In Crackskull Jack Goes to the Ball (The Pirate who was Scared of Birds Volume 2), author Michelle Path introduces young readers to the happy life Crackskull Jack is leading with his wife, Penny Darkling. They are a match made in heaven. The crew does...

Cordelia has a monstrous secret, one that no one knows about, not even her adoptive family, nor the society she lives in. Not even her best friend, Wally. Here is the secret — she is a monster in the morning. Cordelia Grey grew up in...

Driven to the Hilt: The Deepest Cut by D.G. Lamb is one of the most original and well-told stories I’ve ever read. First-time author D.G. Lamb has established himself as a new talent in young adult novels with this first effort. At its core, this...

Ever since her father’s death, Addie MacKenna had been having horrifying nightmares. That comes with the territory, but these are more than just nightmares and it’s evident from the first few pages of Ignite the Flame that Addie is more than what she seems. Her...

Daughter of the Mara is book one in The Mara Chronicles by Alexandra Bittner, a spellbinding young adult urban fantasy that follows the paranormal life of a young girl, a tale filled with emotion and a compelling narrative. She was locked away in a psychiatric...

Marissa F. Cohen has chosen an unusual way to share her own story, and that of twenty other victims/survivors of sexual abuse, or as she prefers to see them, “warriors,” in Breaking Through the Silence:The Journey to Surviving Sexual Assault. The author weaves the stories...

I love futuristic science fiction. I like action oriented tales that take place within a well thought out and detailed future. That is one reason I loved Orion The Hunter: The Spiral Arm Stories Season One by Clifford VanMeter. The action and the future that...

In the Moment: The Friessens, Book 8 is a new adult coming of age/romance novel written by Lorhainne Eckhart. Becky wanted something to happen to change the dull and dreary outlook she had on life. Her parents were awesome, even if they were a bit...

Curves in the Road: The Southern Devotion Book 2 by Amy K McClung is the story of Derrick and Mary Jane. He’s been a single dad since he was a teenager and has his life laid out just the way he wants it. His daughter,...

Haunting of the Wired Monk by J.A. Williams is the first book of The Coventry Ghosts series. Leanne had just had her first kiss; the last thing she expected was to die. After her death, she's left to haunt the place where she died -...

In Heir of the Thunderbird (The Glass People, Book 1) by Martin and May-Britt Brændstrup, 16-year-old Victoria is a very fragile teenager, dubbed as ‘the girl made of glass’ by her peers. Her bones snap at the slightest strain. Victoria’s condition and her Passamaquoddy...

As a child playing in the cellar of her house, called the underhouse, Kira feels a vibration coming from a pair of huge stone eyelids. There she meets Angras, a strange boy possessing superhuman abilities. He tells her he came through these eyelids. They soon...

A solar storm wreaks havoc across the world, and a family caught hundreds of miles apart from each other struggles to survive and reunite in the exciting young adult adventure novel, Through the Storm (The Solar Storms Saga Book 1) by Kyle Pratt. A widowed...

In Dawn of the Reaper: The Chronicles of Evernight Book 1 by Paul F. McGowan a mother manages to escape a monster that threatens to destroy her child. She places the child in the care of two strangers, before whispering words of love to him...

Traveling to China? Want to learn some Chinese words? AIEEYAAA! Learn Chinese The Hard Way: The English-Chinese Cartoon Dictionary by Larry Feign is not the usual Chinese dictionary, but is more fun and comical and will teach readers how to converse in Chinese. Learning Chinese...

Ace Carroway Around the World by Guy Worthey is the second book in The Adventures of Ace Carroway, but it reads very well as a standalone novel, a thriller featuring murder, an investigation, and compelling characters. Shipbuilder Grant Carroway is murdered after leaving a note...

Narah and the Unicorn: The Original Narwhal Story by Bobby Roe and Zack Andrews, with illustrations by David Grizzle, is a children's book with a fantasy angle to the creation of the namesake whale. Narah, a Beluga whale, is born with a barnacle on her...

On the Cusp: The Women of Penn '64 by Anne Sceia Klein and Vilma Barr looks at the emergence of women as they invade a man's world. This is a collection of real life stories of nineteen University of Pennsylvania women graduates on the threshold...

Ella has a tumor that has robbed her of speech. She knows it is going to cause her death, but she just wants to be treated like a normal teenage girl. Tessa, her mum, and her grandpa Archie are doing their best but since her...

Beware, never judge a book by its cover. C. Wain’s debut novel A Prayer for the Necromancer is the first volume in his book series titled The Shinigami Tomes. A Prayer for the Necromancer tells the tale of Kaze who is “a mage of sorts.”...