Throughout this suspenseful story, Make Your Bones, Wren Bouchard lives with the threat of a bloody finish to her life, thanks to her unfortunate hook-up, as a teen, with an obsessive hitman. A brutal control freak, hell-bent on proving to himself and others that he...

In Falling Through Blankets Of Stars by Keith Marcotti, 10-year-old twins Ashlynne and Julian have a great but chaotic birthday party that scares off the family cat, Mr. Fuzzybottom. Later that night, they find him in their neighbor’s basement, along with two strange glowing blankets...

Off Target: The Path You Choose #1 is an interactive social issues book for young adults and preteens written by Jill Ammon Vanderwood and illustrated by Kerah Diez and Trevor Brown. Being the new kid in the neighborhood is never very easy, but the boy...

Little Frenchie and Mirror grew up together and they always spent a lot of time laughing, singing, and playing with each other. Little Frenchie's mother always told her how beautiful and precious she was. Lately Mirror had been telling Little Frenchie hurtful things about her....

The day before her twenty-sixth birthday, Amy’s drug addict sister pulls a knife on her in a San Francisco church. Rattled by the traumatic experience, Amy retreats to her mother’s house in Marin with her childhood best friend, Cassidy. When Amy wakes up the next...

Longevity: The Wardens of Time by Caleb Smith is a paranormal adventure story. Noah Thomas is nothing special to look at and, after moving to a new town, he seems to be the focus of a bunch of bullies. He only has one friend, ...

At first glance, My Promise by Noah Bolinder appears to be another romantic story; however, that presumption changes very quickly. Fiona Grace Kelly lived in Philadelphia, fell in love with a boy there, and found herself happy in every possible way. But when her boyfriend...

Jake Hedgehog loves to play with his friends, especially his best friend Sam. They play together all the time and have sleepovers during weekends. One day Sam gets a new phone and is busy with it. Jake wants to play with him but it seems...

Every so often a book comes along that you believe everyone should read. For me, The Emancipation of Evan Walls by Jeffrey Blount is that book, a story in which not only the protagonist, Evan Walls, is liberated from the demons of his youth, but...

Wendy Black Farley resumes the life of Cori Sellers from Season’s Stranger to Season’s Shadows. Life is a whirlwind for Cori when she returns to Laurel Ledge after a visit to her brother and sister-in-law in Arizona. The “stranger”, Michael Flores, continues to see Cori,...

Astral Genesis by Ivan M. Cohen and Jay Magnum is a graphic novel dealing with science fiction themes, space aliens, disgraced astronauts, and your typical politicians with huge egos and attitude problems. Our disgraced hero, DeVane, is given a straightforward mission, or so it would...

What would you do if an uncle you never met, or at least you don’t remember meeting him, suddenly died and left you an incredible mansion full of fascinating and mysterious objects, hidden staircases and an abundance of rooms to explore? For eleven-year-old Danzellan Wildwood...

The little kitten was sad and lonely. He sat quivering on the curb, trying to find the scent of his mother, brothers, and sister. He sensed footsteps coming near him and heard voices. His mother, brothers, and sister ran away when they heard footsteps. The...

With unusual subtlety and skill, CJ Daly introduces the characters and the themes in The Academy. Seventeen-year-old Kate Connelly is tired of everything. After losing her mother, she has to take care of her brothers and fill in the gap left by her mother. Their...

Jugend by Aalia Lanius is a historical fiction novel that is set in 1937 Europe juxtaposed with events unfolding in 2017 in the United States of America. Fourteen-year-old Ernst, an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth, is chosen to participate in what is made to...

Walking The Razor's Edge: The Dutchman and The Baron is a nonfiction history/true crime book written by Tommy and Hilde Wilkens. The hero of this historical drama is the Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans, who dedicated ten years of his life to untangling the complicated...

Michael, Is It True by Lisa Lahti is an unusual love story between two teens, who find themselves ending up in marriage against the wishes of their families. It happened too quickly for fifteen-year-old Jessie, and before she could think about Michael’s past, taking precautions,...

Faith Alone, the second book in Ruth E. Meyer’s Sola Series, is the story of Grace Neunaber and her family. Grace and her new husband, David, struggle to adjust to their new life together. Managing money, grocery shopping and balancing home and work schedules are...

If all those who want to write a memoir wrote their stories the way Geraldine Birch wrote Vision of a Happy Life, both publishers and readers would be more receptive to this less popular form of book. The reason is that Birch, like a skilled...

The Mark of Fallen Flame is the first book in the Weapon of Fire and Ash series by Brittany Matsen and it is an explosive opening for an urban fantasy novel with hints of coming of age. Emma Duvall is just two days away from...