Klaus is a happy Schnauzer. He’s always on the go: whizzing around his backyard as if he’s on a rocket, chasing the squirrel, enjoying his kibble, playing ball at the park. It’s just go, go, go. And what a fun time he has, too. But...

Bellocaro by P. S. Meraux is a vampire story with a difference. Skye Moon has had enough. Trying to escape the school jock who won't leave her alone, she finds herself deep in the woods. There, she meets Thatcher, a mysterious boy to whom...

After the Calendar by Meg Heaven is a very much tongue-in-cheek look at what is clearly seen by women as a serious problem. For the past nine years, three respectable, middle-aged women have taken on the annual role of fundraisers for their local community hospice,...

The Coming is a sci-fi thriller written by author Dan Coffman. Shane Reid is a UFO skeptic and former professor at Northwestern University whose wife's and child's deaths lead him to early retirement and becoming a full-time UFO investigator. When UFO-logist Brad Shelton brings a...

Tamera Lawrence's Asylum is a nail-biting thriller whose story revolves around Kyle. Like all the other resident kids of the Rose Hill Asylum, Kyle also silently wished to get adopted. This was the only way to escape the violent bullying and darkness of the asylum....

When zillionaire entrepreneur Roger Haines acquired a piece of land that had a crystal cavern, it quickly became the essential factor in cementing the success of the Mariner Twenty Project; the first human mission to Mars. The task is to develop the first base for...

Floating in the Neversink by Andrea Simon is an extraordinary novel. In the summer of 1955, nine-year-old Amanda Gerber has to say goodbye to her best friend, Francine. She travels from Brooklyn to deep within the Catskill Mountains, where Grandma Sarah lives. Although she is...

The preface to The Book of Agnes by Michael Pedretti reminds us that we are all descended from the same gene pool and may be related to every other living person on the planet. This book divided into Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. Air is...

Trez, Frez and Inez, written and illustrated by Deb Neeley-Garcia with the help of her grandkids, is a fabulous book for preschool kids and looks to be one of a series, this one titled The Workshop. Author Neeley-Garcia calls it “a story of fun, friendship...

The Atheist and the Afterlife is the story of Ray Catania's life and the first volume of a series that promises to be very interesting and inspiring. The Atheist and the Afterlife tells the experiences of a former atheist who realized that the afterlife exists....

In J. R. Wirth's The Institute, seventeen-year-old Melissa Jenkins wakes up from a terrifying, recurring nightmare. In her dream, Melissa encounters the same individual each time but cannot identify who he is. Melissa decided to volunteer at the Serenity Institute, where she began assisting Scarecrow,...

Blood and Brume by Maki Morris is a YA paranormal tale. Ellie Porter is only 16 but when she s assaulted by her alcoholic mom's boyfriend, she's done. Taking off with no intention of ever going back home, she is persuaded by Sam, her best...

Chris Lengle introduces The Male Nurse Survival Guide as “a real, no-b[…]-s[…] survival guide” (elisions my own) to the world of nursing. As he notes, “[t]his is the raw, real, and uncensored guide to surviving as a male nurse” in the United States. As such,...

In The Discontent of Mary Wenger, Paper Dolls Book 1, by Robert Tucker, the author has taken a subject and an era that is very difficult to analyze and has written about it with compassion, understanding, humor, and unending love shown in different ways. The...

The Battle for Sicily's Soul: The Rise of the Mafia and the Fight to Free Sicily from its Evil Tyranny by Claudine Cassar is a must-read historical nonfiction book. It focuses on the Sicilian Mafia and gives a deeper understanding of the origin of the...

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus, adapted and illustrated by Lauren Martin, shares a magnificent retelling of a true event that occurred many years ago at Christmas. In 1897 a young girl named Virginia was having doubts about the existence of Santa Claus. Her...

Life is unpredictable and full of surprises. Anything can happen at any time. Emerging From the Dark by Terence Ang shares his story and that of other stroke survivors. Their stories acknowledge that the journey is not easy, but it's possible, and they have overcome...

Some stories can only be understood if you see the images of the people who lived them. This is the case of the 65th Infantry Regiment, whose story is told in The Borinqueneers by Noemí Figueroa Soulet. Through the hundreds of illustrations of this magnificent...

Better Lucky Than Good (From Outlaw Biker to Airline Pilot, And Beyond) by Dale E Arenson is a memoir about the author’s unconventional path to becoming a commercial pilot. Dale narrates his life as an outlaw biker and the events that led him to change...

Hangmen: Riding with an Outlaw Motorcycle Club in the Old Days is a raw and gritty memoir that takes readers into motorcycle gangs in the 60s and 70s. Dale E. Arenson was a high school dropout from a broken family. His two options were enlisting...