The Toilet Is Over-Flowing & The Dog Is Wearing My Underwear is a book of witty anecdotes by Debbie Roppolo about the challenges and rewards of motherhood. Debbie initially discusses how her mother had warned her, many years ago, that Debbie’s children would turn out...

Dads Fight With Fire is the first volume in The Amazing Adventures of My Dad series. Written in rhyme by Graham Burket and illustrated by Zach Stoppel, this unique series introduces a man with two jobs – father and firefighter – as seen through the...

A title like Monkeys in My Coconut Tree: Stories of Faith, Fun & Family by Ed Thompson certainly grabbed my attention and had me hoping for some lighthearted humor, and I found that and so much more! Ed Thompson provides a fantastic compilation of short...

What My Brain Told Me by Thom Kudla is an introspective and emotionally rich collection of autobiographical essays, poetic reflections, and short stories chronicling the author's coming-of-age journey through family, friendship, love, loss, and self-discovery. With both tenderness and biting wit, Kudla explores the depths...

Believe it or not, minorities are experiencing various forms of mental illness and have done so for decades. Mental illnesses tends to sit in the background in silence in minority households. Yassin S. Hall walks us through the shadows of her life as a child...

Meet My Famous Friends by Rich Disilvio is a delightful series of images that combines facts about famous people with their iconic portraits, cleverly modified to create puns on their names. Over two dozen famous friends are featured, and the roll call is a sweeping...

Author Andrea R. Freeman has shared the stories of her grandparents and how their relationships have continued after death in her lovely book, Messages from My Grandparents in Heaven: How You Can Keep Contact With Yours. Although Freeman has clairvoyant and clairsentient abilities, she teaches...

What is it, really, that defines a woman? Is it her body? Her mind? Does it have something to do with when she comes of age? When her cycles begin and her body changes? Or is it the way that she loves? The way that...

Bound by My Choices: How a Death Nearly Broke Me But the Navy Saved Me is a memoir written by Keshawn A. Spence. Born to a dysfunctional family, Keshawn is raised by his paternal grandmother, Evelyn, in Ironshire, a small backwoods on the eastern shore...

When I was a kid, World War II movies, books, and TV shows were everywhere. I learned about the war through entertainment media before I was old enough to study it in school. A few years ago, Tom Brokaw wrote a bestseller called The Greatest...

Badoo’s girlfriend, Sade, has called him every night since they first started dating, the only exception being the period between her death and the day she was buried. At first, the Nigerian police officer thinks the calming herbs Pa Fakunle gave him are causing hallucinations,...

The Mixtape to My Life is a young adult coming of age novel written by Jake Martinez. As far as Justin was concerned, band camp made the hell that was August in South Texas even more hellish. Justin’s mom wondered why he seemed so glum...

Zak, My Boy Wonder by Joanne Lythgoe and Deb McEwan is the touching story of a boy who survives a high-risk pregnancy and premature birth followed by multiple surgeries during childhood to correct a serious and rare disfiguring cleft condition. Zak’s mother, Joanne, unfolds her...

Unicorns, Magic, And Slime, Oh My! (Fizzle Fun Book 1) is written by Misty Black and illustrated by Pardeep Mehra. Sage is a very scientifically-minded little girl that loves doing experiments. She loves adding all sorts of fun and interesting things to her experiment like...

Everyone has a talent. For some people, their talent is in music. Marilyn the Mongoose had the bright idea that she’d like to start a band. The only problem was that she couldn’t play any instrument. She tried the piano, but the keys were too...

America's drug crisis surfaces in the most traumatic way for mother and activist Jessie Dunleavy, who takes us into the harrowing world of addiction as she grapples with her son Paul's dependence in Cover My Dreams in Ink: A Son's Unbearable Solitude, a Mother's Unending...

An Elephant Ate My Arm: More True Stories from a Curious Traveler by Laurie McAndish King is a compilation of 21 stories from all over the globe, divided into sections titled The Flavors of Love; Eyes, Wings and Tongues; Body Works; Into the Kaleidoscope; and...

Dr. Barbara Koltuska-Haskin is a neuropsychologist who has graciously shared her vast knowledge and experience on the brain’s functioning with us in How My Brain Works. This may sound boring to most of you, but trust me, it is not. Barbara has taken a scientific...

God Came to my Garage Sale, by renowned Dr. Marni Hill Foderaro, is an intriguing work of fiction that delves deep into the nature and existence of God from an atheist's point of view, using a garage sale as the focal point and setting. Spiritual...

Call My Name by Jenni Ogden is an impressive and complex novel, especially concerning friendship, motherhood, and grief. It follows Olivia Newman, an orphaned girl who is raised by her mother's best friend, Cathie Tulloch, and her husband. Now aged 22 and a newly graduated...