The Awkward Optimist: A Field Guide to Human Connection by Hector M. Rodriguez offers a comprehensive look at social interactions. Rodriguez talks about attraction in both the physical and psychological sense, leaning into how shared values, proximity, and personality traits influence relationships. He's got plenty...

Dirt Town by Paula Baker and Aidan Davies delivers a steampunk fantasy that will appeal to fans of YA fantasy and adventure. Dr. Aldrich Durante lives a life of privilege in a city where magic dictates destiny and robots enforce a rigid hierarchy. But when...

Anthony is on the dock, fishing pole in hand and line in the water. His older brother and sister play cards nearby on the deck of a cabin while his parents put together dinner. Suddenly, there’s a pull on his fishing line. Anthony is worried....

"Shoot The Wounded" centers around the small town and families of Maplewood. Leigh and Ronnie were best friends in grade school, things changed as they started high school. Their family life was very different. In her teen years Ronnie turned wild. Jake was a new...

In book two of Lynn Dove's Wounded Trilogy, Heal The Wounded, the author takes the reader once again into the lives of the families from the first book as they struggle with their own set of problems. Each teenager is still trying to cope with...

Between 1910 and 1969 Australia had what was known as The Stolen Generation. Children of mixed heritage of the Aboriginal tribes were forcefully abducted from their parents. Taken to orphanages or church missions and made wards of the state, they were adopted out and their...

The mother of three small girls committed suicide leaving their father to raise them. More than anything he wanted to keep them together. In haste he remarries and tells his children his new wife is their mother. For a while the girls live with their...

Destiny’s Dream by Delia Latham is the first book in her new Series, Solomon’s Gate. It is a book filled with romance, humor and a touch of suspense. Destiny quit her job and spent the last five years taking care of her mother. Now that...

Yesterday Again, a Christian romance by Delia Latham, spins a story of love and loss: a whirlwind romance and wedding in beautiful Yosemite Park, a husband who disappears the morning after, and a heroine who must deal with her grief and then move on with...

In the northeastern corner of Brazil the local population, most of African, Native, and European descent, live in poverty in little shacks and with little to eat. Tomas has learned to read and write and teaches those between teenage years and their thirties how to...

"Leah's Voice," written by Lori DeMonia and illustrated by Monique Turchan, is a great story about accepting each and every person and treating everyone with respect and kindness. Logan's older sister Leah is on the autism spectrum; however, Logan does not realize this or really...

It is 2307, nearly three hundred years since nuclear war destroyed the Earth. Now, the only civilization remaining is the people of the Dome, a sealed refuge from the toxic radiation that remains. The people of the Dome live in luxury, but it comes at...

Adoption is never a guarantee that the child you get will be what you had in mind, that the biological parents will actually go through with it at the last minute or that the country from which the child derives will be hospitable to your...

Taliesin Weaver was twelve years old when the memories of his past lives came flooding back. Taliesin 1 knew and fought with King Arthur. However, that wasn’t the only life he lived. When the memories filled his mind he became unhinged but eventually he came...

In this piece of non fiction, the writer has presented the life story of Alina de Breos in her fight for the Gower peninsular. It includes important information about her family, Wales and England at that time period - including the famous fight between King...

Unearthly Tales From Space by John Sparks is a great sci-fi tale with a twist. It is set in the United States in 1959 and the beginnings of space exploration, encompassing deep space and an alien radio signal from our own moon. Dr. Robert Guttenberg...

Fips, Bots, Doggeries, and More: Explorations of Henry Rogers’ 1838 Journal of Travel from Southwestern Ohio to New York City is a non-fiction account shared by Tracy Lawson, Henry’s great-great-great-granddaughter. The book is filled with pictures and observations from a journey that was made years...

Melvin. . . bad, bad kitten! by Sannel Larson is an absolutely delightful book about the antics of Melvin the cat. The book is adorable and will remind you of the antics of the pets you have at home. You will start looking them in...

Helga Returns - A James and Syvok Adventure by Wendy Nystrom is about the adventures of James for the second time. He finds a footprint and he asks his friends Syvok and Matthias to help him find out about the footprint. They discover that it...

A deadly virus is sweeping the world, killing millions and there is no treatment or cure…or is there? A small country in Eastern Europe has developed a vaccine that both cures and treats the virus but the country’s president prefers to keep the serum secret....