Jetsam by Corey Mattingly is a realistic novel about the lives of today’s teenagers in the developed world. Jetsam is a simple story, but it tells some hard-hitting truths. Jetsam starts off as the musings and thoughts of a fairly typical middle-class young white American...

Kirsten is more than just fascinated with the Amish. She is attracted to their faith, their way of believing and the simple lives they’ve chosen to live. Coming from a military family and having lost her father, her brother and her fiancé to wars overseas,...

The Yoga of True Wealth: Wisdom from a Heart on Wall Street by Francis G Bitterly is a non-fiction book that falls into two distinct genres: philosophy and religion/spirituality on one hand, and finance and investment strategies on the other. It is indeed hard to...

Cool Science Experiments for Kids! by Sumita Mukherjee is an interesting and interactive book for children who want to explore the world of science, are naturally inquisitive, observant, and determined problem solvers. The experiments shared by the author not only encourage exploration, play, and invention,...

If your children are looking for a book of fun, adventure, and with colorful illustrations, get a copy of Sunken Treasure Hunt - Singapore: Keiko and Kenzo Travel Adventure Series by Sumita Mukherjee. Join siblings Keiko and Kenzo, and their dad, Mr. Kimura, their pet...

Michelle DePalma meant for her trip to Two Wells, Texas, to be a quick check-in on her mother. That changed when she walked in on the dead body of a caregiver, and her mother standing in a puddle of blood, completely unaware that something bad...

The Rampart Guards by Wendy Terrien is Chronicle One in the Adventures of Jason Lex. After Jason Lex's mom disappears one night, his dad decides to move him and his siblings closer to their grandma and the uncle their mom never wanted them to meet....

Firefighters’ Busy Day! is a children’s book for young, aspiring firefighters, written in rhyme by Maria Bostian and illustrated by Chris Danger. As firefighters clean their vehicles and make sure their equipment is secure, a call comes in that a house is on fire. People...

Murder at Broadcast Park is a murder mystery/thriller written by Bill Evans. John was getting used to his position at the station as the assignment editor. It always did seem rather odd to him that he, the new kid who had just finished college, would...

Gamma by M Susanne Wiggins is the first and compelling entry in the League of Worlds series, a mix of fantasy and sci-fi with characters and themes that will entice both young and adult readers. Meet Alec Ellison, a man who’s grown up learning to...

The Old Cape Hollywood Secret by Barbara Eppich Struna is an edge of your seat thrilling murder mystery. Maggie Foster and her cousin, Gertie, leave their small town of Cape Cod to seek their fortune in Hollywoodland in 1947. One of the girls disappears, never...

Ghost of the Forbidden City - China by Sumita Mukherjee takes readers to China with Keiko, Kenzo, and Eji. They are on a school trip with their friends, and Tyra, their history teacher who was also known as Miss Tyrant. Eji has been given special...

The Punished by Cy Forrest is a novel that features intrigue, romance, and the unusual transformation of the lives of characters involved in a delicate and deadly plot. The story is multi generational, with strong and interesting characters and a political setting that is constructed...

I really enjoyed reading Predictable Violence by Gillean Campbell. Detective Mackenzie (Mack) Anderson has a very tragic past. It is the reason she became a homicide detective. When a triple homicide occurs, along with a confession, it seems as if it will be an open...

What strikes one most deeply while reading I Miss My Best Friend - a condensed tale of love, friendship, and loss – is Penelope Lagos’s decision, decisively well executed, of telling a most personal family story. This is not a generic rendition of “our family...

In Book of Names by Rain Oxford, brothers Nathan and Luca find themselves yanked from their easy-going existence and thrown into the midst of a strange alien world where Egyptian myths are alive and magic works. Foundling Nathan also discovers that he may have a...

Adventure North is a nonfiction adventure memoir written by Sean Bloomfield. While most high school seniors were enjoying the last few months of their final spring semester, Bloomfield and his friend, Colton Witte, were setting out on the adventure of a lifetime. They had concentrated...

Snowman Amuck by Cindy Samul is the story of Jack, whose parents are out on a Friday night. They leave the house, giving Jack a lot of instructions. He almost goes to sleep, but then remembers his sled. He dons his winter clothes, comes back...

Away with the Fairies by Jenny Twist is a sweet short story about a young girl who goes on an adventure in which they learn just how strong a family is. The story begins with June and Lucy, both of whom are sisters. Lucy suffers...

At the opening of the novella Doppelganger by Jenny Twist, we find our heroine, Christine, sitting in a bath and about to start on her third bottle of wine. Taking yet another handful of pills along with the booze, she is rather disappointed that it...