The Art of Balance: Staying Sane in an Insane World by David J. Bookbinder is an interesting guide that shows readers how to stay balanced. The book gives tips and techniques on how to recognize when you know your balance is shaky, to boost emotional...

Don’t Call Me Chip is an animal story for eighth-graders by Neil O’Donnell. Timothy, a chipmunk, lives under the verandah of Mike’s home. Mike is an elderly man who made friends with the animals who live in the woods. Their peaceful, happy way of life...

Eternal Victim by Dexter Morgenstern is a short horror story that will send chills down the spine of any reader, a book about a woman with unusual and dangerous nightmares. But who is she and why is she haunted by images of vicious serial killers...

The Treehouse by Randi Triant is a gripping novel that explores the themes of love lost, and one woman’s journey to reconquer the very essence of her motherhood — or womanhood. Camilla Thompson has been apart from Nico, her son, for two years now. Now...

If you like humor, military fiction, and dogs, Do Bomb Dogs Dream of Chasing Butterflies? by Kregg P. J. Jorgenson is for you. Written in tribute to the service of military working dogs and their handlers, and told by a talented and witty Belgian Malinois...

Eli Auerbach wanted to teach his son valuable life advice, just like any other father should. However, his curious son would be too inquisitive about where he obtained his knowledge. So Auerbach, in a moment of brilliance, came up with a unique concept - a...

As one person commented on Zap Tales' blog, “I honestly don’t know where to begin.” The Fourth Side: A Prison Odyssey zapped me too…and how! When I began reading, I knew I was about to enter a world I knew only from movies and TV...

The Girl Without Magic by Megan O'Russell is the first book in The Chronicles of Maggie Trent. Maggie awakens to darkness in another world where she's greeted by an unfortunate new reality under the power of the Siren. Then she meets Bertrand who tells her...

Breaking Into The Light by Cynthia Morgan is the final novel in the Dark Fey series. I became familiar with the series when a friend shared the first novel in the series, The Reviled, with me. I remember falling in love with Gairynzvl, a Dark...

Misery, You Don't Get My Company by Valerie Silveira asks is happiness really a choice, and how can we navigate through life’s difficulties without succumbing to the beast of negative behaviour? Follow Valerie Silveira's own journey as she copes with the devastating death of her...

Kat Michels takes readers back to the US Civil War era in this engrossing historical fiction where genteel Southern belles wore massive hooped gowns and fluttered coquettish eyelids as they played the piano to a room of eligible, admiring males. The beautiful young Kady is...

Monsters in the Night is a book about combating bad dreams, written by Kat Michels and illustrated by Megan McCune. As children sleep, they dream of wonderful and amazing things in magical places, but sometimes a monster can sneak into the child’s mind. It is...

The Flowers of Penruddock: A Romance Collection from Ronnda Eileen Henry is a collection of seven substantial novellas that all focus on the mythical land of Penruddock, which Henry has created and expanded on over time. The novellas all take place over different periods of...

The Pencil Case by Lorraine Cobcroft tells the story of a young boy and his sister in Australia, who were forcibly removed from their family and ‘taken into care.’ The reason for this was the inadequate care given to the children whose parents were too...

The Magic of Cape Disappointment is a contemporary fiction novel written by Julie Manthey. Kay Baker had escaped Cape Disappointment and the expectations that her family lineage had placed upon her. Yes, she was the great-great-great-granddaughter of Kehlok, the daughter of adventurer Meriwether Lewis and...

Wow! I don’t know where to start. I had hoped that Errant Gods: Blood of the Isir Book One by Erik Henry Vick was a good read. I doubted that it was as good as Stephen King’s The Dark Tower because that series is one...

Sixth grader Benny Cartwright tries to do the right thing when he suspects there is something wrong with his friend, Toby, but no one is prepared for what the problem really is in Demon King by Erik Henry Vick. Switching back and forth from the...

Agents of Shadow: The Keepers of White by Richard Crofton is book 1 of a horror series like no other. Megan Panco has moved to Lancaster, PA, to try to pick up her life after losing her mother. She has the perfect man, a strong...

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive.” – Sir Walter Scott. Shattered Lies is a murder mystery by JM Hughson. Emarie Lukins gets an assignment from her editor, Jim, to write a story about sixty-five-year-old Dorothy Hall who murdered...

Edward Berman is sent to investigate the scene of a horrific murder in Central Park. He discovers a beautiful cane among the homeless victim’s possessions and then the man’s decapitated head whispers to Eddie that he’s been summoned. That is how Eddie is drawn into...