Facing Fear Head On, edited by Jackie Parry and Shelley Wright, is a collection of anecdotes from forty-five women who all have a story to tell about the fear they have experienced while living and travelling on the water. From a narrowboat on the European...

Two Like Me and You is a young adult coming of age/adventure novel written by Chad Alan Gibbs. Edwin Green’s junior year at J.P. Hornby High School did not hold any special promise or allure for the somewhat nerdy young man. He was still reeling...

Bad Mojo is a historical coming of age novel for preteens and young adults written by Eva Blackstone. They were all one family, an outwardly disparate one made up of outcast kids gathered lovingly together by Masha, a Russian emigrée who juggled children’s services and...

Gryphendale by Lara Lee is an exciting adventure into a magical world. A mysterious door leads Autumn into a strange world where she loses her memories. With the appearance of a child, she encounters a queen who puts her into the care of a wise...

The Shadowverse: A YA Sci-Fi Superhero Adventure by John-Clement Gallo is an adventure that is as satisfying as any can be. Well-written and loaded with action, it features Johnny Sparks, a young protagonist who suddenly discovers that he has powers after an encounter with a...

To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence by Lisa Kohn is a gritty memoir of abuse. At an early age, Lisa was exposed to abuse, including cocaine, even received from a judge. It just seemed natural for a child who had no...

Evergreen by Matthew S. Cox is a young adult science fiction novel about a seventeen-year-old girl called Harper Cody who has been plunged into an apocalyptic scenario caused by a nuclear flash. Her life changes irrevocably. She spends two months, together with her parents and...

When Isaiah’s mother tells him that they are going to visit a botanical garden, he is not impressed. He would much rather stay home and play video games. He doesn’t even know what the word botanical means. When she uses his given name rather than...

Picture a highly sophisticated, technologically advanced organization controlled by a clever control freak of superior intelligence, whose personal agenda is world domination of key areas of politics, society, entertainment and media. Envision a limitless access to money that allows Victor Youngblood to hire the best...

Meet Hamlet, Vivienne Scarlett, and Edith in A Pig Packed to Piccadilly by Rachel Ellyn. Hamlet, the pink pig with a pin-curl tail, and Vivienne Scarlett have had many adventures together and they were good friends. But they had a fight last week and Vivienne...

It’s hard getting into the spirit of Christmas when everything around haunts you with sad memories from Christmas past. Travis’s older brother, Brent, was only a young boy when he disappeared on a snowy Christmas. His parents died of grief shortly after and Brent, now...

Burton Blake by Robert Tucker is a story about the American journey of three generations. Starting in 1940, Chicago, Joseph Blake falls in love with and marries Kristina Holtzman, a secretary who part times as a taxi dancer. They have a son, Elias Blake, who...

David Pierce's Living with Grief: 36 Lessons from Life is an anthology in which 36 authors share their personal experiences of the loss of a loved one, of grief, anguish and heartbreak, and of finding ways to live and love again. The anthology is...

WhaleSpirit by Daniel Thomas is a spellbinding tale of adventure with a setting that is fascinating, plunging readers into life below the surface of the sea. A reporter who once took down one of the most influential men on Wall Street sets out for another...

Magdalena Gottschalk: Lindtzl Kingdom is a work of fantasy fiction for preteen children, penned by author M. Gail Grant. The third book in the series which follows title character Magdalena, this one picks up right where The Slippery Slope left off. Entering The Enchanted Forest...

Potato chips and lawnmowers, air conditioners and radiators, television remotes and tricycles and so much more. These are items in our daily twenty-first century life that we take for granted. But someone actually invented them. Has anyone heard of Frederick McKinley Jones? He invented air...

Badoo’s girlfriend, Sade, has called him every night since they first started dating, the only exception being the period between her death and the day she was buried. At first, the Nigerian police officer thinks the calming herbs Pa Fakunle gave him are causing hallucinations,...

From time to time I read something that doesn’t seem to fit (for me, at any rate) into any traditional genre classification. Such was the case with The Junk Yard Solution: Adventures Among the Boxcars and Other Lost Causes by Peter Kelton. The story opens...

I suspect very few people are unaware of events in the recent past where immigrant children of families seeking asylum in the US were forcibly separated from their parents and subsequently housed, like animals, in cages while the government decided what to do with them....

Babu and Bina at the Ghost Party by P. Tomar is the fascinating story of two elephant youngsters, Babu and Bina, who go to see the old Indian fort. Their parents, Papa Trunk and Mama Trunk, tell them that there will be lots of colors,...