There’s nothing like a house full of music to inspire the true spirit of Christmas. As a retired music teacher, I know the value of music and the importance of encouraging young musicians at all levels to learn both the classical repertoire of their level...

Follow the Star: Christmas Songs for Piano—Level 4 is a very enjoyable collection of Christmas songs for students, edited and arranged by Donna Gielow McFarland with additional arrangers Cherry Wilson and Tami Wilson collaborating. The arrangements are easy enough for Level 4 and creative. “Silent...

Christmas Star by Mary Jo Prado is a cute little story revolving around the theme of Christmas. Franny and her family love Christmas time. They love decorating the tree and they display it proudly for the family and friends to see. The children are excited,...

Awakening of the Summer by Yorker Keith is a literary fiction story with fine elements of romance. Featuring an interesting cast of characters, the story introduces readers to a love triangle explored from very unique angles. James is an economist at a Wall Street firm,...

For the Former Things Have Passed Away by Janet Beasley is a Christian non-fiction book meant to help people deal with their grief. At the front of the book, there is a poem that Janet wrote about the deaths of her parents called One Day...

The remarkable memoir, Driving In The Rain, penned by Nadia Bruce-Rawlings, is an inspirational story. This is a quick-read book with short depictions of a challenging life, interspersed with free form poetry. Nadia grew up living in many countries, due to her father’s employment in...

A Southern Fried Fantasy Adventure Story by D.W. Goates is an appropriately titled novel. The main quest begins when bounty hunter Galan and his companion, an elf named Ivy, discover that a goblin army has invaded elf territory. Goblins are despicable evildoers, but they are...

Concealed in my Heart by Regina Puckett is a contemporary romance novel which introduces readers to the concepts of love, friendship, betrayal, secrets, kindness, forgiveness, and an actress in the entertainment business. Charity Fields is a hometown Tennessee country girl. She has married her high...

Holes in Space by Andrea Barbosa is a soft and colorful flower. The poetry in this book blooms with life and love. The book begins with a shower of emotion. "Poeme" is filled with warm metaphors that entice all of the senses. I found my...

Keys to the Mermaid's Heart by Kate Porter is the third book in an ongoing series filled with vampires, hunters, mind readers, and more. The story centers around Carly Harden, a young woman working as a waitress at a restaurant owned by Tony Sargento, an...

Born of the Night is Volume 1 of a murder mystery series by Matt Wanicur. Ethan Lewis is well-loved by his parents and everyone expects him to have a great and promising future. Tragedy turns his life around and sends him off in a direction...

B: The Tale of the Halloween Cat by D.L. Luke is an exciting story of Bernard (with the moniker B), who is invited by the Willow Witch on the day before Halloween to participate in the Black Cat Contest. There are eight other contestants and...

Without intending to disparage our contemporary writing world, I must observe that Silently in the Night by Clayton Graham harkens back well and fondly to the golden years of speculative short-story fiction collected from great masters like Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. In addition to clever...

T. J. Hope's Dangerously In Love is about Bianca Parker, a young woman who struggles with low self-image, distrust in relationships, and mental illness. Bianca's mental illness is inherited from her mother, who left her in a dumpster when she was a week old, murdered...

Discover a wide cast of characters with unique voices in the fascinating short story collection, Melanie To The Rescue (and Other Unlikely Tales) by Carol June Stover. When best-selling authoress Lorraine realizes that her ever popular character lives a better life than she does, she...

Surviving The Threat by Antaeus is a book that will benefit everyone who reads it. As the author points out in the introduction, we live in a world where anything can happen and potential threats are everywhere, even the classroom. Soldiers are more prone to...

Targeting the Telomeres by R.N. Shapiro is the sequel to the author's debut novel in the same series, the acclaimed Taming the Telomeres. In the latest installment, Amanda Michaels is thrust into a dangerous web of intrigue, political artifice, and corporate expropriation when her family...

Bartholomew Beck thought his new job on the Texas oil pipeline was part of his natural life progression after his writing career failed until a coworker turns up dead on the job site. The clincher: she was killed in exactly the same manner that his...

There is nothing more joyous in life than traveling to places you've never been before and exploring them with your friends. So hop on for an exciting adventure across America in When Fred the Snake and Friends Explore USA-Central. Written by Peter Cotton with colorful...

Melina Druga presents the journal entries of Cassandra Economos in Sexual Awakening. The first book in The Rock Star’s Wife series begins with Cassandra's first interest in boys and sex at the age of fourteen. Living in a traditional Greek family, most of her relatives...