Learning the alphabet is one of the most important challenges children face in their early school years. It is also one of their primary intellectual hurdles as well as the first step a child must take to learn to read and write. Opossum Disco: A...

Power Park is like nothing you have read before. Adopting a far from conventional style of writing, David Keay weaves a comically robust work of fiction with unmistakable satirical and ironic depth. Keay wittily introduces readers to the chucklesome residents of Westmoreland, the likes of...

I Look To The Mourning Sky: A Book of Poems and Writing Prompts for the Grieving Heart, by Liz Newman, could be the balm the mourning soul needs. Loss can come without warning, or it can come with the knowledge that it is going to...

His Ragged Company: A Testimony of Elias Faust - Book 1 by Rance D. Denton is an audiobook that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who enjoy western-style fiction with a dash of magic and who do not mind...

Crude Ambition is a work of fiction in the thriller and suspense subgenres. It is suitable for the adult reading audience and was penned by author Patricia Hunt Holmes. In the aftermath of a party, a woman is found injured and unconscious and taken to...

Love, Only Better is a women’s fiction novel written by Paulette Stout. The story starts with Rebecca who struggles with self-esteem from her failed past relationships with men. For a long time, she has held her little secret to herself, a flaw that has turned...

There are two sides to every story, and Mark Whittle tells both in his historical fiction book The Jacarandas: A Novel of Argentina's Dirty War. From 1976, the titular South American country underwent a radical and violent transformation following a coup d'état and the immediate...

Officer Riley Harper with the Phoenix Police Department testified against her partner by force at the cost of her job. Her partner killed an unarmed suspect who had his hands up. Friends, colleagues, and acquaintances named her a disloyal snitch. Everyone abandoned Riley, and no...

Stacy Wilder brings us cozy mystery fiction in Charleston Conundrum. After her divorce, Liz Adams moved to Charleston. Having fallen in love with the beautiful city in South Carolina, Liz with her black labrador, Duke, has started a new life as a private investigator. One...

The Prophecy of Achilles: A novel in verse by H M Roberts is a modern-ish retelling of an ancient Greek myth, the original being what many either read at some point in school or, if they did not, have likely heard of the titular hero....

EMDR Inspired Art and Poetry: A Meditation on Hope and Pain for Troubled Times is a collection of poetry themed around trauma and recovery. The works within are suitable for the general reading audience and were penned by author Mark Odland who also illustrated the...

Riddles of the Heart: A Sweet August Moon Romance by Jenni Ward tells the cute story of Mei and Kane. They've been interested in each other since the start of the school year, but they've both made terrible first impressions. Mei is excited about the...

Freedom from Failure: A 10-step guide to actionably transform painful setbacks into life-defining triumphs, written by Desmond Devenish, will catapult you into being the person you are destined to become. You will have the tools and the necessary spurt of motivation to become the person...

Own Your Thoughts Own Your Life: A Revealing Guide to Clarify Your Thinking and Transform Your Life is a work of non-fiction in the self-help, guidance, and stress management subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author...

One of Our Gorillas is Missing!—A School of Animal Magic Adventure, Book 5 is the story of a silverback gorilla. The gorilla, named Artemus Quinn, leads the School of Animal Magic. The book begins with a lesson that Quinn is teaching to his animal students...

Rooty the Rutabaga: A Story About Vegetables, Inclusion and Seeing the Sunny Side of Life by Steven Megson follows the adventures of a fun-loving group of vegetables in their garden who love to play in the sun. Everyone likes spending time together, laughing and enjoying...

A Kentucky lawyer talks about his life in Coal Mine to Courtroom: A Quadriplegic's Memoir of Relentless Faith, Courage, and Eternal Success by W. Ron Adams. Co-written with Fred Anderson, this memoir describes Adams’ early years from growing up as a basketball hero to working...

In the epilogue of her autobiography, After All, Maria Trautman concludes that forgiveness is not about excusing behavior, such as abuse, but about “letting go” so that her “soul would be free of bitterness.” If only all victims of parental and sexual abuse could embrace...

In Nema and Clow: A Friendship Under the Sea, Amina Ouchen explains the complex concept of symbiotic relationships clearly, so even children can understand them. I taught science at the secondary level and had difficulty explaining symbiosis to the students. However, Amina makes it look...

Drawn to Murder is a gripping murder mystery novella by Bob Seay. Gabriella Alegré believes she has found her calling in Boulder, Colorado, drawing caricature portraits and Conte crayon paintings of tourists on Pearl Street. But her blissful artistic endeavor takes a hit when one...