It’s fascinating to find a book that serves two very different purposes. Regina and Renita Tackle Nasty Nate's Nasty Ways! is a beautifully illustrated book for children in Grades K-5 that deals with the all-important issue of bullying. But it is also a very clever...

Blood and death await those who venture into the forests of Tahoe in the terrifying paranormal novel They Wait in The Woods (Bonnie Parker Series Book 1) by S.M. Sevón. College students Bonnie and Eric are in shock. Mac, their close friend, is missing and...

The Tangled Roots of Bent Pine Lodge by Jane O’Brien quickly evolves from a simple romance into a complex and interesting story with depth and surprises. Kate Lemanski returns to the log cabin that her great-grandfather built in the Michigan woods. Her family visited the...

In Pancake Money by Finn Bell, Bobby Ress is a young detective who works homicide in the small city of Dunedin at the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand. He has a firm conviction of who he is and what his role is...

The Mortal Fires by Anna Durand is the second book in the Undercover Elementals series. Lindsey Porter was the Janusite, a mortal born with the powers of a Roman god. But she still had no idea what that actually meant, what was expected from...

What if you found out that you had a magical gift, and instead of a boring life with a mother who dumps you with your grandparents while she goes off on an adventure, you find out that you are a witch and have a special...

Revelations by Bellamy Westbay is an intriguing romance novel with some fantasy, paranormal, and supernatural elements. The story begins with our heroine, Gwen, dreaming that she is on a beach. The only reason she knows it is a dream is because, although the details of...

The Country Girl Empress tells of the early days of Princess Elisabeth, daughter of Duke Max in Bavaria, called Sisi within the family. We follow her story from birth to the day she married Franz Joseph, son of Archduchess Sophie of Austria and her feeble-minded...

Mighty Big and Super Great: Texas Is The "Lone Star State"! written by Amber Manning, and illustrated by Kory Fluckiger, is an educational children’s book about Texas. It can be said to illustrate a love story between Amber and her state. This book is not...

Love Notes in Christmas Falls by Beth Labonte is a continuation of the Return To Christmas Falls series, built around the small Tennessee town of Christmas Falls. When Caitlin Cook graduated high school and headed off to Harvard with a full scholarship, her future seemed...

Strong Ambitions: Emmett Strong Westerns, Book 3 is a Western novel written by G.P. Hutchinson. El Paso Marshal Emmett Strong was worried about his best friend, brother-in-law and the town’s deputy marshal, Juanito Galvez, and his wife’s welfare in town. Geneve Lambert Galvez had been...

The Silver Horn Echoes: A Song of Roland by Michael Eging and Steve Arnold is a book for those who are into well-crafted and tightly plotted historical novels. Set against a turbulent period in the Dark Ages, readers follow compelling and memorable characters in a...

Sarah's Shadow is a children’s picture book written by Nick Jones and illustrated by Si Clark. Yasmin Hughes seemed to take a perverse delight in tormenting and teasing Sarah, and the other kids always followed suit. When Yasmin pointed out that Sarah’s shadow was long...

Deanna Lynn Sletten’s Night Music is a story of hearts divided. Joseph Russo is a soldier in Vietnam. He becomes pen pals with a girl named Charlotte. Char writes to Joe about Grand Falls, her small hometown in Illinois. Joe clings to those letters, they...

Garden Wisdom 365 Days by Cheryl Wilfong is a non-fiction inspirational book which primarily explores mindfulness through parallels with nature and the act of gardening. It is construed as a journal and one topic is explored each day, following the author’s musings on her garden,...

My Brother's Keeper by Chris Russo Blackwood is one man’s story of 'A Thirty-Year Quest to Bring Two Killers to Justice.' Ted Kergan was launched into action from the minute he was told his brother was missing and was presumed to be dead. Two people...

All the Lies We Live is the third book in the Normal Family Trilogy by Don Trowden, a captivating story with a cunning plot and engaging characters, set on an island in New England. Henry’s family has suffered many tragedies and this time, as he...

In this fast paced, ever-broadening story of Michael Tiernan and his Irish ancestors by Richard T. Rook, the past and present come together in amazing ways. Tiernan’s Wake represents the rebirth of American attorney Michael Tiernan after the surprise involvement of Aedan Burns, a wealthy...

Dust Flowers: Tales from American Herstory Series by Lisa Gammon Olson is a beautiful story that revolves around the Dust Bowl era, which was one of the most trying times in American history. In this story, Molly asks her grandmother why she is crying and...

In the storybook Sewing the Magic in at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus by Lisa Gammon Olson, readers are introduced to Nora, a little girl who is watching the daily activities of a circus preparing for the new season. Though she is...