A group of teens tries to prevent a crime to protect their friend in The First Twinge (Cramping Chronicles #1) by Joey Paul. Several months ago, fifteen-year-old Jessie was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia. It isn't long before she discovers that whenever she is...

Ulan by Rick Stepp-Bolling is a wonderful and tense adventure. We first meet Ulan and her few friends out after curfew, and when they are captured, disaster is the outcome. The Imperial Guards known as The Panthers kill the boys and leave Ulan mutilated and...

Raising Taylor, Finding Superwoman: The Difficult Choices Many Parents Find Hard to Make is about a single mother raising her daughter in today’s competitive world. Author Sharon Taylor-Harris writes candidly about the time, effort, and sacrifices both she and her daughter put into Taylor’s schooling...

Karen Gedney's 30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor is the true story of a female doctor’s thirty years of service to the United States Corrections System, serving as the prison doctor in a male prison. That she accepted the challenge in the...

The kingdoms of Daecland and Sunder and those who live within them create the landscape for the dark high fantasy novel Hælend's Ballad by Ian Conrey. The brutality of a war that splinters from a years-long occupation against the Sunderians by the Daecish. The depth...

Understanding Oscar by Jade Chapman is an informative and beautiful story for children. The book shows brothers Banjo and George getting to understand their other sibling, Oscar, and friend, Nala, who each have autism, but not in the same way. Oscar can't talk and sometimes...

Every Cloud is a work of fiction in the family drama genre. It is suitable for all ages and was penned by Connie Chappell. The book follows an eventful summer at the estate of Artemus Deconcini as his adult children arrive to spend the season...

If you agree that there is something amazing in conciseness when you read a work in prose, you may find that it is also true for poetry. This is what I experienced when I read Reduction Fired, a poetic collection by Jennifer Yeates Camara. Here,...

The Problem with Poppy by Emma Sandford (illustrated magnificently by Olena Osadcha) is a lovely story about being scared to make friends and about overcoming that fear. We can imagine how difficult it is for porcupines to form acquaintances! Rory is a boy tiger cub...

Arshes Megane is an immortal mage who lives outside the regular timeline. Despite her power and unique existence, even she can do little about the looming threats that will soon rip the world apart if things continue as they are. Thus, she decides to break...

I Met Her Before by Chandra Moyer is a novel inspired by true events. Marcia had beautiful kids, a promising career, and a doting husband. The couple adopted two kids, Jenna and Drew, who made their lives complete. When Jenna showed signs of trauma from...

In One Foot in the Grave, the Other Groping for Life, Yvonne Ardoin Dardeau issues a call to arms to fight the spiritual war this modern society has declared against the truth of God’s Word. The call is urgent and sincere. Yvonne explains the methods...

Tales from the Aether by Matthew Woodruff, a collection of 14 bizarre and thought-provoking short stories, will make you question your conditioned reality. What if the world is not how you have always perceived it to be? Imagine waking up in a strange, darkened room....

Bride by Proxy by Lori Power takes us all the way back to 1798 where Captain Garrett McGuire is sailing the seas of the Caribbean and the newly minted United States of America, building a shipping dynasty for his father back in England. His father...

Katie’s not very good in PE class. She can’t dribble a basketball; she can’t skip rope without tangling the rope in her legs. The other students laugh at Katie’s attempts. That is until Katie’s teacher introduces yoga to the students. Now, Katie has something she...

Riley & Ben: Life Offers Second Chances by J T White takes place from the year 1941 and finishes in the year 2011. The main characters are Whitcomb Riley McHenry and his son Ben. Other characters that make an appearance are essential in the shaping...

In Victory's Arrow by Cole Regitz and Sarah Regitz, as a child, Victory begins to develop her archery skills under the tutelage of her kind-hearted father, Mr. Whittington, a charitable soul who endeavors to assist neighboring villages. Victory picks up on her father's selfless, giving...

There is more to life than meets the eye, and living without the knowledge of or curiosity about things that exist outside the conventional, materialistic system of beliefs is somewhat limiting. Typhoon Honey is a book that aims to create a new path of success...

Heart-Dreamer: Stepping into Life, Love, Creativity and Dreams - No Matter What by Cheryl Melody Baskin is a wonderfully inspiring and motivating way to think with your heart instead of your head, which will automatically have you pursuing your dreams or returning to the lost...

In Search of a Way Out: A True Story of Bullying, Depression, and A Journey toward Hope by Bobby Straus is a non-fiction, inspirational, and motivational book in which the author shares his story from living in a mental and emotional prison to finding real,...