Book Awards, Editorial Reviews & More!
Book Awards, Editorial Reviews & More!
Sam Binks lives with his grandmother in a lighthouse on Silver Moon Cove. Despite his young age, the eight year old takes his responsibility of protecting Granny from pirates very seriously. Although, since there have never been pirates in his lifetime, the threat of them arriving on Silver Moon Cove doesn’t seem likely. When Sam […]
A lovely take on a rough period in human history. 1968 was a year of upheaval. Senator Robert F. Kennedy announced his entrance into the presidential race only to be murdered. Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated, which sparked riots across the country. Outraged people around the globe gathered to protest
A wildly pleasurable, perfectly written gritty crime drama. The glitz and lasciviousness that only mid-century Las Vegas can impart is the colorful backbone of Maximum Rossi: A Las Vegas Crime Noir. Massimo ‘Max’ Rossi came to Vegas for a bachelor party but stayed for reasons he can’t clearly define. Although he’s far from the family
A Little Chatter is an eclectic collection of short stories chronicling small moments in time snatched from a variety of different people. Some of the characters wrestle with life decisions. Should I finish my education? How do I end the negativity? Is it time to get tested? While the stories change, there are a few
An entertaining read and a captivating story. Brynte has recently inherited the throne from a father that had earned a bad reputation within the land. In an effort to make peace with those of another land, Brynte has also been pressured into an arranged marriage to the young Princess Istonia, whom he has never met.
The dazzling result of an inspired imagination! Emma Lie is nothing if not driven. She has worked hard to achieve her carefully laid plans, despite emotional turmoil caused years earlier by her father. In a few weeks, Emma is poised to leave home for Harvard with a full scholarship. And up until a handsome stranger
“Seemingly overnight, the world had changed.” As of early 2020, these words have come true. With the world in the throes of the worst pandemic to ravage mankind in modern history, COVID-19 The Battle for Humanity: How Science Saved Us reads less like fiction and more like a historical account that details the struggles of
Young and old alike will be enchanted. It’s a difficult thing to watch a loved one succumb to an illness. For twelve-year-old Caleb, watching his Papa Clem lose himself to dementia is no way to spend a birthday. With his overworked mother on his case about chores and a lovely nurse on duty at the
We Are God is a sort of deathbed confessional of a man who lived to see the beginning of the Eternal Era. The Old Man narrating the story has lived for hundreds of years and has been both a witness to and a participant in a great deal of controversy. The controversy surrounds scientific advancements
A whirlwind pace and a captivating style. In Bolivia, an aged professor, excited by the possibility of discovery and plagued with greed, has stumbled across what may prove to be the most significant archeologic discovery in modern times. In Rhode Island, a middle-aged former Navy SEAL hiding a secret life of crime has just returned
New readers will be entertained over and over again by the antics of Dan, a fire station Dalmatian. Adorable Dan wants to be a good fire dog, but he has one teensy problem. Cookies! Peanut butter cookies, ginger snaps… Dan just loves cookies! In fact, Dan spends so much time eating cookies that he can’t
A riveting new time-travel saga. If you could travel to any point in history, where would you visit? 1989 to watch the Berlin wall fall? Maybe. 2004 to buy Google at $85 a share? Absolutely. 1865 in the throes of the American Civil War? Not so much. For Mark Lane, he chooses Virginia, 1865, to
Patricia Harding is a vibrant young woman with a successful career as a paralegal. After a lunch date with a coworker, Patricia passes out and is rushed to New City Hospital. Despite her husband’s attentiveness and the best efforts of the hospital staff, Patricia never recovers. While the cause of her death is being looked
Fears are realized in this creepy tale. Dr. Sam Carlson works as a physician on Carratuck, a quaint island filled with vacationers soaking up the sun. On a typical day he might treat sunburns and sprains, but this is no typical day. A timid young boy ends up in Sam’s clinic with nobody to claim
If Nancy Drew ever found herself in a Goosebumps story, it would feel a lot like Grace’s Ghosts. Intrepid twelve-year-old Grace is sort of a loner among the living. She is just wrapping up another typically frustrating school year and after a perfectly awful last day of sixth grade, summer break can’t get here quickly
“Why do we feel the necessity to change? We invent a form of danger to deepen our reflection about who we are.” Hybrids, Volume Two: Vengeance moves on seamlessly from the first book in the series. The action begins immediately with Theo and Jack hurtling through space in a crowded transport ship. Jack and his
Small town charm meets puzzling circumstances. Following a difficult divorce and the loss of her brother, Catalina Amalia Miranda finds herself back home in picturesque Bisbee, Arizona. The plan is to reopen the art gallery left behind at her brother’s death and focus on picking up the pieces of her broken life. She arrives in
Unexpectedly insightful and surprisingly poignant. If you choose to judge a book by its cover, Of Reality and Dream: Tales for Underground is an amazing read. If you choose to judge a book by its content, Of Reality and Dream: Tales for Underground certainly holds up under scrutiny! Although conceived when the author was but
This impactual collection of stories highlights the perils women face from every corner of the globe. Woman is a small collection of short stories that are related, not by geography or blood, but through the shared sufferings and mistreatment of women the world over. The stories are dark and desperate, filled with the tragedies that
As in life, the popular kids are far outnumbered by the not so popular kids in The Out Crowd. Ready for a stellar senior year, Hallie takes the reigns of the cheerleading squad with all her usual gusto. With the big Homecoming Game kicking off the start of the school year, Hallie finds some unexpected
A flawlessly written and thoughtfully conceived story. Eric Dundston isn’t exactly down-on-his-luck, but it’s getting more and more difficult for him to pay the rent on time with his freelance reporting jobs. Things take a turn for Eric when he arrives on the scene as a story is unfolding. He takes a quote that includes
The story is a sci-fi lover’s dream! A guy that is over six-and-a-half feet tall, is rail thin, and wears shoes sized to fit a clown has trouble blending in. That is unfortunate for Marshall Grissom, who doesn’t want to stand out. He has no special skills and isn’t a genius, so it comes as
A high-stakes adventure, filled with intense battle scenes. Connor Mackay has elevated alien fiction with this action-packed space novel. In The Albatross: Contact, Albatross is an ultra high tech spacecraft that brings Arthur, a leader of the Lumenarians, to the Earth to ask for help. A brutal and persistent war has been taking place among
Cassie is a NICU nurse who really needs a vacation. The constant pressure of a high stress job has left her with persistent headaches and lingering fatigue, and a trip to Hawaii with her wonderful boyfriend sounds like the perfect escape for her troubles. While enjoying an excursion on their last day in paradise, Cassie
