Outstanding illustrations will draw children into Adam’s Atomic Squirrel, and the story will keep them turning the pages. What will happen next? Who’s downstairs making that noise and how will they solve the problem? Author Florence McNeil Jones kept my curiosity at its pique and...

Katina Chimney’s Keilah West: The World’s Greatest Klutz is a children’s picture book about a little girl named Keilah who stumbles a bit through the book, trying to find something that she’s good at. Whether cleaning the house or participating in outdoor activities, she just...

Murder by the Numbers by Steve Leshin is a historical murder mystery and the fifth book in the Joshua Oates Adventure series, preceded by Vengeance of the Ripper, Target of Fear, A Darker Shade of Greed, and The Killer's Code. As with the others, the...

Curse of the Furies is the first installment in the Furious Legacy series written by Meadoe Hora. High school teenager Erin feels reluctant to take her rightful place as one of Hades' Furies alongside her aunts, Tis and Meg. Trouble ensues when on her first...

The Shade Under the Mango Tree by Evy Journey is a cultural work of art. It follows Luna and Lucien with different backgrounds and family ties, but who come together out of fate. Lucien finds Luna’s moleskin journal in a coffee shop. His interest is...

Common Kindred by Isaac M. Lawton is a character-driven story that explores the importance of a supportive community in personal growth and strong themes like purpose, finding meaning, friendship, family, and love. When Joe decides to do what he really wants, he is unaware that...

Spiral is a work of fiction in the thriller genre. It is aimed at older readers and was penned by Khaled Talib. The book follows pharmacist Laurence Turner who is seeking a fresh start in South Australia after the death of his fiancée and the...

Imagine being nine years old and told you are going to leave not only the only home you have ever known but your entire country! Agnes, her mother, sister Elizabeth, and brother Robert take a journey from their home in Scotland across the ocean to...

Pastoring through a Pandemic: Battling the Second Wave of COVID 19 by Reginald Bernard is a look at the author’s pastoral journal entries. It highlights the sixty-five-day period in the collective life of the King Solomon Baptist Church that began in the summer of 2020....

Because of its uniqueness, Children of Violence by Luke Gherardi was quite a surprise that kept me thinking about its contents, characters, and style for days after I finished reading it. How did this author tap so deeply into my emotions in only 138 pages?...

Ari the Brave's Jungle Journey: Ari Overcomes His Hospital Stay is a picture book about a small boy who has to have an operation. The author, Krystal Wallick, calls her book a “tale of courage and empowerment.” She based the book on the real-life story...

Black Thumb Greenhouse: How to Take Your Self-Sufficient Homestead from Dream to Reality – An Introduction to Greenhouse Gardening Even Cactus-Killers Can Complete by JD Isaly is a useful guide geared toward self-sufficiency and sustainability. According to the book, a greenhouse facilitates gardening throughout different...

Trine Fallacy is the second book in The Kinderra Saga by C.K. Donnelly. The woes and struggles of Mirana continue as she consistently grapples with her powers and how they impact her people. The future of Kinderra and its people lay heavily on Mirana and...

Wish, Miracle, Me!, written by Lindsey Coad and illustrated by Kim MacPherson, is A Modern Family Love Poem for Donor-Conceived Children. A young girl named Harvey narrates the journey of her life from conception to adulthood. She tells her story with profound honesty, love, and...

The world is just beginning to recover from a long pandemic, but during this time, many of our values ​​and our ways of thinking have been questioned due to the exceptional circumstances that all of us, globally, have found ourselves experiencing. Finding one's balance in...

Magic in Windowland (Pip's Adventures in Windowland) by Rupamanjari Majumder is a unique little book that is awesome for any child with a big imagination. As Nina doodles on the fog on window glass, little does she know what will happen. Pip, the boy she...

Spiritual Warriors: The Rise of Night, The Rise of Light Volume 1 by Nakia L. Brown is a captivating novel that delves into the intriguing concept of spiritual warriors who must fight against powerful forces to save humanity. The story follows Benaiah, a young boy...

As a person begins to awake spiritually, they begin to view the world around them with a fresh perspective. They discover that their existence on Earth is temporary to enable their souls to achieve their true purpose through experiences before returning back to the source....

The Train Jumper is a work of fiction in the historical genre. It is aimed at the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Gwen B. Banta. The book follows Kat and Leni, two young women on the run through 1950s America who...

A young woman searches for a killer to prove her and her best friend's innocence in the fascinating amateur sleuth mystery, Horses and Corpses (Cody Costin Cozy Mystery: Book 3) by Sharyn Bradford Lunn. After returning from a day of riding with her new BFF,...