I thoroughly enjoyed Courage by Lauren H Salisbury. It’s a science fiction re-imagining of the story of Moses from the Bible. Instead of Israelites suffering as slaves at the hands of the Egyptians, Courage gives us the human race enslaved by a more powerful alien...

The Prodigy: A Gifted Boy, His Family and Religion by Joseph Riden portrays a young boy in the second grade who is wise beyond his years, intellectually gifted. Jordy firmly believes in kindness and attempts to adhere to it but is the victim of some...

Madness: The Man Who Changed Basketball by Mike DeLucia is based on a true story about the little-known fact of how one man changed the history of basketball. The year is 1926 and ten-year-old Angelo "Hank" Luisetti is among a crowd of spectators at the...

Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona is an elegant, epic, fecund odyssey of lyrical imagery, steeped in time-honored mythic tradition and yet endlessly inventive. Cardona is alternately stentorian and coy – his imagery swells like distant thunder even as it dances. In the truest Shakespearean...

The Drive To Aim High is a guidebook for self-help penned by author Al Kamara, one which promises to teach ‘Seven Powerful Mindsets Proven to Guarantee Your Success’. The author’s life story teaches that success can come from even the most turbulent circumstances, as he...

All families are different. Some families have a mother, a father, and children. But there are many families that are separated or in some way incomplete for many reasons. Sassafras, or Sassay as her Mom sometimes calls her, lives with her mother and her grandmother....

Prince Manny loves his father, King Immanuel, and his home, the kingdom of Crownington. Today, Prince Manny is excited to start his first day of school, but is disappointed when he discovers he won't be going to school in Crownington; instead, he will be going...

Lost Sisters is a crime sleuth mystery novel by David Marshall Hunt. When she is not helping with her adoptive family's shrimping expeditions aboard their trawler, Mura "Ryder" Nguyen is busy getting her degree in criminology and doing an internship for private investigator Luka Demings....

That Sweet Summer Music by David Marshall Hunt is a mystery that follows Dalisay, an orphan turned nurse, who encounters a man claiming to be her long-lost father, Reddy Burton. She accompanies him to California, where she discovers his involvement in child rescue and assassination....

On a faraway island called Ginobe lived a little girl who rode any animal she caught hold of—cat, dog, goat, you name it. This peculiar characteristic wasn’t abnormal, though, because riding was the biggest sport in Ginobe and the highlight of the annual Gino Games....

Escape to the Maroons by Mike Weedall is a historical novel that reveals the untold stories of fugitive slaves seeking freedom in the harsh terrain of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1791. Weedall skillfully combines thorough research with vivid storytelling to portray the struggles, bravery,...

Momentum: A Memoir by Emily Brown opens with the author traveling to a memorial service for her Uncle Bib. As Emily listens to stories about her uncle’s warmth and generosity, she begins to compare them with memories of her own emotionally distant upbringing. She’s hoping...

Failing at Fatherhood: A Book for the Imperfect Father by Jack Barr is the story of the birth of Jack's daughter, Marley, and her diagnosis of Down's Syndrome. Jack shares his feelings about the diagnosis and how it affected him in the early part of...

If The Devil Had a Dog by T.K. Lukas is a wonderfully crafted, edge of the seat thriller that has equal amounts of suspense, action, romance and intrigue to keep you glued to the book until the end. Sidney McQueen is fleeing from her drug-dealing,...

There are so many chemicals in our food and drinks that many of us are sick and tired. Tap water can contain plastics, weed killers, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals and other toxins. Even bottled water, if it does not say “spring water” or “purified water,” is...

Twice Upon a Time by D. Davidson and R. Marcano tells a tale that transcends space and time. We are introduced to a young Marie Laveau who receives her gift of magic from a mysterious man with blond hair in 1809. The story fast forwards...

Words have the power to change the world. They also provide a window to express the deepest thoughts, desires, and feelings accumulated through experiencing the world surrounding us. Wide Canvas is the seventh book in Anil Annaiah's motivational series that offers readers a unique perspective...

Stuart J. Green’s The Regenerate Leap is a unique book that addresses the moment of disruption, when the “normal” we have been used to is disrupted in business and in personal life. For most people, disruption can be the end of the road, but a...

Life is so much more than caring for oneself: it’s really about caring for others. In Brandy Clark’s Vivian’s Perfectly Imperfect Picnic, young Vivian enjoys a day at the park with her Bubba. She rides the swings, enjoys a picnic, and walks around with Bubba....

This book was really two parts of the same whole: first, the Nazi occupation of a small French village; second, the program where high ranking German men procreate and the facility in which "fit" women give birth to the "master race." This book largely...