Destination 2: Frontline Workers During the Pandemic by Tarze Thomas is a collection of two stories about working in retail during the pandemic. The first story is Bailey’s Decision. Bailey has lost her husband and lives alone with her cats. Struggling to cope, she decides...

Hold, Please is Richard Hester's story of Stage Managing A Pandemic. It's March 2020, and the Coronavirus Pandemic is starting to take hold. At last, the President has acknowledged the seriousness of the situation, and panic begins to set in. Broadway shuts down, and Richard...

Did you find yourself munching on snacks while cooped up in your home during the recent COVID lockdowns? Did you go through a phase of lethargic apathy, feeling unmotivated to go to work or take care of your health? If the answers to one or...

From the Windowpane: A Book about the Pandemic by Dr. Ida Acuña-Garza relates a young girl’s eye-opening reflections about the changes brought about by the pandemic. Alyssa recounts how everything drastically changed in a day. Everyone had to stay at home without knowing what the...

Inoculated: The End of One Pandemic and the Beginning of Another is a work of fiction in the medical thriller, conspiracy, action, and suspense subgenres. It is best suited to the mature adult reading audience and was penned by author Todd M. Thiede. Holding up...

Emerging: Stories from the Other Side of a Cancer Diagnosis, Loss, and a Pandemic by Nancy Stordahl is a fantastic self-help book based on Nancy’s experiences with cancer, loss, and COVID-19. Nancy covers important topics such as reconstruction, guilt, trauma, regret, loss, and various other...

Many of us lost family members and friends during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mourning the loss of a friend is never easy, and it became all the more difficult during the recent pandemic with the unique circumstances people found themselves in. In What...

Good News. Bad News, Who Can Tell? (The Pandemic Reveals Wisdom) is a collection of stories, poems, essays, and lyrics from various people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The book was compiled by Don Worth and was inspired by a parable that teaches people not...

A Healing Journey is a memoir by Gilda Morina Syverson in which she details her spiritual exploration, beginning with a prophetic dream about burning skyscrapers and extending through various therapeutic practices. Guided by Spiritual Director Betty White, Syverson engaged in Healing Touch therapy, addressing personal...

The Fed and The Flu: Parsing Pandemic Economic Shocks by David R. Kotok, Michael R. Englund, Tristan J. Erwin, and Elizabeth J. Sweet presents a timely and scholarly exploration of the significant economic disruptions caused by pandemics throughout history. The book is highly analytical, utilizing...

A Chance Killing is a work of fiction in the historical fiction, murder mystery, and suspense sub-genres, and was penned by author Henry Farley. Our central protagonists are Will Davies and Lou Macklin, and we find them thrown into the tail end of the First...

Because We Stayed Home by Paula Shue Winfrey talks about how much the world has changed since last March when people started testing positive for Covid-19. The whole world seemed to change overnight and turn into something that was both confusing and scary. It was...

Pharmacy Girl by Kate Szegda is a story of The Great War, Spanish Influenza, and the Truth about Billy Detwiler. It’s 1918 and a war is raging. The First World War is still being fought but another deadly battle is also being fought, one of...

Jake and the Purple Unicorn: Jake’s Dreamland by Chris Hardy really brought out the inner child in me. I read this book out loud and found myself enjoying it. Jake goes into his dreamland and there he meets a new friend Gwen; a purple and...

What are you grateful for? Are you grateful for a warm house in which to live, food to eat, water to drink, toys to play with, books to read? There are so many things to be grateful for. I bet you can make a list...

It happened to me, and I am sure it will happen to you and your children. Within two minutes of starting to read Jake and the Biggest Yawn Ever by Chris Hardy, I began to Y-A-W-N. Our puppy friend, Jake, lets out the most enormous...

In Almost Full Circle: From Montserrat to Canada and Back-ish, Jacqueline Greer Graham takes readers back to her Caribbean roots, her youth in Montserrat, and her time in Canada with her mother and stepfather. She remembers the wonderful and positive experiences she had as a...

Ty and Marcus are just your average kids. Like most brothers, they fight, they play, they like sports. Life in Chicago seems downright plain and easy, until the boys are sucked through a portal to another dimension. Now, what the brothers thought was impossible is...

The Art of Bwaling According to the Pink Dog: 5 Simple Steps to Release Life’s Messy Stress is described as a lighthearted, inspirational gift book, filled with wit, canine wisdom, and a simple, practical approach to releasing stress. Sharon Mounu Riddell and the Pink Dog...

Stealing Home: A Father, a Son, and the Road to the Perfect Game is a nonfiction sports memoir written by Ron Seybold. Seybold’s anxiety was an inherited condition that wasn’t even considered a disorder or treatable at the time when he entered into his first...