The setting for this tale is 1954. Eleven year old Patsy was exploring the area around her new home in Sand Flat, Nebraska, when she met Hap. Hap was a little taller than she was and about the same age. He told her he had...

Jeannie Davide-Rivera spent most of her 38 years alone in her mind. Her insensitivity to others’ thoughts, feelings, and actions kept her from making meaningful emotional connections. One grandmother was an exception. She understood one aspect of her hyper-sensitivity. She took her to the yarn...

The Hex Hunt (Vol.1) by Michelle Lowe is an adventure story of Rain, a farm girl and Sage, the magical fox. Sage is sent by the sorceress when a spell goes wrong. The adventure takes readers to an island, a town of caves where Rain...

Sugar: A Princess Pit Bull Finds Her Family, written by Barbara Freeman and illustrated by Caitlin Welsh, is a sweet children’s book about a puppy and one that owners of pit bulls will not want to miss out on. Sadie Sue is the proud mother...

Plaster Scene is Michael J. Holley’s second novel and, after reading this one, I want to get my hands on the first one as soon as possible! This story moves between the heady, drug-fuelled days of the sixties in North Wales, via the less-relaxed seventies,...

J.L. McCreedy begins the book, Liberty Frye and the Witches of Hessen, with a warning. "This is a tale about a remarkable girl who is forced to face unimaginable things. It should not be read by those who despise anything out of the ordinary, who disapprove...

Yvonne deSousa is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. The only way to deal with it is to face facts and take each day as it comes. The various signs and symptoms of the disease make her day to day life progressively difficult. She ends up quitting...

The Great PJ Elf Chase: A Christmas Eve Tradition by Judy Voigt and Karen LoBello is an endearing story for small kids with Christmas as the backdrop. The Christmas Eve tradition at the Taylor household is that when the boys go to take their baths,...

How to Write a Killer SAT Essay: An Award-Winning Author's Practical Writing Tips on SAT Essay Prep by Tom Clements is a very useful book that gives tips on how to write simple, short and effective essays. The author encapsulates the essence of how to...

John Raimey returns in epic fashion in “The Northern Star: Civil War” by Author Mike Gullicksonas. Ten years after Raimey gives up all that is dear to him for love of country, he finds himself leaping out of a plane into the heart of a...

Adventures of My Brother's Keeper: Let Our Ball Go by Wendy Marie Withers is the delightful story of two brothers, Samuel-Hakeem and William. Both of them do everything together and Samuel, being a year older, likes to teach William new things. One day while playing,...

Don't Touch the Glass is a psychological suspense novel written by G.N. Boorse. Audrey lives with his mom in Pineville Valley, West Virginia. The area has had a history of flooding during bad storms, and Audrey's mother is worried about having enough water in case...

Emily Stone, former police officer, is a vigilante detective who spends her time hunting down serial killers, particularly those that prey on children. Because of her exceptional profiling skills, she and her partner-lover Rick have closed more serial cases than many seasoned homicide detectives. Her...

Sacrificed (The Last Oracle Book 1) by Emily Wibberley is the story of Clio, who used to believe that her mother's powers as a mystical oracle were nothing but make-believe. Until she unexpectedly becomes the oracle herself, and learns that the things she believed to...

The Man from KNEW News by Matt Stewart takes you through the doors of a small-town TV news station. Tate Thompson has just graduated from Syracuse and wants a job at ABC News with his father – only his father won’t hire him. He says...

In A Little Goes a Long Way, written by Ashley Mills Monaghan and illustrated by Vivian Nguyen, Fin, along with his adorable dog, Sausages, tries his best to help his family out by doing some chores. From giving the dog way too much food to...

In Eating Bull by Carrie Rubin, Jeremy, an obese fatherless teenager, is struggling emotionally as well as physically. The story is partly about his going through counseling to gain control of his overeating, and his mother’s attempts to help him, despite other negative influences in...

Denise N. Fyffe picks a difficult subject to shine in: love. There are dozens upon dozens, if not hundreds upon hundreds, of book shelves worth of poetry collections dealing with romance and varying emotions that tend to accompany it. Yet, somehow, against all odds, Sensuous...

Cendrillon: The True Story of Cinderella is a novella for children and preteens written by Tom Hendricks. The narrator of the story, who remains anonymous, had an ornate chest that just happened to have an undiscovered secret drawer. One day, his housekeeper tripped over some...

The Joy of Argument: 91 Ways to Get More of What You Want, and Less of What You Don’t is a non-fiction self/help, business/philosophy book written by Albert Navarra. The author presents a definition of the term 'argument', shows how the concept evolved from its...