Johanna Charo has had a rough life. Growing up, she's been in a group home with strict rules and pretty hostile caretakers. She's able to escape into books and her studies, hoping to leave it all behind as soon as she can by graduating early...

The Enemy In Your Hands: A True Story Of Radical Forgiveness by Tina Genaro is the motivational story of the author, who rose up from the setbacks suffered in childhood at the hands of an abusive and alcoholic stepfather and a mother who never supported...

Justice Perverted: How The Innocence Project at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism Sent an Innocent Man to Prison by William B Crawford is a true story. Anthony Porter was convicted of a brutal double murder in 1983. The victims were Marilyn Green and Jerry...

A Time to Cry: A Poetic Memoir of Madness, Depression, and Unrequited Love by Paul Kloschinsky is exactly what the title suggests: a brooding, introspective, and cathartic journey through depression, lost love, and unfulfilled promises. Those in the throes of this unholy trilogy of debilitating...

Nyarla and the Circle of Stones is the first book in The Fethafoot Chronicles by Pemulwuy Weeatunga. At the time of the big invasion by the Ghost people, Bidjigal warrior Pemulwuy of Eora Country led his clan to victory in a 12-year war against the...

Not A Soldier, But A Scoundrel - The Lives and Deaths of George W. Graham by Heidi M. Crabtree is a significant, well researched book, enough to be memorable amongst the plethora of novels and histories I read concurrently. The chief protagonist of this history...

Angelica's Box: A Poetically Sober Psychotic Break (Pizzle's Trilogy of Insanity) by Greatest Poet Alive is a book of poetry. This was a first for me as I normally do not read poetry books, but I wanted to try this. The poetry varies in that...

Secrets: Diary of a Gutsy Teen is a diarized book written by Barbara Becker Holstein. Reaching a critical point in her life when her mother is pregnant, the family has moved into a new home and the children are about to begin at a new...

The Foothills Mystery: The Investigation into the Death of the Solo Rock Climber is a police procedural murder mystery written by Stanley Yokell. While this is the fourth book in Yokell's Marie Quizno mystery series, the author gives enough background information to allow this book...

Campanelli: Siege of the Nighthunter by Frederick H. Crook is a dystopian murder mystery set in 2110. It’s June and a serial killer is on the hunt in Chicago City. The first victim has been mutilated almost beyond recognition, partially eaten, and he was also...

Unloving Whispers (War of Whispers Trilogy, Book 3) by Martha Pope Gorris is inspiring, insightful, encouraging and discerning regarding the spiritual realm. Martha Pope Gorris lets us look into the spiritual realm and see the battle that rages around each one of us. We see...

Anele Dingane is the stubborn and rebellious nine-year-old sister of fifteen-year-old twins, Thaka and Zhana. Their father, Naboto Dingane, was the Zulu chief of the village. He had always warned them that “Until you marry, you will obey me in every way, or I'll take...

How Horses Are Trained: Principles and Methods of Training Based on a Dynamic Relationship with the Horse by Dan Arnold is 102 pages of information on how to train horses including working horses, riding them, and showing them. Arnold has revamped this book, first written...

A Whisper in The Shadows: Rangers of Laerean book one by Tom Fallwell is a spellbinding work with a powerful setting. The reader is introduced to the imaginary, captivating world of Hir with its peculiar seasons and legendary characters. Readers are introduced to tales of...

Max: The Story of a Dog Who Thought He Was a Cow by Ron Stoltz is an adorable children’s book. The story is about Max, a dog who was raised with cows. Naturally Max thought he was a cow too, until one day Max is...

In Grendel's Mother by Susan Signe Morrison, many half-years ago, a child of unknown origin washed ashore and was adopted by a grieving couple. They loved her as they would their own flesh and blood. Under the guidance of her loving parents, Brimhild grew into...

Set in a small village in post Civil War Wisconsin, The Saxon Boy: First Children of Farmington by Lisa Lickel revolves around eight-year-old John Klessig who loses his father suddenly, and finds himself with a new father when his mother remarries. His stepfather is very...

The French Girl (A First Children of Farmington book) by Lisa J. Lickel is based on the true story of Marie Brinker, a girl born in Luxembourg and brought up in France. Her family emigrated to America in 1852. Her father was a tailor, and...

The Illuminator Rising by Alina Sayre is volume three of The Voyages of the Legend series. Ellie and her friends have watched Rhynlyr, their home island, destroyed and now, from the safety of the ship, they must find the Vestigia Roi who had survived. First,...

Far West: The Diary of Eleanor Higgins by Linell Jeppsen takes place when Indians were still fighting for their land and the west was a dangerous place. Sixteen-year-old Nel Higgins knows about danger; her father, Frank, abused her and her siblings daily. After the death...