Mermaid and the Rainbow: Mermaid Science, by Lois Wickstrom, is an imaginative and educational picture book for young children. One cloudy day, Trezzie hears her friends Maia and Fig giggling from above the water. Trezzie intends to show her friends how to make a rainbow...

Malkah Job: Eminence Grise by Vasilissa Wladowsky is the second book in the series. In the first book, Leda was stabbed and left for dead. Luckily, in book two she wakes up in hospital after an epic fight for her life. We are given a...

Twins of the Eclipse is an action-packed fantasy novella written by Christopher Woods. Seventeen-year-old Cyrus runs away from every chance at responsibility and abhors his duties as an Elite Knight and prince of the realm of the Chaos. Already nagged by his twin sister, Octavia,...

Kallie Collins is a veterinarian who has the ability to communicate with animals. This comes in handy when an injured pet is brought in for treatment and the source of the injury is a mystery. It’s also helpful if a pet (or pets) are the...

“Is time an illusion?” If so, can you slow it down? No, you can’t slow down an illusion. So, how does that define life itself, since life is woven within the fabric of time? Complex questions – but life is like that and we never...

He Loves Me! He Truly Loves Me! The Story of Mupsie and Me and How We Came to Be! by Devon Michael Sangiovanni is an adorable picture book for young children. The story follows a cute kitten named Mupsie, who desperately wants to find his...

The Business of Ambiguity by Debbie Sutherland provides a thorough, well-researched look into how humans face the unknown. From birth until death, each of us is called upon to make decisions without having a full repertoire of factual evidence to help us make a sound...

Robbie Ducharme finished leading a group of canoeists down the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande. They made camp and had dinner around a crackling fire. This would be his last trip for the season. When he got home, the local sheriff said that after...

The Discovery of Germs by John Krieger is a fascinating exploration of humanity’s developing understanding of germs and disease through history. Krieger’s main focus is from 1600 onwards, carefully charting the development of the microscope, the beginnings of the scientific method, and then the gradual...

Treble Damages by David L. Elkind is a slice-of-life novel following the life and career of a gifted lawyer obsessed with winning at any cost. Raised by a strict authoritarian of a father who used to physically beat him, Jack Pressler grows up angry and...

In Tom Sawyer Returns by E.E. Burke, Becky has not seen Tom for many years when he falls into her kitchen, injured and suffering from some memory loss. She doesn’t know whether to be happy, angry, or sad to see him but she nurses him...

Sheela Word spins a tale of living without modern technology in her book All You Need. Luisa Morales is taking her daughter to Oregon to stay with her father, Dirk Farone, for the summer. While Teresa “Terry” Morales spends time on the farm, Luisa will...

Bloodlaced (Youkai Bloodlines) by Courtney Maguire centers on Asagi, a beautiful servant who was considered neither man nor woman. Unable to protect the boy he saw as his son from his abusive master, Asagi was sold to the gentle, kind, and generous young aristocrat Mahiro....

Blood Pact (Youkai Bloodlines) by Courtney Maguire centers on Hiro, a male geisha of unknown origins who works in the okiya of the woman who found him as a child. Hiro has always felt out of place, even in this odd setting. It is only...

The collection Silhouette: Poems by Nancy Viera covers the movements of life from love to seeking freedom and experiencing rejection and explores the emotions in each of these shifts. “I Am” is an emphatic poem in which the narrator sheds the labels imposed on her....

Legacy of Power is the first installment of a new series by C.C. Bolick. Charlie’s mother is dying, but not of cancer as she thought. When their home is invaded by strange men intent on taking her mother away, Charlie’s world turns upside down. She...

The Return to Deephaven is the second book in The Adventures of Crimson and the Guardian series by Karen Cossey. Twelve-year-old Kinsey is tired of reading the enormous pile of books entrusted to her by her father, Lord Eric Bardin. When she discovers that she...

In Grandma, I Don’t Want To Go To Sleep: A Forever Love Tale by Richard Ceasor, we are introduced to a little boy who is troubling his grandma because he doesn’t want to go to bed. His grandma tries to explain why it is necessary...

The Memory of Sydney by J.A. Hailey, the 7th book of Chronicles of a Stolen World, follows the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Sydney, Australia. Sydney is no more. Burned to ash and radioactive dust. However, it's not just the 'real' world that deals...

A Most Efficient Murder: A 1920s Country House Mystery by Anthony Slayton is the first book in the Mr. Quayle Mysteries. Lord Unsworth hosts a party that quickly becomes a mystery perfect gathering with red herrings, misleads, and scandalous secrets. Not to mention the body...