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...

Everyone knows about horoscopes and most people even know what their sign is, but what happens when your sign doesn’t sound like you at all? You might be shocked to learn that there is so much more to astrology than simply knowing your sun sign....

Another Way Over by John J. Michalik is the tale of a Slovak immigrant who travels to America on the brink of World War I in search of a better life. Inspired by Michalik's paternal grandfather's life story, the book follows Jan Brozek, son of...

The Marquis' Daughters: In the Shadow of the Guillotine tells the tale of two daughters of a noble family trying to survive the French Revolution with its thirst for the rolling heads of royals and nobles and its hoarding of bread. These sisters belonged to...

Killing Innocence is a work of fiction in the murder mystery and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience and was penned by author Merit Clark. Written as the second novel in the Jack Fariel Denver Mysteries series, we are...

Bits From the Pieces is an inspiring memoir by Georgette Noëllat relating her life story from her childhood to current times amid the influx of the Covid-19 pandemic. Brought up in a strict Catholic household in Australia, Georgette suffers harrowing physical and psychological abuse from...

The Adventures of Ditsi the Dor-rat and her Friend the Donkaroo: A Children's Guide to Lessons in Life by Lisa Wilson is the heart-warming story of Ditsi who did not like the image that she saw of herself in the mirror. Ditsi felt she looked...

Isn’t It A Miracle? is a beautiful children’s book written by Heather Lean with illustrations by Marina Reshetnikova. On each page, readers are invited to delight in the natural world and to take in the many miracles that are occurring right before our eyes. From...

Good Pals by Michael C. Barrett is a young adult novel that alternates between the perspectives of two teenaged outcasts, Nick and Rachel. Nick is working on a long-term plan to ask his crush to the Spring Fling, but he still has months to go....

Huh? Why? and Punch by Marc Jedel is the fifth book in the Silicon Valley Mystery series. Marty has arrived in paradise for a much-needed vacation with his loved ones. He has every intention of enjoying his downtime by putting aside any sleuthing and having...

Pages by Kathy Weyer is set in San Diego and tells the suspenseful story of ninety-plus-year-old Iris Anderson and her driver Jade Robinson. When Iris passed away, she bequeathed to Jade her residence and all its contents, bringing unwanted attention to Jade. The only caveat...

Skye Nicholson brings to life a compilation of poems that reach into your heart, shake it up, and put it back. These poems are somewhat the reincarnation of Kate Chopin’s awakenings. It becomes very easy to feel what the author portrays in her poems. Her...

A Walk Through the Wilderness: One Man’s Journey from Faith to Fundamentalism to Atheism by Dan Conger is the intensely personal journey of the author, caught up in a fundamentalist Christian cult in his younger days, and his journey through the collapse of the cult...

William Through Time is the second book of the Magical Bookshop series by Harmke Buursma. After serving years in the harrowing Napoleonic War, William Chambers returns home to his apartment in Albany, London, brokenhearted. He receives a letter from his best friend, John Easton, who...