Anyone who lived through the 1960s remembers it as a time like no other. The counterculture of young people smoking marijuana and using LSD, the draft, protests against the Vietnam War, changing sexual behaviors, and other events defined the hippie, or flower child, movement. Author...

The Weight by award winning author Hubert Crouch is a unique thriller and the third book in the Jace Forman legal thriller series. After Leah Rosen, a young reporter, publishes her article “Texas Justice Gone Wrong,” she receives an unexpected response from Cal Connors, a...

How far can a man be driven by fear? This seems to be one of the central questions driving the plot in this fascinating blend of fantasy and psychological novel by Caleb Monroe. Breaking Free deals with fear in its intoxicating, nauseating form. As a...

The LoveBugs Welcome Party by Joanne Grady is a whimsical story revolving around family and love. The sun wakes up and says hello to the LoveBugs, except Ashlynne who is still sleeping. Ashlynne wants to take the new BabyBug home, but MommyBug says it is...

Sonora Pass is a graphic novel written by Jaime Olmos and illustrated by Kevin Nichols. Who killed Celia after the Jabberwocky Band reunion -- and why did they do it? Celia and Esteban had made plans to start a new life together in California after...

When Jessie O’Bourne is asked to stand in at the last minute for an indisposed friend, as guest artist at the annual Crooked Creek Art Expo in Montana, she is thrilled to do so. Travelling in her beloved RV she’d nicknamed Hawk, along with her...

If you love dystopia, but also love fantasy and dragons, then Radioactive Evolution by Richard Hummel might be the novel you’ve been waiting for. We are introduced to Jared Cartwright, who is an explorer traveling around the desolate continent to find boosters (I’ll leave the...

Kamena, a witch, lived in the land of pumpkins and witches in the children's story A Witchful Friend: An Amazing Tail of a Pumpkin by Patricia A.E.Hampton. She was different from the other witches and was bright and full of laughter. Though she had special...

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...

Fire Breath: The Golden Promise by Natalya V. D. Brock is a gorgeous treat for fans of epic fantasy and readers who enjoy mythical creatures as characters. This story gave me the same effect I had while reading Christopher Paolini’s The Inheritance Cycle. According to...

It’s not easy being a new person to a group. Abandoned and left to fend for himself, Blue, a border collie dog, watches sadly as his family drives off and leaves him forever. He’s now a homeless refugee, looking for a safe place: a place...

A Violet Fire marks the beginning of The Chronicles of Avignon Trilogy by Kelsey Quick. And what a gripping beginning it is! The author has imagined a world where vampires rule, and humans have been turned into nothing less than slaves and food for vampires....

My Ice Age Struggles: What was it like to live during the Ice Age? by Rich Linville takes young readers back to the Ice Age and gives them glimpses of how life was during that period. The earth was colder and part of it was...

Clarisse, a German Shepherd, is excited about Christmas. When the Droolmeister, her Great Dane godfather, gives her a magical dog toy, dressed like a toy soldier, (“a Muttcracker,” her godfather explains), she is transported into a fantasy world of doggie wonders. There’s a battle between...

Among Kings: The Amazing Adventures of the Congo's African American Livingstone and the Courageous People who Toppled King Leopold II by Joey O’Connor tells the story of one man’s courage as he becomes the voice of a voiceless and enslaved people, of the greed of...

At times heartbreaking and gritty, Bullets and Bandages: Bond of Brothers by Robert J. Saniscalchi follows the story of nineteen-year-old Pat who joins the military and flies to Vietnam as a US Army Field Medic in 1968. But the experience of war is crueler and...

Mona Lisa, Becoming a Ghost by A.L. Mengel is a work of supernatural fiction that explores ambition, longing, broken promises, and regret from the point of view of an artist named Pedro. Among the living mortals walk the immortals, those who are not susceptible to...

Endless by Chris Winters is the mysterious story of a man who miraculously appears during the world’s biggest disasters and saves lives, including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Indonesia, the Vietnam War, and more. His best friend George, who served with him in the...

Reach: A Nexus Of Life And Love by Jerry Gundersheimer is an emotional, tear-jerker about love and life. Ernie Resnick fell in love with Ava Winkler when he was 11 years old. Her blue eyes drew him in, and before he knew it, they were...

A humorous and imaginative children’s story with important lessons, Reflections of a Feline Being by Paula Grover follows the daily life of a cat who lives with a group of rowdy humans in her den. Miaurra shares her home with a couple and their two...