Sasha Savvy Starts It Up is an educational novel for middle-schoolers and preteens written by Sasha Ariel Alston. Sasha’s excitement over starting the new school year as a sixth-grader became even more intense when her mom announced there was going to be a hackathon at...

Silhouettes Changes by T.R. Gray follows three women as they navigate their multifaceted, complicated lives. The book follows Lexy, a gentleman's club owner, with a troubled past and a business to save; Kat, a dancer at the club, who is struggling to leave her abusive...

The Starlight Club 12: The Golden Spike Casino by Joe Corso is the story of mobsters, how they get even, how they fight and how they survive or die. Big Red Fortunato is the mob boss of Queens, New York; Meyer Lansky is another crime...

The Secret of the Magic eyePad by Marsha Tufft is a beautifully written story for fourth to sixth graders, featuring an interesting female protagonist: Putney Hicks. She is an imaginative twelve-year-old girl with a magic eyePad, an aspiring artist who is worried sick over her...

Putney Hicks is at it again in The Buoyancy Project: Putney Hicks Inventor Adventures – Book 2 by Marsha Tufft. Not intentionally, of course, but somehow she always finds herself sorting through some new mystery and solving problems along the way. As usual, she has...

Have you ever wondered how a butterfly flies? How does it manage to lift off? Putney is studying her butterfly image in an attempt to improve her butterfly stroke in swimming. She has a swim meet in about a week’s time and she has to...

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond: Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape by Brad Lancaster is an informative book that gives good insights on harvesting and cycling of water with other on-site resources such as sun, wind, shade, and...

So-Called Normal by Mark Henick is a memoir of the author's struggles as he is forced to endure mental health issues as part of his daily life. From childhood Henick is at odds with his family, first his philandering father and then his subsequent step-father,...

I Don’t Want to Go to Preschool: The Fairy Queen Calls… A True Story by Granny is an engaging children’s book written by Cynthia Obrien with illustrations by Rosemarie Gillen. In this story, Granny is called upon to help a group of children hesitant to...

Seven Circles of Light: How They Were Born and What They Became is a children’s concept picture book written and illustrated by Maryann Lucas. Until that sharp desire sparked and woke up the Brightest Light, it needed and wanted nothing more than to exist in...

We all have our fears. There are times when we’re too frightened to try. But, with courage, we may try and then we feel good afterward, realizing that the greater fear is really the fear of not trying at all. Ramone is a baby ruby-throated...

In Outsiders and Apparitions: Possessed Poems and Art for Family Picnics, we are introduced to an otherworldly and frenetic collection of poems written by Milan Sergent, the author of the Candlewicke 13 series. In this book, the author covers subjects like death, marginalization, and...

Arrival Mind by Louis Rosenberg is written by an expert in artificial intelligence (AI). It is an ingenious book highlighting the dangers of AI. There are two parts to the book. The first part is an illustrated story in which the illustrations are fabulously done...

The Legend of the First Super Speedway: The Battle for the Soul of American Auto Racing by Mark Dill is a hard-hitting, heart-pounding story of grit, determination, and the American dream. This robust, visceral book, based on a true story, centers on two main characters,...

What did the bus driver say to the frogs? "Hop in!" Lisa Ayotte’s book, Punny Jokes to Tell Your Peeps! (Book 3), is full of “punny” jokes like that one. Each page has one joke and a full-color photo accompanying it. The photos are cleverly...

Punny Jokes To Tell Your Peeps! (Book 4) by Lisa Ayotte is an adorable children's book for the funny bones of all ages. Children love to laugh and be funny, and most people like trading jokes, especially puns. This cute book, number 4 in the...

Fifth in a series of books about the Punny Peeps, Punny Jokes to Tell Your Peeps! by Lisa Ayotte contains 32 puns that are each illustrated by a full-color photograph reflecting the meaning of the pun in relation to these funny little creatures, all set...

The highly creative and motivated forty-two-year-old Mark Gray yearns for something new even though he is a celebrated gamer with a loving wife and child. He feels his life has gotten quite repetitive and mundane, which leads him to a fling gone wrong with a...

“I sense a powerful presence from you. I see your future is in the stars. You have a great destiny. But beware . . . many dark spirits follow you. Curses and hexes many cast upon you, for such beauty makes many jealous of you,...

The Lost Innings: A Baseball Redemption by Alex Murphy is a powerful and poignant sports fiction novel. Centering on baseball but extending into a character-driven contemporary drama, this story unfolds through lead character Jack Ridley whose whole life has been defined by baseball, from childhood...