Twenty-eight-year-old Eleonora McFarland had had a rough time in graduate school trying to escape the shadow of her parents, the McFarlands, a household name in New York theaters. She had always wanted recognition for her own work and talent. That's why, now, as an assistant...

The Seaside Sleuths and the Croft Beach Lighthouse Mystery is a fabulous mystery adventure book for children that continues Joy Michelle Austin’s Seaside Sleuths series. The story takes us to Croft Beach, where eight-year-old Sam Wentworth, with his father, stepmother, youthful step-aunt, and siblings, moved...

Another day has begun. It’s time to get up and meet the day's adventures head-on. In Shani T. Night’s The Elephant Trumpets in the Morning, one young elephant greets every morning with a loud trumpeting song. Some of the other elephants and animals of the...

Killing Time, by M.W. Taylor, begins with the discovery that reincarnation is a fact and that past lives can be accessed through a connection to the present. But as so often occurs in newly developed sciences, they tend to have a downside: they are not...

In Orphan of Empire, author S. A. Melia tells the story of Guy Erma, a young undocumented teen raised in a fashion house who dreams of enlisting in the elite Dome Militant defense force. His life suddenly changes during a sparring tournament on Space Platform...

Too many healthcare workers are exhausted and withdraw from careers they once loved. A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals by Dr. Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, a pediatrician who turned to writing after her son's near-fatal accident, offers a different path forward. Using Christina Maslach's...

Scott Ambrose’s Demystified Mystic presents a modern guide to mysticism built around the idea that interconnectedness can be experienced as a lived spiritual reality. The book frames the sense of separation people feel within themselves and the world as the starting point for a path...

Feathers, Treasures & Sandy Paws is an appealing trilogy by a handsome, blue-eyed border collie named Barney, obligingly typed by Shirley Lee Baldwin. It takes readers to the world of the port village of Hansford Landing and the varied adventures of young Jack Cooper and...

In Norma Washington’s Ashes Don’t Tell Everything: Some Secrets Refuse to Stay Buried, Madison Jackson Winter is nearing the end of three years in prison for the death of a man at a Wisconsin diner. Once married to a bishop, Madison escaped her former life...

Who wouldn't like to go on a treasure hunt? Fifth-grade friends Silky and Sly discover a haunted ghost ship and buried treasure. Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot in The Ghost of Gasparilla: A Silky and Sly Adventure makes a children's dream come true. Silky, a curious...

Live The Life of Your Dreams (33 Tips To Inspire Your Life) by Laura Ponticello is an upbeat self-help book for women going through major life changes. When the author's life takes an unexpected turn, and she finds herself divorced and alone, she has to...

Tripi Takes Flight (The Amazing Adventures of Tripi The Fly) by Lori London is an adorable children's story about a little fly that is talented in many things, except the most important; he can't seem to figure out how to fly. Yes, little Tripi can...

The Hands That Held Me is a dark and terrifying dive into the life of author Lisa Jo Symonds and her battles with addiction, abuse, pain, and suffering. From around the age of four, she had experienced the worst that this world has to offer...

Avhi’s Flight is a work of personal dramatic fiction on inspiring themes penned by author Janet Johnson Anderson. Set against the incredible backdrop of the Nepalese countryside, our story follows the adventures of title character Avhi as she struggles against a culture that continues to...

Kill Karma by Kelly L. Marsh is the first book in the Agents of Karma series. Pepper has her future set out, starting with graduation and freedom from probation. Her trouble-making past landed her in difficulty, but she's put her skills to better use by...

Lady of the Imperial City by Laura Kitchell is a fresh historical novel that takes place in ancient Japan. I am highly fond of historical novels, and Japan is one of my favorite settings. I loved James Clavell’s series of books set in Asia, especially...

Lovingly crafted memoirs, when offered with honesty and true devotion, have a particular warmth and charm seldom found in any other kind of writing. Grandfather’s Uncle by Philip McQuillan is no exception. There is such a naturally conversational singularity of purpose in McQuillan’s writing that...

Forty Grains of Black Powder is a generational saga about a fictional mestizo family in Mexico. It is book one in the tale of the Cordero Clan. The story starts in 1862 when the young Marietta, the mother of the protagonist, spots a handsome stranger...

Miss Fortune is a coming of age memoir written by Albina Hume. The author was born and raised in a small village in Ukraine. She became very self-conscious about her speech impediment when she began primary school. One of the other students, a little boy,...

In A Pigeon's Tale by S.A. Mahan, a baby pigeon was forced out of the coop before he was ready, into a dark night full of ruthless predators. Away from his family, he flew alone in search of a safe place to call home again....