Winter is the snow season, and there is nothing better than having a great outdoor adventure with your friends to enjoy it. The hero of our story, Pippin, does not know what snow is, but when Mummy tells him it is the right time to...

On Sunny Days We Sang: A Holocaust Story of Survival and Resilience (Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII) is a work of non-fiction in the historical and memoir subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by Jeannette Grunhaus de...

Denisa, The Castellan's Daughter is a fantasy romance novella written by Ronnda Eileen Henry. Sir Denis was disturbed to hear that Karsten was planning on going to sea. The young man was like a son to him, and he had watched Karsten grow and become...

The Final Secret: A West Virginia Mystery is a mystery thriller by Storm Young. Honors student Jessica Bloomer's vibrant life in New York City comes to a grinding halt after an alarming call from her grandfather. Encouraged by her best friend, Hastings Jennings, Jessica decides...

From Where I Sit: A Collection of Short Fiction by Ray LeCara Jr is a touching anthology of five thought-provoking short stories. Titles include Scent of Jupiter, A Life Lost Living, Goldie, One Night in Bangkok, and Old Lang Syne. As the titles indicate, the...

Dark Awakenings: A Collection of Haunting Short Stories by Ray LeCara Jr. is a compilation containing five independent stories, each having a unique terrifying plot. The Awakening takes readers on a transformative journey with a young woman out to right a series of wrongs. The...

The Wallace House of Pain: A Novelette centers around Xander and his estranged father, Jim. S.M. Stevens uses this short story to introduce us to Xander and his uncomfortable dinners with his father and his second wife, Kathy. Xander and Jim don’t seem to see...

Saving Snow Dragon: A Horse’s Perilous Journey of Survival Against Man and Nature by Ann Feifel is a story that will stir the emotions of any animal lover. A prized white horse gallops to freedom in the inhospitable mountains of Wyoming. Freedom comes at a...

On the Waterfront by Mike McCoy is the coming-of-age story of thirteen-year-old Danny Novak, a child of divorced parents in the early 70s who was eager to get away from his unhappy family by getting a job as a summer camp staffer. He first saw...

The Lady of the Loch is a paranormal mystery novella for preteens by Ryan Vernel. Twelve-year-old Tyler Buckland is not excited at the prospect of his family's upcoming move from Oxford to the remote town of Lochview in Scotland. However, when he learns about the...

Dean Nowotny has hit a grand slam with Dear Maggie: A Letter From Santa. This is the best children’s Christmas book I have ever read. Not only does the author deal with the work that Santa and his elves do, but he also reminds children...

Get ready for a bellyful of laughter and embrace the Christmas spirit like never before with Nicholas Rose's Kiss My Carol! A novella parodying A Christmas Carol, this book follows the famous Ebenezer Scrooge and all the other beloved characters of Charles Dickens's timeless story...

Because Jack Higgins wants to avoid being recruited to fight in the Vietnam War and the career-oriented job his father recommends he interview for, he accepts an invitation from a college friend, Bill Markus. Bill had offered for Jack to live with him in his...

The Geography of Belonging: A Love Story by Oriane Lee Johnston is one the best books I’ve read this year. It is a smart and conscious book, written by a woman aware of who she is, the natural world around us, and the socio-political realities...

Dear Children of the World: A Gentle Conversation Starter for Elementary-Aged Children Following Tragedy in our World by Cynthia Tatum Robinson is a children’s picture book designed to encourage and inspire children to share their thoughts and feelings after they go through a traumatic experience....

The Enchanted Suitcase: A Window onto My German Father's World War II Life by Helga Warren is a revealing account of one German soldier's life. Compiled from both handwritten letters and the two memoirs he had written, Warren has pieced together the previously untold story...

Special Agent Miles Ronan’s father is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List in The Rio Affair by Micah Barnet. Miles is called in to identify a body in Brazil after a husband and wife are killed. The body on the morgue slab is his father...

In I’m Not Stupid, I Have Hearing Loss, Tracy L. Markley sheds light on the need for hearing aids. She also encourages all who have hearing loss to take advantage of the marvels of technology by using hearing aids. Tracy wears hearing aids and knows...

The Rose of Washington Square by Pat Wahler tells the fascinating true story of illustrator and inventor, Rose O’Neill. Rose lived at the turn of the century during a time when women had very few rights in comparison to their husbands, fathers, and brothers. But...

Tate’s Big Imagination: A Book About a Child with a Distracted ADHD Mind at School is a children’s book by Jenn L Brown. In this story, Tate is a young boy who is prone to get distracted by his imagination. He isn’t excited about school,...