County Fair Blue Ribbon Winning Cookbook: Distinctive Cake Recipes by Amber Richards is an excellent collection of delicious cake recipes. Featuring several popular classics, the book begins with a short introduction which describes some equipment and measurements mentioned frequently. I found that the coverage of...

Flip-Flops After 50: And Other Thoughts on Aging I Remembered to Write Down by Cindy Eastman hits it perfectly in the center of the bull’s-eye. Cindy makes getting old a wonderful adventure that I found myself sharing with her. Each chapter touched a piece of...

A Woman Called God by Peter Wilkes, true to the disclaimer that the author shall not be responsible if anyone is excommunicated as the result of reading this book, begins by questioning the claim of each and every religion that theirs is the way. He...

A mother will do whatever it takes to provide the very best for her child or children, even when it might go beyond those things which she has always believed she could never bring herself to do. Miranda K. Simon shows how she did just...

Thrown Again into the Frazzle Machine by Margaret Dubay Mikus is a collection of poems reflecting a rough and unhappy patch in the author’s life, a period jolted by surgeries, with the collection intended to act as a life-boat in the journey through rough seas....

The Relationship Protocol: How to Talk, Defuse and Build Healthier Relationships by Debra M. Roberts is a self-help book about how to communicate in relationships that might not be as good as they were, or as good as they could be. It can be a...

The Mystic High Adventures of Fannie Flame & Crew by Claudia Hagen introduces ballooning as a ‘form of flight where the destination is irrelevant and the journey is everything.’ How the author developed an instant liking of this costly game, what difficulties she had to...

Being with Becky by Lisa Binkowski is the true story of two sisters from Ohio. We follow the story of their life. Sadly though, Becky is killed and Lisa must try to come to terms with the loss. The sisters were bonded so tightly that...

Mothering Through the Whirlwind is an inspirational memoir written by Tamara Passey. The author’s story begins when she’s twelve years old, and she promises herself to take the time to carefully consider before accepting a marriage proposal. When Steve, a college boyfriend, comes back into...

The Everyday Mom’s Guide to Being FIT & FABULOUS by Shondreka Palmer is a nine-week (60 day) health and fitness challenge for moms to get ‘fit and fabulous’! The author states in the first chapter: “Being fit and in shape is not all about being...