Where is My Home? by Joan Romney Groves reminds us that life can be tough at times, difficult to understand and accept. Sometimes we get angry with the world and we just want to get away, to find a new place to call ‘my home.’...

GOGO and the Stay At Home Bug is written by Kathy Hill. It is a teaching book designed to help children understand the corona virus and what they need to do to help keep from getting it. With the various details and explanations in the...

An Old Shrew, a Tortured Soul, and Everyday Angels is a murder mystery by Rosina Anderson. After World War II ended, a few places had been obliged to take in a large number of displaced persons who had nowhere else to go. Such happenings invited...

Little Miss History Travels to Monticello Home of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 14 by Barbara Ann Mojica reminds us that there is so much in world history to inspire the mind. Little Miss History is always looking for someplace new to visit, to explore and learn...

Paws in Paris: The Adventures of Tenny and Bella is a middle-grade novel by Elizabeth M. Grieco which is laced with adventure, suspense, mysticism, and a light introduction to Paris and the French language. Sarah, a famous American journalist who recently retired, is visiting Paris...

Jasmine C. Caldwell’s The Geek Girl Squad: Rosie features a budding romance between Rosie and Matt. Rosie is a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit with an affinity for science fiction. Matt and Olivia agree that Matt can sublet her apartment while he interns...

Once again I’ve had the absolute pleasure of reading one of Viki de Lieme’s books for children – delightfully illustrated once more by Maria Burobkina - following the characters of Jacky and Raff as they teach young readers important lessons about the language they use...

Michael Pronko's mystery novel Azabu Getaway: Detective Hiroshi Series Book 5 is a gripping murder and crime story set in Tokyo. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is a forensic accountant, investigating financial crimes. He is fluent in English, having lived in Boston for some years. Joseph Leung,...

The Decompression Palms by Anna Alexis Michel is an intriguing novel set in Florida. The story opens with a poignant scene as Antoine and Line have breakfast together in the kitchen. They sit side by side, facing the palm trees like most Sundays. This time,...

A Hop By The Sea by Laurel Lorenzini, illustrated by Amanda Letcher, is an amazing picture book about otherness, friendship, and spending time together. The illustrations are beautiful, sweet, original, and lively. The themes are essential and the story is extremely moving. These are supported...

In his picture book Hero Kids in the Making, W.G. Williams presents the tale of a group of enchanted beings that reside in hospitals and guide sick kids to becoming superheroes. There are many diverse creatures, ranging from sweet silver mice that can detect and...

Air Boat: Love is an Adventure is a work of fiction in the romance and adventure subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by Jacek Waliszewski. In this novella-length work, we find ourselves following the path of early...

Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver is a work of non-fiction in the social issues and memoir subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by Gretchen Staebler. As the title suggests, the work handles the tricky topic...

12/26/75: Twelve Twenty-Six Seventy-Five by Tony Reid is a non-fiction true crime novel surrounding the 1975 murder of Donna Jo Richmond and the man who was convicted of the crime, Oscar Clifton. Clifton is no longer alive but the quest to clear his name and...

Journey To The Heartland is a work of fiction in the slice of life and LGBTQ+ subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Xiaolong Huang. Based on real events, the novel takes us on the varied...

Soap-Stud & Blue-Movie Girl: High-octane Tales of Hollywood by David Godolphin features two short novellas with passionate characters with a story to tell. Short and satirical, both novellas are set in 1990s Hollywood where the characters yearn for success and fulfilled dreams. Blue-Movie Girl follows...

The Beijing Blunder by Jay Perin is the fourth book in the One Hundred Years of War series. The Cold War is coming to an end and the 90s are just around the corner. But freedom must still be paid for in blood. Temple’s time...

Poetry has all too often been pushed aside or completely ignored as nothing more than a difficult genre to understand. We Are Poetry: Lessons I Didn’t Learn in a Textbook by Kym Gordon Moore is something different and shows how poetry teaches us many things...

It all began with a black-and-white Border Collie and the desire to work with sheep. This is a unique memoir about the meaningful canine-human relationship between Luke and Naomi in Away To Me, My Love: A Sheepdog’s Tale of Two Lives by Naomi McDonald. A...

Crystals of Empire Trilogy by M. Poyhonen is a compilation of three fantasy fiction novels in a single volume and includes Kazi Boku, Crystals of Power, and Angus Town. Kazi Boku, the son of farmers, is a young boy in a duchy called Vissing. It...