To the Top of Greenfield Street is a coming of age novel for young adults written by Ryan Standley. It was June and summer should have been Eric’s next opportunity to shed his chubby-boy image through hours of basketball and healthy eating. But this June...

In Jessie and the Kindness Beads by Jessenia L Torres, we are introduced to a young girl who is bullied daily by the more popular children in the class. Unlike most kids her age, Jessie knows she sticks out because of the way she dresses,...

Eri and the Fairies: A Tangled Solution is a delightful fairy story with fairy food descriptions. Leni Puccio tells the story of Eri and the two fun-loving fairies, Freddy and Freida, who visit her hair every night. Freddy, Freida, and their friends love to have...

Chronicles of the Family Tree is a collection of short stories. Each one begins with a poem dedicated to trees, symbolizing various aspects of family. They talk about topics such as growth, life, and destiny. Then, each story presents a different family dynamic and conveys...

Murder in the Mix by Carolyn Eichhorn follows Gina Morrison, a Baltimore ghostwriter hired to help Manhattan chef Marisol St. James write her memoir-cookbook. Before the project is completed, Marisol is found brutally murdered inside her restaurant kitchen, turning her life story into an unfinished...

While scripture tells us to forgive and forget, it isn’t easy. There are some hurts that just aren’t that easy to get over. Unfortunately, when we hang on to them, we only hurt ourselves. Anger can take over our lives preventing us from finding the...

Little Kicker’s First Rainstorm, written and illustrated by Sandy Sprott, is the second in her Little Kicker Book series, and it is one that you do not want to miss! Little Kicker experiences his first rainstorm and at first he is afraid. Little Kicker’s parents...

"Lily of the Springs" by Carole Bellacera transports us back to the 1950s and 1960s with strong reminders of the morals, music, love and turbulence of the times. Lily lives in a small Kentucky town with her very strict Southern Baptist parents. Jake is the...

"Respot the Pin" by Timothy Sawyer gets its title from a bowling term. When the pinsetter might accidentally knock over a pin, the bowling center must return or "respot" the pins to their original position. Keeping this in mind, the story begins with Kirill "Nick"...

Who knew that wildfires have personalities or that they like to play "Russian Roulette?" Who can imagine the power of an updraft, twenty thousand feet high or a heat generated in excess of thirteen hundred degrees? In the riveting read "One Foot in the Black",...

In Alibis of the Heart, Will Woods, a newly divorced lawyer from Chicago, leaves his career and broken marriage behind and goes to Okefenokee County, Georgia. A southern small town sunk deep into the loam and rot of its namesake swamp, Will sees it as...

God, Save the Pirate (Women of Faith) (Volume 1) by Ria Warrick is a romantic novel. Aislin is wrongly convicted of her father's murder. She is sentenced to a prison colony in Australia. While on her way to the prison, the ship is attacked by...

Even when one begins a relationship with the best intentions, it does not always end in happily ever after. Dominique Wilkins illustrates exactly how messed up things can become in Friends First. Having been rescued by her boyfriend Cliff from an abusive alcoholic father, Fiona...

Nancy LaPonzina pens a wonderful story in her book entitled A Path Through The Garden. It is here that the reader will begin to see deep within the lives of several of the characters found in the book, whether it's the land-owner Peg, or a...

On a dark and stormy night, a baby was abandoned at a monastery. Well, maybe not so dark and stormy, but Kellie WAS left on the doorstep of monks as a baby and has stayed with them ever since. Flash forward and Kellie is a...

Issues of the Heart by Snook is an idealist’s and realist’s work. It’s the inner thoughts of a person aware of life’s lessons, emotions and imperfections. It deals with sacrifices, forgiveness, anger, love, and confusion, in clearly written poems that deal with different experiences in...

Out from the Underworld by Heather Siegel is a memoir detailing her early years living with an irresponsible father, after the disappearance of an idolized mother. She and two siblings, Jaz and Greg, live alternately with their father in the basement of his parents’ home,...

B: The Tale of the Halloween Cat by D.L. Luke is an exciting story of Bernard (with the moniker B), who is invited by the Willow Witch on the day before Halloween to participate in the Black Cat Contest. There are eight other contestants and...

Beyond the Trial by Chigozie Anuli Mbadugha is a book of three stories which depict the discrimination and injustices which occur against women in Nigerian families. The stories are developed in everyday language, and describe the trials that the women go through, and the difficulties...

Imogene of the Pacific Kingdom is a great book for kids or young adults. Teresa Schapansky has created a charming, likable character in Imogene. A character that a lot of young people, especially girls, will relate to. Imogene is smart, beautiful, and innocent, but she...