Tales of the Beautifully Dark: Volume One is written and illustrated by Marc R. Micciola. Umochibu people are sacrificed in a blasphemous effort to vanquish a disease that has spread. Princess Akua is angry over so much death, including the loss of the Emperor. The...

The Couple’s Counsel is a book by Ikenna Ngene, Ph.D., and Ijeoma Ngene. After years of marriage, Pete and Jane have trouble in their relationship. On the advice of Jane’s mother, the couple attends a couple’s retreat. They meet three couples, one of whom is...

The Mysterious Pool by Charlene McIver is a delightful story about a group of kids and their scary and fantastic adventures at a creepy mansion. Cosmo, Leigh, and Tara are visiting Cosmo's grandmother's house during a strange night with wind and fog. On their way, they...

The Girl From Huizen is a historical fiction drama novel by Paulette Mahurin. Set in Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the 1940s, the story follows Rosamond Jansen (Roz), a young woman living on a farm in the small village of Huizen. Roz and her family feel disillusioned...

Eleanor believed that her unusual childhood memories were nothing more than the work of an overactive imagination that she set aside as she grew older. But when her grandmother passes on and bequeaths some of her most prized possessions to Eleanor, she understands that she...

The Magic of Misty Nook: A Magical Misty Nook Festival by Christine Skippins, the fourth book in the series, is a funny and engaging read for children and adult animal lovers alike. The elves that live in magical Misty Nook love to arrange a festival...

The Dark Secrets of Oliveto by Stefano A. Giovannoni is a YA paranormal story. Oliveto is a small town, but it’s not a quiet one. Enchantments and spells are the order of the day for some residents, but there’s a problem—the fairy community is disappearing,...

What Happens Here: Vegas is a work of fiction in the romance, interpersonal drama, and relationships subgenres, and it forms the opening novel in the What Happens Here Series. The work is best suited to mature readers as it contains explicit language and sexual situations....

In Mudman and Meatball (A Sky View Farm Adventure) by Angelina Natale, superheroes use their skills to do something good and kind but do so incognito. This inspired Maggie to revive an abandoned field on their farm and use her horses to help plant flower...

The Curtain Lady by Andrea Shepherd is a coming-of-age tale with paranormal overtones. Set throughout the 1980s in Montreal, the book chronicles the story of a young girl named Poppy Bell from age eleven to her early twenties. Since sixth grade, Poppy started keeping a...

Many women’s identities, thoughts, and accomplishments have been erased from history. Women have been robbed of true female role models. Even today, women have no choice but to read and interpret the Bible through the lens of men. But now is the time to learn...

Lisa Fox's Core Truths is a collection of 18 short stories that traverse the realms of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. In a futuristic dystopia where people are allocated a specific amount of time to live, a man and his young son encounter an "elderly" at...

Dianne Corbeau had a rough childhood. At the age of 8, she ran away from her abusive home and started living on the streets of New York. She got entangled with alcohol and drugs and soon became an addict. Having been inspired by a respected...

Milagros Wallace’s Gregorina in Chicago: The Windy City is an inspiring tale of one young girl’s journey to feel at home in a new home, so very different from the one she had known. Gregorina moves from Venezuela to Chicago, where she is challenged, over...

All Jaime and Dustin wanted was to live in peace and be able to love each other; however, that seemed too tall an order in Love Beyond Death by Alderin Ordell. Dustin finally loses his cool after seeing his beloved come home battered and bruised...

The Wonderful Once: A Christmas Story by JR Buchta is a wonderful children’s story. A special home for children without parents is in a lovely, friendly village. Well looked after, the children are happily waiting for their forever homes. At the annual Christmas Festival, all...

Wrecked by Nichole Rose focuses on notorious mob boss Rafe Valentino and his lovely captive Amalia Santiago. When Amalia is kidnapped as a ploy to lure out her foster brother, the last thing Rafe expects is to fall for her. While she wants to protect...

Colleen Driscoll’s Flora Finds Fall is a charming picture book. Flora wants to play. As she goes around talking to her animal friends, she discovers they are too busy to play with her since fall has come. Each animal gives a reason that it cannot...

Attractive artwork accentuates an entertaining story with an important message in Laban Learns Mindful Breathing by Sara Taher. Laban is an adorable kitty that has just moved into a new home. As you might expect, a new residence offers many opportunities for a curious young...

My Neglected Gods is a collection of narrative poems and thoughts by Joanne Nelson. They give details about old memories and daily activities. She talks about her earliest memory of going to the park in a yellow stroller with her brother Dale, learning to swim...