Talking Tales: Cricket’s Guitar is an educational story for young children by Erica Graham. When one of the strings broke on Cricket’s guitar, he asks Teri if she can help him replace it. Teri is willing to help and gives Cricket a tiny string from...

Farkle Shark, You Are Not Stupid by Rita Emmett and Irina Bulgaru is an adorable story which speaks about bullying and feeling stupid. Farkle Shark is hiding from his big sister because she always corrects the goofy sayings he uses. She always criticizes him and...

Call Me Pomeroy: A Novel of Satire and Political Dissent is a humorous fictional narrative, written by James Hanna. Fifty-seven years ago, Eddie Beasley was born. Now, he finds himself forever on parole for a crime he unknowingly committed after bedding a woman who'd lied...

This is a very important book. Mein Name Ist Peter Dietrich is important and timely, in part because of the argument about the value and importance that immigration plays in this great American experience. This is the authentic story of Peter Dietrich, but in many...

Hurry Huchimp Be Bonobo Like: The New Democracy by C.J. Cronin is an interesting take on social issues and climate change. The reader is introduced to Kahoom, the Tahitian with the great smile who “just loves all women,” anchoring his sailing craft off the island...

The Siege (A Psychological Thriller) by James Hanna is a fiction novel that follows a prison takeover. The Siege will appeal most to an audience of adults who enjoy prison fiction with all of its raw grittiness. The story takes place in The Indiana Penal...

Outside by Gustavo Bondoni takes us into a world where Earth no longer has humankind upon it. When Rome and his shipmates aboard a starship come to the blue planet, they wonder what could have happened in the last 500 years. Meanwhile, upon the blue...

Swamped! by Ingrid Sawubona is an exciting picture book about a little animal named Hershel who lives in a swamp. One day, Hershel decides that he doesn't like living in the swamp. He wants to live where there is no moss and no slime. He...

Brutal Silence by Margaret Dardess is a gritty and realistic fiction novel on the topic of human sex trafficking. Alex Harrington from North Carolina is on a trip to Mexico with her friend. Although warned of the dangers of traveling alone outside Mexico City, Alex...

Kwan's Choice (Dare to Follow) by Skye Elizabeth Wieland is the story of one man’s pursuit of his dreams and what it takes to take the lead. When Kwan moved from South Africa, he had a dream: “to run a trail riding place, like he...

Zoey doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. There are so many different types of jobs to do and they all sound so very exciting, especially when these jobs mean that she is helping others in some way. Zoey is quite...

Thieves is the seventh book in the James Ford Mysteries by Sandra Olson, a mystery with great historical references and two powerful international settings - 1938 Nazi Germany and 2017 Arkansas. Two powerful plot lines, a crime, and an astute detective investigating a theft that...

A Tempest Soul by Oliver Phipps is a coming-of-age story that explores Gina Falcone’s growth curve, the challenges she has to face, and the vicissitudes of her life. But it is mostly the story of her crucible of pain and how she allows it to...

The Proposal: A Leap of Faith is a romantic short story based on actual events, and written by Cheryl Holloway. After ten years of dating her much-loved beau, Marvin, Carol wonders if he will ever pop the question. Not wanting to die a single woman,...

Wolf's Blood: Plague of Snowbrook by Meagan Poetschlag is a mesmerizing tale, suspenseful, and exciting, a story centered on a mysterious plague, a dark family secret and wolves. Clair Wilson is nineteen when her parents decide to leave everything behind in San Diego, moving into...

The Repatriate: Love, Basketball, and the KGB by Tom Mooradian is an autobiography that brilliantly captures what it felt like to live behind the Iron Curtain. Set in 1947 - 1960, this autobiography follows the life of Tom Mooradian, a seventeen-year-old boy, a basketball prodigy,...

Rachel Cathan's 336 Hours is the humorous story of a young woman determined to get pregnant. Rachel is in her early thirties, a wife, and formerly successful career woman. Five years ago, Rachel quit her high-stress job to focus full-time on her current career; getting...

Three Journals by Greg Masters is a masterpiece in the area of journaling, a great work featuring powerful journal entries. No, readers are not offered gripping plots they’d find in thrillers, but the kind of writing that transports them and forces them to look at...

Talking Tales: Puppy’s Bubble by Erica Graham is a charming storybook for children as it targets some of the earliest developmental sounds of the English language. Puppy wakes from his nap and sees a bubble. He gets up and notices the bubble is gone. Puppy...

Therapy: A Memoir Novella by Crystal M. Adair is a most unusual book. Some may even find it difficult to read, not so much for the graphic, often heartbreaking content, but because it occasionally borders on poetry in reflective prose. It's very introspective, and yet,...