Echoes from Wuhan depicts the immersive story of a young American woman who traveled to Wuhan for a teaching job. At the time she left for China, Gretchen Dykstra was one of the 100 Americans the Chinese hired to teach English in colleges around the...

While wishing to delve deep into the reasons for her great-grandad's pain and passive aggression, Sandy Ross inadvertently came across the sociological issues that stem from the Two-Way culture that many aboriginal natives of Australia have inherited down the generations. Through Wurruwarrin, author Sandy Ross...

After suffering a fatal attack from Zeta-3 – a deadly virus − the United States had been reduced to a land of chaos and ruin, with the streets of its cities crawling with half-sane, half-conscious virus carriers. Greedy thieves who called themselves taxmen, militia, and...

The Other Side of the Ocean by Beverley Bell is a gripping story of a young boy’s frightening life journey from war-torn Sierra Leone. Saah is the only son of a local elder and enjoys a happy childhood in Freetown with his parents and sisters....

Pride is deadly, and it kills happiness. In One Step to Happiness, Ken W. Davies first deals with pride, how to detect it, and how to eradicate it before explaining happiness. The chapter on recognizing pride has an extensive list of questions to help us...

There are so many ways that children can learn the alphabet. Why not do so with food and nutrition? In reading Queen Bee's Alphabet Cookbook: A Nutrition Guide for Families by Mariah Ecker RD and Teri Ecker, children will have fun because they will learn...

Storm and Solace: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling by Robin Woods is not your typical retelling of a beloved fairytale. Created to protect the seas rather than destroy them, sisters Atla, Imth, and Saxa had a hard job, but it needed to be done....

Breadcrumbs on a Koi Pond comprises over fifty items by Donna Stavely. They vary in length from a few lines to a few pages. The words evoke scenes, colors, relationships, and emotions. The mood varies from contemplative to reflective, romantic, philosophical, or witty. There are...

Back of the Yard: A Great Depression Family Saga by Meg Lelvis follows an Irish Catholic family during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Growing up near the stockyards of South Chicago, Betty O'Leary, the youngest of her siblings, desperately wanted the confidence and quick...

Remaining Human is a work of fiction in the dystopian adventure subgenre, and it serves as the first installment in the Anamorphosis Zero book series. The work is intended for the general reading audience and was penned by author K. B. Blank. In this thrilling...

Master Mouse doubted that his hard-to-lead team would win the quest they were on. With Robert the pig who always thought about food, Gemma the dumb giraffe, and Sally the slowest slug he had ever seen, who would blame Master Mouse for thinking little of...

Old Cockatoo by C.J. Cronin is a gripping drama novel that follows the lives of an Australian family of horse trainers in the early 1910s. Former British Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe McCallister's life didn't quite turn out the way he thought it would. Fuelled by...

In AntonTon by Grigor Vitez, and translated by Irena Stanic Rasin, we are introduced to a very odd individual with the same name as the title. He does things on his farm that many people find strange and just outright weird. AntonTon thinks a lot...

The Delphine: Haunter Grey Prequel 2 by Ross C. Miller explores the complexities of time travel through the eyes of its protagonist, Wakanda. Set on the mysterious planet Bethel, the story follows her journey through space and time as she attempts to prevent the Wilson...

ElsBeth and the Freedom Fighters by J Bean Palmer is the story of a young witch called ElsBeth, who lives in the human world. She goes to a human school and must hide what she can do from everyone around her. As well as dealing...

The Dogs of War by Alvin Yusin is a work of historical fiction that centers around the political ambitions of an American family during the World War II era. Elizabeth, an ambitious matriarch, schemes from the birth of her son Andrew to position him on...

When Cotton Was King (A Novel about Slavery and Civil War) by Alvin S. Yusin is a historical novel that would appeal most to a mixed audience made up of young adults and adults who enjoy historical fiction focused on the time of the American...

I love the words “Love, laughter and rhubarb” on the cook’s apron in Pot Luck: Random Acts of Cooking by Tinky Weisblat. It’s quite prophetic and they’re three things at the top of my appreciation list. Seriously, food is full of so much that defines...

It's Alive! by Julian David Stone takes you into a fascinating and enthralling era behind one of the most iconic films in Hollywood. The very day he is going to be named vice president of Universal Pictures, Junior Laemmle is having a panic attack—the last...

We have a tendency to flee our unpleasant past in pursuit of a better present and future. But what if your dreadful past caught up with you and the only option was to confront it head-on? Shadow of the Gypsy by Shelly Frome leads us...