Terry Weaver's latest Eli Ridge thriller, A Long Night Cry, is a gripping tale of murder, kidnapping, and corruption set in the searing heat of Houston. Detectives Eli Ridge and Thaddeus Preck race against time to find three missing girls, including a billionaire CEO and...

In one of his final speeches, Barack Obama made a telling comment that echoes one of the illuminating themes of How to Stand Up to Bullying. Bullying is not acceptable in any context. The contentions put forth by M.C. Ryder establish that such an unequivocal...

Alicia Connected: Lost and Found by Derek Fisher is a lovely children’s story about Alicia’s experience living in a world of technology. Alicia and her friends love playing the game TullyTown. Through this, they send each other messages and explore the town with their avatars....

Jerry panics when he cannot find his wallet to pay a restaurant bill. He calls family and friends, but no one picks up. Fortunately, one of the customers, Richard, volunteers to lend him a one-hundred-dollar bill on the condition they exchange names and home addresses,...

Cheerful Obedience is a work of fiction in the historical, military, action, and adventure subgenres penned by author Patrick McLaughlin. It is best suited for mature readers as it contains accurate and sometimes distressing depictions of war and combat. Set during the Vietnam War, we...

Divided by Suzanne Lowe is the third book in the Seventeen series and concerns a town where the inhabitants are all children. The adults had all succumbed to a virus that only appeared to attack older people. As there were only children in town,...

“Why do I have to rewrite my script just because it has no structure? After all, it is only a story. Can’t I do what I want?” If a student told you that, how would you challenge them? Somdev Chatterjee has faced this question in...

Maggie's Lost Song by Danielle La Rosa is the story of a little girl who adores music and is part of a loving family that chimes in chorus. Their neighbors' response reflects the value of sharing exuberance with others. Amidst this creative scenario, Maggie becomes...

One would think that at the ripe age of 80 plus years old, Seamus Damp would desire to live his last days in the company of his family and loved ones. Instead, Seamus wants to live on an island with his dog, Olivia, with no...

In Dizzy And The Dinosaur Dance-Off by Brandon Rohrbaugh, Dizzy is a dinosaur who is much smaller than his friends. He has an idea that would be earth-shaking and fun; a dance-off between the dinosaurs. Dizzy invited everyone, including Stompy, Tricky, and Toots, who would...

Keeping Secrets is the fourth installment of Jill Ammon Vanderwood's award-winning The Path You Choose series. In this book, you, the reader, are one of the main protagonists. You will get fifteen different endings to the storylines depending on your choices. At a middle school...

Promise, You Will Be Kind is written by Yara Yardley and illustrated by Vikki Reds. Jamie enters a new school after leaving everything and everyone she knew behind. Adjusting to a new school with new people can be very difficult. Will Jamie make friends in...

On Second thought... Maybe I Can! by Debbie Weiss brings readers up close and personal into the author's life as an overweight child who lacked confidence and was often afraid. She grew up bowing to everyone else, doing what they wanted. She was so busy...

Denny R. Swartzlander’s Violetta: A Fae in the House of the Fairies is the second book in the Eleganta series. It divides the story into three parts. Lira is a garden fairy searching for a Lyka plant to add to her garden. Bog, a goblin,...

Glenda was feeling guilty about her previous life, having abandoned her children to go be with her new lover, Rich. Her life had not been easy, having lost her father to alcoholism at an early age and getting pregnant at the tender age of sixteen....

Deflected by Swapnonil Banerjee and Nivedita Majumdar is a historical fiction novel set in mid-19th-century colonial India, revolving around several interconnected storylines. Amid growing political unrest, Radhanath, a prominent Indian mathematician, battles personal turmoil due to feelings for Englishwoman Sara Langley, while Lawrence Cockerel, Calcutta's...

Rogue by Charlene Newcomb is a Robin Hood retelling that puts a person at odds with what’s right versus reasonable. During King John’s rule, brother to former King Richard, the king has set out to capture Allan a Dale, or Robin Hood—a man who steals...

Crossing Charry Ridge by Suzann Albright offers a wonderfully imaginative, profoundly touching, and often humorous crow’s-eye view of contemporary life in Southern Appalachia along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The story’s crow narrator, Jet, is found as a seemingly abandoned fledgling by one of the story’s...

A young boy named Levi loved fall and wanted to create a potion to remind him of his favorite things long after the season ended. Determining what to put into the potion presented a dilemma, but not for long. Levi went on a scavenger hunt...

Bondwitch is a work of fiction penned by author Chelsey M. Ortega in the paranormal adventure, fantasy, and action subgenres and is intended for the young adult reading audience. We are introduced to protagonist Annamaria Lyons, an eighteen-year-old girl from a small Wyoming town who...