We all make great efforts to achieve good results. That's why graduation day is so meaningful for both children and adults, as that is the moment when we can celebrate the results of our work. A beautiful way to illustrate this idea is with Never...

Anima by Anna Casamento Arrigo is a compilation of original poetry based on multiple themes that all weave through the same pattern as the focus on emotional experiences. These vary from a comparison drawn between the vivid imagination of a child who eventually sees some...

Retribution, the second book in Michael J. Farlow’s Records of the Argos Series, opens with Captain Hall receiving orders from the Commodore. He is to present the Argos as a trading ship looking for agricultural machinery and obtain information about the planet Azel. While he is...

Bitter Draughts by Yves Fey is the sequel to Floats the Dark Shadow. The author transports the reader to 1898 in Paris where Theodora Faraday and Detective Michel Devaux find themselves in the heart of murder, gang wars, and anti-Semitic riots caused by the Dreyfus...

Small Smile's Sunday Buddy and other South Brooklyn Tales by J.A. McNally is an anthology of short stories centered around a man's life with Brooklyn as the backdrop. After a sixteen-hour shift, a nurse begins to wonder about the dreams of her unconscious patient. That...

All Roads Lead to Nowhere is an epic thriller set in a futuristic dystopia where the United States has fallen to the People's Republic of China and Russia. The country is divided into the Paradise Cities, where the rich and privileged have their sanctuaries, while...

He Wears a Blue Bonnet is a work of fiction in the historical subgenre. It is best suited to the mature reading audience owing to the serious subject matter and some colorful historical language and was penned by author John Orton. Set during the seventeenth...

Woodstock To St. Joseph's is a slice-of-life drama novel by Steve Lindahl. The book opens with Corrine Hedden bringing her terminally ill aging father, Gregory, to St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, Quebec, in the hopes of a miracle cure. The narrative then shifts POVs between...

“What would YOU like for Christmas, Santa?” Christmas is a magical time of year, made more magical by the legends of that jolly old character from the North Pole. To many, Santa Claus may be considered a myth, a childhood story, a story to share...

“She was different but not in the way she’d thought. And, it turned out, “different” wasn’t so bad.” Aren’t we all different? Don’t we all have something unique and beautiful to share with the world? Melody the unicorn thought she wasn’t beautiful because she didn’t...

Flight by Debbalin Fulton is a whimsical story that emphasizes taking advantage of the opportunities we have in our life and blooming where we are planted. It tells the story of two little hatchlings, Blew and Windy, who share separate dreams. Like any other young...

Secrets Buried in the Wood by Emily Stalder Johnson follows an intriguing plot of discovery. Arrow Warren is surprised when Aunt Lena decides to hide her at Grandma and Grandpa Lawrence’s wilderness retreat near Marietta, Ohio. Arrow is confused and frightened because no one will...

In Sawyer’s Stories: Time For The Chickens To Go To Sleep by Sawyer Ique, two chickens realize it’s time for them to get ready for bed. They go through the bedtime ritual by putting their toys away first. With their stuff picked up, it’s time...

Beam Me Up, written by Fabian Ferguson and illustrated by Trudi-Ann Hemans, is a picture book that tells the story of a little boy with a fantastically wild imagination. Once his momma tucks him into bed and says goodnight, the day is not over for...

The Wonder of Jazz by Sammy Stein begins with the history of jazz in New Orleans, mentioning Ragtime, Dixieland, and the complex influences of international music. The author then attempts to define jazz according to structure, improvisation, and relationship to other genres, while also discussing...

The End by John Bray, illustrated by Josh Cleland, is a concept book with attitude. John Bray sees life as a series of beginnings, middles, and endings. When something ends, something else begins, and after the beginning, but before the end, there’s the middle. Sometimes...

Vegan Family, written and illustrated by vegan activists Randi Seltzer Bonica and Abby Broussard, is a colorful acronym picture book for young vegans. Its intended audience is children in families who choose to refrain from animal products out of respect for animal rights. As readers...

The Bogota Promise is a work of fiction in the thriller subgenre and is the first installment of the Tom Finnegan series. It is aimed at mature readers and was penned by Mike Klapheke. The book sees Finnegan come out of hiding to face a...

The Three Witches and The Three-Headed Dagger is a work of fiction in the fantasy, action, and paranormal adventure sub-genres, and was penned by author Henry Regnault. The work is intended for the adult and young adult reading audiences and is the opening novel to...

When we try to be kind but receive a negative response, our feelings can be hurt. It is harder for children. We must nevertheless be polite and understand that a refusal is also a valid answer. Anna D Intia explores this theme in It's Okay...