Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash is a work of fiction in the historical epic sub-genre. It is suitable for all ages and was penned by author Tammy Pasterick. The story follows a married pair of immigrants living in Pittsburgh in the early 20th...

In the Black by Andrew Ceroni is a military thriller that is fast-paced and suspenseful. In this page-turning tale, every second counts as the CIA’s most valued Russian agents are assassinated. Alexei Savasin is discovered shot to death in Montmartre, Paris, and Vanya Stepanov is...

Save the Land by Bethany Stahl is part of her series Save the Earth. In Save the Land we are introduced to Amari who lives in Africa and loves soccer. She and her mom live in the Sahel between the Sahara desert and the savannah....

Bethany Stahl has added another excellent title to her Save the Earth series. Save the Scraps is about composting and it starts with Alex and Mateo eating a healthy fruit snack. After they have finished, Mateo is ready to throw away the apple cores and...

Children who love animals will enjoy this underwater adventure. Save the Shark highlights reptiles and fish that live in the ocean. Add some predators and unsafe living conditions and it becomes an interesting story of survival. Save the Shark is the newest book in the...

We have so much to be thankful for. Even when we think we need something else to make our lives perfect, we already have more than we need. Instead of wanting, we really need to show more gratitude, more thanks for what we do have,...

Dispatches from the Swinging Door Saloon: Poems from my 10-year bender inside heaven’s dive bar by Randall McNair is a unique collection of poetry about many facets of life. From the first poem, you get a feel for the personality of the author. In these...

It had been his dream. It was the only thing he talked about. Andy wanted to be the first influencer to set foot on the island of crabs and show it to his followers. It was the same reason he had come to Panama from...

A Night at the King’s Inn by Alec Arbogast is time travel that introduces readers to an unusually interesting character, Theodore, a guy who likes to go unnoticed and who loves to keep to himself. The reader immediately feels his anti-social nature as they encounter...

End of the Race by Judith Kirscht tells the story of Annika, a swimmer who is training for the 2008 Olympics: her last chance for glory as her thirtieth birthday looms. During an emotional battle with a miscarriage, her husband Brian goes sailing with two...

It’s the late 1940s in Springfield, Kentucky. Drummer and Bug are sent to their granddaddy’s sharecropper spot of land to spend the summer. Their parents had separated and the two young boys were apart from their other siblings. That didn’t stop the two from having...

A coming of age story of two vastly different lives colliding, Truth is in the House: A Novel Inspired by Actual Events by Michael J. Coffino is an intense drama with an acute sense of time and place. Based on factual events, it is a...

Secret of the Forest is the second volume written by M. R. Neer on Junah Cat and his path to knowledge. After our hero discovered the secret of the garden in the first installment of the series, he broadens the perspective with his next adventure....

Rabbit in the Moon by Heather Diamond is a fascinating memoir centering around the marriage between a white American and her Chinese husband from Hong Kong. At forty-five years old and married, Heather is studying in China for the summer when she meets Fred, who...

For young readers who love adventures, Beyond the Birch by Torina Kingsley is a book they cannot stop reading. It tells the story of Macy, a young girl who has a problem to solve. Strange things have started to happen in her house: she discovers...

We are all uniquely different, from our sizes and shapes to the colors of our hair and skin. Some of us walk on two feet, while others move around in wheelchairs. Some of us wear glasses and are shyly extra smart, while others like to...

Daddy, Can You Bring Me the Moon? by Justin Vaughn, a 30-page children’s picture book, is a short story of a father and a daughter who share a slice of nighttime together on a beach. The story shifts focus when the daughter asks her father...

Kristi Shimada writes children's stories that are not only fun and original, but also teach valuable lessons to children and their parents. Children may learn most things at school and with their friends, but the deep and heartfelt teachings and lessons are learned at home...

Xand is still haunted by memories of the night the gargoyles invaded his family home and took away his parents. Growing up on his grandparents' farm, and keeping close contact with his rescuer and friend, Jork the overgrown dwarf, and Jork’s son, Zeg, Xand, now...

Waters of the Chagres by Michael J Merry is a collection that contains one novella and five short stories, each one unique. The variety of stories include US forces who were forced to dispose of rifles and grenades to the Republic of Panama in 1999...