The cat ripped around the corner, scrambled onto the sofa, running over Justen, who spilled his Christmas nog drink. The creamy mess landed on Justen, the TV, couch, end table and the remote control while Shadow, the black, green-eyed young cat jumped from chair to...

End of Ever After by E.L. Tenenbaum is a Cinderella retelling and the first book in the End of Ever After series. Ella dreamed of being free of her stepmother's control and the King's ball, aimed at seeking his son a wife, seems to be...

The Vagabond King: A Coming of Age Story by James Campion Conway is far removed from your typical coming of age novel. Sixteen-year-old Chris is faced with a crisis of confidence – confidence in who he is and what he wants from life. When his...

The Trail Through Hell: A Novel Of The Army's Pacific Victory by J. Scott Payne is a historical novel about the Second World War that is fought in the jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines. Master Sergeant Jim Mays, straight from the Buna Campaign...

My Cell Phone Can Think: A Textbook on Artificial Intelligence is an educational book for children and young adults written by Michiro Negishi. Most kids are familiar with cell phones and their uses, which have expanded far beyond making and receiving telephone calls. What most...

My Ten-Acre Wilderness: A Misfit Girl's Quest for Home is a memoir by Jodi L. Auborn. It covers her life from childhood to college in upstate New York in the 80s and 90s and follows her to Cape Cod and Maine. An epilogue brings her...

Author Apollo Villa-Real introduces us to a new world of magic, deception, and casinos in his novel, Henchman. This fast-paced tale follows H, who is a mob enforcer and magic wielder with a natural gift. During the annual convention of magic, a wielder is murdered....

Helen watches her former playmates from the window now. Not long ago she had mixed with the blond children outside, but now she is considered the enemy. Words like Nazis and dirty Jews were becoming more and more common, with little to no explanation from...

Amy Frost, the protagonist of the psychological thriller Frost by Sam Neumann, had to rethink the path her life was taking more than once. After her dream of being a stand-up comedian falls flat on its nose after a promising start, Amy finds herself back...

Dogs have feelings, too. Even stray dogs. They feel the cold, the loneliness, the sense of abandonment. They even feel the hunger and the fear. Some even have the privilege of knowing what it means to be loved. Adopted, then abandoned, loved by a homeless...

If you enjoy action, adventure, and three-dimensional characters, you will love Silk Road by Lynda Filler. Lynda Filler brings to life the international issue of human trafficking and leads us from Paris to the South Pacific, to Washington DC and Switzerland, Asia, Russia, China, and...

Ellis and his dreamer friend Charlie were spending a day at the beach, with Ellis relaxing on the sand, and Charlie collecting seashells. If he had a choice, Charlie declared he would like to be a dolphin, playful and carefree. They began walking home when...

An experimental ship crashes on Janus, a Saturn moon, but an alien ship is also there. James Hayden and his crew take out their new ship, ‘Gossamer Goose,’ to recover the wrecked ship and make contact with the aliens. When they get to Janus, there...

Uncommon Sense: A Theory of Human Purpose by J.R. Miller is not for the intellectually faint of heart. Self-purportedly a kind of academic dispatch from the margins of conventional humanistic understanding, because “through strong objectivity and the outsider-within phenomenon, marginalized individuals are placed in a...

Shortly after her loving Aunt Hilary’s funeral, Heather faced a challenge at her job. At the State Library in Victoria, Australia, she was assigned the task of assessing a one-hundred box collection donated by the late Professor Foyle. She was a professor of religious studies,...

Looper is a sports fiction novel written by Michael Conlon. Summer had always been magical, especially on that last day of school when the long vacation yawned wide and gleaming, full of promise and adventure, but this summer was particularly significant. Ford was graduating from...

Meet siblings Jake and Gracie in the story Jake and Gracie: A Night to Remember by Christina Hammons. Though Jake is three years older than Gracie, they are very close and have a lot of adventures together, but they always recollect them in a different...

This intriguing short story will interest any romantic soul who believes love is ageless. Remembering Skye by Denise Liebig will stretch the reader’s knowledge of Scotland and its largest island in the Inner Hebrides. The Isle of Skye is where this love story began, hundreds...

It was a perfect day, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the warm weather was wonderful. Everything was going perfectly for Judge Birdie and her seven-year-old grandson Milo as they were making their way downriver in a canoe. It was the end...

Why the Samurai Lost Japan: A Study in Miscalculation and Folly, co-authored by John D. Beatty and Lee A. Rochwerger, tells the history of the samurai class and fighting spirit from the 1100s to the end of the Second World War, with particular focus on...