Katz' Cat by Dawn Greenfield Ireland is the first book in a new cozy mystery series. Jimmy Katz is done with the Big City and is ready for a change. After being robbed at gunpoint at a gas station, Jimmy is ready for something small-time,...

Lobsters, Bisques, and Berries is another installment from Olivia Gaines' best-selling romantic comedy collection, Modern Mail Order Brides. Lakota Simjak, a thirty-nine-year-old Native American attorney, feels it's time to settle down and have a family. In his quest for a soulmate, he approaches a matchmaker...

The Greatest College Health Guide You Never Knew You Needed: How to Manage Food, Booze, Stress, Sex, Sleep, and Exercise on Campus by Jill and Dave Henry instantly caught my attention as a mother and teacher. This guide kept its promises: it is comprehensive and...

Waterbury Winter by Linda Stewart Henley takes place from 2008 through 2009 in a town called Waterbury, approximately an hour's drive from New York in Connecticut, New England. The main character is Barnaby Brown with his parrot Popsicle - a Green Amazon Parrot - who...

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...

Pharmacy Girl by Kate Szegda is a story of The Great War, Spanish Influenza, and the Truth about Billy Detwiler. It’s 1918 and a war is raging. The First World War is still being fought but another deadly battle is also being fought, one of...

Karen Gedney's 30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor is the true story of a female doctor’s thirty years of service to the United States Corrections System, serving as the prison doctor in a male prison. That she accepted the challenge in the...

The Gatsby Motive by Bryan David London is a pulsating urban thriller that fans of suspense and mystery novels will highly appreciate. Twenty-seven-year-old Zachary Par is a private investigator with expertise in human psychology. When the parents of a college student named Aaron Webber seek...

Understanding Oscar by Jade Chapman is an informative and beautiful story for children. The book shows brothers Banjo and George getting to understand their other sibling, Oscar, and friend, Nala, who each have autism, but not in the same way. Oscar can't talk and sometimes...

Every Cloud is a work of fiction in the family drama genre. It is suitable for all ages and was penned by Connie Chappell. The book follows an eventful summer at the estate of Artemus Deconcini as his adult children arrive to spend the season...

The Silhouette by Andrew Van Dyk presents an early twentieth-century rural commune that is flourishing but hiding a dark secret. The first several chapters present the beautiful, serene, wooded setting beside a glittering lake. There are three three-story cabins, and we meet the residents; at...

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...

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...

Katie’s not very good in PE class. She can’t dribble a basketball; she can’t skip rope without tangling the rope in her legs. The other students laugh at Katie’s attempts. That is until Katie’s teacher introduces yoga to the students. Now, Katie has something she...

Another Time in a Vacuum by Roland Burisch is a witty fantasy adventure of anachronistic proportions. Meet Monty, a time-traveling historian who travels back to 1673. Imagine the thrill of excitement that greets him as he meets one of history’s most important diarists, Samuel Pepys....

Levi Journey, An Unlikely Therapy Dog, written by Julie Laine Iribarren and illustrated by Martin Peers, is a magical story for young children. It is a true story and involves a lovely dog called Levi Journey. Levi Journey travels to be adopted by a new...

Is Rani really just an astrophysicist? Socially awkward, but brilliant and beautiful, is there more to her than meets the eye? On the verge of taking a much-needed vacation to Greece, Rani starts hearing voices. It’s not the first time, but this is the most...

Sometimes families can be quite complicated. Add into the mix three adopted children, one Chinese and two Japanese, shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and family life becomes increasingly more complicated. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s, Professor Daniel Jonson inherits...

This Covid business is downright scary. It’s not just children who are frightened; adults are, too. But, it’s most difficult for young children to understand. That’s where Jake comes in. Jake’s a dog who lives with a loving family. When Covid suddenly hit, Jake had...

There is more to life than meets the eye, and living without the knowledge of or curiosity about things that exist outside the conventional, materialistic system of beliefs is somewhat limiting. Typhoon Honey is a book that aims to create a new path of success...