The Astronaut Wives Club is a fascinating, poignant and often heartrending window into the daily lives of the women whose husbands went to work outside of earth’s atmosphere and all too often did not come home. At the beginning of the Race to Space, the...

The Crossover Test by Joseph Schwartz features two brothers - James and Rory Conrad, who were found by their adoptive mother, wandering along a road as children. They have no memory of their past or where they came from. Their new mother, however, is a...

The Trip Into Milky Way, a historical coming of age story set during the late sixties and early seventies, is written by Gary Paul Corcoran. Clay is precipitously bounced out into the world when he decides to buck authority one day and wear moccasins without...

The Odd Chick, by author Mary Esparza-Vela, is a truly delightful cute read. It is a wonderful addition to any collection for a very young audience as a bed time story. The story of Buki, the odd chick out, gives the adult readers reading it...

The Turtle Who Imagined is a children’s picture book by Mary Esparza-Vela. Kevin Collier provides illustrations alongside the tale, which centers on a young turtle who compares himself to the other animals he sees in the woods around him. At first, the turtle is envious...

The Story of Hunadi by Mokoka Klaas Mashishi is a wonderful depiction of a few African families living on a farm during apartheid in South Africa. We are introduced to twins Sello and Hunadi, and Gerrit, the son of the white farmer, Kruis. Gerrit is...

The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering From Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem by Lisa A. Romano is a book about recovery and healing. The author takes readers on a journey through her past where she speaks about her past traumas, dysfunctional...

The Bene Lumen Chronicles: Samhain School of Ancient Knowledge is an exciting young adult book by author John R. McCormick. It details the ongoing battle between the Bene Lumen (the forces of good) and the Illuminati (the forces of evil). Sixteen-year-old Kiernan and his younger...

The Yogini With A Thousand Eyes by Francine Juhasz is an exciting novel with a meditative and yogic theme that will enable readers to step into a higher level of consciousness. Set in Amsterdam, this is the story of Annajoy who finds ecstasy in her...

Eleven-year-old Jenny thinks her mother pays more attention to her older brother, Brian, and little sister, Janine. She misses her father who is hospitalised, and often quarrels with her mother who never listens to her. Jenny believes she is a misfit in the family. She...

The Longest Trail: A True-Life Novel by Roni McFadden is a book for horse lovers. Roni McFadden is a young teen who is damaged, like many young teens. She is damaged, confused and disliked by many in school. Her only good moments in her life...

The She Wolf is a fantasy novella for young adult and preteen readers written by T.L. Needham. Ted Bredwell and his family have moved away from their house in the city to the outer suburbs. Ted's not too thrilled with the change, but his parents...

In The Wrong David by Christa Wojo, we meet David as he embarks on a business trip to the vineyards of Provence with his life-long best friend, Brian, and Brian's wife, Vanessa. Secretly in love with her for years, David joins Brian and Vanessa to...

The Starburst Juju by Monica Strang is an exciting adventure and science fiction story in which the main character - fifteen-year-old Pepper - goes in search of her parents after the abduction of humans by extraterrestrials. The twist in the story happens from where the...

The Wish by Michael Scanlon is a story of regret. Sara Jones is on holiday with her parents and brother in New York. Her brother, Matthew, has always annoyed her and, in a fit of pique, she sees a fortuneteller and makes a wish that...

The Deepest Dark by Joan Hall Hovey is a novel of suspense and terror. Abby Miller is an author. Since she lost her husband and daughter in a car accident, she has withdrawn into herself, depressed to the level where she considers taking her own...

Ever have one of those days where a fly or another type of insect seemed to be following you around, being an annoyance during every activity, and no matter how many times you swatted or shooed it away, it just kept coming back? The Bug...

Barbara Casey’s novel, The Gospel According to Prissy, is about prisons, both with and without bars. Laramie (Lara) is in her own private prison. A victim of an abusive relationship, she realizes that she must take desperate steps in order to survive. Warden Miriam Temple...

General consensus within the scientific community was that the North Korean weather satellite was dead on arrival in space and was promptly forgotten. But now the satellite has awakened and North Korea wastes no time in launching its secret space-based weapon against the United States....

If you like science fiction novels that could someday be reality, you just might like The Genius Dilemma by Dustin Grinnell. Dr. Alan Pierce is a top neuroscientist who teaches at Stanford. His mother is dying from late stage Alzheimer's disease. He desperately wants to...