The House by Chambray Blue is a beautiful story of looking at things that matter and bypassing what is superficial. Bob Noone is a homeless man but that all changes when he wins a lottery and buys a mansion with the money. He moves into...

The Rock of Achill is a fantasy story set at the dawn of 19th century Ireland. Jim Sheehan's novel follows a young man named Donn in his quest to reclaim his family land so that he can build a future with his love, Bridget. Donn...

The Meal Deal: Blaze Your Own Trail to a Healthier Eating Lifestyle by Lisa Kiersky Schreiber is a comprehensive guide that helps you embark on a new and more fulfilling journey. It is always complicated to change your ways, to stop bad habits, and start...

The Gouldian Finch Handbook by Tanya Logan is a non-fiction guide that is a virtual first-person encyclopedia on the stewardship of this gorgeous bird. Logan builds on her own love and experience, sharing what she has learned with the hope that a fellow “bird slave”...

The Witness Tree by Terri Morrison Kaiser is a heart-wrenching story of love and loss. One hundred years ago, on the banks of the Redemption River in Wisconsin, a tree was designated as the boundary marker for the adjacent property. This tree was named The...

The Blomes and the Smooms and the Impossible Bridge, written by Heather Davis and illustrated by Corryn Webb, is about two very different creatures. Even though they live in a beautiful valley together, they do not get along at all. The Smooms value beauty and...

Are you ready to take a trip down memory lane with Timothy Neff Gocke? He has authored The List: Shooting for Another New Old in which he shares life as a high school student in the mid-1960s. Timothy’s book is a delightful tale of life...

“History is written by victors.” So, who can tell if the well-known accounts of the Trojan war reflect the actual truth? In The Fall of the Phoenix, Daniel Kelly incorporates historical events mentioned in Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid and weaves them together to present...

A friend asks Tom Bridger for a favor. Bridger, the investigator protagonist in Cary Watson’s second novel, The Skeleton Palms, tells us that he cannot refuse—because he is both a house guest and sleeping with his friend’s wife. This brutal honesty tinged with idiosyncrasy is...

The Underground Moon is a work of fiction in the urban fantasy and adventure subgenres. It is intended for the young adult reading audience but does come with a content warning for suicide and some moderate explicit language. It was penned by author Melissa K....

The Bear and The Hug is a children's tale written and illustrated by Melissa Cannioto. For the whole past winter, Bear had been sleeping peacefully in his cave. After waking up, he ventures outside, hoping to reunite with his friends and get a giant, warm...

Everyone is familiar with jingling bells. They announce the arrival of Christmas and are associated with happiness worldwide. But what if they weren't? Raven Oak tackles this concept in her novel The Ringers. In the town of Dekwood, citizens live in fear. They are terrified...

It is normal for all of us to feel sad and lonely on occasion, but it can be more complicated for young children to deal with those feelings. The Lonely Toadstool: A Children's Book About Emotions and New Friends That Come as We Find Our...

A fairy named Quizzle and her friend, Pinky Palm, the everyanimal, were looking for amethyst crystals with Auntie Hoolahoop at the rock quarry. Suddenly, Auntie Holahoop's wing got stuck in a crevice! Quizzle and Pinky tried too hard to release the wing, and Auntie Hoolahoop...

Stories like The Ormond Girl by Mireille Pavane remind me why I love short fiction. The story moves along at a fast clip with an elegant and fluid style reminiscent of Jane Austen and concludes with a seemingly ambiguous ending, though enough clues are given...

Life on the Gallagher Farm may seem like any other farm, but what makes it different is the intense love and care that is shared amongst the family, Grandma and Grandpa Gallagher, and their ten children, seven boys and three girls. In Sara Gallagher-Beck’s The...

The Evolution of Nora O'Brien Pacheco by Kevin O'Flaherty is a coming-of-age story with themes of travel, friends and family, and peer influence. Teenage Nora goes from her home country Spain to a summer boarding school in Wales. She makes friends, discovers a mystery that...

This safety guide starts out with the U.S. Department of Justice statistics of female victims of all violent crimes. The results they have listed are staggering, and women need to be constantly aware of ways to live a safer life. The suggestions in this...

After realizing a Bundlebob was in Chris’ closet, the Hellandback parents decided it was time to send their 4 children to Scotland for the summer; they would be staying with their 83 year old great-grandmother in a large building that used to be a hospital....

In Dr. Jerome Schulte's book, "The Immortality Complex", he lists three things that are the philosophical theorems of his book: the essence of humanness is need, the essence of need is feelings, and the essence of feeling is growth. Need is the continued growth through...