Surrounded By Madness: A Memoir of Mental Illness and Family Secrets by Rachel Pruchno Ph.D. is a heart-breaking memoir of a woman who loses both her mother and daughter to mental illness. It is an honest account of a woman's desperation and powerlessness in handling...

A Ghostly Tail is the second in the Springer Spaniel Mystery series, written and illustrated by Nancy T. Lucas, and follows her first book, The Missing Boston Terriers of Smith Street, from 2011. Scout is the titular fluffy black and white springer spaniel, happily living...

The Missing Boston Terriers of Smith Street (A Springer Spaniel Mystery) is written by Nancy T. Lucas. Scout, a Springer Spaniel, enjoys living at home with his dad and mumma. He likes having dog parties and playing with a few neighbourhood dogs, except for those...

A Meeting of Clans by Kathleen Flanagan Rollins intrigued me all the way through. This fictional fantasy takes place 14,000 years ago and explores the migration of a small group of people who, for one reason or another, either have been exiled from their homeland,...

When thirteen-year-old Ally is confronted with what may be a ghost haunting her bedroom in Ronnie Stich’s new novel Creepy Friends, she does what anyone would do: she freaks out. After all, that just isn’t something that a normal girl who constantly struggles to fit...

In What's the Matter?, Renee Heiss and Gary A. Stewart bring to life something that is usually pretty boring: temperatures, the particles of matter, and other basic science tools. Ning, Ellie, and Priti are particles that are bent on saving their good friend Ice from...

In Taming the Telomeres by Richard Shapiro, we meet Andrew Michaels, an attorney. A Hemispheres airplane crashes, killing his brother and sister-in-law; only his niece Amanda survives. Amanda has a mild brain injury leaving her with amnesia; she must wear a halo until her bones...

My Husband Looks Better in Lingerie Than I Do....Damn It is the insightful and real-life story of Bobbie, who fell in love with a transgender person named Alan (male counterpart) and Alana (female counterpart). Bobbie grew up obese and had very low self-esteem. This story...

Time waits for no one as Lady Jocelyn Dunkirk discovers after her father is seriously injured when a time machine explodes in the Victorian era. Richard Windsor, the Prince of Wales, is from the future and wants Jocelyn to return with him as his fiancée....

I Have Two Daddies is the story told by a little girl about her two daddies, her earthly daddy and her heavenly daddy. As she talks about her earthly daddy, she talks about all of the things they do together. She describes the things her...

A Dark Collection: 12 Scary Stories by Mark Lukens provides a year's supply of unique and eclectic stories for the discriminating reader of short fiction. Perhaps best known for his entertaining novels Ancient Enemy and The Summoning, with this collection Lukens proves he also is...

How Do I Know God Answers Prayer? (How Do I Know? Book 3) by Margaret Weston is the third book in the series. This beautiful book on prayer throws light on how important it is to understand God to understand the concept of prayer. The...

Dani and the Haunted House (A Dani P. Mystery) (Volume 1) by K. Lamb is a mystery story that kids will enjoy reading. Dani knows that there is something mysterious lurking around the haunted house in Shady Hollow and she is going to solve it....

Dani and the Mall Caper (A Dani P. Mystery) (Volume 2) by K. Lamb is the second in the series of Dani's mystery stories. Dani has become well known after solving the first mystery. She is also given the title as the best eight-year-old detective in...

Julia was not always a Lost Soul; she was once the daughter of a wealthy man about town in a time when daughters were nothing more than property to be bartered off to the highest bidder in marriage. Julia begins the story by telling us...

Tara Simmons has been running from the Shadow Man, a serial killer, since the night he murdered her parents when she was 16 years old. It has been nine years since that horrendous night, and now the Shadow Man is hunting and playing with her...

As Dig Two Graves: Revenge or Honor by Nick Vellis begins, we focus on AJ “Ajax” Pantheras, a high-powered lawyer of somewhat questionable ethics who is preoccupied with money and status. Suddenly, his father, in whose law firm he works, is murdered. An elderly Greek-American,...

Found, Near Water is a psychological thriller set in Christchurch, New Zealand written by Katherine Hayton. Christine is a fully-certified psychiatrist; however, she stopped practicing when she became pregnant with her daughter and is now a volunteer victims support counselor for North Christchurch. In that...

Wantin is a new adult coming of age story written by Truth Devour. Talia's parents shared a passion for travel and adventure, and she didn't get to spend very much time with them as she was growing up. Her fondest memories are of her Haitian...

Unrequited is the sequel volume of Truth Devour's new adult coming of age novel, Wantin. Talia is starting to realize that her 5-year relationship with Sebastian is coming to an end. She consulted a psychic who gave her a Tarot card reading which simply confirmed...