Before by J. Kilburn is a coming-of-age satire that pieces together the lives of a tribe of kids, and is part of the author's Heaven's Door series. There are many moving pieces in this novel and various point of view characters. The narrative weaves between...

Evil has lurked among us since the beginning of time, but very few actually witness its gruesome and gutwrenching display of cruelty. In his career as a detective, Robert Davidson (aka Robbo) saw more monstrosity than most of us. In his memoir, The Evil I...

Into the Twilight is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel by Michael Segedy. The book opens with Ike, a superintelligent advanced AI who relates the story of Jacob Ladder and Emma Fine, two twenty-two-year-olds who wake up after two hundred years of suspended life. Jacob and Emma...

Looks Are Deceiving: A Will Christian Mystery by Bill VanPatten is a brilliant mystery novel about hate crimes. A forty-nine-year-old Latino gay man, Will Christian, discovers a dead body during a routine bike ride in late June. Will recently moved to Mañana to start a...

Do you know who lives in the woods? Are there squirrels? Or raccoons? Opossums or bears? There are all kinds of animals, amphibians, and insects that make the woods their home. Would you be able to recognize them if you saw them in the woods?...

It is incredibly rare when a long-lost manuscript, once written by one of the world's most notorious storytellers, is unceremoniously forgotten...and then found. Powers of Darkness by Bram Stoker as adapted to Swedish by the mysterious “ A—e” is one of these rare jewels. When...

Moth City by Kenneth James Allen is a speculative fiction novel that centers around a dystopian future where the laws that govern families are sweeping in both scale and enforcement. Once considered a unifying piece of legislation and roundly embraced by most, once implemented, the...

Escalation is penned by author Ross C. Miller in the science fiction, adventure, and suspense genres, and is the fifth book in the Haunter Grey series. In this newest adventure in the series, Admiral Castor Efrata-Landeez collaborates with the Regian Council to expand their influence...

If you're looking for a fun-filled activity book for your child to help put Jesus's teachings to everyday use, look no further, for Cathy D. Dudley's Faith, Family, & Fun does just that and more. With a primary focus on Jesus, Dudley provides helpful lessons...

In Margot Johnson’s Let it Melt, two greatly disappointed people have dealt with love’s failure in radically opposing ways. Jack, once an overweight child who was bullied by his classmates, became a joker. After the failure of his marriage, he made other radical changes. Taking...

Matt gets a bucket of water from the ocean to use as he builds a sandcastle, but he doesn’t expect the water to start talking to him! Using his imagination, Matt travels into the ocean with his new friend, Water, who shares what it’s like...

Leah Busboom's Forever You is the twelfth book in the Connor Brother series. Laci Vandervolt is a famous country singer who travels in time from 2021 to 1855 when a storm rolls her out from her concert. Laci needs to deal with this perplexing situation...

Seventeen-year-old Solace was the daughter of a poor soldier named Soren and a water diviner from the Yeloshan hills. She was a fierce lass with spirit, guts, and determination. Solace also had the gift of water divination like her mother. One day, on her way...

Legend of Mermaid Cliff, the first book of The Awakening Trilogy by Brandon Rohrbaugh, raises its curtain over a foggy morning in the seaside town of Rockport. Sixteen-year-old Mark Parker, while jogging near Mermaid Cliff, stumbles upon a crime scene. The body of his high...

Drunk Talk by Mike Davis and TL Banks is a humorous collection of short narratives and ramblings on different topics. From talking about celebrities to racism, the authors share their two cents about everything and anything in between. It is funny because I often ramble...

Little Miss Jean and The Time Machine by Karri Theis is about a little girl who was having problems battling boredom and finding things to do. Jean woke up one day to find a shimmering silver box that was waiting for her. Sensing that this...

The year is 2065 and a British Naval Captain, Sir Geoffrey P. Matheson III, and his crew take a few unauthorized trips in search of scarce sources of energy used for time travel; the god stones. While on a mission, Matheson and his crew aboard...

The second book in the Channeler Trilogy by J. Steven Lamperti, Sun and Dream focuses on the magic development of Anise. One evening, after babysitting Twilight for her adopted Uncle Sebastian and Aunt Isabel, she finds herself called to an important meeting. When she sees...

Music can stimulate our intellectual capacities as it develops creativity and imagination. It also drives the growth of social skills, which applies to both children and adults. When music students only focus on perfection, they may become disheartened. You can get frustrated if you don’t...

A young woman awakes from a harrowing ordeal, weak and confused but changed, improved, made stronger. Two agents on the way to the 1963 JFK motorcade in Texas stop off at a little town to give a young boy a silver dollar with a name...