The Cookie Caper by Caron Pescatore takes sibling rivalry to its legal limits. Carmen Diaz accuses her brother Robbie Diaz of eating the cookies she baked to raise money for the pet center. Robbie is well-known for his sweet tooth, but he claims he is...

Sloane is a sweet young girl who has issues when it comes to food. Like many children, she is picky when it comes to what food she will eat. In Sloane's case, she will only eat food that begins with the letter B, which makes...

Wisdom from the Wild: The Nine Unbreakable Laws of Leadership from the Animal Kingdom uses animals to teach leadership skills. Author Julie C. Henry calls her book a “fun, new approach to leadership.” Henry’s principles include overcoming fear (based on spiders), developing a singleness of...

Mechcraft: Disruption is a work of fiction in the science fiction, action, and adventure sub-genres, and was penned by author Brian Fitzpatrick as a sequel to the original Mechcraft novel. The newest installment is intended for mature young adult readers and upward, owing to the...

War Serenade by Jill Wallace is a touching love story between an Italian prisoner of war and a young woman in South Africa during World War II. Despite his low birth, Pietro was a famous opera singer in Italy before being conscripted into the Italian...

In the wonderfully conceived and magnificently presented Liberty-Loving Lafayette: How 'America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchman' Helped Win Our Independence, Dorothea Jensen presents her theme in visuals and verse, alternating them page by page as she traces Gilbert’s (Lafayette’s) dedicated involvement in America’s Revolutionary War. The visuals...

The Legend of the Stinky Sock is a short story by Laura Riley for young children. The story starts with Conner, a young boy who plays for the Little League baseball team called the Rockets. Conner was very upset by the poor performance of his...

Vestiges is the first book in Peggy Ann Shumway’s Faith, Freedom, and Posterity Series. A mysterious past will come back to haunt anthropology professor Oneida Graham when she is summoned to her dying grandmother’s estate in Hopewell. In her moribund state, Althea Graham makes her...

Push Me Off The Cliff is a work of fiction in the historical fiction, family saga, and interpersonal drama sub-genres, and was penned by author Marina Osipova. The work is intended for the general adult reading audience and contains references to suicide and acute experiences...

Ruby's Redemption by Edwina Kiernan is a Christian historical fiction novel set in Regency England. The book revolves around the titular character, a prostitute named Ruby, who makes the acquaintance of a vicar named Henry under circumstances that could be nothing less than guided by...

Katz' Cat by Dawn Greenfield Ireland is the first book in a new cozy mystery series. Jimmy Katz is done with the Big City and is ready for a change. After being robbed at gunpoint at a gas station, Jimmy is ready for something small-time,...

Rehumanizing the Workplace: Future-Proofing Your Organization While Restoring Hope, Well-Being, and Performance, by Rosie Ward and Jon Robison, takes a powerful, practical, and compassionate look at how to fortify your business or organization while putting people first. This inspiring guide could save your organization and...

Lobsters, Bisques, and Berries is another installment from Olivia Gaines' best-selling romantic comedy collection, Modern Mail Order Brides. Lakota Simjak, a thirty-nine-year-old Native American attorney, feels it's time to settle down and have a family. In his quest for a soulmate, he approaches a matchmaker...

The Gatsby Motive by Bryan David London is a pulsating urban thriller that fans of suspense and mystery novels will highly appreciate. Twenty-seven-year-old Zachary Par is a private investigator with expertise in human psychology. When the parents of a college student named Aaron Webber seek...

More than anything else, Cindi wants a playmate for Christmas – the four-legged, furry kind. That and snow. But how can she tell everyone what she wants? After all, she is a dog. She decides she must do what human children do and ask Santa...

Cultural Insanity, the Key to Understanding Our World and Ourselves by Jeffrey Wynter Koon is a non-fiction work of primarily expository writing in a persuasive format. Koon's theory on why civilizations derail into frenzied, insane reasoning when absolutely no reason for these beliefs exist is...

The kingdoms of Daecland and Sunder and those who live within them create the landscape for the dark high fantasy novel Hælend's Ballad by Ian Conrey. The brutality of a war that splinters from a years-long occupation against the Sunderians by the Daecish. The depth...

If you agree that there is something amazing in conciseness when you read a work in prose, you may find that it is also true for poetry. This is what I experienced when I read Reduction Fired, a poetic collection by Jennifer Yeates Camara. Here,...

Caleb shares a special bond with his granddad, and they do many things together, even going on great adventures, both real and imaginary. They play Frisbee in the park and visit the zoo, or they fight dragons and pretend they’re touring rock stars, complete with...

Sasha Volonov left home in a self-imposed exile because he didn’t want to head the ubyzniki. The ubyzniki was a Russian cult-like organization comprising a few prestigious families designated to protect Russia from harm. However, their ideas didn’t please Sasha, who was the best assassin...