When renowned Liverpool-based Japanese Professor Nakamura died, COVID-19 was fingered as the cause. His distant cousin, Haruto, a cyber-surveillance expert, stepped in to clean up. He discovered some inconsistencies about his uncle, from sexual assaults to the alleged creation of bio-weapons and espionage. Nakamura was...

The Garden of Calilily, written by Chrystie Keller, is a children's book that promotes mindfulness through fairy tales. The book features two fairy sisters, Marigold and Sweetpea, who usually do a good job. However, they each have personalities that tend to distract them from their...

Polish Dragon P.I. – Midnight Cranes is a work of fiction in the mystery and thriller genres. It is aimed at the general reading audience and was penned by author Steve Zimcosky. The book follows private investigator Tom Sipowicz as he is hired by the...

Scorn of Secrets by B. Truly is a mesmerizing coming-of-age story with strong themes and elaborately developed characters. When Madison Guillory’s father dies leaving a huge gambling debt behind, her mother doesn’t wait long to start dating again. After just a few months, she introduces...

The Flying Cutterbucks by Kathleen M. Rodgers is a women-centric drama novel that follows three women whose fates irrevocably changed after a traumatic event in their lives. It's 2016. Trudy watches with horror as the man admitting to groping women without their consent on record...

Sent To Watch by David J. Lebenstein is a science fiction novel set just after the historic battle of Waterloo. Our Earth, called Earth 48, is just one of the many planets with life. Aliens do exist and they are all humans. These ‘humans’ have...

Sassy Food by Ja-ne de Abreu is a self-help guide for those who are ready to begin or want to learn more about “How to Grow Food with Your Own 'Farm" Any Size Anywhere/Any Time of Year with Any Budget and How to Cook It”....

The Wholesaling Blueprint: Real Estate Investing with No Money out of your Pocket by Luke Weber is a business book that gives readers inside information about selling real estate without investing any money. In this book, the author defines real estate wholesaling and creates a...

Nefertiti's Legacy: A Lost Pharaoh Chronicles Complement by Lauren Lee Merewether was a great read for me and a wonderful adventure to Egypt of the era of pharaohs. In the tradition of Christian Jacq, Merewether comes across as not only a gifted storyteller, but an...

Ulan by Rick Stepp-Bolling is a wonderful and tense adventure. We first meet Ulan and her few friends out after curfew, and when they are captured, disaster is the outcome. The Imperial Guards known as The Panthers kill the boys and leave Ulan mutilated and...

“This framework of bone protruded against his olive complexion like a demon attempting to escape its elastic cage.” This impeccably written simile demonstrates the incredible level of creative intelligence and literary skill one finds in the superb collection of short stories authored by James Musgrave...

Cultural Insanity, the Key to Understanding Our World and Ourselves by Jeffrey Wynter Koon is a non-fiction work of primarily expository writing in a persuasive format. Koon's theory on why civilizations derail into frenzied, insane reasoning when absolutely no reason for these beliefs exist is...

Sasha Volonov left home in a self-imposed exile because he didn’t want to head the ubyzniki. The ubyzniki was a Russian cult-like organization comprising a few prestigious families designated to protect Russia from harm. However, their ideas didn’t please Sasha, who was the best assassin...

The Venice I Know is a work of non-fiction in the travel guide subgenre. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by travel enthusiast and author Margie Miklas. After five interesting trips to Venice, this award-winning blogger has many things to...

The Problem with Poppy by Emma Sandford (illustrated magnificently by Olena Osadcha) is a lovely story about being scared to make friends and about overcoming that fear. We can imagine how difficult it is for porcupines to form acquaintances! Rory is a boy tiger cub...

The First 12 Days of Preschool by Jeanette Bradley is a fun and rhythmic picture book depicting the first twelve days of preschool. The story spends one page talking about each day, using a short paragraph that coordinates with the Twelve Days of Christmas song....

They Called Him Marvin is a work of non-fiction in the historical, biography, and family history sub-genres, and was penned by author Roger Stark. The work is intended for the general adult reading audience and contains some very mild references to adult themes and wartime...

Are you ready to take a trip down memory lane with Timothy Neff Gocke? He has authored The List: Shooting for Another New Old in which he shares life as a high school student in the mid-1960s. Timothy’s book is a delightful tale of life...

Katarina Rempel’s dream was to be a schoolteacher when she was old enough and travel the world. Just like other groups in Europe and possibly the rest of the world, the Mennonite women were supposed to only worry about household chores and their husbands. Katarina...

Sophia Freeman and the Gate of Jade by T.X. Troan follows Sophia Freeman and Tim Charnal, provisionally pardoned and paired together in the Beyond Event, a competition where their survival depends on teamwork. They are thrust into a series of grueling challenges, including a massive,...