Emma Hartley's The Nature of Entangled Hearts is a compelling contemporary romance that reveals the author as a master craftswoman of irresistible stories. Elwyn Derringer, a ceramic artist and professor at a college in Portland, Maine, is a strong woman to those who look at...

From page one, the reader discovers this is not a typical romantic novel. Annealing is not a common word in the English language, and the author includes the definition: to heat and cool (as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle; to...

The Lost Art of Magic is a work of fiction in the urban fantasy genre. It is aimed at young adults, though I should warn that the book infers a scenario involving sexual violence that may be upsetting to some readers. Penned by John Kovacich,...

Author Joao Cequeira has created an interesting but fictional book looking back at Fidel Castro, the longtime revolutionary leader of Cuba. Cequeria begins by telling the reader that his God, Jesus Christ, JFK, J.Edgar Hoover and even Fidel himself are purely fictional creations. Then "The...

Have you ever made a wish upon a star on a clear summer night? Has the wish come true? What if the wish sent you on an intergalactic adventure? In Victoria Gail Oltarsh’s The Boy and The Secret of the Stars, young Eli makes such...

Don’t have the home, the career, the spouse, or the glamour that you have always dreamed of? Well, according to Bonnie Trachtenberg in The Fine Art of Delusional Thinking, you can have all of that and more. Why spend your life fretting in the real...

Ben, Savya, Kimaya, Oliver and Mei are best friends. They live in Slowville and attend a school that is set in a pretty park-like setting on top of the roof of an apartment building. There’s something very calming about Slowville. It’s comfortable, safe and ecologically/...

The Children of Slowville Book 2 by Madly Chatterjee is a bilingual book with two delightful stories, A Little Surprise and The Boat Ride with the beautiful city of Slowville as the backdrop. In the first story, Kimaya, Ben, Sanjee, Savya, Oliver, Mei, and Toby...

The Clones believe the Megasphere is an "ark" surrounded by water. If they try to leave, the water will flood the Megasphere drowning the residents. The Clones were created to do their assigned duties and not think for themselves. However, a few of the Clones...

Murder and mayhem all over works of art? Well, it does happen and priceless artworks are often the target of money-hungry thieves. Blood splattered all over a upscale art gallery was certainly more than Tom Adams, an ordinary waiter who was slowly working his way...

Marie and Joe are part of a Secret Club. Only special people can belong to this club and they must all want to have adventures that teach them something new and exciting. They had already enjoyed a trip to the zoo where they learned about...

The Way of the River: Kellandale Wood (Book One) by Shan L. Spyker is surefooted in its message with a plot that will endear itself not only to young readers but to adults as well. Siblings Elinora Wolton, 15, and her younger sister, Tillie, 14,...

In The Fairies of Turtle Creek, Jill K. Sayre has cleverly painted Claire Collins as a little girl on the threshold of something new. She is in the hiatus between girl and womanhood, in that last summer before high school and at her most impressionable....

The Suffering of Innocents is a contemporary fiction novel written by Marc Zirogiannis. Laura and Sam Job have been happily married for over 25 years. They're both attorneys who have adjusted their schedules to accommodate their careers and the needs of their family. Sammy is...

The Ghost of Normandy Road: Haunted Minds Series Book One is a thrilling tale about a boy named Danny who lives in a town with three local legends. The first legend is the Witch of Hill Top Green, which Danny doesn’t believe and thinks it...

Have you ever wondered how the story of the Easter bunny and colored eggs began? Well, there is a tale of a certain bunny, William Jackrabbit, that occurred just outside the small village of Annaheim in Saskatchewan on Canada’s vast prairie. One winter, William Jackrabbit...

The Land of the Strays by Summer Nilsson is an animal adventure story that will appeal to the young and young-at-heart. Black Mountain Farm is the only home that Grey the barn cat has ever known. She is aware of the things she will be...

Maureen Stanton chronicles her tumultuous journey through love, loss, and grit in her memoir, The Murmur of Everything Moving. She offers a dazzling portrait of her passionate yet complicated relationship with Steve, a man whose life becomes intertwined with hers just as he is diagnosed...

The Adventures of Will Irving: Automaton Troubles by Curtis Castro is an alternative history mystery story set in the 1950s. Will’s father, Walter Irving, disappears after his wife’s death, leaving Will to run the family P.I. business and look after his 10-year-old sister, Emily. The...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a classic work of speculative fiction written by Washington Irving and abridged by Fiza Pathan and Michaelangelo Zane, with black and white illustrations by Farzana Cooper. This version is written for children ages 7-12. Sleepy Hollow is a quiet...