In Robin Carole’s A Christmas Miracle with a Dash of Cumin, Panera is a black-and-white tuxedo cat whose story begins when a family shelters her pregnant stray mother. Panera enters the world three days after Christmas, then spends her earliest weeks in foster arrangements until...

UnMoored is a great book if you want self-healing and transformation. We have all heard the expression about working toward a better version of ourselves each day. You will delight in how Leena accomplished self-healing without even knowing it was happening. She listened to her...

Holt Ashcroft’s Zero Footprint follows Cole, a field operative sent into a compromised industrial facility at midnight to extract Sarah Lin, an injured systems engineer carrying a code package inside a failing mastoid interface. Sarah needs the package copied at Holtwood, an isolated legacy archive,...

Young Asher of Afvoling is the latest recruit to join the Silver Hands. On the island of Ganhalem, alongside The Butcher, Sibble Keeneye, Frostulf the Giant, and the legendary twins Tosti and Skuli, they embark on their most dangerous mission yet. They are to go...

David Z. Pyke’s All Hot and Bleeding is set in the Republic of Texas in 1840, where sixteen-year-old Silas Grant returns to his family’s Brazos Valley homestead after an expedition into Mexico leaves him wounded and haunted by the men he killed. Silas hopes to...

Angel’s Fall by Daniel McKenny is an intriguing read. The preface assures us that the story will ultimately have a happy ending. However, this is only the first book in the Angel’s Blood Series, so there is still a long, interesting journey before the end....

Noah of Giant Heart and the Everkind Tales is a collection of three short stories for children by Gael J. B. Orr. Noah is a gentle young giant in Faeland. During a big thunderstorm, Noah finds a scared little dragon named Tuppernox hiding underneath a...

Marius Trevelean’s Area 52 follows twelve-year-old Sally Parker, who hopes to join the University of Edinburgh’s hidden Faculty of Weird, where her aunt, Doctor Jemima Whatsit, investigates creatures dismissed as myth. A field assignment gives Sally her chance when legendary beings begin disappearing from sites...

Tyree and the Not-So-Green Monkeys by Gillian Joseph is a fun and educational picture book for children. Tyree and his family flew to a holiday resort where the sun shone all day long. Upon meeting the hotel guide, Tyree was told that green monkeys...

In her inspiring memoir, Mountain-Valley & The Rearview Mirror: A Journey of Faith, Resilience and Becoming Enough, Elaine V. Blyden-Hutchinson reflects on her childhood on Nevis and her experiences in the United States. At ten months old, her mother brings Hutchinson to Nevis to be...

The complexities of getting your personal affairs in order are examined in Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning by Margaret K. Ellis. This comprehensive guide stresses the importance of making a will and nominating beneficiaries, while planning for incapacity or healthcare when elderly. Record-keeping advice includes...

Ultralumen: The Conductor Wars — Book One: Earth’s First Stand by Ultra Lumen Studios picks up moments after Episode III's Final Synchronization. Earth's First Stand introduces Conductor Adrian Vale just as the Convergence Engine collapses, awakening the Prime ARC-CORE beneath Aureth. Something hungrier stirs at...

Lost in the Hall of the Mountain King by M. LaRose follows Laurel Grove as she spends a solo retreat in a national forest, hoping that hiking and meditation will help her figure out what she wants from life after struggling with her unfulfilling job...

Jack Rife’s In the Heart of the Beast is set in Austin in the final days of 1976, where Michael Claiborne Duval has inherited a family mansion while running Duval-O’Duggan, an underground marijuana operation with a regional network. Michael has promised military weapons to Lenín...

Aila is a young girl who is facing separation from her dad during a military deployment. The Dada Doll by Nina Rohrig follows her journey. Before his departure, Aila’s dad gives her a special doll to hold onto and hug tightly when she misses him....

Public Record by Marc Hampson is about Elijah Wolfe, a CPA whose life is turned upside down. Elijah receives a call from attorney Martin Fenwick concerning a lawsuit filed against Elijah, his father, and his sister. The family did not know the plaintiff and had...

Max Willi Fischer’s Working the Angles is set in 1937 Akron, Ohio, where eighteen-year-old Deet Jenkins leaves high school for a job at Consolidated, one of the city’s enormous rubber factories. He enters factory life as a battle over union representation spreads through Akron’s rubber...

Deadliest Day, April 4, 1968 by Col. Jerry R. Fry Ret. and Clifford A. Gehrt is a play-by-play account of an operation involving U.S. Army helicopters during the Vietnam War by one of the helicopter pilots himself. Col. Fry was a Captain at the time...

Aleksander Szeser’s Dissonance follows Kira Hunt, a thirty-six-year-old Los Angeles physical therapist whose home life with philosophy-professor husband Max revolves around their three-year-old daughter, Rebecca. At a child’s birthday party, Rebecca hands Kira a message from a stranger who somehow knows where to find her....

Before Your Story Began is a gentle, lyrical book about loving a child before birth. It is a continuous rhyme written by Susanne Blumer and illustrated by Colleen Sgroi. Its single idea runs through every page: a child is loved and wanted long before they...