Love and Kindness by Christine Topjian is about love and kindness and lending a helping hand to anyone who needs it. It is always important to reach out to those who need help, such as if someone in the class is having a hard time...

Cecilia by Sandra L. Rostirolla is an action-packed, heart-pounding fantasy with a heroine that young readers will root for. Eighteen-year-old Cecilia is the only one who survived a ruthless attack orchestrated by the corrupt Senators of Vitus on her people. With their orders, soldiers have...

Life for the early settlers in Nova Scotia wasn’t easy. But neither had it been easy in the homeland, in Ireland. Ira Stewart, a blacksmith by trade, brought his wife, Merry, and family to the New World in the hopes of a better life. When...

“My target focused upon me. His hand shook, reaching out in a misplaced plea for aid. Instead, I raised my goblet in a final toast while he turned purple. He glanced towards his spilled glass, and then studied my face with new understanding. With his...

Love and Pursuit: Three Jazz Age Tales of Crime and Passion is a collection of romantic suspense novellas written by C.K. Charlotte. Ivy Smythe had had to break down well-established barriers to become one of the first women barristers in England. She was thrilled to...

Before We Were Perfect by S.D. Moore is a beautiful, beautiful novel that I adored. I cannot really explain how much the novel touched me and made me deliriously happy at the end. The author described the novel as a romantic "dramedy" and she was...

Shelly Reuben’s My Mostly Happy Life: Autobiography of a Climbing Tree is the work of great imagination, as inspiring as it is engaging. It’s a story about the life of a community, centered on a park and told by a climbing tree. Sam Swerling is...

Ed: A Matter-of-Fact, Funny Frog Book by Monique Piscaer Bailey is the story of Ed, the frog. Ed lays her eggs inside a bog and the tadpoles hatch, one by one. They swim and grow and have fun. Then one day their legs pop out...

Realms by K.T. Kimbrough takes an exciting, unconventional look at a world where angels and demons war beside us. Seth Ivory had an epiphany, an awakening of the soul. It changed the way the rock star sees the world, and has crept into his music....

Catch That Chinchilla is an educational tale from the Talking Tales series for children, and is both written and illustrated by Erica Graham. Fletch and his sister, Rachael, receive a new pet chinchilla from their father, but against his wishes, they unlock the cage...

Within each generation, there is something that stands out, especially in the way of communication from oral to written. In the '70s there was a heavy influence of shorthand, in the late '90s cell phones, social media and emoji evolved, and now Kanmoji has appeared,...

Intimate, curiously emotional, and psychologically exciting, Poetically Unapologetic by Sophia King is a collection that features gems that readers will adore. It’s not a book for readers who are looking for erudite verses, but those who have learned to listen with the heart, to see...

Alternatives to a Frozen Mouse: Book One by AJ Mouse is a memoir written by someone with DID or Disassociate Identity Disorder, or what used to known as Multiple Personality Disorder or Split Personality, and is one of the best books I have read in...

It’s remarkable that a book this compact can leave you reeling and overwhelmed with sadness at the atrocities one human being can inflict upon another. And when the victims of those atrocities are children who haven’t even hit puberty, as in the case of Yuna...

Escape from Doubting Castle (Abigail and Her King) by Mary E. Laders is a great tale of deception and adventure. Abigail has been sent away from the only place she could call home, banned forever. Or at least until she can escape from Prince Beelzebub,...

Scandalous in a Kilt: Hot Scots, Book 3 is a sizzling romance novel written by Anna Durand. Emery Granger had given herself a weekend jaunt to the Big Easy, partly to commiserate losing her job and sense of security in Colorado Springs, but mostly to...

Diamond's Edge: Stalker Suspense Novel is a romantic suspense novel by author Kaylie Hunter. In this standalone novel, our heroine Diamond Campbell comes from a dark world of crime, a world she thinks she’s managed to leave behind. But just as she seems to be...

What would make a normal, rational person throw away everything and everyone he holds dear? Meth VS Death: "No Way Out" by Stormy Rainey explores the true story of one man’s relationship with drugs. From the age of three when his brother dies in a...

Moira Ashe: Enemy Within by Brendon Bertram is the first installment in a series about a special werewolf hunter. Lincoln, one of the two protagonists, volunteered to find a werewolf hunter who'd be willing to teach him how to hunt the beings that are now...

Set in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Out of Focus by Carol Ashe explores the dangerous crimes of human and drug trafficking. Margarite Hunter is serving as a detective for WPS alongside Hank, her partner. A victim is found, beaten and bruised, and left for dead. Later, she...