Queen Vernita Meets the Wandering Buffalo is a children's adventure book by Dr. Dawn Menge. In this installment, Queen Vernita and her best friend Debbie set out to visit their friends and family in the small town of Wandering Buffalo, Oceaneer. Seeking out the best...

Laura Wiltse Prior’s early chapter book, Emma Just Medium: The Beach Dilemma, is about family dynamics and finding your place. Emma was the middle child, stuck between her older brother, Big, and her younger brother, nicknamed Little. That made Emma’s nickname, Medium, though few people...

The Mysterious Pool by Charlene McIver is a delightful story about a group of kids and their scary and fantastic adventures at a creepy mansion. Cosmo, Leigh, and Tara are visiting Cosmo's grandmother's house during a strange night with wind and fog. On their way, they...

My Neglected Gods is a collection of narrative poems and thoughts by Joanne Nelson. They give details about old memories and daily activities. She talks about her earliest memory of going to the park in a yellow stroller with her brother Dale, learning to swim...

House Made of Sound by Freeman Jayce is a speculative fiction novel revolving around Jensen Bennett. Troubled and separated from his wife, he's controlled by his employer, Wicked Records. Seeking redemption with the hit band Quiet Catastrophe, Bennett's own misconduct estranges him from the group....

Infernal Infinity is a dystopian sci-fi novel by John Paul Warren. After the cataclysmic bombardment of asteroids destroyed all life on planet Earth, the 250,000 survivors of humanity sought sanctuary in Apollo City on the moon. Under the authoritarian rule of Governor Edmund Sears, art,...

To succeed in the corporate world, you need to follow the rules. And there are no rules. Either you are the hunter, or you are the hunted. Vinay was the business owner, the manager, the creator, and, to a greater extent, an innovator, but he...

Off to School in My Wheelie Chair by Charlene McIver is a picture book about the mobility experience of a young schoolboy who moves around from one place to another with the aid of his manual wheelchair. He sees going to school as an adventure...

Scarecrow's Keep by Jo Sjoblom is a picture book for children. Does your child enjoy the chills of a good scary story? If so, this book will send shivers down their spine. A young girl named Meg lived in an orphanage where the other children...

Angie Lee writes about a bored housewife’s new obsession in her book, The Window: The Window Duet Book 1. Katherine “Kat” Browne has everything a woman could want: a doting, attractive husband, two children, and enough material comforts to keep her busy and entertained. After...

Inspired by a true story, Jeremy Campbell's Between the Mountains follows the lives of the inhabitants of a small Southern town. After being pelted by stones and shot with a BB gun on the road, Roscoe, an old, black labrador retriever, has won over the...

Between the Causeways by Jeremy Campbell is a slice of life from the Southern countryside that makes the reader forget, for a few hours, all the evil happening in the world. It is called "heart-warming" by the author, but it is much more than that:...

Brain Food for Thought: Not Quite 100...Zen and Other Spiritual Quotes and Proverbs to Enlighten Your Mind (Making Mindful Meditation) by Daniel Hilldrup is an inspiring book full of quotations from Zen Masters. If I understand it correctly, peace is not to be sought but...

Cayden's Adventures with Faith by Elizabeth Lizu enlightens young readers about a life of faith. Cayden has always dreamed of being on the school’s basketball team. Finally, the opportunity to try out for the team arrives. Cayden is excited, yet a bit nervous. Through each...

Adventures with Buckwheat: Saturday Mornings is a children's book written by Georgia Minns and illustrated by Jillian Dister. Early one Saturday morning, Buckwheat's mother wakes him. Buckwheat quickly arrives at the breakfast table dressed as a pirate. As he and his mother walk out the...

Septan Phase by Hisho Gaited is a rare kind of marvelous literary hallucinogenic mandala, designed to provoke acute flights of imagination while stimulating the full diapason of the senses; in short, it offers a reading experience like no other. The premise in itself is unique...

Have you ever made a wish upon a star on a clear summer night? Has the wish come true? What if the wish sent you on an intergalactic adventure? In Victoria Gail Oltarsh’s The Boy and The Secret of the Stars, young Eli makes such...

Along Came Spider: The Making of a Superhero by Michele L. Sayre takes readers on the journey of an ordinary elementary school boy named Alexander (Spider Monroe) who turns into a superhero. The story starts to unfold with Spider facing many external and personal challenges...

Christine finds herself in the middle of the twin sisters' family drama, which takes a dangerous turn. Leta struggles to distinguish a dream from a horrifying reality after arriving in the uncharted town. Sara learns the hard way that we should not make a wish...

Crossing Borders is an exciting journey into the origins of a life that veers off the conventional path into a world of adventure, risk, and, quite literally, border-crossing. James M. Goodrich takes readers on a wild ride, recounting his early years in the 1960s smuggling...