A sad and beautiful coming-of-age story of a child and her country, NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel, We Need New Names, takes us to Zimbabwe during the Mugabe era. Here, 10-year-old Darling copes with extreme poverty, hunger, and near-homelessness in her ironically-named shantytown, Paradise. We join the...

The Forgotten King: Book Two of Korin’s Journal, by Brian Beam, takes you on Korin’s teenage coming-of-age story to find his adoptive parents, Mathual and Harriet Karell. Predictably, there are obstacles to overcome. Galius, an evil count of the city of Byweather, has summoned two...

Annie, by Ron Mahaffey, introduces us to Cody Miller, who at the age of thirteen loses his parents. He decides that, as soon as he can, he will follow in his father's footsteps and join the military. In the meantime, he lives with his grandparents...

Ann, Kyle, Henry, and the gang are back in Reigning Cats and Dogs by Jane McBride. This is the latest book in the Ann and Henry series. Ann and Kyle have put their wedding plans on hold, waiting until his uncle and her aunts can...

The Jack O'Rourke Series - Second Beginnings, by Kristi M. Washbourn is a typical teen story. Jack moves to a new town and it's her first day in school. Though she is nervous on the first day, her confidence and positive personality surfaces and she...

Written by Alex Canton-Dutari, It's the Water is the story of Zane, a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama, and Martin, a Canadian-born Californian. They walk through different paths of life only to see their roads come together. Each of their journeys is also a different...

Looming Dragon (The DiujPa Series) by B.K. Amodio is part of the DiujPa novel series. The main character, Cayce Taylor, is a sensitive and intelligent teenage boy living in New Mexico. His mother mysteriously died from a coma and his father is an alcoholic. But...

On the Hole by Jeff Bacot tells the story of Jay ‘Skew’ Hewitt, a vice president of a production and music distribution company, and Nick Landers, a tax attorney. They are both regular golfers at the Regina Buck & Duck Hunt Country Club. After eighteen...

Across the River by Elaine Russell, is powerful reading. It is the harrowing tale of a family’s escape from the horrors of the Vietnam war. At the time, Nou is a child. It is her family's story. Freedom is when the Americans leave the country....

Indivisible? The Story Of The Second American Civil War is written by Paul Martin Midden. The author has described this book as being of the General, Fiction-Thriller-Genre. Recommendation for the reader audience would put emphasis on adult readers. Given the plot, educated and experienced...