A Very Strange Zoo is an ingenious, magical tale of an inventor who creates animals by recycling household items. After they get hit by lightning, the animals come to life and build their own homes and villages. Author Chris Stead has written a fun, imaginative...

Toward the end of Con Artistry by Edwin Piers, Instafo, the author states: “A con artist is only as great as its victim”. How very true, and one might add that the less informed the victim, the greater the con artist’s chances of success. That’s...

After a traumatic car accident, a high school student suffers from amnesia that conceals more than teenage angst in the dramatic Young Adult fiction novel What The Valley Knows by Heather Christie. Molly Hanover and her mother Ann have just relocated to Millington Valley. Ann's...

The Jensen family - Lydia, her husband John, and their two children, Matthew and Grace - are the main characters that help to teach us the true meaning of Christmas and the reasons for loving Yahweh. The Unannounced Christmas Visitor by Patrick Higgins begins three...

In the storybook My Birthday Cake Needs A New Home by Chris Stead, readers are introduced to a little girl and her mother, who has baked a big birthday cake for her. The cake is so big that they cannot finish it and it does...

The Little Green Boat: The Wild Imagination of Willy Nilly 1 by Chris Stead is the story of a little boy, Willy Nilly, who goes to the beach on a hot day with his parents. He finds a green boat as he wanders around. Willy...

Can You See The Magic? by Chris Stead is the result of a beautiful collaboration between Chris Stead, the writer, and Els Dirickx, the artist. The story is about a brother and sister who want to show their father that there is magic everywhere and,...

The Fastest Kid in the World: The Wild Imagination of Willy Nilly Book 3 by Chris Stead is a fast-paced children’s illustrated story about a young boy named Willy, and how he manages to create a firestorm of trouble without really meaning to. He aims...

Follow The Breadcrumbs (The Wild Imagination of Willy Nilly Book 2) by Chris Stead is a hilarious children's picture book about a little boy that tries to simplify his life by creating a backyard pond. Willy Nilly loves visiting the ducks at the park with...

Flushed: The Meantime Stories, No. 1 is a humorous short story written by Svingen and Pedersen. He had always been rather circumspect with regard to bodily functions. It had started, he would guess, when his sister had made a big deal out of entering a...

I have to be honest here: the opening line of Converted, The Meantime Stories (No. 2) by Svingen and Pedersen immediately startled and intrigued me. I mean, what would be your reaction to reading “In the meantime…Draghan, the esteemed warlord and feared field general, fakes...

Warped by Svingen and Pedersen is a short, zany story set on board a spaceship called Agatha X, which is stuck in a wormhole inside a wormhole. Trouble is afoot and Captain Lisa Henderson must take whatever action is needed to get herself, the crew...

The Crystilleries of Echoland by Dew Pellucid begins as thousands of children disappear with only one child ever having returned. Will Cleary returned with a falcon and a wolf to watch over him, but his twin sister remained behind in Echoland, another world filled with...

Not all families are alike. There are as many different types of families as there are colors, shapes, and sizes in a handful of buttons. This is the basis of A Handful of Buttons, a picture book about family diversity by Carmen Parets Luque. The...

With her livelihood at risk, a novice apartment manager clumsily blunders her way through murder, exhibitionists, relationships, and cartons of ice cream in her desperation to maintain her new position in the hilarious sleuth mystery novel, French Vanilla & Felonies (Cambria Clyne Mysteries Book 1)...

Speakeasy: A Novella is a fiction novel written by A.M. Dunnewin. The year is 1925 and as Eddie Durante checks the inventory at his underground speakeasy, most of Eddie’s patrons are oblivious to the club’s mobster clientele. Eddie still mourns the loss of his wife,...

Hogan's Hope: A Deaf Dog, A Courageous Journey, and A Christian's Faith is a nonfiction memoir written by Connie Bombaci. Hogan’s earliest days were a miracle, even though he would be subjected to increasingly brutal treatment as he grew up. He was one of a...

A pirate ship that floats in the air instead of the water, a young warrior who chooses a pen as a weapon (or more accurately, the pen chooses the warrior), the choices we make are not always about winning in a chess game or winning...

Bound by My Choices: How a Death Nearly Broke Me But the Navy Saved Me is a memoir written by Keshawn A. Spence. Born to a dysfunctional family, Keshawn is raised by his paternal grandmother, Evelyn, in Ironshire, a small backwoods on the eastern shore...

Fated is the fourth book in The Meantime Series written by Vegard Svingen and Øyvind Skogly Pedersen. Bjorn Gustafson’s final moments of life after his car collides with a moose in Canada are filled with a multitude of memories, regrets and treasured moments with his...