Playing Soldier is a work of non-fiction in the memoir and autobiographical sub-genres, and was written by author F. Scott Service. Please note that the work does contain explicit language, sexual references, and references to drugs and alcohol which makes it much more suitable to...

Our New Normal by Jennifer Brooks is an amazing, bold Young Adult LGBTQ novel with its finger on the pulse of current events. Main character Victoria has it made. She's the richest girl in town, she and her clique are at the top of the...

This I Know by Clay Anderson is a lovely little children’s book about finding beauty in nature. The story begins with a girl waking her baby sister in excitement about the day ahead. Through rhyme and playful illustrations, we go on a trip with this...

My Baby Slime by Sonya Annita Song and Rohini Shrivastava is a rhyming picture book about learning to be assertive. We dive into this topic with some unexpected guides: a young boy and his adorable pet slime. The boy narrates the story of his adventures...

Have you ever read a book that had you so riveted you were shocked to realize you had reached the end of the story? That's what happened to me as I raced through the pages of New America Awakenings by Tyler Davis. Davis had me...

Joseph Woodward pens an action-packed young adult adventure in Back Running. How do you survive without any electrical power? No internet. No gasoline. No stocked supermarkets. The world is about to find out. In the aftermath of a world-wide power blackout, Coach Bob Byson and...

Who’s Jerry? by T.M. Jackson is a children’s picture book about mental illness, specifically schizophrenia. The little girl, Imani, is struggling throughout most of the story to understand what is happening to her mother and trying to figure out who this Jerry person is that...

The Borderlands: A Time To Choose is a work in the speculative fiction genre. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author S. Christopher Michaels. Set in a vision of the not so distant future in which the political and...

Finnigan the Lionhearted by Mary T. Wagner brings readers the adventure of attending a circus for the first time through the eyes of a little mouse, Maximillian. Max and his cousin, Leroy, grew up in the Farnsworth Circus Museum. When a circus comes to town,...

I Can Sleep When The Wind Blows by Heather Davis is a fun story about Jim, a farmhand whose ways of communicating are unorthodox, to say the least. A farmer is looking for help on his land, but this 17-year-old is the only applicant. So...

The Bertrams and the Jimenezes were two families that lived in El Salvador. While the Bertrams operated a thriving restaurant, Domingo Jimenez operated a repair shop. Both families had dreamed of moving to America, but they were doing okay in El Salvador until the maras...

Asbury High and the Parcels of Poison by Kelly Brady Channick is the second book in the Asbury High series. Carly, Maddie, Cornelious, and Pilot have a new mystery to solve that threatens to close their favorite hangout, could cost Pilot's mom her job, and...

Do you frequently get distracted and end up doing something other than what you should be doing? Then you forget what you were supposed to do? And you end up on another tangent and the day just keeps on getting more and more complicated and...

The Adventures of Forkman: What’s That Noise? by Tiffany Caldwell and WR MacKenzie is a delightful book teaching children about table etiquette. This colorful book continues the teaching of Forkman from their first book, A Children’s Book of Etiquette: The Adventures of Forkman. The first...

Bruiser loves to play, especially at the park. He loves running with kangaroos, but they jump and move too fast. He also loves trying to fly with the galahs, but he really can’t fly since he doesn’t have any wings. When he finds the pond,...

Martyrs and Manifestations: Hexed Poems and Art for Holiday Gatherings is a collected work of imaginative poetry and emotive wordplay, penned and illustrated by author Milan Sergent. As the title suggests, this quirky and highly enjoyable work showcases the poetic talents of the author, whose...

The Slummer: Quarters Till Death by Geoffrey Simpson is a compelling, futuristic novel that features a sport scarcely written about: running. Set in 2083, Benjamin Brandt is among those who live on the fringes of society. He belongs to the class of poor people commonly...

The Coming is a sci-fi thriller written by author Dan Coffman. Shane Reid is a UFO skeptic and former professor at Northwestern University whose wife's and child's deaths lead him to early retirement and becoming a full-time UFO investigator. When UFO-logist Brad Shelton brings a...

Ivy’s Popsicle Dragon by Mr. Sun is a humorous children's book in which Ivy wakes up crying and startles her mom. Of course, her mom wants to know what is wrong, and when Ivy tells her about her “nightmare,” it isn’t what she is expecting....

Paige Reynolds considered herself a plain Jane and sourced validation from social media platforms. She didn’t have a huge following on her accounts; her likes were low, and comments were discouraging. Alexis, her former high schoolmate, heightened Paige’s insecurities because she was the social media...