Emily: Courage Amid Shadows of the Confederacy by Ken DeHaven follows sixteen-year-old Emily Harmon who moves with her family to Missouri from Illinois. It is in the period following the Civil War and the effects of the war are still deeply felt, notably with the...

Enterprise Architecture Fundamentals: Using the Pagoda Blueprint is a work of non-fiction in the business and finance sub-genres, and was penned by author Rémy Fannader. As its title suggests, the work focuses on the complex world of how businesses might organize their IT infrastructure in...

Sundays at Simone’s by Thomas Bauer is a first-person novel that reads almost like a memoir. Our narrator and protagonist is Michael McDowell, well versed in all things music, especially classical, the Los Angeles environs, film and theater, and food (especially Italian). He is also...

Have you ever seen a homeless person in the area where you live? Have you ever taken the time and shown the compassion to buy that person a meal? Have you ever thought, “I wish there were something I could do to help the homeless?”...

Lakota Honor by Kat Flannery is the story of Nora, a young 19-year-old living in Willow Creek, Colorado. Otakatay is a half-Sioux and half-white man who has become a bounty hunter, hating white people for their treatment of him because of many factors. Willow Creek...

Erratic Boundaries is a visual and poetic display in that we must rely on our eyes to try to absorb the complexity of the surrounding shapes. Only through our minds can we come to understand it, and through our hearts can we understand the true...

Do you enjoy nature? Do you enjoy seeing birds? Are you a bird watcher or want to be a bird watcher? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Mathew Tekulsky has authored the book for you. It is called Galapagos Birds: A...

Rebirth in Acadi is a work of cultural fiction by author Susan Swanson. Family trees can be very complicated, as Elizabeth Bancroft, who renames herself Louise Dennis, is about to find out. Of course, everyone has skeletons hiding in their closet. Louise is of African-American...

In Swindler’s Revenge by Ellen Butler, the fifth offering in the Karina Cardinal series, Karina finds her lazy Saturday morning routine interrupted when the FBI comes knocking on her door and proceeds to ransack her living quarters in search of her ex-boyfriend, FBI agent Michael...

Danny does not like to brush or floss his teeth. Twice a year, Danny visits the dentist, and twice a year, the dentist discovers a new cavity in his teeth. Danny’s parents and Dr. Dent were frustrated; all their efforts to get him to maintain...

Tea for Dragons by Kandi Wyatt is a fun and imaginative picture book for young children. Have you ever thought about inviting a dragon over for tea and, if so, what would you serve them? Maybe they would like a flavored tea, and even some...

Based on the cover and title, Sixty-Five Roses by R. A. Williams is nothing like I thought it would be. It is not a bouquet of 65 roses, but a deep, heartbreaking story of a four-year-old little girl, and so much more, woven into the...

Carbon-14: The Shroud of Turn (An Amari Johnston Novel Book 1) by R. A. Williams is the story of Amari, a criminal justice major at the University of Arizona, with a detective for a father. Two mysteries pull them into each other's worlds when a...

The Gospel According to Todd is a work of fiction. It is fiction based on the desire of many people. Most skeptics would love to go back to the time of Christ and witness the miracles for themselves. They believe that if they saw and...

The Seven Gifts: Ancient Wisdom Reveals the Deep Mystery of Who We Really Are, by David B Whitacre, is a lightbulb moment for those seeking to understand the many facets of human behavior. Not just in the world of work, but in other areas of...

The Samurai's Gift by Kristi Shimada is part fable and part self-help book for kids. Yoshi is a young Japanese boy who is suffering from asthma and the flu. His father is reading him his favorite book about samurai warriors until finally, Yoshi falls asleep,...

Penny the Red Panda, written by Peter Wynn and illustrated by Aisyatur Rosyadah, is a delightful picture book describing the yearning of Penny, a red panda, to go out to play. However, her mother insists that she finish her chores first. After making her bed,...

Cricket is angry. Her parents lied to her, taking her from her home and friends on their distant, dying planet to live on Earth. She has to go to school like a human teenager and do her best to fit into this strange, desert town...

Come join the adventure of little Benny in his emotional quest to learn if his mother will still love him when his little sister is born. Ellen Krohne has touched upon an important question for any family that is growing. In her book, The Secret...

A Chronicle of Angels by Vincent Thomas Vok is an inspiring poem divided into sections: a poem about angels that presents an insightful allegory of spiritual and human encounters. The author writes about his experience with angels from human and spiritual perspectives. Some angels can...