What does peace mean to me and how do I achieve it? How do I truly gain power over my life and reap the rewards? This brilliantly written book, Peace Power Profits by Gwendolyn Smith, asks those very questions and provides many key insights into...

Candlewicke 13 and the Tombstone Forest is a work of fantasy fiction written for young adults by Milan Sergent and forms the second book in the Candlewicke 13 Series. After the events of Curse of the McRavens, our hero Valor is mere minutes from achieving...

Undercover Debutante: The Search for my Birth Parents and a Bald Husband by Charlotte Laws is the recounting of the author’s days as a young woman as she tried to find out who were her biological parents and what transpired in her life moving forward....

The Psychic Son by Christopher J Galvez is a thrilling book written in the absorbing first person narrative voice of the young protagonist. He is Dominic Gambino, a boy who grew up doted on by loving parents. He had always figured it was just natural...

Sam’s sea otter family has a very special treasure. It’s a stone. Not just any stone, but one that is perfectly smooth and curved in just the right spots. It’s been handed down for generations because it’s the ideal stone to serve clams, mussels and...

There are so many things that make a person beautiful and these things have nothing to do with physical appearance. For example, people are beautiful when they are kind and caring, when they laugh, when they are learning, when they share, when they allow their...

“Why do you weep, little willow?” It’s a sad question to start a story. But, weeping is not all about sorrow. We weep for so many reasons; happiness, sadness, joy and sorrow, lost and found. And the weeping willow, right down to its core and...

When your best just isn’t enough; when no matter how hard you try; when there seems to be no one in your corner, there is always tomorrow. In the darkest of times, we are encouraged to wait it out and have patience for something better....

Edie Goes The Wrong Way by Susan R. Stoltz is a delightful children’s picture book. Edie the stingray loves swimming about with the other stingrays but she prefers to go in the opposite direction. She daydreams about exploring the big wide world of the ocean,...

In Kaleidoscope by Janine Pestel, one late October evening in Minnesota, a teenager mysteriously disappears while babysitting. The boy in her care is convinced she was taken by a strange tornado after he'd made a wish. Although the boy is not taken seriously, the...

The stories of kings and kingdoms, heirs to thrones and usurpers are as old as history itself, particularly British history. What if a British royal family aggressively took hold of the throne, systematically eliminating the very existence of the previous family? Sounds like the stuff...

Human beings are the smartest animals on earth. The Art of Hunting Humans: A radical and confronting explanation of the human mind by Sidney Mazzi is an engaging book that delves into the key aspects of human behavior. There are tips in the book that...

The Gift of Thoran: A Space Novel about Teenagers with Supernatural Powers who Fight Off Alien Invaders as the Galaxy Hangs in the Balance by Patty Lesser is the second book in the Coma Kids series. The ten teenagers have been hiding out at a...

Steve is an ordinary man, living a fulfilling life with his family and enjoying what he does. Although he is happy with his life, recently things have become a little difficult for him. He enjoys his work/personal life balance, but his boss is making things...

William T. Kenny's novel The Conscious Whole is a story of unshakeable hope and the potential for transformative change. In this novel, the key to change, to be able to choose from infinite possibilities in life, is based on quantum and string theories in physics....

Operation Retrospect: A Soldier’s Journal in a Veteran’s Reunion by Paul Endris moved me on many levels. I loved it. The places where it reached me are many, and they are very personal, so I realize it may not move others with the same power....

Jivana was happy; she was thriving in her personal life and her career was at a phenomenal level. She was a junior marketing VP at her company and she was soon up for a promotion. She had one goal and it was to climb to...

I read a lot of horror. I love the genre. If I have any complaint about the horror and fantasy genres, it is that so much of the writing, in so many cases, is very generic. This is not a genre where people boldly experiment....

The White Hand is a work of grim historical fiction penned by author Konn Lavery, written for adults due to its graphic content, violence and sexual imagery. The White Hand of the title refers to an Irish mob in this nineteenth-century horror-thriller, with whom our...

The Dragon Librarian is an epic fantasy novel written for young adults by author Marc Secchia, and it forms the first book of the Scrolls of Fire series. In a world unlike our own, where Dragons roam and live in the same realm as humans,...