“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Matthew 18: 1-3) My mother used to warn us not to be in a hurry to grow up because we’re old for a very long...

Santa and Elvel are identical twins. Their birth parents couldn’t afford to raise them, so they gave them up for adoption at a nearby church. However, upon leaving them on the church’s doorstep, something almost magical happened and the two babies were separated before they...

Noelle Bensen presents two people who never thought they could move on from their pasts. The Night I Found You opens with Gemma struggling through a snowstorm in Vermont. Abandoning her vehicle, she has become disoriented and can’t move. She smells smoke and sees a...

How does a Jacaranda tree who struggles with feeling alone adjust to being in a place where no one seems to like her? When a stranger takes Jaca to a new place when she’s a seed, she grows slowly but not as vibrantly as was...

The Looking-Glass Voyage: Memoirs of a Pakistani Surgeon is a work of non-fiction in the autobiographical and cultural writing subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Tariq Khan. As the title suggests, the work focuses on...

The Last Dog: A "Tail" of Adoption by Liane Joly follows a young boy who goes to a dog shelter to adopt a furry friend. There are many different dogs to choose from and his parents ask him if he’s sure, as he took a...

The Zoe-Chai Seed (Pearls of Wisdom – Book 3) was written by Catherine Ann Russell and illustrated by Brooke Connor. What a wonderful way to teach children about loyalty and true friendship with a story about a kingdom of animals of all sorts who live...

Storybooks come and go, but The Wind's Tale by Paul Steven Stone will stay in your heart and mind. It opens with the profound analogy of our bodies being houses where on the inside, a quiet person can see all the magic in the world....

The Joyous Adventures of Whizzojack by David Bush is a superhero adventure story for kids. All eight-year-old Jack ever wanted was to be a superhero. Blessed with his father's mathematical mind and his mother's scientific analytical abilities, Jack weaves himself a superhero costume with some...

The Jesuit is a short novella by David Fredette that follows a man struggling with mental health issues in his journey of navigating his affliction by rediscovering his faith. Peter Leduc was the youngest of his ten siblings, growing up in a small town on...

The Crimson Vixen by Dee Carey is an epic fantasy novel inspired by Irish lore. After ten-year-old orphan Leigh Longwurth rescues the fox pup Kit, they form a unique bond set to last a lifetime. It turns out that Leigh is the cousin of King...

Wouldn't it be good if we saw each other as human beings instead of our skin color, gender, religion, culture, or other barriers? One day three friends, Ram, Selina, and Lauryn, reflected on how they enjoyed and loved spending time together but didn't fully understand...

The Space Between Fire and Ashes by Stephen McClellan is a beautiful young adult novel about acceptance, strength, and hope. Depressed, hopeless, and detached from everyone around him since his mother overdosed on meth, Aiden was not sure what his purpose was in life. Determined...

The Afterlife by Stephen Paul Chong is a guide to the hereafter and what awaits us all after we die. It touches on heaven's various realms and portals that one will journey through after the inevitable ‘end’. However, there is no real end to life...

The Superhero’s Mask is a work of fiction in the drama genre and serves as the final installment in The Pandemic Series. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author Lisa Creech Saleh. The book follows the author's grief at...

The Grate Adventure of Lester Zester by Mark Dentzler is a storybook for children about a microplane zester grater used to grate the zest from lemons, other citrus fruit, chocolate, and more. Someone bought Lester Zester as a Christmas gift for the house's chef, but...

The Mommy Clique is a comedy-drama novel by Barbara Altamirano. When Beth and her husband Rick move back to her hometown in Connecticut to take care of her ailing mother, she hopes to make a few friends in the neighborhood and have some better memories...

The Auction by Elci North is a speculative fiction novel set in a moderately near future where the laws surrounding reproductive rights have drastically changed. Rape is a myth. Women are at their best in the home. Their husbands are the best caretakers. Babies are...

The Rise: A Prologue is the third book in the Ventures of Captain Xavior series by J.R. Leilies. All her life, Reine Xavior has been training to replace her father Zaul Xavior as Captain of Swan. Now that her initial training has finished, Zaul moves...

The Werewolf of Davenport is the second book in The Midnight Glass series by D. T. Vaughn. The story of Wyatt Dumont and his family continues as they settle into the strange town of Davenport. After the events of the last book, Wyatt, Roxanne, and...