Gateway to Mars: Vol.3 of the Martian Diaries continuing The War of the Worlds by H.E. Wilburson is a riveting sequel to H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. The story initially transports us to 1945. We meet Jack Stent and other astronauts on their...

Has your child ever felt rejected or overlooked? Matt Leicester comes to the rescue with this children’s picture book, Kona Finds a Family. This sweet little story deals with the reality of rejection and teaches children that they are special just the way they are....

Frustrated Witness! Jeffrey Dahmer, the Man Who Killed Adam Walsh by Willis Morgan is a true crime book that revolves around Adam Walsh's abduction from Hollywood Mall and murder in 1981 at the age of six, which led to a nearly three-decade-long investigation. Morgan asserts...

In Outside the Lines, Mary Perrine covers a subject that we all hope will not happen to us. She writes a most wonderful, moving story that will grip the reader's attention from the prologue to the very last page. Mary uses her main characters Bella...

Pepperoni Cookies: Fearful Fergus Learns To Try is a children’s picture book written by Sarah Chaires with illustrations by Elizabeth Tortora. The story follows an eight-week-old puppy named Fergus, who is experiencing his first storm. He feels scared and tries to hide in his crate....

The Ghosts of Whidbey Island by author Victoria Ventris Shea falls into the gothic, historical, and interpersonal drama genres. This engaging novel tells the tale of Isaac Ebey, the first permanent settler on Whidbey Island in the Pacific Northwest in 1850. Arriving with ambitions and...

Doing Good & Doing Well by Michael L. Kaufman, MSW, PhD, is a guide for helping professionals like teachers, therapists, social workers, doctors, and nurses to assume leadership roles in their organizations. As these professionals and others like them focus on the well-being of people,...

Lynda, a white university student, and JT, a black athlete from the inner city, share a deep connection from the moment they first meet. Despite the distance between their schools, they continue to express their longing for each other through letters and poems. Their chemistry...

Jane McLaren is happy to live a simple life in Desert Pines, Oregon. She lives with her grandfather and works as a barista, spending her days in direct contrast to the life she left behind in the big city. It’s too bad that life can’t...

When Max finds a mouse in a cage in his class, he is surprised that his friend Risa imitates the little creature's sound in an unusual way. The same thing happens again later while they are in the garden and hear a bee buzzing by....

Ellen Mason's No Space for Love is a spellbinding, moving tale about abuse, survival, societal issues, and history. Ha-na and Seng-il are forced to go through monumental challenges while striving to survive chaotic political conditions in North Korea and China. Ha-na is betrayed by her...

Finding Me is an absorbing coming-of-age tale by Jacquie Biggar. Ever since the suicide of her father, life hasn't been the same for Izzy Thomas. While her mother slowly lost her life to alcohol and pharmaceutical pills, Izzy had to drop out of high school...

Tribal Honor is a work of fiction by author T.G. Brown in the action, cultural drama, and crime genres. It is best suited to mature adult readers owing to its gritty themes and adult situations. Warren Lawson, an elite Tribal Police Officer on the Jericho...

Brady Goes to the Vet is a children's picture book written by Pattie Manente and illustrated by Olena Kharkovenko. The story follows the adventures of a nervous Labrador retriever puppy named Brady, who must face his fear of visiting the vet. Brady loves swimming, so...

Can We Get a Rhinoceros? by Christian Kueng is an entertaining and adorable children's picture book about a little boy who wants to have an unusual pet—a rhinoceros. When he asks his mother for permission to get one, she doesn't like the idea. She tells him they don't...

Razberry Babies: The Great Jam Debate is a children's picture book by Ranee A. Spina. Raz is a playful little girl. She lives on a farm with four adventurous furry hamsters named Taffy, Cassie, Bandero, and Nuffster. One sunny morning, Raz's grandmother makes a delicious...

Women of the Wind tells a fascinating and heartbreaking true story of neglect, abandonment, abuse, and abduction. Angela Gail Griffin shares her mother's family's childhood memories and tales that she passed down to her. The recollections span three generations of women intertwined with 19th- and...

In the Dark of Night is the ninth installment of The Men of Fire Beach series by Lorana Hoopes. Dr. Garrett Young, a pediatrician, has had enough of Chicago after a broken relationship and arrives in the coastal town of Fire Beach, hoping to start...

A Book Without a Title by Sonii Marie is a woman's account of a difficult period in her life. After the death of her best friend, the author retreats into a depressive state. Even after she learns she has another reason to live, she can...

Morocco: A Remembrance of Childhood by James B. Farmer is narrated through the eyes and adventures of a five-year-old boy as he embarks on the first of many journeys. The book opens as his Navy family moves from America's heartland to Morocco in the mid-1950s...