Where the Heart Isn’t: Redefining Home by Ileana Stoica, PhD, is an intellectually rich memoir that interweaves the author’s physical migrations with her inner journey across decades, cultures, and identities. Stoica, a Romanian-born scientist turned writer, offers a thoughtful narrative that moves fluidly between autobiographical...

Fleet of the Forgotten is the first novel in the Exile’s War Series by Dan Thornton. The story follows Ryan Anders, a young man from Earth’s impoverished slums who is looking to turn his life around. The opportunity arrives when Ryan wins an unlikely place...

Bermuda Pirates in New York: Part II - City Under the Cliffs by Olha Smulska is an exciting continuation of Dominika, her father, Black Smoke, and their crew's adventures. This fantasy novel is a captivating journey through time, blending historical settings with magical elements. The...

Productivity-BIG Ideas From the Top 10 Books, by Oran Kangas, is a very useful book. It’s on the order of audio book summaries. Kangas transparently lays out his strategy for choosing the top 10 books, picks one idea from each book, gives pros and cons...

Eli Arnold and the Keys to Forever, Book Three: All Roads by John Carter is the third book in the Eli Arnold series where Eli is sent to Rome to get the next key of forever. Readers are taken to darker places and experience many...

Aoleon The Martian Girl Saga Books 1-5: A Middle-Grade Science Fiction and Fantasy Series for Kids aged 9-12 by Brent LeVasseur is an incredibly entertaining series of books, filled with colorful and elaborate pictures, that tells the story of Gilbert, a young boy who is...

Kade, the protagonist of Golden Dreg Boy by D.K. Dailey, is a Golden, which means that he is part of the rich society. Everyone who isn't a Golden is called a Dreg. Those are the poor, who often do not have a fixed home, and...

Wrecker is an intense work of horror fiction penned by author Erik Henry Vick and is the third novel in The Bloodletter Saga. Following on from the events of Nightmare and Blackened, we see a group of young people slowly growing in fear, but also...

In The Seven Hungers, the first book of Rise of the Crimson King, by Morgan Quaid, the world is on the brink of pandemonium. An emergence has appeared in Brisbane, Australia. The emergence draws in and consumes all living matter, including humans and animals. It...

Most kids often wonder if, when nobody is looking, their toys might come to life. Wullie the Mahaar Gome, Book 1: Blackhope Scar by David Kennedy McCulloch revolves around a young boy named Finn and an extraordinary present he received from his uncle, comprising a...

Fragments of the Gods: Anaya Awakens by JCR Paulino takes readers on a captivating journey across two continents in a fantasy world, intertwining the fates of four compelling characters. After surviving a devastating illness, Anaya, a six-year-old girl, discovers her extraordinary powers. This mysterious illness...

Rom-com lovers are in for a treat with Leah Brewer's Love Inn: The View. Clara Sharp was happily looking forward to getting married until she caught her fiancé cheating on her with one of his employees. When her best friend sets her up on a...

J.M. Barrie once said, “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust,” and in Scarlett & the Fairy Magic by Cindy Draughon, young readers are invited to believe in just that. Tucked deep in the woods is a fairy village, where...

Music of the Alamo is an awe-inspiring book, and the CD that comes with it is like icing on the cake.  William R. Chemerka and Allen J. Wiener have thoroughly researched the era.  The photographs are amazing.  In the Introduction, Phil Collins calls himself “An...

Go on a journey of self-discovery and learn to accept yourself in Mubu the Morph by Stephen Nawotniak. Mubu is a Morph. He can do many things. He can be many things. But Mubu is confused. Who is he really? What is he really? As...

Benjamin Birdie and the Tree Dwellers: Book 2 is a children’s picture book written by Michael Dotsikas and illustrated by Morgan Spicer. After his first misadventure, as set out in Benjamin Birdie’s First Flight: Book 1, Benjamin both yearned to soar in the air with...

Luke, a special, inquisitive little boy, lives and plays along the shores of the South Carolina coastline. He is kind, sensitive, and has the unique ability to communicate with all the critters around him. There aren’t many children to play with around the area, and...

Meet Ollie, the smallest of all woodchucks, in the story Ollie and The Wishing Stone by Toni J. Perri. He had two big front teeth and he loved listening to stories. His favorite story was about a Thousand Year Old Tree and a Magical Wishing...

Church of the Assassin is book five in the NEXUS series by Ross Harrison but can be read as a standalone novel. Packed with plenty of action, the story follows Alexiares who kills for a living. She is an assassin for her sect, but things...

System Upon Systems in the Bible by William OuYang emphasizes God's holy and loving sides. Written in two parts, the text ties scripture together in different areas of the Bible. The material seeks to detail connections between certain scriptures and the problems we face currently....