I am a teacher of English as a Second Language. I teach in China now, but I have taught in Korea, Japan, and Thailand. I am very familiar with the struggle to teach idioms to English learners and I use a lot of books to...

Letters: Building an Alphabet with Art and Attitude (ABC… the Art and Poetry of the English Alphabet Explained in a Philosophical Verse of Rhythm and Rhyme) by Peter N. Liptak is a light-hearted discourse on the twenty-six letters that make up the English alphabet. Cleverly...

“I hope this book makes at least a small contribution to accurately publicizing the true nature of the young successor, of whom little is known.” Ha Tae Keung. The Great Successor - Kim Jong Un: A Political Cartoon is a comic book detailing the succession to...

Ages of Suffocation: Remembered Dreams by Uzo Amaka breaks down the life of Oma into three different portions. The story starts off with background information about the treatment the girls received from their stepmother in the absence of their father. The sisters led very abusive...

When you encounter others, are you helpful to them? Do you bring peace to their lives? Do you leave them better than when you met them? Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is a Spaniard who always wanted to be a leader, and in Children of...

Power Is You: Step Towards Excellence by Arunabha Bhattacharjee is a thought-provoking book for readers wanting to make positive changes in their lives, thereby transforming their lives for the better. The book lays stress on the mantra of Self Belief, which can make everyone realize...

Malice Intent: Is Love Worth Dying For? is Alba Castillo’s true account of her life and harrowing experiences of successive involvements with abusive partners. Alba’s father treated her mother badly and this experience became the root cause of her later unconscious tendency to choose men...

Princess of Wisdom is book two in the Wisdom Chronicles by Walter C. Conner, an electrifying epic fantasy. It has been four years since the confrontation between Wil and the Wizard of Wisdom. Now, elements of evil are amalgamating and floating towards the earth, corrupting...

Too Clever X: Megan's Troublesome Pronouns is a children's educational book for 4th-6th graders, written and designed by Dr. Julia E. Antoine. Megan was always her daddy's girl. They both loved to read, and her dad was always there to help her with homework at...

On The Fifth Night by Michael Howard is a very beautiful story of a man who struggles to find meaning in his experience of love and suffering, of life and death, a man with his moments of flights. After losing his first wife, Greta, to...

Circle of Trust is a thriller novel by author Jacqueline Simon Gunn and the second book in the Close Enough to Kill series. When Jacob Temple is horrifically murdered and found on the floor of his den, a hunt for a twisted killer ensues. Bereaved...

Order of Vespers by Elyse Reyes is a great young adult novel. What I found most fascinating was a protagonist with a split personality. Up until the moment I began a relationship with a woman who had this mental condition, I thought it was something...

Secrets of the Heart is a romantic suspense novel written by Dana Wayne. Tori's best friend, Sasha, and her family agreed that her precipitous move to Montana was crazy, but Tori needed something to break her out of the two-year mourning phase she had been...

Refined and Refreshed by Ralph Monroe III is a book of poetry, built upon the foundation of Christianity, created from the lens of the Word of God. The author has added biblical scriptures following the poems to seal them with absolute truth. As I read...

Six Women is an interrelated collection of short stories written by Karen Truesdell Riehl. The Chester Writers Club held monthly meetings at which a selected member would read one of her works to the group. It was expected that the others would feel free to...

Die To Live Again by David Crane is a compelling blend of fiction and sci-fi featuring rock-solid characters and an enthralling plot. Twenty-four-year-old Tanya Gray believes she is as ready for the end of the world as any survivalist, and it's the one thing she'd...

When Angels Fly by S. Jackson and A. Raymond is a heart-wrenching, powerful story of a woman’s suffering, pain, faith, and love, a story that will open a whole new world to most readers, especially those who have never been abused or forsaken. Reading this...

Hannah Bradbury is the heroine in The Ugly Teapot: Book One: Hannah by Fred Holmes. Fourteen years old, Hannah has just lost her world-traveling, danger-provoking, death-defying, genius-inspired photographer father. She is devastated, as he was her hero. As compared to her terribly ordinary waitress mother,...

Creepy, Funny & Just Plain Weird: Stories and Poems for Kids is written by Maranda Russell. Detective Schnauzer takes on the saucy case of the Killer Meatballs! Hiccup has a few odd remedies to cure yours. The poem Dessert Heaven will have you craving for...

The Total Light is an interesting collection of poems by Edda Tassi. The author elaborates on the complexities of love and how it affects the opposite sex in different ways. The ghosts of the city pass through a young woman as she reflects on the...