Seven-year-old Ben Perreth is found in a coma. He suffers a mysterious brain hemorrhage and even his neurosurgeon does not expect him to survive the surgery that has to be done on him immediately. What follows is a series of mental health and disability issues...

"Shattered Paradise: Memoirs of a Nicaraguan War Child" is Ileana Araguti's life story. As a child, she grows up in an isolated farm house near a mystical city dubbed as the City of Mist. Her grandfather Abuelo Lalo tells her stories that ground her to...

Marla Martenson, noted author of "Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker", returns with "Hearts on the Line: The Elusive Pursuit of Love in the City of Angels". This delightful further look into her life and lifestyle is highly readable and often quite humorous as the...

Sometimes God graces us with the gift of knowing someone special. However, for reasons unknown to mere mortals, his or her life ends too quickly. We trust that God knows best as we try to decipher the hidden meaning. Afterwards, we are never quite the...

"The Strength in Knowing" by Alan Appt is an innovative and inspirational self-realization/help book which is based on his hindsight into his own personal life experiences. This refreshingly new take on all of the things that we allow to emotionally and intellectually plague us shows...

You have the ability to be a history maker. In fact, God has destined you to be a positive force for humanity. You probably never thought about your life in such ambitious terms, but Garry Edwards, author of “Why You Are Still Struggling”, says it...

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson is credited with these wise words in the lovely little book, "You're One Amazing Grandpa" creatively illustrated by Lori Siebert. Done primarily in earth tones, this beautiful...

Author Tinky Weisblat's mother Jan, better known as Taffy, died at age 93 in December of 2011. Bright, active Taffy suffered from dementia in her last months on earth. Born in 1918, Taffy graduated from Mount Holyoke College. "She was very much in the world...

We all need hope; hope provides buoyancy when the struggles and challenges of daily life work to keep you mired in the mud. "Promises of Hope for Difficult Times" by Jane Kirkpatrick is only a small book but it offers a wellspring of that critical...

"Past Tense: 365 Daily Tools for Putting Stress Behind You--for Good" by Shawn Kilgarlin, with wisdom from her husband Ron Kilgarlin, provides daily advice for overcoming stress in a variety of practical ways. In a methodically organized order, Kilgarlin approaches the overall health and well-being...