Kalisz: a Journey of Return by Rosalind Brenner is an interesting novel that dramatizes the long-ranging effects of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II. It tells two stories. The first is about the early life of Sender (later Alex) Berner, a young...

Many people have turned away from traditional organized religions in search of a connection to their own personal spirituality. Awaken Your Divine Intuition by Susan Shumsky, D.D. is an exceptional resource for achieving that goal. In this clear, straight-forward, easy to follow text, you are...

In Bernard Jan's Cruel Summer, Michael is a seventeen-year-old boy living in New York. Michael loves skateboarding and wants to ride professionally. He and his abusive father, Hank, don't get along, and his mother died a few months ago. Michael's sister, Rebecca, is in Denver...

Goodbye Poonjab by Gabriel McMichael is a heartwarming story of loss and love where children read how Elijah is trying to overcome the loss of his pet dog, Poonjab. Elijah is sad and cannot understand why Poonjab had to die. His parents want to get...

A Moment for Mom: Self-care for Busy Moms by Alice Langholt is a helpful guide for all mothers who want to balance body, mind, emotions, and spirit in just 30 seconds. Busy moms will find themselves becoming more patient, more present, happier, and more loving...

In a highly engaging and engrossing new read by author Clayton Graham, Milijun is a story that you simply won't want to put down once you've started reading it! Taking place in Australia in the year 2179, the story follows the lives of mother and...

Raised by just her father and brother, Lucy Goodwin grew up to be an independent spirit with little regard for some of the etiquette society expected of a young lady. But nothing in life had prepared her for the responsibilities she was now facing. Barely...

What My Brain Told Me by Thom Kudla is an introspective and emotionally rich collection of autobiographical essays, poetic reflections, and short stories chronicling the author's coming-of-age journey through family, friendship, love, loss, and self-discovery. With both tenderness and biting wit, Kudla explores the depths...

Thomas Kudla’s poetry is fresh, inventive, playful, wise, insightful, musical, revealing (in the particular way that only simple questions, simply asked, can be), and always engaging. In Commencement, Kudla leads his reader through an abecedary of poetic observations, followed by similar riffs based on numbers,...

In Out of Context, poet Thom Kudla offers a series of sardonic, heartbreaking and often inexplicably poignant observations on the futility and joy of being fundamentally human. The human condition has existed for as long as there have been poets to muse upon it, and...

WhipEye is the first book of the WhipEye Chronicles by Geoffrey Saign. On the one-year anniversary of her mother’s death, twelve-year-old Samantha makes her way to the Endless Pet Store in Minnesota to talk to her favorite parrot, Charlie. After receiving menacing looks from the...

Hollywood Heartbreak: New York Dreams by Kody Christiansen introduces us to Kaleb, a well known female illusionist whose journey took him from Texas to New York and then to Hollywood. A story that is tragic, inspiring and very true. Kaleb goes onto national TV as...

There couldn’t be a better opening for the Wisdom Chronicles series than Wizard of Wisdom by Walter C. Conner, a work of brilliance and high class entertainment, a powerful promise for a very enjoyable read. From the impressive cast of characters to the dazzling plot...

Princess of Wisdom is book two in the Wisdom Chronicles by Walter C. Conner, an electrifying epic fantasy. It has been four years since the confrontation between Wil and the Wizard of Wisdom. Now, elements of evil are amalgamating and floating towards the earth, corrupting...

“I wish they had told me / when I was a kid / that my allowance wouldn't buy me / a sustainable smile.” (p.16) If there is one poetry book you should read in your whole lifetime, it is How I Am Different by Thom Kudla,...

J.L. Pete’s Call It Magic is a smart, funny, heartwarming love story. It is unique in its genre in that it comes with a sci-fi twist. Disappointed that her family forgot her birthday – again – and stood up by her date, Magician Harper Adams...

Where Did My Doggie Go? Coping With Grief Through Imagination: Children in Grief, Volume 3 is a children's storybook written and illustrated by Tracy Wayland, and dealing with social issues. The narrator in this tale is a little boy whose dog has died. He doesn't...

As a victim of child abuse myself, I have a pretty thick skin when I read stories similar to my own. But Where Children Run by Karen Emilson shook me to my core with its depiction of violence against children, especially since it is a...

Kat's Law by Samantha St. Claire is an 1888 western romance and much more. Katherine has become a doctor during a time when women doctors are not well received. Dr. Katherine Meriwether, Kat, returns home to Snowberry in the Idaho Territory before starting her...

Haiku Dance by Cora J. Ramos is a story of young love torn apart that soon blossoms into full blown adult love after the two reunite. Young Miyoshi and Shino live as neighbors on Mount Takao where tea farmers were prevalent. They quickly become friends...