Wild at Heart by Stacy Gold is a story of unexpected love and the challenges and insecurities that come with it. With nothing but the items in their packs, Jules and Evan brave their solitary adventures only to continually bump into each other in the...

No Dog in My Yard, written by Tricia DellAnno and illustrated Jim Pearson, is a children's picture book about a child whose greatest desire is to have a dog. The book begins with a young boy taking stock of his neighborhood and the number of...

100 Love Notes to my HBCU Students: From your Mama Professor by Sabrina Taylor et al. is a compilation of some of Dr. Taylor's best question and answer quips between herself and her students as a professor at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, an...

Winks From Above: Opening Up to Signs and Synchronicities to Receive Little Miracles Each Day by Liliane Fortna is the kind of book that is transformative in ways you can’t possibly grasp all at once. Reading her words, the moments in life that she experienced,...

Hope Has a Dream by Romina Vinci is a powerful and engaging picture book about friendship and standing up to racism. The book follows a young girl named Hope as she has a playdate with her best friend, Imani, who is black. The girls are...

Witness For My Father: A World War II Story Of Loss, Hope, and Discovery by Barbara Bergren tells the true story of her father’s harrowing and historic experience as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz during WWII. The author opens the story with...

Flynn finds himself on the roadside somewhere near the wood. He had been thrown out of a car. His little paws hurt, and he was scared, starting to realize that the beloved human he trusted so much had left him all alone. Or so it...

An Instrument for Florenda by Tomeko Brown and Christopher Smallwood is about a young girl who wants to learn to play the clarinet after the school announces that they are introducing their first band after the summer vacation. The school hired a teacher who had...

Mathematics helps children to be focused problem solvers and have a more agile mental capacity. This grounding is important and if children practice reading books at the same time, they will be able to understand what they are taught in school more readily. Ten Little...

Song of Redemption is a moving account of a young slave girl who lived in the cruel environment of slavery. Shocking findings are made when the remains of Danielle, a young vocalist who was a slave, are discovered inside the Soileau estate wall, where she...

Brown Bear and Oofie Present: The Loss of a Loved One by Masami S.C. is a children’s social issues book that would appeal mainly to an audience of parents, guardians, and child caregivers who want a way to help a child understand death and the...

California Sister by Gloria Mattioni is a touching novel about sororal love. It’s an immediate audience-grabber as you learn from the opening chapter about the close relationship between Claire Waters and her sister Ondina, who was in Italy. Claire, a mystery writer based in Los...

The Story of Earl Nightingale and His Strangest Secret is a work of non-fiction in the biography and memoir subgenres. The work focuses on the life story of the titular character Earl Nightingale and was composed largely by his daughter, Pamela Nightingale, with additional authorship...

Alora Factor is a young adult fantasy novel by D.L. Williams. With the advent of her upcoming thirteenth birthday, Alora Factor will inherit her grandmother's supernatural powers, unique to the female members of the Factor family. The female Factors have always defended the weak and...

A wonderful story based on a real-life experience. The driver—the mother—is very sensitive to the needs of her son who is on the Autism Spectrum. She understands that any change in routine can be difficult and demonstrates how asking nicely for a change can result...

Echo: The Curse of the Blackwood Witches by Yasmine Maher commences as Katarus invade Tara and Jackson’s wedding. Echo manages to save her grandfather with the help of a psychic and Kirby. When she wakes up, nobody else remembers the incident. Echo visits Kirby and...

David Giffen’s Redemptive Trauma: Confession of a Defrocked Priest is beyond words, beyond faith. It's human flesh put into pages. The number of passages in this book that spoke to me and resonated is many. Not because I’ve experienced them all, but because chaos is...

Kiboko Projects is an umbrella for several cultural exchange projects that spans the three continents of Africa, Russia, and North America. Since 1999, the organization has developed and expanded its program with Mark Scheflen as the Artistic Director and Jill Raufman as Executive Director....

Tired of just passing through life unnoticed? If you want to make your name worth remembering, grab a copy of Making Your Mark, Leaving A Legacy, And Then... A Grand Exit That'll Have Their Tongues Waggin' by Peter Davidson. The book is divided into three...

I Scream, You Scream: We All Learn About Ice Cream by Markeeter E Knox, Trinity Z Ellison, and Dedrick L Moone is an educational picture book for young children. A young girl named Trinity wonders why she looks different from her mom and questions her....