It was summer vacation and the Angelino family decided to take a vacation with some family and friends. They went to the campground at the local state park and they played backyard games like badminton, horseshoes, and hide-and-go-seek. The Angelinos had a lot of fun...

Bright, full-color photos of beautiful birds adorn the pages of this non-fiction children’s picture book. Common Backyard Birds is a photo album of common birds that you could see in your own backyard. Author and photographer Doris Dumrauf provides sharp, interesting photos and a description...

Author and photographer Doris Dumrauf has created a backyard oasis and chosen plants and water treatments to attract a variety of birds, dragonflies, frogs, and more. Her stunning, full-color photos provide the visual evidence of visitors to her backyard. Now, she shares her secrets to...

Every Now and Zen: On the Nature of Being and Becoming is a nonfiction, motivational self-help book written by Ronald Steven Kaplan. In his introduction, the author attributes the inspiration for this book to a decades-old memory of a book whose title still remained with...

The Eclipse Dancer by Laura Koerber follows the journey of a thirteen-year-old as she learns of her hidden identity and later as she comes back home after years away from her family. Andy had always known she was different and more than once she was...

Three Times the Fun is a picture book for preschool children written by Michaela Lincoln and illustrated by Noah Adam Paperman. What’s it like being triplets? It’s undoubtedly a lot of work for Mom and Dad, but having two siblings the same age can be...

Although Adetola grew up in Chicago with her mother, Charlotte, and her stepfather, she was not your average young American woman. Her friends knew her as Tola, but before Charlotte died, she revealed Tola’s true lineage. Tola’s full name was Princess Naomi Adetola Adetoye, and...

Jake Hedgehog loves to play with his friends, especially his best friend Sam. They play together all the time and have sleepovers during weekends. One day Sam gets a new phone and is busy with it. Jake wants to play with him but it seems...

Snapshots: Say Cheese! The World is Watching by Cara Cilento is a book filled with emotion and a true journey of self-love and acceptance. What happens when you grow up in the close community of the suburbs where everyone is expected to be a certain...

To Mend a Broken Heart is a work of non fiction in the form of a personal and traumatic narrative, and was penned by author Myunique C. Green. Named after an emotive and popular song about restarting one’s life after feelings of total devastation, Green...

The Clockmaker by Drew Neary and Ceri Williams blends the supernatural with horror to keep readers awake as they explore the thrumming hearts of the characters. It is lyrical in style and absorbing in its content. As the first book in a series — there...

When a young crow’s parents are killed by pheasant hunters, he is distraught. Plato, a wise old owl, comforted him and asked his name. The crow replied he was called “son,” and so Plato named him George. He advised George to move to Blossom Valley,...

Rebels and Thieves by Russell Williams is a crime thriller with a lot of merit, from the deft plotting to the ingenious handling of characters and thematic development. The conflict starts with the struggles of an investment company and quickly escalates into a terrorist threat...

Cora by Sharronne McNeil is a Christian story set in a small town in the US Southern States. Cora Mae has had a difficult life. As a child, she had to deal with the many forms of abuse dealt out to her by her parents...

There is a lot of end time literature on the market and it is interesting to notice the inconsistencies in the interpretations of the biblical message of the revelation. In The Message for the Last Days: Biblical and Historical Understanding of End Times by KJ...

Gazelle in the Shadows by Michelle Peach is an enthralling tale of adventure and espionage set in the mid-90s. Elizabeth Booth is a student of Arabic at Durham University, someone who loves to travel, obsessed with the desire to visit legendary places. When the opportunity...

Don't Be Home for Christmas by Richard Wickliffe is a modern suspense thriller following lead character Kyle Colbert, a Santa tie-wearing Manhattan executive who, as it turns out, is about to get the Christmas shock of a (potentially shortened) lifetime after he heads home to...

Inside of Me is a work of deeply personal and explorational fiction on the subject of depression and was penned by author Wendy Shipman. Compassionate and harrowing in its initial presentation, this intense narrative begins as Judean Montgomery sits in a church service, unable to...

It is 2014 and thirteen-year-old Jesse Weitering is struggling with anxiety, a condition that threatens to destroy the dynamics of their family. In Thirteen and Underwater: One Mum's Heart-Warming Journey, Michelle Weitering shares the heartwarming and painful journey of the family as they stand up...

Pirate Bear is a work of children’s adventure fiction written in verse, penned by author Sonya Annita Song with illustrations by Javier Gimenez Ratti. Written as a picture book with a strong moral lesson, the story follows the central character Pirate Bear as he begins...