Probably one of the most controversial topics still in the book publishing industry is the idea of an author (or publicist) paying for a review of their book. It’s an offshoot of the self-publishing versus publishing industry argument that comes from the old vanity presses of the past. A vanity press, for the younger readers, […]
Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan is a good book, but also kind of confusing to younger readers. A young Native American girl named Summer goes to spend her summer vacation with her mother’s family in Canada on the reservation. Along the way, she encounters an old woman and starts to have strange dreams. These dreams […]
Action-packed, exciting, and full of surprises, Lizard Larson and the Time Keeper by Gary Natoli is an excellent book choice for middle school and early teenage readers. Told from the perspective of Elizabeth Larson, otherwise known as Lizard, readers are in for a memorable adventure through multiple universes and dimensions of time! Fourteen-year-old Lizard is […]
The perfect gift for any Star Wars fan, Star Wars: Tribute to Star Wars is a collection of beautiful pieces of art created by Japanese manga artists and illustrators. Each piece of art is accompanied by a description of it by the artist and tells why the artist chose to encapsulate that particular image. There […]
About the book: You’ve always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps you’ve made a pile of notes—even written several chapters. But as you sit down alone with the blank page or your next scene, nothing happens. Or if the writing does start to flow, it soon dries up. […]
Nothing is ordinary about the narratives we encounter in All Our Ordinary Stories, the second graphic memoir by writer and illustrator Teresa Wong. When her mother appears to grow despondent and melancholy after suffering a stroke, Wong contemplates her family’s story of uprooting from Guangzhou, China, to settle in Canada. Using the comic form, Wong […]
Elisabeth has just graduated but her future has already been mapped out as she is expected to take her grandmother’s place. The path she is meant to take is simple: become the head of her family, marry her high school boyfriend, and stay in town. But she wants more. She longs to understand why her […]
A thirty-five minute ferry ride outside of Seattle sits Bainbridge Island and the quaint Queen Anne Victorian style home where Michael and Kayla have lived for the past six years. Their life is serene until a tragic boat accident changes everything. Now Kayla finds herself alone on the island, in a house that no longer […]
Buried Lies is a well-written mystery novel that introduces retired detective and ex-traffic cop Davis Reed. Renting a cabin in Cruso, North Carolina, he ends up getting hired by a wealthy, eccentric couple to investigate a man’s death at a golf course. Prentiss Wells, a local attorney, was found struck and killed by a golf […]
Henry works as a consultant at Anthony Freckleman, a leading management consulting company. He is well-paid and enjoys his profession, preferring it to accounting, which he found monotonous after working briefly in the finance industry. At work, Henry attempts to maintain friendly connections with his coworkers and carry out his responsibilities properly without drawing too […]
C.J. Leede is back after her disturbingly dark Maeve Fly with a book that goes hard and epic in American Rapture. Readers may be surprised by something quite different, but it is nevertheless engrossing and thrilling. Sophie is a good Catholic girl who has lived something far beyond a sheltered life with her domineering parents […]
