The first thing that caught my attention and made me want to read A Rock Star Reader by Kindergarten by Lorraine Carey was the adorable cover depicting a young boy playing a guitar that was actually a book. What a clever book cover! Not...

A Squid for Mr. Calaway by Joseph Grammer is definitely a unique story. The short story focuses on Mr. Calaway and his fondness for squid. While walking home, Mr. Calaway comes across a friend and they begin to discuss many things about life. Joseph Grammer has...

A Tuxedo Cat Christmas: The Christmas Cat Book #2 by Peter Scottsdale is a touching short story. Darla and Ken haven’t kept a cat since Red, their previous cat, died and now they are ready for a new one. Chelsea, their nine-year-old daughter is excited...

Zeena Nackerdien, a research chemist and senior research associate, has turned her passion for knowledge into a condensed narrative book, A Few Good Women in Science and Engineering, that honors women who have made an impact in history. Some of them you may know or...

A Gift From Grandpa: Passing the Torch to his Crystal Grandson by Kirby J Gallagher is an intriguing story of love, enlightenment and hope. The main character, David Duncan, reaches middle age before he begins to question his beliefs and way of living, and realizes...

A Very Good Life by Lynn Steward chronicles a tumultuous period in twenty-nine-year-old Dana McGarry’s life that begins the day after Thanksgiving, in November, 1974. Dana’s a bright and well-liked public relations junior executive at B. Altman, a high-end department store in Manhattan. She’s been...

A Sudden Gust of Gravity by Laurie Boris tells the story of Christina Davenport, a young waitress working in a restaurant whose owners are wise and supportive. Christina's dream of becoming a magician is hindered by the constraints of magic being a male-dominated profession, and...

A Life Unexpected: Holly Nather Book 1 by Sara Daniell is a young adult fantasy that takes an ordinary, normal girl and throws her into a magical world. Holly is a typical college student. She goes to her classes, hangs out with friends and spends...

A Knock at the Door by Helen Yeomans is a fun read for children that revolves around spelling and making words. The author teaches readers about letters and how they join together to create words in a fun manner that any child would find appealing....

A Winter's Romance by BHC Press is a romance genre short story anthology collection featuring nineteen diverse stories by a variety of authors. I thought the book had a nice selection and variety of stories, and the majority of them were entertaining and enjoyable. The...

A New Baby For Christmas by Bron Whitley is a cute story for children. Six-year-old Layla is a worrywart. She worries where her Mema will sleep when she visits, and she also worries about what will change when the new baby arrives. She knows that...

A Derry Tale by John Boyle is the tale of young John’s Catholic childhood and growing up years in 1950s Northern Ireland. It begins with his memories of being the youngest, the baby, in a very large family of sisters and brothers. School days, friendships,...

An airborne palace is attacked suddenly and without warning by a single, seemingly invincible assailant who proceeds in a very short time to decimate the guard, bring the palace crashing to the ground, and kidnap the incumbent princess. A Soul Divided: The Blood Fire Trilogy...

A Reaper of Stone is the first novella in the An Echo Of The Ascended series by Mark Gelineau and Joe King and centers around an idealistic warrior girl named Elinor. Her time in the academy isn’t much different than real life in regards to...

A Fauxtographer's Yankee Stadium Memoir is a non-fiction photographic essay written by Arnie "Tokyo" Rosenthal. The author grew up loving baseball, and his first trip to Yankee Stadium at the age of six was a profound experience. As a young man, he got the opportunity...

A Full Bubble Off Plumb by Jeff Zwagerman is the second book starring the main character, Sander “Zander” Van Zee. At the start of this tale, Zander returns home after twenty years to bury his parents. Feeling restless, he decided to stick around and see...

A Secondhand Lie is the first book in Pamela Crane’s Killer Thriller Series. The story is a murder mystery mixed with family secrets. Twenty-two years ago, Landon Worthington finds his little sister’s body in their home. During that same time, his loser of a father...

A Beholden Heart by M.L. Steinbrunn is a fresh and captivating YA story that gives credence to the old adage, “all is not as it seems.” About to head into her senior year in what’s been a somewhat sheltered life for reasons that aren’t...

In A Second Chance, Christina Paul immediately introduces readers to how women's lives were so easily controlled by men. In the beginning, not only was one woman forced to be with a man she didn't love, but so was that one man forced to be...

A Royal Craving by Elaine White tells the story of Spencer, a deaf young man who should have died in infancy, living in a world where vampires rule humans. War and conflict have turned back the clock, technology-wise. The sun has grown dimmer. Society is...