We all have a past, and the past comes with baggage. What one does with the baggage will affect their life now and in the future. In Baggage by Laurel Lorenzini, children learn how to handle their baggage and how much better life is when...

In her inspirational memoir, Damaged Goods, Stacy Kaye recounts her journey from a small town with a strong church presence to a life marked by unexpected challenges and changes. She is blind-sided by harsh judgment and gossip from her church community when she becomes pregnant...

Fear of public speaking is a common phobia, and this is especially true for individuals who aren’t fluent in the local language. In Carla the Conqueror by Anna Maria DiDio, we meet a young immigrant from Colombia who only learned to read and write in...

Dash and the Fibonacci Fungus, written by Seth Daugherty with illustrations by Adam Maguire, is a wonderful children’s book that centers on math. One day, fifth grader Dash went to live temporarily with his Uncle Tim due to his parents’ top secret jobs in D.C....

Utopia Falling: A Darkness Rises by R.C. Vielee is an epic fantasy story. Reyne is a modest nut farmer with dreams who only wants to marry Mithany. Reyne is unaware of his ability to jump between realms or his significance in Tartica's destiny. Meanwhile, compassionate...

The idea of traveling to the future is exciting, but also terrifying for 18-year-old Margaret, but she’s certain that it’s the answer to all of her problems. But the 21st century is nothing like the 19th century that she left behind. Not the city, not...

David Cook's Unforgettable reviews the lives of three young women, Gabrielle, Althea, and Stephanie, who were adopted by Dr. Daniel Ross and his wife after tragic events caused social services to take over their care. The couple raises the children, and they become well-adjusted adults...

Blue Ridge is a crime thriller by Peter Malone Elliott. Christopher invited his twin brother to smooth things over and prevent him from going to the press. Christopher is running for governor, and he needs Cillian to keep quiet about the terrible secret they share....

Adam Unrehearsed by Don Futterman is the poignant tale of a young Jewish boy coming into manhood in the tough, unforgiving streets of urban New York in the 70s. Adam Miller is on the cusp of entering manhood through the Jewish tradition of the Bar...

Sworn Shift is the third book in The Wolves of Rock Falls series by AJ Skelly. Raven Rivers is a 17-year-old werewolf who is marked by her mate, Bowen, mere seconds after he'd tried to kill Raven's brother, Cade. She'd had no idea that her...

Verlaine Crawford created her own secret garden, one to rival the garden that inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. I have a secret garden, too, created similarly out of love and respect for all that is beautiful and profound in nature. Crawford’s Endless Shades...

In The Only Way Through Is Out, a memoir by Suzette Mullen, she tells us of her battle within herself and the frustration of knowing something in her life is missing. One day, her book coach helps her discover a possibility: she might have sexual...

Tammy L. Brown’s Dear Anne... is a poignant and timely epistolary novel that explores the emotional trauma of the Israeli/Hamas conflict through the eyes of a 13-year-old girl named Rachel. Living in a kibbutz in Israel, Rachel is constantly surrounded by the sounds of gunfire...

Whether or not you’re a Trump fan, the possibility that you have been following developments in the many indictments that Trump is facing is pretty high. Perhaps you, like me, have wondered whether the man will end up in prison. While we all speculate on...

Doctor Carol Turner always took pride in herself as a physician who had the ear of her patients and knew exactly what to do or say to make them feel at ease. When she started experiencing difficulties in cycling activities which used to be the...

Santa’s been accused of mistreating his reindeer by making them fly around the world for 24 hours each Christmas Eve. He’s also been told to change the reindeers’ diet so they don’t expel smelly flatulence that pollutes the earth below. In Christine L. Henderson’s Please...

I love this opening quote in Christine L. Henderson’s Let’s Share a Meal: “The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” Mark Twain wrote these words and it certainly defines the author’s (and...

Naina will soon turn thirty. She is a receptionist for a real estate company. It is a simple job that Naina doesn't really like, but it allows her to lead a more or less comfortable life in her beloved Charleston, South Carolina. Naina is a...

The Doomed: Volume 1 by Konstantin Devereaux is a sci-fi novel that explores the different facets of human behavior through its characters. After losing his parents to the Soviet regime at a tender age, child prodigy Alexander Sokolov grows up to become an accomplished scientist...

The Count is a historical fiction thriller by Rod Taylor. It's 1975, and Nicholas Cameron, a British national with Russian heritage, discovers financial discrepancies in the bank he works for. Meanwhile, he learns of his own links to the Cossacks through his recently deceased mother's...