Napoleon’s Secrets to Getting What You Want is a wonderful book with a theme of helping children succeed at something they really want. Author I. St. Auburn Rowe has created a rhyming story worth reciting over and over again. Who can ignore the advice of...

Snow Girls - Ice Castles: In the Darkness of Midnight, It Glows by the Firelight by Irene Petrucci follows the fun adventures of three sisters and their friends. Charlotte, Lacey, Katy and their friend Sharron are happily skating on a pond in the woods. The...

The Seers: Love and Terror on the Fourth of July is a paranormal novella of suspense written by J.R. Wirth. If it was the Fourth of July, Jess and his daughters would either be traveling from their Southern California home to visit his brother, Jim,...

The Wolf's Tooth: A Tale of Liamec by J. Steven Lamperti is the story of a Twee as he tries to find his place in the world. Adopted by a pack of wolves as he roamed the forest as a toddler, Twee knows no world...

Sweet Pea loved spending time with her Papa. She helped her Papa by pulling the weeds and planting the seeds while he was gardening. After some weeks the garden was ready to harvest. It was full of beautiful leaves of different shapes and colors. Papa...

Pumpkin's daddy brought the best kitties home and she loved them. She found them cute, cuddly, sweet, and perfect. She kissed them every morning and carried them around in her baby buggy. She took care of them well but still, they started running away from...

The Town Beneath the Christmas Tree by J.R. Wirth is a story with Christmas as the backdrop. In the story we see six children fighting over their gifts under the Christmas tree, and finding themselves transported to a new land. Narrated by Hailey, one of...

Good Friday: Dreams & Nightmares is a work of short fiction with paranormal and drama themes, and was penned by author J. R. Wirth. The story focuses on the central theme of ‘what if’ with some speculative intrusions and the mystery of reality versus dreams....

The Christmas Town Calls is a work of fascinating supernatural fiction penned by author J. R. Wirth, and it forms the fourth novel in The Town Beneath the Christmas Tree series. In this novella-length adventure, we return to Hailey, Isaiah, Harper and the rest of...

Avenging Angels by J.R. Wirth begins when abused children exact revenge on their abusers and ensure they can never harm another child. Fast forward thirty-one years later, and we see social worker Jennifer and her colleagues investigating crimes of violence and abuse against children. Elsewhere,...

Border Slot is a work of thriller fiction in the action, terrorism, and military sub-genres, and was penned by author Jack Lyndon Thomas. Written for adult reading audiences, the work does contain the use of explicit language, graphic violence appropriate to the premise, and some...

The Three Warlocks: A Tragedy of Dust by Jacob Flowers-Olnowich is a compendium of three stories that are related, with a beautiful setting in the fantasy world of Rhydallia. The stories feature very powerful characters and creatures of magic, especially the elves, and these characters...

Sonora Pass is a graphic novel written by Jaime Olmos and illustrated by Kevin Nichols. Who killed Celia after the Jabberwocky Band reunion -- and why did they do it? Celia and Esteban had made plans to start a new life together in California after...

Sonora Pass is a graphic novel written by Jaime Olmos and illustrated by Kevin Nichols. Who killed Celia after the Jabberwocky Band reunion -- and why did they do it? Celia and Esteban had made plans to start a new life together in California after...

Grow in the Grace by James Callen is a book about the Christian experience and our service to God. Starting with the path to salvation and then going on to how to navigate our life of service to God, this is a well-crafted and inspirational...

Maximillian’s Treasure is an exciting legal drama tale by James D. Bell. Law partners John Brooks and Jackson Bradley assumed saving the farm for their Choctaw Indian client, Frank Dalton, would be easy. That was before they realized how desperate and dangerous some people were...

What if there was a reset button that could set the entire universe back to the point of creation? What would life be like and what could most probably change? An organization called the Genesis believes strongly that the world has been raped and awfully...

Momentary Illumination of Objects in Motion by Jason Arias features quirky characters, impressive and unusual story lines, and critical themes. The collection veers off from common ideas to present stories that highlight the brokenness in our world and the sheer effort by many to survive...

Have you ever seen a frog with wings? We know frogs have great legs for jumping, but wings for flying? Well, there is one frog with wings; his name is Slog. He was born with wings. The only problem is, he can’t figure out how...

The small town of Bergama, Turkey, is about to be brought to its knees when terrorist and Muslim convert Osama Flynn's mission of martyrdom is 'successful'. Tugce Iskan is sent by the Ministry of Culture in Ankara to investigate the motives behind the attack. When...

“The Cycle” by Jay Amberg is a very different, but very interesting, type of book. I am not sure how to classify it, but I think it should be required reading for a lot of people, from students to corporate CEO’s. The 'Cycle' Jay is...

Souls on Fire is a short work of mystery fiction packed with tension and terror and was penned by author Jay Williams. In this novella-length action tale, we first meet a duo of specialists in Austin: police lieutenant Neil Kenny and his friend Jim Greenwald,...

Writing Trash and Hunting Buffalo by Jay Williams contains a great paragraph about the reality of war, including these two sentences: “But that’s what war is. It’s not something you brag about or glorify in poems, because it’s horrible.” These words resonate well with the...

Teddy Roosevelt, Millie and the Elegant Ride is a work of children’s fiction penned by author Jean M. Flahive which takes place in the historical setting of the 1910s. Written for a middle grade reading age of nine to twelve years, this historical work looks...

Tangled In The Web, Quick Mystery #2 has a lot going on. There is humor, mystery, romance, twists and turns, friendship and baseball. The main star of the story is Quick, a man who has gotten himself into an impossible situation that may or...

Restoring Jesus: A Fresh Look at Ancient Prophecies, Divine Signs, and Eyewitness Testimonies is a work of non-fiction examining religious ideas and past and present views on Jesus Christ and was penned by Jeffery Elliott. In this concise but insightful work, the author takes us...

Me: Life Guide and Guided Journey by Journal Featuring 11 Weeks of 7 Soul Minds Exercises by Jennifer Ayers-Belinkis is a wonderful guide to self-awakening, a book that sets the reader on the path to embracing the old adage from the Greek philosopher, Socrates: “Man,...

We are never too young or too old to enjoy a good fairy tale, to learn the possible messages they convey and to just savor the feel-good aspects of the happily-ever-after. When the tree fairies are assigned their individual trees to nurture and protect, there...

From the time he was a puppy, Chance demonstrated an exemplary ability to understand and communicate with humans. Not many dogs, even those well trained, have such an intense connection of comprehension. Chance was born to be a hero. He began his training as a...

Silver Moon is a work of fiction set in the historical and dramatic sub-genres and was penned by author Jenny Knipfer. The third novel in the By the Light of the Moon series, the book is recommended for more mature readers due to the presence...

Feather by Jerry Gerold is a supernatural tale. Feather Wyatt is not your normal teenager. Not only can she see ghosts, but she can also bring the dead back to life. The last day of summer starts out like any normal day. Feather’s best friend...

Lost in Mother Russia: A Memoir by Jill McDowell is an intimate look at Russia set in the middle 1990s. The author, an ESL teacher who teaches at Moscow State University and at the school in the Japanese Embassy, decides to search for her roots...

Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey is a nonfiction memoir written by Jo Ivester and based on the video journals of her son, Jeremy Ivester. Jo and her husband, Jon, were not at all surprised when their third...

Jackie was born with a gift, but to a twelve-year-old, it had seemed more like a curse. When her talent manifested itself in the form of a vision in the church, it began a string of unforgettable events and a lie she struggled to live...

JQR is an epic-length work of science fiction and action/adventure and was penned by author Joey Rodriguez. The work is suitable for mature teens and adult readers due to some graphic content including scenes of violence, brief mentions of sexual situations and the use of...

Murder.net - Countdown to The Next Nightmare by John V Colascione is a horror crime novel that will make your heart pound with each page. The story centers on LAPD officer and aspiring detective Amanda Curtis as she interns under colleague and experienced LAPD detective,...

The Native Girl, Her Pony, Wolf, and Hawk Rides to Womanhood by John Elroy delivers a dazzling tale of one girl’s journey to becoming a woman with lovely descriptions, stunning illustrations, and a spiritual tone. This story is a tale that will inspire girls and...

Robert Frost had Mountain Interval, Shakespeare had The Sonnets, Emily Dickinson had her Collection, and Joie Schmidt has her Dreams of the Heart, Volume One. Many of the poems tout similar vocabulary and style as the old masters, as seen in this excerpt, “You are...

Bullying has become a serious topic and some might say it has become an epidemic in schools and homes over the past 20 or so years, especially with the creation of the internet and its many ways to communicate via websites. Bullying was once perceived...

I'll Be Right There by Jonathan J. Marshall is an adorable story that captures the bonding between a father and son, and it also shows how the father is there for the little boy when he gets scared in the night. The father comforts his...