure out which letters made up each word. Every time he heard or read a new word, he couldn’t help...

The changing face of society, particularly in America, is reflected in the plight of ordinary people. For many, life has become uncertain, with financial concerns and health issues on the increase. Family relationships have suffered and individuals feel both alienated and helpless, with no quality...

The Birthday Gift is a Christian novelette by Betty Collier. The plot opens with the devastating news that Mrs. Williams’s husband, Bill, would not be returning home to the USA from a work trip in Israel. Bill had been killed at Heathrow airport and Mrs....

Guardians of the Garden by Theresa Pocock is a YA fairy tale. Miriam Miller just wants a normal life. Her family doesn’t want her, and neither does her town, Edenia, and she doesn’t want to be the Guardian of the Garden of Eden. But she...