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...

Tales from the Beaumont House by D.F. Holland is a superb collection of very good short stories, connected one to another by virtue of their setting. Several of the tales share other connections as well, and the entire book gently wraps its tentacles around the...

In her work, The Book About James, Julia Gray shares her thoughts on raising her son born with Down Syndrome. The book is broken into twenty-one “articles” – chapters that can be read as stand alones or in conjunction with the rest of the book...

In Agnil and the Centaur's Secret by Susan Navas, Agnil is a young girl with an eye for adventure. Since she's only part human, the other part elf, Agnil has some unusual, magical qualities and her adventures don't just happen in the human world. In...

The Blue Garou is a police procedural mystery written by H. Max Hiller. Cooter Holland is a police officer assigned to the Louisiana State Highway Patrol, but on an informal loan arrangement with the New Orleans Police Department. While he was born and raised in...

Open Ticket by Rebecca Clements revolves around two friends, Eva McKinley and Roz. Eva has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and she also wants to break free from her unfaithful husband and go to Prague to learn more about her roots. Both the women...

Bumpa and The Piggies: The Neighbors Next Door (Volume 1) by Mike DeWald is an enchanting storybook that has some wonderful characters and a good message for young readers. Bumpa is excited by the fact that he is going to meet his granddaughters today. He...

Road Trip: How I Found My Own Mr. Grey is a contemporary women's fiction novel written by Allyse Netsrake. Mel Hemmings is bored with her marriage and has considered divorce for some time now. When Peter, her husband of 34 years, announces that he wants...