Marina Oliver is a nineteen-year-old orphan who is drowning in depression, grief, guilt, pain, and fear. She finds refuge in the ocean waves that come to her when she is sleeping. One morning, the waves transport Marina into another realm called Elsudra. Shortly after, Marina...

Pureland wasn't a paradise but a close second for many people. When the government gradually turned on those it deemed as provocative, it was the lowest of the low, and the indigenous population that suffered. For most of them, their only hope lay in aligning...

Over 36,000,000 people in the United States are illiterate and in desperate need of help in learning to read. Nita Marie Clark in Danny’s Reading Problem and the Fun He Had Fixing It! is a great book to help young people struggling with reading. Join...

Beyond The Pines by Mark Raymond is a riveting tale of escape, survival, and unexpected alliances. The story follows Jake Cleary, who flees his home in Vermont to find solace in New York City after a series of personal tragedies. His attempt at a fresh...

Ancient Chinese Inventions That Changed the World, written and illustrated in full color by Barbara Hall, is a children's mid-grade book that shares many of the groundbreaking innovations that came out of ancient China and transformed various aspects of life. These include things like gunpowder,...

Doworth Howard’s Thick, Thin, What the Dragon Let In is a collection that blends poetry and prose, delivering narratives, rhymes, and thought-provoking musings. The themes range from crime to peculiar relationships, and readers are invited into intimate moments, witnessing characters at critical crossroads in their...

Lily Starling and the Storm Riders by Christian Hurst, book two in the Lily Starling series, sees Lieutenant Lily up against a cult known as Leviathan’s Hand, whose attacks across planets suggest a coordinated plan involving forbidden technology and immortality experiments. After a failed rescue...

Brave Belle Saves the Day by Cindy J. Vanous is a charming children's picture book about a tiny dog with the heart of a lion. Belle is a cute, playful, and brave pup that can fit into one's hand. She has just joined the Holliday...

Byline for the Dead by Ray Welling is a historical novel that shifts between two timelines, blending the chaos of 1930s labor unrest with a journalist’s investigation years later. The story begins during the 1934 Auto-Lite strike in Toledo, Ohio, where factory workers, facing harsh...

“You sit up in bed. This is where you’ve landed—fallen off the map, and no one seems to care. But that’s not new. You’ve felt invisible before. Now it’s just official.” That’s life in Eddie The KIng (the title is not a typo), a collection...

In Beyond the Curtain by Marie Lunga, Europe has been sealed for sixteen years behind a magical barrier, the Curtain, raised after a wizarding war ended with the execution of a rebel leader whose survival threatened the new regime. When two civilian men escape through...

In Days of the Dead by Anastasia Amor it is Oktoberfest - the evening celebration before the Days of the Dead Tour. Drinking, dancing, party fun and murder. Just what Adie Sturm needed, a murder just before the tour to Cozumel, and the murderer may be going...

As children we look up to our parents we think they are the smartest people we’ve ever known. That usually ends in the preteen age. Suddenly our parents know little and as we reach our early 20s they know even less because we know it...

Cecile wandered the forest, not knowing who she was or where she came from. A tiny spider sent Cecile to a castle. A horrible spider tried to catch her in a web, but Cecile ran bravely onward. She came upon a sweet lady named Emma...

Gabe wakes up in his bedroom to find a raccoon talking to him. The sign on his car announced that he was an animal sitter but the raccoon was not one of “his” animals. The raccoon, aka Ronald, was a space alien, although he didn’t...

God’s of the Machines begins with a seduction and murder. The setting is the future on a distant planet in the Andromeda Galaxy colonized by Earth. The lead character is Sam Benson, a New York Detective. Some would call Sam a racist. As the murdered...

Cecile and The Treasures of Belamor by Marilyn F. Churchill offers children a delightful fairy tale. I was quickly reminded of the fairy tales I grew up with, tales of dragons that breathed fire, knights in their shining armor, unicorns with horns that sparkled, and...

One thing Blake knows about himself is that he is a Super Hero. Blake never thinks he is better than anyone else; he just knows he has choices to make each day, and he tries to make the right ones. One big choice Blake’s mom...

When Dillard was a wee little dragon, his brother was very mean to him, hitting Dillard over the head or throwing water up his nose when he was practicing his fire breathing. Dillard had to always dodge his older brother to keep from getting hurt....

Connor Beach is a quiet little place, even during the busy summer tourist season. That’s just fine with detectives Harry Chervenic and Mickie Wilder. Tina Siegert was always known as somewhat of a flake, a real space cadet, always looking for something different. The latest...