Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex: A Superhero High School Adventure by Carole P. Roman is a remarkable young adult novel about kids with special needs overcoming their handicaps and facing simple challenges of everyday life. Grady Whill and his best friend, Aarush Patel, hope...

Harold, a scientist on the hunt for Bigfoot, has gone missing in the forests of northwest Washington State. Task Force Agent Hunter, accompanied by Cat Whisker Margaux Martell, has been dispatched to find him, not realizing the dangers awaiting them on their search. While Hunter...

Four Seasons in One Day by Kalenga Augustine Mulenga teaches about the different seasons. One day, on Four Season Street, Sammy invites her neighbors out for a picnic; she realizes how little she sees them and wants to get to know them better. Everyone shows...

In Murder Music: A Mystery-Thriller for Music Lovers by Michael Baldwin, Melissa McKean had played the violin since she was four years old. She played in several small orchestras and won regional prizes. In four months, she would debut as a soloist in the Tchaikovsky...

The Wonderful Animals of the Boise River: A Companion to the Book Into Justin's World by Heather Lyn Davis teaches about the wonderful animals that live in the Boise River. Not only does it have beautifully drawn images for children to learn from, but they...

Allergy Possible! by Monique Faella is a children’s picture book that helps children who have serious allergic reactions to feel less alienated by what’s going on in the world around them. The narrative is smart despite being mainly written in simplistic kid-friendly language. There might...

Just Another Dead Animal is a memoir by James Morris, a Vietnam War vet who tells his story about how he unwittingly joined a war he never wanted to be a part of. After graduating from high school, James had high hopes while joining Penascola...

Abuse is not something new to many women, and certainly not for Audrey, Cynthia Savage's Trusting The Billionaire's main character. After divorcing her abusive husband, she started a non-profit association for battered women. Due to a lack of financing, her facility is at risk. Her...

Teddy, Teddy, Holding Back the Dark by Levity Fox is a rhyming picture book that shows the protective power of teddy bears against anything that could lurk in the dark. Every night after Teddy and his owner, a young girl named Liv, are tucked into...

Impulsiveness is common in young children, so they need to learn the consequences of their behavior. A lack of self-control can make it harder for them to socialize or adapt to new situations. Guy Miron shares a clear example in The Angry Bear, where a...

Learning the alphabet is the first step for children to be able to read and write. If they see this as fun, they will approach books and reading enthusiastically. Shandra Nalia shares a fun adventure story for kids to learn letter recognition. The Adventures of...

In Scotland's Melody: A Regency Romance by Katie Stewart Stone, we meet Melody Foster who has no desire to marry the man of her father’s choosing. She has already made her choice. After an angry fight with her father, Melody runs away to London, to...

Live and Let Work: A Guide to Enjoy Your Corporate Job by Tim Allard is a wonderful guide to enjoying a corporate career, detailing the common challenges that lead to burnout or discontent in the workplace with helpful solutions for overcoming them. Allard’s stance is...

Seven Parents, Daughter to None: A Memoir by Melanie Hope Lang is a painful but transformational story about how a girl becomes broken from years of secrets, abuse, and neglect. But the years of things she didn’t learn or understand because of neglect have been...

Tiny Gateways is a collection of short fantasy/sci-fi stories by Theresa Halvorsen. The book begins with the story "Riding the "L"", where a woman named Lucy desperately wants to cling on to an odd, fantastical western world as a crime-solving detective. "Candles, Pennies, Dandelions, and...

People grieve anytime there is a loss. The more traumatic the loss, the more complicated the grief. No one has the right to tell you how to grieve. Y. Y. Chan wrote Creative Ways to Grieve: A Guided Grief Journal to help you along the...

Argo and Me by Chandra Ghosh Ippen with beautiful illustrations by Erich Ippen Jr. is a children's book about the love, fear, and hope that many children and pets experience with adoption. Parents or guardians must understand that children are empaths and can feel hurt...

Bitter Draughts by Yves Fey is the sequel to Floats the Dark Shadow. The author transports the reader to 1898 in Paris where Theodora Faraday and Detective Michel Devaux find themselves in the heart of murder, gang wars, and anti-Semitic riots caused by the Dreyfus...

The Bogota Promise is a work of fiction in the thriller subgenre and is the first installment of the Tom Finnegan series. It is aimed at mature readers and was penned by Mike Klapheke. The book sees Finnegan come out of hiding to face a...

Can Clutz the Cat Keep Trying? A Growth Mindset Book shows children the benefits of using positive affirmations by example. Misty Black shares the story of Clutz, a kind cat with many friends who help and encourage him when needed. When his teacher tells them...