Andrea Jarrell's evocative memoir, I'm the One Who Got Away, tells of her early life with a single mother who struggled to overcome a destructive attraction to an abusive, alcoholic ex-husband. Vivid and inventive descriptions carry us into Andrea's world, bringing scenes and characters to...

Fractals is a young adult, urban fantasy by Larry Buenafe, a mesmerizing conclusion to the Ferdie and The Seven trilogy. In this entry, Ferdie and his friends, including Marsh-dog, are poised to meet with enemies, this time deadlier than anything they have encountered before. The...

Ulysses the Befuddled Basset is a picture book for children written by Emma M. Glover and illustrated by K.C. Snider. Ulysses really wanted to discover who he was and what his sound would be like. Wise Owl told him to go out and look for...

Locked in the Past: Darius Morefield Mystery Series #2 is a sleuth mystery novel written by C. Craig Coleman. Myrtle and her mom, Agatha Wittlesbach, have received a royal summons from Myrtle's Aunt Hilda, Uncle Clyde and Grandmother Hattie Brunsucker. Hattie is ailing and not...

Stories from the Witch Store is a humorous collection of fictional anecdotes written and illustrated by Olga Gutsol. Arelia Waterstone is a fifth generation hereditary witch who owns and runs a magical apothecary in Burnaville. The patrons to her store are plentiful, ranging from desperate...

Meet Herbie, a friendly hairy monster, in Herbie the Hairy Monster by Colleen Driscoll. Herbie plays in a dumpster and one day three boys are walking by, having fun and playing ball when they hear him crying. They are surprised to see him cry because...

Light of the Heart: Sterling Lakes Series, Book 1 is an inspirational fiction story and Christian romance by Regina Andrews. Cascade Preston is twenty-seven years old, single, and a world famous stained glass artist. She blames the people of Sterling Lakes for failing to intervene...

Guardian of the Light by D. Thrush is the story of Holly, a woman in the throes of a midlife crisis, unhappy in a job she's about to lose no matter what, single after a man she was seeing returns to his ex, and co-parent...

Very few people are lucky enough to live a life that is free from struggle, a life that runs smoothly, where everything goes right and nothing can go wrong. Gaylan D Wright had no such luck in his life. He lived his life as he...

How to Get on the Naughty List is a holiday-themed children’s picture book written by Nic Rock and illustrated by Helen H. Wu. Chooka Chunk was flabbergasted by the note she saw hanging on her family’s Christmas tree. Santa Claus had actually written to her,...

Discover the wonderful world of sea creatures, mammals and other animals in this wonderful book of poetry, Going to the Dogs and Other Critters by Janet Cameron Hoult. The poems are beautifully constructed and encapsulate the characteristics of the animal world and what they may...

Voyage of Pearl of the Seas by Ruth Finnegan is a charming tale about an imaginative quest between two children. The story introduces Chris and Kate as they are playing together. Kate fancies herself a queen, while Chris imagines himself a swashbuckling hero who goes...

Rohini had worked hard to get where she was, but she had never imagined her first day in the Youth Assembly, a program focused on the development of sustainable energy, would go quite the way it did. Just as the session started, aliens appeared, delivered...

There is lot of literary beauty in book 1 of the Book of Theo series, Theo and the Forbidden Language by Melanie Ansley, from the excellent prose to world building, from character to plot and the awesome things in between. It is a fable with...

From the Shadows: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Renewal by Elizabeth Onyeabor is an uplifting and heartrending book of healing, transformation, renewal, and growth. The author’s feelings, thoughts, perspectives, childhood and adulthood sketches from memory and notes have been shared beautifully through vignettes and verse....

This is the Book (Bite-Size Books for Beginning Readers 1) by Bernice Seward is about the book that sat in the nook. A crook takes that book and a rook chases the crook, who has taken that book which was in the nook. There is...

Sirius, the Hero Dog of 9/11 is a story about a patrol dog that was killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. It gives details concerning what this dog could have heard before that awful day’s events. Sirius could see the height of the...

Discovering the Great Teacher in You: A Guide to Mindset and Practice by Christopher M. Stabile is a guide for teachers and teachers-to-be. It is composed of great information, amazing advice and even of parables (in order to make your learning journey more vivid). For...

Legend of the Silver Hunter: Omnibus Edition by Kethric Wilcox is a paranormal romance that equally explores themes of the legendary beauty and the beast and homosexuality. What happens when beauty hunts the beast? Kieran Belle is the descendant of the House of Beauty and...

In Shadow of the Moon, FBI Special Agent Adeline Trakes is assisting in an NYPD investigation of a Central Park murder. Young, competent, the case puzzles her. The cops used sniffer dogs to find clues as to how the body came to be in the...