The Kindness Bus by Barbara Ann Elder is about a girl named Jess. The story follows Jess, who doesn't love everything about school—homework, for one, she could do without. But every morning, she's first in line for Bus 252, and it's easy to see why....

More Than Just Luck by Greg Wier describes his painful rise from a disadvantaged childhood in a Michigan trailer park. He had an abusive alcoholic father and a teenage parenthood. This is the story of how he beat the odds to become a multimillionaire security...

Trolling for Murder by Charlotte Stuart is the second book in the Vashon Island Mystery series. The story begins when Lavender Lewis, better known as Lew, finds a dead body near the well-known twenty-foot-tall wooden troll sculpture. A typical early-morning stroll soon became an unforgettable...

In The Cuban Manuscript, Lilian George tracks the life of Liana, a woman who escapes one suffocating communist regime only to find herself trapped in another one just like it. She starts in a Soviet-controlled country where her family’s property is taken away from them...

Jonathan Miller’s The Breakdown Docket: Rattlesnake Lawyer is a unique legal thriller that follows Dan Shepard and his frenzied world. The beleaguered New Mexico lawyer is popularly referred to as the “Rattlesnake Lawyer,” who takes cases from colleagues who can’t handle them. Because of the...

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese technique for achieving balance and harmony. Contrary to the popular misconception, it is much more than rearranging the furniture, as Wendy Ellen Hanophy points out in Wind, Water and Wing: Feng Shui and the Nature of Home. It is...

A is for Apple. B is for Bum Bum: A Playful ABC Book for Silly Kids and Silly Grown-Ups by Brendyn Zachary is a well-written children's book that aids them in learning the alphabet in a fun way. Using a playful tone, Brendyn introduces the...

It is the first day after Christmas at Oakdale Middle School in Chicago, and pressure is already mounting on Grace, a seventh-grader. Her friend Andy is not happy about how his reunion with his absent biological mother, Angela, went. He wants Grace to help him...

A forty-five-year-old gambler named Joey Mumbai gets into big trouble with a sectid mobster, Fat Okko. Joey owes him one million Determinations of Official Worth, or dows. Fat Okko finds out that Joey inherited Space Station Halcyon from his billionaire father. The sectid sees an...

Alan Shayne's And It Only Took 100 Years... is his memoir from a Brookline boyhood into a public life built through acting, casting, producing, and studio leadership. Shayne enters the theater as a young man looking for a future beyond family expectations, then learns how...

In Mr. Robert's Hawaii: A Tale of Kamehameha, author Robert Bullock tells the story of the great Hawaiian monarch Kamehameha. In the eighteenth century, Kamehameha was determined to unite the islands of Hawaii. He planned a surprise attack on his neighboring islands. But to do...

American Gyro by Jim Zervanos follows eighteen-year-old Johnny Demos, the grandson of a Greek restaurateur in Kornfield, Pennsylvania, after a school play gives him a first taste of acting. Papou’s death leaves the Old Kornfield Inn in Uncle Nick’s hands, and Johnny is expected to...

In Pete Thomas’s The Christmas Will, John Roberts Jenkins has spent his life believing his father died in World War I. Then James Thompson, a Missouri attorney, finds proof that his father was John Roberts, the late owner of JR’s Department Store in Poplar Bluff....

Forged by Betrayal and Blood by Helen Garraway opens the Celestial Throne series, a fantasy that brims with ancient magic, political intrigue, and a gritty redemptive journey. Vael Tor Arne, also known as the Butcher of Leif, is a disgraced soldier who has lived on...

In Story of Distortion by X.E. Anomaly, Dash is a young Forest Villager on Deluuvius who has the Variant, a condition held back by a powerful Bracer that cannot cure him. After he seals the alien First inside a prison called a Vault, the Celestial...

Patriots in Shadows by Krishna Kumar is set in 1940s British India, where Les Filles en Jaune, a secret circle of wealthy Indian women, make use of their extensive privilege and social access to support Subhas Chandra Bose, the exiled independence leader commanding the Indian...

Grave Intentions by Lilith Daniels is book 2 in the Grave Affairs series. Kinsley has taken a step back into the world of private investigation thanks to the trauma of being taken by mercury dragons. And just in time, too, as the dead are getting...

Susan Copperfield’s The Prince of New York follows Ian Ambrose, New York’s royal heir, after Queen Rachel pulls him back into palace work that exposes how badly his own protection has been neglected. Ian is a powerful flameweaver with a history of shielding his siblings...

It’s an ordinary day at the police precinct for coffee connoisseur and adept magicker Detective Valor Lovell. The robberies of high-end homes in the district continue to stymie him and his elephant‑shifter partner, Paul. That is, until Lovell is assigned a new partner who shakes...

Dragon Her Heels by R.J. Blain is the twenty-third book in the series. Crystal Culling thought moving to Lake Hancock would be a fresh start. But now she wonders if she should have listened to her realtor, who tried to tell her the property was...