The Productive Academic Writer: An Easy-To-Read Guide To Low-Stress Prolific Writing is a useful guide which addresses academic writing, an important issue of academics who are affected by a range of factors. In this book, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan asserts that although productive writing is key to...

The Transition by RJ Tomlin is a young adult science fiction story that crosses the line into dystopia that will appeal to both sets of readers. Rume lives in a community where he must wait until his 18th birthday to meet his parents. When...

The Last Princess of Meigen by Rachel A. James is a historical romance. Princess Alena was not of royal birth, and her father-in-law believed she'd bewitched his son into marriage. She had married the prince for love alone, and after he had died, she was...

Although distressing, painful and despairing, Amita Trasi's writing portrays the resilient power of hope and the unbreakable bond of friendship in The Color of Our Sky: A Novel Set in India. Two young girls, with very different backgrounds and personalities, form an everlasting alliance. Mukta,...

The Boatman is a preteen contemporary fantasy written by Kat Hawthorne and illustrated by Dora Mitchell. Izzy's world is new and strange. Since her father's recent death, she's been living with her somewhat forbidding Aunt Slaughter in her large house, and Izzy can actually see...

John P. Goetz’ The Protocol: A Prescription To Die is a thrilling murder mystery, layered with government conspiracies and sci-fi elements. With calculating and cold-hearted Barbara Nordstrom at the helm of Aequalis Health Services, the horror of a mandatory national health insurance program with a...

AJ Aaron’s The Hawk, or Other Worlds is an entertaining science fiction mystery novel. Dave leads an unexciting life with an unexciting but stable job and not much money. He’d like things to be better, and wonders if he should have worked harder at school...

Luis Velho’s The Kurdish Woman is an amazing tale of love that is found and lost. When John Davenport meets Arya Sintesi, she is already engaged to be married to Homer Barsani, a promising Turkish diplomat. John and Arya manage to spend two nights together...

The Secrets He Kept by Wendy Miller is a suspenseful romance that starts with Meadow's husband's death. Meadow thought their marriage was good, but after his death she discovers that he had many secrets. Secrets like unexplained charges on his credit card, a woman’s name...

What happens in a country that has been ravaged by war? What happens when two archenemies meet each other face-à-face after twenty-years? Can the scars of war be scraped clean and memories healed? The Jackals Feed by B.J. Coltrayne answers these questions with a social...

The Abandoned Dog/El Perro Abandonado by A.M. Vela/Mary Esparza-Vela is an educational picture book that children and parents will both love and appreciate. The book tells a simple story about a boy who rescues a starving dog. It is a story about trust and love,...

With social media usage on the rise and so many apps, tools and other forms of communication available, The Brevity of Twit by K.D. Rose fits right into the scheme of things. With Twitter being an abbreviated form of communication bites of 140 characters, The...

In Angela Castillo’s The River Girl’s Song, the reader experiences the vulnerability of 1880s Bastrop, Texas. Sixteen-year-old Zillia Bright is abandoned with her baby brother on the family farm. The reader’s heart will ache for the lifestyle of poverty and backbreaking work endured by this...

The Creature Behind You by Sam Kuban is quite an exciting read that will make young readers wonder about the noises they hear and the shadows they see. The creature follows behind as you creep down the stairs and its voice is the creaking of...

The Acheron Deception by Patrick F. Rooney is the story of Mikhail Volkov, who, utilizing the calamitous breakup of the Soviet Union, creates an altogether different scenario - stealing nuclear weapons from a Russian test facility. It is also the story of Sean McGowan, a...

The Unforgiven is a work of epic fantasy by A. Katie Rose, set in a world of warring kings, prophecies, gods and magic. Our trio of central characters shares the same goal, but for different purposes: recover the child of prophecy, the one said to...

The Lopsided Christmas Cake by Wanda E. and Jean Brunstetter is centered on Amish girls Elma and Thelma, twin sisters, who have just inherited their grandparents' home and country store. The girls leave behind their mother and father’s home and learn to live on their...

The Last Cigarette: Five Steps to Quitting for Good by Carol Savoie attacks the issues of giving up smoking in an intuitive way. Step one, Carol explains is to find for yourself a really big reason to quit, the bigger, the better. The next step...

TE Scott’s The Song Journey is a fascinating and well-written story about the unique transformative power of music that transports the heroine into past events. Julia MacAllistair, with her talent for singing, is the image of her great-grandmother Jules MacAllistair - a famous singer who...

In The Magic Quilt, a children’s book by Katie Sokolic, Toby receives a handmade quilt that his mom made for his birthday. While enjoying it and playing with it, he soon realizes that his new quilt has magical powers. He finds himself on unexpected adventures...