Mary Lee's The ABC's of Titles for Tiny Tales: Writing Prompts to Ignite and Excite a Child to Write is filled with marvelous full-color illustrations and catchy prompts. This book can be used as a workbook as the facing page for each illustration is lined...

This is How Much Oatmeal Loves You: A Collection of Stories is written by Stephen R. Wagner. The stories are prefaced by two introductions which serve to introduce both the author and the genesis of most of the stories. They were written, as the author...

Ten-year-old David Kingsley and his sister Chloe are spending the summer at their grandmother’s house, expecting it to be boring and dreary. However, David begins to see and hear things he never thought he would ever experience; shadows, the voice of a little girl and...

In Daryl Hajek’s Blood Blossom, Vivian Hutchins’ hope to reunite and restore her relationship with her younger sister, Christine, is ruined. Christine wants nothing but revenge – the dark feeling has not subsided, even after 22 years. She is hell-bent on going after their mysterious...

Child of Privilege by Ross Ponderson revolves around Dana who is surrounded by all the privileges of wealth, the trappings of high society, a closet full of expensive clothes and a luxurious life. That is the life she projects outside, a fairy tale existence which...

Caste - The Unexplored Territories by author JT is a good book on the exploration of caste. As caste is defined as 'a rigid social class into which members are born and from which they can escape or withdraw with extreme difficulty' by Lundenberg, JT...

In Ripple Effect by Kathleen King, Jenna, a college student at Michigan State, wanders aimlessly in the mounds of thick snow and sub-zero, bone-chilling temperatures. She's tired, scared and sleepy. Minutes later, she's dead. Her college friends Lexi, Abbie and Kim, did not have to...

Help for Hysterical Humans Who Hope to Be Happy in Heaven or Here by James Sterngram is a powerful collection of poems intended to be a "course in happiness” ― to use the author's words ― but the reader will immediately discover that this collection...

Cats Are Lucky! is a children's book written by Julia Todd Stone and illustrated by Nayan Soni. The narrator of the book is a border collie who sometimes wonders if being a cat is better than being a dog. The collie lists all of the...

In Emma: Desperately Seeking Baby by Joanna Butler, Emma has just married her long-time boyfriend Jeff and they decided straight away that they wanted to start a family. Only it isn’t happening for them. After months of trying, Emma decides that they need to try...

Google Brown - Boy Detective: Google Brown Mysteries, Volume 1 is a collection of short mystery stories for children and preteens written by Garry F. Taylor. Geoffrey Brown is an 11-year-old who lives with his older sister Susan and their parents in Thomasville. While his...

The Death You Deserve is the first book in Wither The Waking World, a fantasy series by Jonathan Techlin. Its central character is Theel, a lowly squire who desperately wants to be in control of his own life. For now, at least, the orphaned Theel...

Replete Vivacity by Eugene Lucas is a streetwise, straight shooting, heartfelt vision of happiness and ultimate fulfillment in the presence of overwhelming odds - a defiant gesture of hope in a bleak and unforgiving universe. As a man, as a father, as a lover, and...

Is there such a thing as ‘The American Dream’ anymore? What is happening to the middle class? These and plenty of other questions are addressed in Serfing America: The Progressive Destruction of the American Dream by Sue Ann Thielke and Roger Ball. In clear and...

Destruction of Sweet Creation by Kenneth E. Fultz Jr. is a short novella based on the anime genre. The book revolves around two central characters: Hiro, a handsome, eighteen-year-old boy who is a loner, and Kanae, a child-like, immature seventeen-year old who is cursed. Hiro...

You've driven through them, those little places way out in the middle of nowhere that are no more than a collection of five or six houses, a store, and a bridge or two. Welcome to Rogue's Hollow, where the old mill used to employ a...

Ruby is an adventurous soon-to-be five-year-old girl who loves birthday cake. In fact, she loves birthday cake so much that on the night before her birthday party, she snuck ever so quietly down the stairs of her grandmother's house and into her kitchen, not uttering...

Meagan Jeffrey is a woman full of emotion and heart. In Untouchable Words, she uses poetry to convey what she feels inside, the emotions that fill every part of her. And they're emotions you've probably felt too or are currently dealing with. She also uses...

Tessa Howard survived a horrific car crash, although her parents did not. Everyone thought that it was a miracle because she suffered no injuries at all, despite the car being crushed beyond recognition under the trailer of a truck that had jack-knifed across the road...

The Wonderful World of Genie Geometry is a children's educational book written by Carl (Carlos) Holdren Lupton and illustrated by Phillip Godenschwager. The author holds academic degrees in mathematics and education and used this background to prepare his introduction to geometry. The book has three...