Monster Science: Create Your Own Genetic Masterpiece is a children’s educational picture book written by Victoria Cerdeira with illustrations by Anna Pomelova. It follows siblings Maya and Jordan, who wish to create their own unique pet monster to play with. They discover that they need...

There is beauty all around us, and it’s soothing. Imagine the stars in the night sky and the gentle sound of the waves. It’s all very calming. In Clare Hollywood’s The Stars and Sea Are in Me, one can feel the simple power of the...

The Asset Play is a memoir-style investing guide by Pradeep Singh that draws on a career spanning from scooter resales as a schoolboy to shipping fleets, real estate, and corporate acquisitions. The book opens with a small but telling story: a young Singh notices that...

Wisteria Winter by Ann Swann is the compelling story of two sisters who lose everything they love on Christmas Eve. Woken by a premonition, Sasha Everly wakes up her older sister Linzy, only to find that it’s too late to save their parents from the...

A Third Tail by David Schecter is a delightful adventure story about two Scottish Terriers and their family. It's been a year since Piper and Mac last went to Grandma's. The two terriers live happily with their human mom, dad, and their twin children, Judy...

Bella: Beyond the Bark is part of Lana Stasek's Voices Within series. The audiobook tells the story of Bella, a dog who spent eight years bouncing between crates, streets, and shelters before she finally found a real home. She becomes a bit of a local...

Shahin Samadi's memoir, Currents of Being, Volume I, follows the author’s life as he transitions from a privileged childhood in pre-revolutionary Iran to a hardworking reinventor in America. Samadi was born in 1960 to a high-ranking military officer in Tabriz, and spent his youth moving...

Beyond the Lies by Kimberli Edmonds is a heartfelt guide about breaking free from limiting beliefs formed during your most difficult life challenges. The author uses her own experiences with early trauma, teenage pregnancy, and corporate climbing to explain how we can sometimes get stuck...

Beyond Sudden Death by Peter Pappas follows a young college student named Ella Braid who survives a sudden cardiac arrest. Her brief experience of flatlining leaves her traumatized by the terrifying visions she received. Now fitted with an internal defibrillator, she is forced to confront...

Life with a reactive dog is no easy venture. Maintaining your love for that reactive dog can be very difficult at times, especially when all the hard training over the past few months has proved futile in practice and your reactive dog, on a leash,...

The Horn of Caninia by Eddie Ferguson follows twelve-year-old Ian Richards, who's dreading his family's move from San Antonio to a sprawling old house out in Texas bayou country, mosquitoes and all. But the backyard hides more than swamp water. Ian finds strange symbols carved...

Protagonist Mode by Luna Mindwise takes a practical look at the digital chaos that defines growing up today. The guide talks about the non-stop notifications, late-night texts, and algorithmic feeds that leave teenagers feeling disconnected and stuck in a loop of just reacting to their...

This setting is Georgia, 1856. Cain and Olivia Breedlove buried their father a couple of weeks earlier. At the reading of the will a stipulation is placed on Olivia. She must marry within six months to a man of upstanding character and financially well off or...

I love historical books that take place during the Civil War Era, this book did not disappoint me. This book contains steamy scenes and graphic language. The characters make this book. Sophia, Gavin and Jesse have been friends since childhood. Jesse and Sophia have been pledged...

Half Tzanatzi, Rom was not well accepted. He was a traveling merchant, peddling his dyes and spices. He traveled according to the seasons. This time he would travel through the Gardeth Forest, he'd been warned not to. People had been disappearing, later their bodies would...

I was hooked from the moment I read the Prologue of Just a Common Lady. Karen Pirnot knows who she is and she is proud of it. She does not have to put on airs and pretend to be one of the elite. Pirnot cares...

Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award WinnerEvery time I pick up my grandchildren they ask for a Buddy story. Buddy is our German shepherd. It is a long drive home. When they were toddlers, they would get bored so I began telling them stories about Buddy....

Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Award Winner"A Colorful Day" by Karen Hutchins Pirnot is a delightful book for young children. Each page rhymes and has a corresponding picture. Purple cows, turquoise horses and a bright red dolphin are among the animals that adorn this book. Taryn...

Pookie was different. She was a blue penguin and all of her friends were black penguins. Her mother tried to explain to her that she was a special penguin but Pookie just felt different. Some of the other penguins teased her. Pookie felt like she...

Khaya Dawn Klanot clearly expresses the definition of a real friend in her poem "A True Friend". In "A Rainbow of Moods", the author expresses the emotions and moods that she associates with colors. Parents will appreciate the words in "A Very Busy Family". "My...