This is Not a Lie is a work of fiction in the interpersonal drama, social issues, and LGBTQIA+ sub-genres, and was penned by author S. C. Farrow. The work is aimed at the mature adult reading audience owing to the use of explicit language throughout,...

Today is AJ’s birthday. He’s five years old. He’s so excited and looking forward to a big party with family and friends. The only problem is everyone is in quarantine, locked down due to the global pandemic. How will he celebrate his birthday without a...

The Witness Tree by Terri Morrison Kaiser is a heart-wrenching story of love and loss. One hundred years ago, on the banks of the Redemption River in Wisconsin, a tree was designated as the boundary marker for the adjacent property. This tree was named The...

The Venice I Know is a work of non-fiction in the travel guide subgenre. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by travel enthusiast and author Margie Miklas. After five interesting trips to Venice, this award-winning blogger has many things to...

In her memoir It Never Took, Terrah Hancock relates the years she was growing up in a dysfunctional family. Her father beat her regularly, both parents refused to believe she was raped by her father’s younger brother Keith, and her mother constantly gaslighted her. Her...

Poetry is music. From the Psalms of Solomon and before up to the present day, words have expressed a rhythmic quality that transcends the emotions and sentiments of music. Poetry projects a distinctive musical quality, a musical voice, one that deepens the feelings of what...

The Winds of Morning is a prequel novel to the Donovan Family Saga series. Author Gifford MacShane immerses us in Ireland in 1848 when the Great Famine still ravages Ireland and its people as entire families and towns are wiped out. Young Molly, recently orphaned,...

The 'Great' Kickin' Dog: A Family Tree by Kenneth Allen Crutchfield, Sr. is a novel with its own beauty and dignity in exploring the life of a dysfunctional family. John Coleman is the main protagonist, an ex-musician, assembly line worker, and alcoholic. Don’t call him...

Axel’s mom is in the military. He is okay with that. Shermaine Perry-Knights—a child of a military parent—understands the difficulty children have when a parent is assigned to a new base. In I Move a Lot and That’s Okay!, Shermaine shares with military children what...

When the new headmistress of Pergoria sends Evie Everyday a letter inviting her to undertake a series of trials in her old school of magic, the young witch does not imagine it will be just the beginning of a great adventure. She finally has the...

Standing at Water's Edge: A Cancer Nurse, Her Four-Year-Old Son and the Shifting Tides of Leukemia describes Brennan's journey with leukemia and how it impacted his mother, Janice Post-White, and the rest of her family. Diagnosed at four and a half, it details his...

Rise of Knight and Sword by Miriam Wade takes place in Avalon, the city of kings. This is not your typical Arthur and Guinevere story. Wade places Avalon in a time of sky towers, airships, bounty hunters, and dinosaurs that roam free on parklands. Guinevere...

Our Best Friend Karma is a beautiful book with great lessons that everyone should learn and keep in mind in their daily lives. Through interesting text and colorful images, Kimberly Hirsch tells us a story from the perspective of a boy who describes his life...

Vitaly Magidov Kirkpatrick's alcoholic mother abandoned him after birth. Thus, Vitaly stayed at the hospital's nursery until he was old enough to live in an orphanage. Vitaly: The Misadventures of a Ukrainian Orphan tells the inspiring story of a young boy's search for love in...

Meet Able, a young boy who approaches life from a different angle. He has autism. I refuse to use “disabled” for children and adults who have disorders that limit their abilities. Because they can do much, I prefer using the term “differently-abled.” For example, my...

After Charles of Anjou (Re Carlu) from France vanquished Prince Conradin in 1269, Sicily became a shadow of itself. Re Carlu used his fierce Angevin soldiers to subdue, dominate, and make the lives of Sicilians unbearable. However, seven-year-old Aetna Vespiri and her elder brother, Cicero,...

V.O.W. 9 Points of Impact is a practice-focused guide to improving every aspect of life. This process is worked through in a focused manner by following the word of God. Each topic deals with three dynamics: revelations, resolutions, and revolutions. By using these criteria, we...

In Obedience, when we meet Emma and the only parents she knows, she calls her father by the odd moniker of “Leader”. Our first question is why? The woman she knows as her mother is the icy Monique. Emma is on constant tenterhooks around...

Brady and the Backyard Monster is a children's picture book written by Pattie Manente and illustrated by Olena Kharkovenko. Brady, a cute Labrador puppy, ventures outside to play and chase squirrels when he hears the familiar scritching sound of the monster. Nervous and scared, Brady...

Brian, Jamal, Alex, Kev, and Cecilia are The Chosen Five in the titular series by Janet Kravetz. Book one, Sky Curse, introduces Cecilia Miller, the young female protagonist in a dystopian future where Earth's population has ballooned to an unsustainable level. Natural resources have been...