I chose to read Hang'n with Kasey: My First Day of School by Karl Christon because I want to get my child ready for her own first day of school. The best way to do that is to show her through pictures and books. Hang'n...

Facing starvation and extinction, without communication or resupply from Earth for the last 15 years, Stephen’s Point colony decides to restore the ancient starship Chimera, a living ship that has been dormant for the past 200 years. The young members of the colony are required...

Fallen (The Fallen Saga, Book 1) by Emily Clarke is a young adult paranormal story about the love between a human and an angel. Julie's life changes when her father gets a new job and moves across the country from Connecticut to Texas. In Texas...

The Man from KNEW News by Matt Stewart takes you through the doors of a small-town TV news station. Tate Thompson has just graduated from Syracuse and wants a job at ABC News with his father – only his father won’t hire him. He says...

In A Little Goes a Long Way, written by Ashley Mills Monaghan and illustrated by Vivian Nguyen, Fin, along with his adorable dog, Sausages, tries his best to help his family out by doing some chores. From giving the dog way too much food to...

The Bezert by Maria Knier is a surreal story where readers are taken into the world of Bezert who lived in his space known as the Hisonly Place. It is a safe place to save his thoughts and feelings. One day he travels from his...

Bunny's Big Discovery, written by Mamma Macs and illustrated by Jane Carlisle, is about Bunny. He begins his day feeling sad, but he doesn’t know why. He tries to visit his friend Bear, to see if that will put him in a better mood. With...

Demon Powers and Angel Touched by Kenneth Laws is a new adult fantasy novel centering on a trio of unlikely friends. Hannah Abbot encounters the Kristensen twins, Vonen and Traven, at a party. The three forge a tight friendship. Vonen and Traven are heirs to...

Dawn of the Dominant by Vipin Suren is a fantasy adventure steeped in magic that is geared for the pre-teen audience. We will meet a group of siblings that have each been given special and unique magical powers and a deep desire to fulfill their...

In The Assassin's Quest, Book 4 of the Paladin Chronicles by Dr. Neil Port, Jess travels through the dry and desolate desert of Central Asia to find some answers. She is a Nubian assassin. Although there is no doubt that she is deadly, scary and...

For the Children: A Cold War Escape Story by Geza Tatrallyay is a suspenseful biography of the author’s family’s escape or odyssey first to Austria and then to Canada from Hungary, in the crucial year of 1956. For the Children is a rich book of...

How a Good Person Can Really Win is an excellent book by Pavan Choudary on how strategy and values affect the successes and follies of people in the world of work and politics. The book characterises two types of people; the vile and the naive....

Flying With The Enemy: Memoir of a Young Cadet by Oleg V. Okševski and George O. Okshewsky is an epic of a memoir, the most significant part beginning with Hitler’s attack on Yugoslavia and how the difference between Serbs and Croats played out. In 1942,...

We’re Still Here: The Secret World of Bunker Hill’s Historical Spirits is a work of non fiction by Marylee Trettenero which centers on the history of Charlestown. The author is a self-professed psychic medium, who weaves her own spirit channeling in with the established history...

In Kobee Manatee: A Wild Weather Adventure by Robert Scott Thayer, Kobee and his pals are anticipating a rough journey on the Atlantic Ocean as they plan to surprise Kobee Manatee's sister Kim for her birthday. Kim lives in the Bahamas and their journey is...

As a 'fictionalized true story,' I'm curious to understand what is fact and what is fiction in Jocelyne Turbett's Born to Please. Revolving around Ashley's normal upbringing and subsequent transition into a hell-raising rebel child, there was a very real, very human element to the...

A Scandal to Remember by Elizabeth Essex is about a dashing lieutenant and a conchologist who board the Tenacious for two different reasons, but come out of the journey with a gift beyond their imaginations. J.E. Burke, more commonly known as Jane, is a conchologist....

Re-Wired by Greg Dragon tells the story of Brad Barkley, a student busy with creating his new android, Tricia. His only break is a few exchanges with his college mate, Mika, with whom he is unsuccessful in making a romantic connection. Tricia, in the meantime,...

In The Story in the Stars: Gateway to Gannah, Volume One by author Yvonne Anderson, we find our heroine, Dassa, teaming up with the inscrutable Dr. Pik in the hopes of finding a cure for the Karkar plague before it decimates the population of Gannah....

Bubbles: Big Stink in Frog Pond is a children’s story by Ben Woodard. Bubbles loves living in Frog Pond with his friends. His only problem is blowing bubbles in the water that smell so awful the other frogs do not want to be around him....