Shadow Beneath the City is the first book in The Secrets of Shadow series by Joel Hopkinson. Amara is a young vampire with a dilemma in that she wants to kill all vampires for murdering her parents. Amara's constant companion, Shadow, is her only link...

Have you ever heard a sound and wondered where it came from? A sound so loud and clear that it sent shivers down your spine the moment you heard it, especially when everyone in your household is accounted for? The delightfully funny and endearing story,...

"Someone with a lot of money had tried to kill Sara." Tom must find out who tried to kill Sara or they'll eventually succeed. She could have been targeted by assassins, but then her birth had been hidden from almost everyone. Tom has to confront...

Me and The Times is a thoroughly engaging and fascinating memoir from the pen of Robert W. Stock. Subtitled My Wild Ride from Elevator Operator to New York Times Editor, Columnist, and Change Agent (1967-97), the author presents the details of his life and his...

Switching Tracks by Lena Gibson is an action-adventure love story set in a post-apocalyptic world. The story follows Elsa, a young woman barely surviving by scrounging for treasures in trash heaps. When she discovers a valuable artifact, her simple life suddenly becomes dark and complex....

A picture is worth a thousand words – how many times have we heard that oft-repeated phrase? Photo artist Tarra Light’s Timeless Images is what she describes as “telling stories with pictures.” Her images of ordinary, hard-working people taught her “that poverty is not a...

“Life sounds sweeter with music.” I love this opening line to Susan Montgomery’s Ukulele Practice Time. So very true! But sometimes making music isn’t as easy as we’d like it to be. We need to be patient, to persevere, and to practice, practice, practice. That’s...

Finding Sarah: A Phoenix to Behold by Nina Purtee is a gripping young adult coming-of-age novel. It follows Sarah Wilkinson as she rises from the ashes as a phoenix and discovers what she has to live for and offer to the world. At ten years...

Suzanne Lezotte’s first child, Owen, was born with Down Syndrome. Lezotte did not know about his diagnosis until a week after his birth. The identification of Owen as a Down Syndrome child brought with it the expected feelings of grief, fear, and doubts. The experience...

Imagine There’s No Heaven: The Born Again Atheist by Frederick Von Heisenberg is a non-fiction religious book about becoming an atheist. The author talks about how he grew up as a Catholic but is now an atheist. He uses sections of the Bible to explain...

In Blood Influence by I.C. Lawrance, people in the Bowl lived in fear and were aware of the rumors that the Tower took away those with Influence and that they were never seen again. The Influence was inherited by blood, and the Tower needed girls...

It is 2195 and the world now consists of large tracts of bare land sparsely riddled with small towns, where only the fittest survive. GreenCorps, a farm products company owned by the McCoy family, has unscrupulously monopolized the food market, making food a rare luxury...

Stone of Love is a work of fiction in the romance, interpersonal drama, and paranormal adventure subgenres, and it forms the opening novel of the Stones of Iona series. The work is best suited to mature readers owing to scenes of a sexual nature, some...

In the second book in I.C. Lawrance's Blood Influence series, Apostasy, Mortella has been summoned to the Tower, and her fate is to bear a child to provide for the Code. The Bowl, which is under the protection of the Code, was a prison for...

In The Wolf and the Shepherd by C. J. Thorin, Eliel, an elderly shepherd, lives a rustic life in the Alps, tending to his flock, making cheese, and reflecting on his profession. He has his challenges with things like resource scarcity, market changes, and wolf...

The Dream Room is a romance drama novel by Charlotte Glass. Currently in her mid-twenties, aspiring playwright Allison Cassidy has been in a steady romantic relationship with her childhood friend, Jed Adkins, for the last six years. When Jed took off for Los Angeles to...

“We are all different, beautiful, imperfectly perfect, and equally valuable just the way we are.” That sounds like quite a mouthful, but oh, so true. Ágnes Horváth’s Emma and Bob is a story about two children who learn some pretty intense lessons while visiting their...

The Dragon of Evermore by Cheryl Rush Cowperthwait is the seventh book in The Spires of Dasny series. Grifton and Elky reunite, discovering Hu'gan's abduction. Tucker, a knight, and Dragonbird join the fight. Seyra and Dreyth propose a stealth mission to rescue Hu'gan, and they...

The Root Of All Evil is a work of fiction in the mystery, suspense, and interpersonal drama subgenres, and is the third volume of the Clara and Iris Mystery collection. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience. Penned by author Kim Carter,...

No Dog Food, Please! by Linda Costarella is a heartwarming and profoundly educational narrative for young people, told from the point of view of its central character, Jack – a yellow Labrador Retriever transplanted from his Florida home to a farm in upstate New York....