A Midsummer Night’s Dream might be one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, with countless stage, film, and tv adaptations performed over the years. It is a brave task to readapt a story many people recognize, but Paul Leonard Murray has successfully pulled it off. While...

The action-driven play Pericles, the Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare, as rendered in rhyming couplets of modern English by Paul Leonard Murray, director of the Belgrade English Language Theater, with input from his students, is just as exciting as the original, but it is...

After tackling A Midsummer Night’s Dream so successfully, Paul Leonard Murray turns his attention to Shakespeare’s tragedies, namely Macbeth. Most readers will already know the plot of ‘the Scottish play’; Macbeth and his ambitious wife scheme to murder King Duncan while he sleeps and be...

Do Not Wish For A Pet Ostrich: Silly Books For Kids by Sarina Siebenalar features an unnamed little girl whose parents had once told her she could pick out a pet. They only wanted her to be sure that she would not regret her choice....

Percentages of Guilt is a work of fiction in the thriller, suspense, and mystery sub-genres, and was penned by author Michael Niemann. Part of the Valentin Vermeulen Thriller collection of books, we find ourselves once again alongside the intrepid Vermeulen as a new case falls...

Jamila A. Stone’s Darkness Awaits is a fun read for fans of young adult urban fantasy. It also has a strong appeal to the general audience for the fantasy genre. Two characters are at the center of the story: Natalie King and Alexandra Aurelius. They...

Call of the Columbia: River of Redemption is a work of fiction in the historical fiction, adventure, and slice of life sub-genres, and was penned by author Brian D. Ratty. In this sweeping tale set in the late nineteenth century, we find ourselves immersed in...

Lady Reckless by Scarlett Scott is the third book in the Notorious Ladies Of London series. The story is set in London in 1885. Lady Helena Davenport has been engaged to Lord Hamish White against her will. As reasoning with her father is out of...

Place Names: Their Origin and Meanings by Mark Emory Adams does exactly what the author says it will do. It is a sourcebook for the origin of names of countries, states, and cities as well as interesting geographical facts. Adams compiled his lists after researching...

Memphis Clarke does not recall dying but finds himself in what looks remarkably like a dentist’s waiting room. Paradise Door by Brent Shibla tells how Memphis is soon asked to complete some paperwork and is then directed to a lift that disgorges him into the...

The Rock of Achill is a fantasy story set at the dawn of 19th century Ireland. Jim Sheehan's novel follows a young man named Donn in his quest to reclaim his family land so that he can build a future with his love, Bridget. Donn...

Get ready to laugh your guts out with this hilarious handbook filled with countless driving offenses. D.C. Head, Gershan Head, and Kenneth Head describe the most outrageous driving habits that people they have dubbed Cidiots engage in every day. Learn a new Cidiot vocabulary that...

The Last Blast of the Trumpet: The Third Book in the Knox Trilogy by Marie Macpherson is a tale of skullduggery and political shenanigans that was the Scottish court in the mid-sixteenth century. John Knox, the great protestant reformer, has returned to Scotland to turn...

What comes to mind when you think of lobsters? Do you think lobsters are delicious? Then pick up the children’s book, Earth to Larry by Sandra Lee Caouette. It is the story of Larry the lobster. Larry lives in the Atlantic Ocean. He is a...

Beyond the Goodnight Trail by Roy V. Gaston is a boisterous Western novel filled with breathtaking adventure and action. Pete Horse is a former Texas Rangers scout who accepts the invitation of his friend, Charlie Goodnight, to go on a trail ride across Texas to...

You’re Pulling My Leg! Junior by Allen Wolf is an excellent game for families to play together, weaving creativity, storytelling, communication, and bluffing skills. The game is simple; a player picks a card and selects one of the three topics. They then flip a coin...

The title of Roberta-Leigh Boud’s novel, Jesus the Time Traveller, must, of course, be taken tongue in cheek. We must gear ourselves for something iconoclastic, even comic. What I didn’t expect was something nearing an epic poem. The prose is almost poetry—exquisite writing, hard-hitting imagery,...

When a young college student goes to Japan for spring break, she becomes the objective of a serial killer in the exciting sleuth mystery novel, Three Lines of Inquiry: Psychic Sleuths and Talking Dogs (A Jaz and Luffy Mystery Book 4) by Max Parrott. Jasmine...

Stormfire: Four Kingdoms: Origins 1 by Jasmine Young is an epic fantasy set in Jaypes, the kingdom of air. For many years the kingdom of air has been in turmoil. The true royal family is dead and a tyrannical fire sage sits on the throne....

Red Right Hand is a work of fiction in the post-apocalyptic, dystopian, action, and adventure sub-genres, and was penned by author Chris Tullbane. Written as the second novel in The Murder of Crows series, this work is suitable for mature audiences owing to the presence...