I think I can recognize my dog’s nose and the noses of the rest of my family. But the other noses? I’m not so sure. All living, breathing creatures have noses and they’re all different. How observant are we of the actual nose of an...

The Great Victor: Love Never Fails by Manuel Becker is a religious book for children. The story follows a young farm boy named Adam who begins to doubt his loving ruler, King Abba, after being fed lies by an evil man named Malus. Malus coaches...

Strobe Witherspoon writes a fictional memoir of a fictional former FLOTUS and it has become quite a controversy. Things get totally out of hand and to say that he has taken the heat for it is an understatement. Although there were a few intellectual takes...

Remembering Hope by Parastoo Rezai is the story of a woman trying to keep her family intact while facing overwhelming odds. Bahar is an Iranian woman brought up in a conservative culture. After her childhood friend Shirin introduces Bahar to her cousin, Omid, Bahar finds...

The Trickster (A Tale of Rinland) is a fantastic coming-of-age novel by Dorothy A. Winsor. After her mother passed away, Dilly was a pickpocket on the streets and later became an attendant to Lady Elenia. Dilly learned about a plot that smugglers were hatching, involving...

Eve’s ducklings by Maria Monte, illustrated by Emelie Wiklund, is a must-have for all children! The colorful, sweet, adorable illustrations perfectly complete this lovely story. We have indeed an ingenious children’s picture book. An adult and a little girl are observing ducklings with a female...

Headless is an enthralling tale of mystery and horror and is the first book of Tristram Lowe's The Ghost and the Mask series. Akio is a professional photographer working for the Tokyo-based newspaper Dainichi Daily. All he wants is to get into the good books...

The Day the Screens Stood Still written by R.L. Ullman and illustrated fabulously by Buhmi Loupito is a book all middle grade kids should read—and parents too. With all the blessings home computing has brought us, some bad things have come along. Like taking us...

It’s How You Think: Uncut is a work of non-fiction in the biography genre. It is suitable for the general non-fiction readership and was written by author Leon Stensholm. The book recalls the author’s difficult journey through his athletic career, beginning with a promising start...

A story of selflessness and devotion is always touching, but it is even more extraordinary when the protagonists are two brothers. Manas is the eldest and hopes that Manan, the younger brother, will have a wonderful life. Born and raised in a family that cannot...

The Omicron Six by Endy Wright is a beautiful meld of science fiction and coming of age, and a story that has strong lessons on personal transformation through deep human connections. The story follows two compelling characters, Cooper Callister and Coupe Daschelete, both gifted yet...

Gods of Sound: The Perilous Path of Cameron Foster is an exciting cross between a slice of life and urban fantasy. Written by QM Schaffer, this young adult novel takes you into the life of ten-year-old Cameron Foster, a guitar prodigy whose soft-spoken and painfully...

The Lost Symphony: A Historical Mystery Thriller is the sixth book in the Jack Rogan Mysteries by Gabriel Farago, and you don’t need to have read the previous books in the series to enjoy this spellbinding story. Jack Rogan is an Australian journalist who inherits...

Granny Can’t Remember Me: A Children’s Book about Alzheimer’s is a wonderfully illustrated children’s book about understanding Alzheimer’s and other dementias that children and parents need to read. The easy-to-read story stars Joey who shares the differences between his two grandmothers. This story doesn’t just...

The Fog Ladies (A San Francisco Cozy Murder Mystery) by Susan McCormick is a delightful story of residents living in a prime location apartment building in San Francisco. We are introduced to each tenant and learn of their quirky personality. Sarah is the exception to...

The Antidote by Susan McCormick blends elements of urban fantasy, YA science fiction, and the paranormal to create an engrossing tale filled with lessons for young readers. Alexander Asclepius Revelstoke is a twelve-year-old kid in Seattle with a unique gift: the uncanny ability to detect...

The Sower: A Novel is the second book in the Chimera Chronicles by Rob Jung. It follows a private detective, Ronni Brilliant, a former Marine MP who is in a difficult dilemma. Three-and-a-half years after the murder of Lorraine Blethen, Ronni's detective agency is hired...

Last Girls Alive is the fourth book in the Detective Katie Scott series by Jennifer Chase, a totally addictive crime thriller and mystery novel that will appeal to fans of sleuthing and crime. The body of a beautiful girl is discovered, half-buried in the area...

Ford was a grieving man. Ten years earlier, his wife, Roxanne, died in a deliberate jet ski accident. He lived to find her killer. He was steadfast in his mission when Mandy’s corpse washed up on the Island of Truson's shores. She was taken in...

In The Man with the Dorian Complex, author Brian Christopher’s operative premise is that an aging man who realizes he hasn’t lived fully discovers that he has an undefined condition that periodically gives him the physical appearance of a much younger man. The condition first...