Roman’s conversational tone keeps the book interesting and inspires kids’ curiosity for other cultures. Carole P. Roman continues her award-winning children’s series profiling different cultures around the world in the picture book... Read More

Retro is in, with KGB assassins, Cold War spies, and teenage psychics. Today’s teen fiction marketplace seems to recycle the same age-old archetypes of zombies, vampires, and ghosts over and over again. "The CIA Psychic Teens" dares to... Read More

This gritty Christian dystopian novel is powerfully dark at times and hopeful at others. A grim and bloody end-of-the-world story is not the first place most readers would expect to find Christian inspiration, but that’s exactly what... Read More

When unique, fascinating characters are introduced, their lingo and personalities are translated well into precise and engaging dialogue. The apocalypse story line that introduces a world where sickness has nearly eliminated humanity and... Read More

This humorous, bouncy send-up of British politics and journalism is consistent and clever. Sally Jane Smart is a celebrity-worshipping Brit whose job as a journalist gets her caught up in strange, sordid political circles, and she... Read More

Nye crafts a magnetic love story at the heart of this richly detailed, Camelot-meets-Star Wars universe. Nikki Nye has created a new fictional universe rich in detail in her debut novel, The Brightness of Shadows. The story is... Read More

This coming-of-age novel set against the racial tensions of the South in the fifties will resonate with preteens who’ve been bullied. The Dodger Fan & the Wolf Man by Charles Albert Haigh is a coming-of-age novel that examines the... Read More

What caused the Great Recession and how can we recover? A financial analyst offers a fact-based examination. In The Inevitable Great American Reset, financial analyst/CPA Carl Hafele has done a yeoman’s job of analyzing America’s... Read More