Hollis McCalister is a typical nerdy teenager, who is only trying to survive high school on a daily basis, as well as constant bullying from one of his peers. His life is not easy. Apart from being shy, and really unhappy because of the whole...

A Kiss Upon A Star is the first book in the Daydreams & Dragonflies Sweet Romance series, written by Tamara Ferguson. Ten-year-old Emily Richardson had recently been crowned The Next American Star, when her mother and aunt begin their screaming match in Crystal Rock. Taking...

Parade of Horribles by Rhett DeVane is a lovely southern tale. The book mainly follows the lives of besties Jake Witherspoon and Hattie Davis Lewis, although other characters’ lives are focused on too. Jake is receiving some nasty text messages. Combined with that and running...

In Monster Boy: Lair of the Grelgoroth by Ruth Fox, Zach Morgenstern is the only child of his loving parents. He hangs out with his best friend, Ryder, and wants to be noticed by Ida Wentworth, a pretty classmate. He is not particularly good at...

Some people — including myself — have always wondered why others find peace easily, gravitate with ease towards success, turn everything they touch into gold, build fabulous relationships and succeed wherever they are while others seem to wallow aimlessly through life, barely making ends meet....

Wiggle and Oink by J.R. Poulter is a fun children's book about two piglet friends named Wiggle and Oink. Wiggle and Oink did everything together: they played together, they sat together at lunch, they walked home together. They were the best friends ever. However, the...

Rich Man, Poor Man is a children’s picture book, written in rhyme by J.R. Poulter and illustrated by Jodi Magi. A homeless man with nothing feels worthless, while looking up higher on the hill and seeing a man who is starting a garden. The man...

The Dog That Dug is an illustrated children’s book, written by J.R. Poulter and illustrated by Cliff Blank. After receiving a dog as a gift, young Bob neglects the animal in lieu of video games. The dog does its best to entertain itself with toys...

How far can a man be driven by fear? This seems to be one of the central questions driving the plot in this fascinating blend of fantasy and psychological novel by Caleb Monroe. Breaking Free deals with fear in its intoxicating, nauseating form. As a...

Rule #1 Don’t Be #2: You Get What You Work For Not What You Wish For by Daniel Milstein is an uplifting and motivating book for all those readers who want to identify and address whatever is blocking their success, and work toward igniting their...

That One Moment is the story of Ricki and Kory. Running away from heartbreak and betrayal, Ricki has decided she wants to live off the land. Learn how to be a survivalist and forget the things that brought her to where she is today. But...

“The first thing they teach you in the army is how to make a bed—a lot of good that is doing me now. You can’t make a bed if someone else is in it.” These are the first words that stuck in my mind when...

Yeager’s Law by Scott Bell is a credible action story. It even had a small twist at the end that I didn’t see coming. The Yeager in the title is Abel Yeager, a divorced ex-Marine turned long distance trucker. His love interest is Charlie Buchanan,...

The Three Prankster Mice by John Dorey is a fun children's book about three young mice named Dan, Fran, and Stan. The three mice live on Mr. McDonald's farm, and enjoy pranking the other animals. Every animal has suffered from a prank at least once....

Malisphere by Keisha Danielle is a measured, well-crafted story of the joys and perils of an orphan, a story about what the human heart can conceive when it is bent on revenge. Nikoleta Soter has shared the same home built in 1902 with many other...

Maurpikios Fiddler: The Red Ruby of Edo is book three in a series of extraordinary tales of magic, hope lost and found, and love, written by M.J. Logan. Readers are presented with fantasy at its best, with sophisticated characters and a powerful conflict between the...

Dreams of Falling by Ranequa Kelley-Boyd is a collection of poems that are autobiographical in nature in the sense that they all come from Ranequa’s own life experiences. Dreams of Falling starts off with an introduction about Ranequa herself and a little bit about...

Against the Wind by Joy Cee is a most enjoyable memoir that will have female readers reliving their own memories of young romance. And if those female readers were themselves beachgoers, whose eyes were drawn to the suntanned masculine bodies of surfer boys or lifeguards,...

I really enjoyed reading Grains of Truth by Elizabeth Ferry-Perata. The story is about friendship and always being there for each other. It is also about accepting things that you cannot change in life. This is one book that I will not soon forget. Grains...

Space Toads: On the Moon by S.M.J. Rigstad is a fun children's book about ten toads that live on the moon. The toads all love eating cheese, which is why they live on the moon. One day, a toad named Tom saw a mountain of...