Max Folsom has created a most likable heroine in former cop turned private investigator Baker. From her unusual name to her often humorous gut reactions and reflections to what she encounters as she tries to figure out why and how a dead body landed in...

Tammy Fortune has authored an excellent children’s book about the hard-to-handle emotion of anger. In Alpacas Don’t Get Angry, Apollo the Alpaca feels he has been wronged and becomes angry. His friends all give him pat answers, but none of them takes time to listen...

When the new headmistress of Pergoria sends Evie Everyday a letter inviting her to undertake a series of trials in her old school of magic, the young witch does not imagine it will be just the beginning of a great adventure. She finally has the...

T. C. Weber’s Born in Salt does a good job of finding that sweet spot between a dystopian future and sociopolitical commentary. This is a tale in which Ben Adamson, a young farm boy from Illinois, becomes a strong opposition against an oppressive government. His...

Edward the Egg: A Different Kind of Brave is an inspirational children's story written by Julia Fagundus. Living a typical lifestyle, Edward the Egg tends to do the everyday things we all do. The only thing that holds him back is fear. When going to...

Voices of the Grieving Heart by Mike Bernhardt is a compilation of work that allows a reader to meditate through the words of others during a time that is often the most difficult of our short lives. This is, of course, the grieving process following...

When opportunity comes knocking at your door, do you jump with both feet or do you settle for another boring summer? Joseph receives an invitation from Professor Benjamin Thessit to test out a new video game on an all-expenses-paid trip to the Murean Islands. Thinking...

Jake has a fast life of alcohol, drugs, and random overnight stands since he lost his family to a drunk driver. The Road Home opens with Jake waking up to an emergency phone call from his best friend Greg. Greg states that Arianna has been...

Those Darn Stripes is a work of non-fiction in the memoir genre. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by Tyrel Nelson. The book is a reflection on the author’s life during a period of intense turbulence and change, in which...

A Reduction of Men by Jason C. Dykehouse is a speculative fantasy set in an alternate historical world and revolving around one Mister Oshka Hyggens, who unwittingly makes a name for himself at perhaps the most inopportune moment possible. The cartography provided appears pretty straightforward...

A Debt of War by Michael Ringering is a World War II novel quite unlike any war book I have ever read. When Paul Bacca and his siblings attend their mother’s funeral in 2009, Paul is shocked and surprised to be approached by an elderly...

William Auman’s If Trees Could Testify is inspired by the cold-case double homicide of the Gahagan siblings Grady (83) and Bonnie (79) in July 1983; a brother and sister whose family history had been intrinsically linked to the small mountain community in which they resided....

Grace loves playing outside, looking at all the flowers that grow around her home. One day, while picking some flowers, Grace wanders so far from home that she can no longer see her mom, even though she was told to stay in sight so as...

The Ascended Master El Morya (also known as El Moyra in some circles) is a highly evolved being who is no longer incarnated. He is nevertheless accessible to seekers of the truth through psychic mediums, notably the late Madame Helena Blavatsky, whose work was distributed...

Did you know that there is a power in love and friendship, a healing power? Eli, the moon elf, must go on a mystical, magical journey to find herself and this power of love and friendship. Her best friend, Luna’s baby, has turned into hard...

Earl was different from all the other sharks in the ocean. While the others scared people and ate everything in sight, he played fun games with his friends. One day, Crusher and his mean shark friends surrounded Earl, telling him he needed to “Chomp, Rip...

Space Faction by Thomas Mariani is a science fiction story and takes place in the stars. The factions from different planets in the galaxy Decagon have been in conflict for centuries. Most have forgotten what started this never-ending war, and now factions just engage in...

The Woman in Purple Armor by Bryan DeMinico is a thrilling science fiction novel that will keep you sitting on the edge of your seat until the last page. Our protagonist is Captain Mike Casey, the star of Land Warfare Exploration Corp. His assignment is...

The Freight Train in the Sky is a sweet, easy-to-read chapter book for children. Author Holden Russell introduces young readers to an orphan named Paul, who lives with nuns in an orphanage because his parents died as a result of widespread disease. Although well cared...

When his father disappears, a teenage boy discovers secrets that alter his life in the thrilling young adult novel Jasper Faulks and the Passage of Time by Milan Obradovic. Two years ago, Jasper's mother died in a car wreck, and since then, he and his...