The Purples is the fictional story of an actual group. The Purple Gang was a pack of bootleggers and hijackers. They operated out of Detroit during the Roaring 20s. The group was led by Abe Bernstein. The majority of the members were young Jewish immigrants....

The Purple Elephant: The Journey Home (Volume 2) by Donna Gielow McFarland is a fun-filled adventure story of Prince Carmel. The Prince has completed his quest to the Unicorn mountains and he has left Princess Elena back in her castle before he heads home. The...

The Firma Twins and the Purple Staff of Death by D.H. Timpko is a fantastical tale of identical twins Isis and Electra, born into a family with a history of identical twins, passed down from generation to generation, including their younger brothers. The story begins...

No matter how I say this I will be over-simplifying the plot but here it goes. A sisterhood of women are trying to figure out how their lives are linked. Buty at the same time they are being hunted by someone who knows why their...

The Purple Pill: How to Balance Success in a Divided World presents Kiani Mills’s account of realizing that her life was shaped by learned patterns absorbed long before she could evaluate them. She describes how early conditioning guided her toward functioning efficiently in social and...

The Purple Elephant by Donna McFarland is a wonderful children’s story. It is the story of King Pop Cornelius and his son, Prince Carmel. The Prince and his father live in a kingdom full of animals and the Prince has a zebra called Zane for...

The Purple Raccoon is a children's fantasy adventure story by Sara Furlong. Ten-year-old twin siblings Sam and Cindy Porter had no idea what they were in for when they were sent to spend the summer with their grandparents, Tom and Lois, in their cottage on...

The Girl With The Purple Hair is a young adult coming of age romantic short story written by Isabel Scheck. Benny had a thing for Violette. She did not speak, but they had grand conversations via their texts. He had a pet name for her,...

Three bishops stand trial in Federal Court, charged with complicity in the abuse of hundreds of children over a period of years. It is an old story with a different twist. The author is a former priest who develops a string of damaging evidence against...

In "The Purple Contract" written by Robin Flett, Michael Hollis is a professional hit-man. In fact he is so professional that none of the ’spooks’ units worldwide have anything concrete on him. So, when two Scottish businessmen decide that Scotland’s quest for independence from England...

The Purple Girl is a wonderful fantasy by Audrey Kane. Violet was born with purple skin, eyes and hair. Everything she touches turns purple, but the color eventually disappears. She lives with her parents in a cottage surrounded by a protective wall. Violet is shunned...

The Purple Shell is a wonderful book that tells us about ecology with enthusiasm and useful lessons. Maritza M. Mejia surprises us again with another of her English-Spanish bilingual books. Here she brings us the story of an adorable girl who goes with her mother...

So often we measure our self-worth against that of others. The purple croc in an orange sock is transformed every day when the magical clock strikes four. That’s when “a flamingo in a bright pink frock” appears at the end of the dock, and the...

The Purple Christmas Tree by B. Woster is an engaging read for children from eight years of age and up, their parents, and teachers. Christmas is an important time of the year not only for humans but for trees. They do their best to look...

Jessica, Adam, and Sam are excited because they are going to visit their uncle and aunt’s farm in the opening scene of Xalien the Purple Alien: Xalien Visits the Farm by Michelle Path. They take their toy, Xalien the Purple Alien, along with them to...

Xalien the Purple Alien by Michelle Path and Charlotte Roberts is a picture book that tells the story of an alien who visits earth. Only Sarah, Jessica and Adam know that she is from another planet. They help her dress up in human clothes, and...

It is nap time but Penelope doesn’t want to go to bed yet. She dons her purple pirate hat, white shirt and pants, wraps her purple sash around her waist and allows her imagination to take her on an adventure. Along with her are her...

Jake and the Purple Unicorn: Jake’s Dreamland by Chris Hardy really brought out the inner child in me. I read this book out loud and found myself enjoying it. Jake goes into his dreamland and there he meets a new friend Gwen; a purple and...

Squigmont Ross McNeil and the Purple Cat by Linie Sherrod is a beautiful story book that has a good message for kids. Squigmont Ross McNeil has no friends to play with because they find him to be very different from them. Though Squigmont is sad,...

Xalien the Purple Alien: Xalien Goes to School by Michelle Path is an adorable book for kids in grades K-3. Xalien is a friendly girl alien who visits Jessica and her friends and accompanies them to school. Xalien isn’t used to riding on a school...