The world around us is filled with beauty in the people, in the events, in the world itself, and yet it can be difficult to see that beauty for ourselves. The poet is someone who can help us to see that beauty, but also to...

The Write Way to Get a Girlfriend is a coming of age/concept novel for young adults written by Alfred R. Taylor. Juan Rivera was not at all impressed by his mother’s decision to hire a writing tutor for him. He did well in his math...

The Piggy Market is a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Rachel Lockavitch McWaters. McWaters explores the ramifications of the popular children’s counting rhyme about piggies in this whimsical and clever book about piggies who go to market. Beginning with her considerations about which...

I have not read Remnants of Eden by D.S. Causey, yet the art depicted in The Official Art of Remnants of Eden is so riveting, so descriptive, and so thought provoking that I immediately wanted to read the book itself and delve further into the...

The Journal of Angela Ashby is an action and adventure fantasy for preteens written by Liana Gardner and illustrated by Sam Shearon. Angela was ready and impatient to be off to the school carnival when she stopped by her best friend’s house to pick her...

The Spectacular World of Waldorf by Barbara Terry is a storybook as well as a coloring book. It features a lovable canine named Mr. Waldorf who has misplaced his reading spectacles and can't seem to find them. While he travels through Texas, Mr. Waldorf keeps...

In The Spectacular World of Waldorf: Mr. Waldorf Travels to the Empire State of New York (Coloring Book) by Barbara Terry, Mr. Waldorf is on a new trip to New York and he takes young readers along with him while discovering this incredible place. As...

Mr. Waldorf is going on a trip to a new place in The Spectacular World of Waldorf: Mr. Waldorf Travels to Alaska, Coloring Book by Barbara Terry. Mr. Waldorf is exploring the wild state of Alaska and he is impressed with the amazing mountains and...

The Curious Case of Simon Todd by Vanessa C. Hawkins is a delightful and quirky read full of twists and strange happenings. Simon Todd's life used to be fairly normal. He was an accountant whose biggest problem was the struggle to share his feelings for...

Meet Goti, the shiny red bus, and Vivek, the dusty coal train, in the storybook The Dusty Train’s Sweet Surprise: A Lesson in Kindness by Subhash Kommuru. They were both very hardworking but Goti always made fun of Vivek, saying he was faster than Vivek...

If the incisiveness of short stories is as fascinating for you as it is for me, then you cannot resist Joseph Riden's The Marlin. This concise but very meaningful tale is not long, but it is remarkable both for its message and for the richness...

The African Piper of Harlem: A Tale of Bullies and Deception is a novella based on the classic Robert Browning story, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, written by Zeena Nackerdien. Ola was a sixteen-year-old whose coming of age came under the most trying of circumstances....

A young woman disappears in 1944 without a trace and isn't heard from again until her ghost appears to a twenty-first century manager of a summer lodge in the captivating mystery novel, The Wildwood Ghost Mystery by Lanin D. Thómasma. Steffi is the manager of...

The Business of American Injustice by Sydney Williams is a poignant narrative, a memoir that deals with what the author calls “a story about our personal journey through civil litigation, bankruptcy, and the criminal justice system. As unbelievable as it seems, each event is a...

The Update is a Christian fantasy novella for children and preteens written by Ann Strawn. Em was quite used to ignoring friend requests on her FaceSpace app. She preferred to deal with people directly and hadn’t really gotten on board with the popularity of that...

Keith, the main character of The Cursed Codex by Matthew S Cox, is more or less invisible to others, apart from his few friends and his family. One day, he takes a detour on his way back home and drives past a yard sale where...

The Trickster Dreamer by S.C. Tzavella is a short supernatural novella. Shallowland is a magical world where a spirit photographer lives. Known as the Man in the Stovepipe Hat, William Mumler, along with Magiana, his wife, is trying hard to prove that ghosts do exist....

The Tribulations of August Barton is a new adult coming of age book written by Jennifer LeBlanc. Augie was a somewhat geeky and introverted creature of habit, who, at the lofty age of eighteen, was convinced that he would absolutely hate his college experience. As...

The Verona Exchange is a work of intriguing mystery fiction penned by author duo Lauren B Grossman and Bernard Jaroslow. Part of the standalone novel series of Rainee Allen Mysteries, this novel is written for adults due to its explicit language, violence, and sexual content....

The Emperor's Daughters - Jordinia: Book 5 by C.K. Brooke is the story about two duchesses: Raphaela and Benedicta. Both the duchesses have a different outlook towards marriage. While Benedicta is quite optimistic about the idea and has several suitors eager to marry her, Raphaela...