Garden Quartz and Paper Flowers by T.L. Garrett is a collection of stories centered around Calla, a girl who endures pain and abuse but ultimately learns to find healing. A home is meant to be a safe place for a child to grow up and...

Lieutenant Norman by Goutham Kool Monk tells the story of a heroic military dog named Norman, whose life is forged on the battlefield beside his handler, Sergeant Harris. Sadly, Norman sustains a critical leg injury and a life-shattering loss, which results in an early retirement...

The Princes of the Abyss by George Jankovic is an epic YA fantasy and the second installment of The Lords of Dimensions series. Alex, a thirteen-year-old elemental warrior, and his friends, Lin, Whiz, and Cleo, are still recuperating from their battle against the Man with...

Nicholas: The Legacy of a Man of God by Saul Miranda is a truly unique, one-of-a-kind book. It’s a biography that points readers to God’s faithfulness and focuses on Nicholas’s legacy, which is still being written. Nicholas’s son-in-law initiated the project. This book recounts Nicholas's...

The Artificial Elephant by Eric J. Hull, Jake J. Hull, and C. M. Stultz is a collection of stories that explores grief, survival, loneliness, and the search for connection in a world of hardship and pain. The first story introduces Sarah, a lonely single mother...

The Garden Friend by Mary Frances Baker is a fanciful, rhyming, beautifully illustrated story featuring an acorn-topped creature. The tale is in English, with a Spanish translation provided beneath each line of the poem. In the dark of night, the Garden Friend, through its senses,...

The Choice Within by Stephanie Woodman is an absolutely riveting and fascinating tale of World War II told from two vastly different perspectives. Jeannette Crawford is a committed young nurse working out of a Honolulu hospital, taking care of those wounded in the Pacific War....

In Michael Wong's Grandma's Timeless Wisdom, Charlie enjoys spending time with his grandmother, who demonstrates her love for him. Grandma tells Charlie that love can be expressed through actions, including hugs and sharing. Grandma explains that her way of showing affection is through tight hugs....

The Belly of the Anaconda by C. Arthur Ellis, Jr. blends history and fiction, offering a vivid portrait of New Orleans during the Civil War. The story focuses on Rachel Durand, a widow whose life has been shattered by war. As Union troops take control...

Window of Lies by Lilly Collins is an intriguing novella that blends women’s fiction, psychological thriller, and crime mystery. Sarah Hill wakes up from a dream of running with a baby on her back. It has been a year since she moved out of her...

A Camping Conundrum by Stacy Walker is an investigation of robbery and murder on a camping trip. This is a fast-moving story that holds the reader’s attention from the first page to the very last. The main characters are Liz, who is an exemplary Certified...

The term “ghost in the machine” was first coined by Gilbert Ryle in 1949, and simplistically put, suggests that consciousness or the mind can exist alongside, but independently, within a physical entity. The Ghost in the Machine Reconsidered by Joshua Robertson revisits this and related...

Justin is a young sales rep living in New York City and desperately missing his family back home. On a long weekend, one of his colleagues, Trevor, sensing his loneliness, invites Justin to join him at a cabin in the Catskills. Justin has had a...

Petey Perfectpants and the Silly Sock Puppet Problem by Jimmy Vee is a children’s picture book about a boy named Petey, who seems to be perfect in every way. He keeps his room clean, he has good manners, and he tries to get good grades,...

Look! There Are No Dinos Inside of This Book by Jimmy Vee is a playful and imaginative adventure hinting that some extinct animals might still roam the earth, just out of sight. It begins with Dangerous Dave, a self-proclaimed dinosaur wrangler, who’s insistent that no...

R. L. Hare's Boardroom Assassin: Executive Vengeance is the sequel to Boardroom Assassin, a thriller centered on CEO Rick Frown's pursuit of the perfect murder and detective Elena Kolonik's hunt for the killer. This time, the battle takes place in the courts: the court of...

Big Kid Night by Kira Wallette is a heartfelt children's book about a mother lovingly getting her toddler ready for bed. The little girl's room is calm as her Mama rocks and sings her to sleep, filling their space with comfort. The toddler is sweetly...

Joan Brooks Baker’s In the Swampyland is a collection of personal stories tracing her moments of discovery across childhood and adulthood. In The Burrito, eleven-year-old Joan defies her father’s warning and ventures to buy food from a nearby bodega, where a frightening encounter with local...

“Only much later do you realize that all the maturity forced upon you has robbed you of something precious.” In Martyn Burke's novel, The Gossip Columnist, many characters experience loss, with innocence being just one of the things taken from them. As the Weimar years...

Out of the Past: Collected Essays on World and American History by Michael Murphy covers different historical subjects in two parts. The first section discusses world history, including Plato's thoughts on democracy, Augustine's philosophy of history, Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism, and how the Nazis came to...