Sharon Levi is fifteen. Sharon Levi is pretty. And Sharon Levi is in love for the first time. Sharon is a typical Jewish princess who anticipates a future wrapped around the ideals of her faith and family beliefs. But this is not a typical tale...

Relapse by Jake Anderson begins with an admission that, like a good fisherman, he would have become a proud alcoholic. But before he could become addicted to alcohol, skate boarding became his close companion and his “first addiction.” A horrible accident separates him from skateboarding...

I think all of us have been faced with a time in our lives when we’ve felt ourselves drifting away from a friend. Sometimes even a really good friend. We see this happening in Really Good Friends, the first book in the Spin the Bottle...

Wai-Nani is an exciting historical drama about a Hawaiian girl from a royal family, who runs away from her family to escape an unwanted wedding. She swims to another island, and there she meets and falls in love with Makaha, who is a son of...

A Simple Guide to Socratic Parenting by Laurie Gray is an excellent overview of a Socrates-inspired approach to parenting. For readers who are worried that this book will be complicated due to the philosophical title, there is no need to worry, since Laurie writes in...

In Love and Happiness by Ben Burgess Jr., can love conquer all or does the infidelity of a spouse kill the love in a relationship? From the outside, Karen has everything that anyone could desire. She has a handsome husband who loves her very much,...

Come on Home, Children is a young adult science fiction novel by Victoria Randall, book two in the Children in Hiding series. The novel follows Willa, a young woman with Katy, a four-year-old, to look after. Willa survives in a dystopian society where unlicensed pregnancies...

To other students in his school, Matthew Peters is just a weird quiet kid and a target for bullies. However, Matthew is the lord in his own universe, especially Excelsior, a popular web comic hero he created that is gaining more and more exposure. The...

In Radioactive by Lloyd Vancil, Detective Sergeant Mitchell Foster is running away from his past. Things are not looking up for him when the LAPD and law enforcement discover that a group of terrorists has ransacked a nuclear storage facility. Knee deep in the investigation...

To Eris - Human (Payton Chronicles Book 1) by Ann Snizek is a young adult paranormal story about Eris, a girl who thinks she's gone mad when she discovers Nelson, a being called a lucent who manipulates living energy. Lucents have always been translucent...

Spiritual Amnesia: A Wake Up Call To What You Really Are is an inspirational self-help book written by Lauren Skye. The author is a meditation facilitator and the founder of the Inner Connection Institute. She posits that many human beings forget that they are spiritual...

In Shattered Image by Stacy Monson, a rising singing star and an ex-super model try to find balance on a very thin line while holding onto each other. Once upon a time, Kiera Simmons was a super model. When her career ended, she chose to...

I really liked the premise of Greyhound Therapy by J.R. Conway. I guess I didn't realize that the practice of shipping transients and those suffering from mental illness out of town on a bus was something that was done. Now that I've been exposed to...

In Blackwood Crossing, the second volume of the British Agent Novels, the reader will find themselves on an absolute thrill ride of a mystery, a ride they won't want to get off! Author MK McClintock has done a fabulous job in writing a fantastic romance,...

In Anna by author Fia Essen, we're taken on fun romp through Crete with our protagonist, the titular Anna. Going through major changes in her life, dumped by her boyfriend, having just lost her job, she decides on a whim to go to Greece. She...

Benjamin's Field: Rescue (Benjamin's Field Trilogy) (Volume 1) by J.J. Knights is a historical fiction that covers aviation history and America's fight during the World Wars. In 1918, during World War One, rural Pennsylvanian farmer Benjamin Kyner learns that his son's fiancée Eleanor has given...

Loves Means Zero by Daisy Jordan is the story of Hilton Joliet. She is living with her boyfriend (her best friend and her fiancé) in a nice apartment, with a nice job, and has a nice life. In short, her life is missing that thrill...

High Stakes is a western by Chad Strong. Victoria is a bustling town filled with gambling saloons, prostitution, and corruption. Curt Prescott enjoys this easy lifestyle, using the winnings acquired from his skilful poker playing to support his girlfriend Del and himself. However, the new...

Are you craving your own Great Wide Somewhere? Are you tired of living vicariously through your Facebook posts, Instagram photos, and Tweets that paint an unrealistic picture of who you are and what you value? In Storms of Passion by author Lori Power, protagonist Vivian...

Illusion is a non-fiction motivational book written for young adults by Carly Sotas. The author asks her readers a number of discussion questions about their lives, aspirations, weaknesses and strengths, and fears. Then she leads the discussions by offering her own personal stories or the...