Is Love Necessary: The Magnificent Power of Love by Antwon J. Blakeney begins with the young days of his parents, how his father met his mother in a nightclub, got infatuated, married, enlisted, and was stationed in Germany and moved to New Orleans. His father,...

Coffee for Consciousness: The Application of Perspective to Reality by Vito Mucci begins with a declaration: we should see ourselves not as a body having spiritual experiences but as a soul having material experiences. True to this, the author explains the relationship we maintain with...

Trampled Underfoot: The Dirt on Vic and Lia is a contemporary women's fiction novel written by Elizabeth Good. This book continues the saga of the Benedict family that began with the author's novel, Just Another Sunday. Vic and Lia Somers live in a small Jersey...

It's rare to come away from a 500-page book wanting more, not because the story hasn't been perfectly executed, but because the reader wants to sustain the feelings of sheer pleasure she/he felt while reading. That's how I felt reading Smokey Bear: The Cub Who...

Kalvarianhof: The Perilous Journey by Walter Soellner is a historical fiction saga that covers the lives of life long friends Markus and Levi building up to World War I. Markus Mathias is a young Catholic while Solomon Levi is a young Jew. The two characters...

Sapling: The Blade of Ahtol by Dan Gillis is a story of good and evil, and the coming of age of one scrappy pickpocket named Firah. She and an assortment of oddballs from monks to bartenders find themselves on an adventure unlike any other. It's...

Sea Island: The Earth-Watchers Series #3 by Lester Ferguson is a beautifully illustrated book about the Earth-Watchers and their adventures. The Earth-Watchers go to the Bahamas to help a friend restore the exotic Sea Island Coral Reef. The Sea Island Coral Reef is a large...

Whoa! Talk about an epic read! That's definitely what I thought when I finished reading A Fine Line: The Ancients, Part II by author JC Brennan. Continuing the story of William Healthaway and his family in the third installment of the Fine Line series, William...

Fire Scion 1: The Hidden City by Kathe Todd is a fantasy story. Andi Drakespring is 15 years old and fireblood, which means that he can turn into a dragon whenever he wants, just like his mother. All he wants is some respect. That’s not...

Apparition Atlas: The Ghost Hunter's Travel Guide to Haunted America by Daniel Diehl and Mark P. Donnelly is really a reference guide to haunted buildings around the USA, arranged alphabetically by state. They have very cleverly included a "scare scale" represented by skull emoticons, ranging...

Wow! Just wow! That's what I first thought after I finished reading Ashes to Ashes: The Scribing of Ishitar, Volume II by author Carrie F. Shepherd. Following the story of angels and demons after they rebelled against God and were banished from heaven, this story...

My Best Day with Daddy by Sheila R Alvarez and Ernesto F Alvarez is a cute book about a stay at home dad. Maya’s dad is the one that stays home to take care of her while her mom goes to work every day. This...

In Bipolar: The Sacred Dance by Jessica M. Roberge, we get an intimate glimpse at the inner workings of a bipolar mind. After finishing her paralegal studies and embarking on a career, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2002 at the age of twenty....

Brett Cotter's 3 Keys To Managing PTSD: The Warrior’s Guide to Overcoming Combat Trauma begins with a spirited answer to the question, what is PTSD, and identifies it as the brain’s way of venting trauma. Exploring the manner in which it manifests, the core complexities...

When You Are Happy, I Am Happy! The Power of Compassion by Jaicy Ramsay tells a tale of Taro Mori. Taro is a well respected Sensei who teaches young people the art of compassion. He believes that changing your heart from being a selfish person...

His Most Wanted is book 2 of Sandra Jones’ The River Rogues series. In this stand-alone, the reader meets Christopher “Kit” Wainwright, a recovering gambler and former brothel owner. He is determined to do something that would have made his uncle proud, which sets him...

Zan’s Quest: The Chandaran Chronicles, Book One is a young adult epic fantasy written by Daniel Bryant. The inhabitants of Chandara, a small planet, live on its sole continent, which is surrounded by ocean. The feline Saberons share this planet with the humanoid quasi, and...

People Centricity: The Incredible Power of Putting Other People First by Stephen Hewett is about making people happy through mutually beneficial interactions. It begins with an assertion that social tribalism has been a feature of all human societies since the origins of our species and...

The plan was perfect. Almost. Mylea, a Utopian civilization on the brink of total destruction, was saved by a plan set in motion by one prescient man. Unfortunately, things will always go wrong. A slight oversight exacerbates the battle of wills between two artificially intelligent...

An evil priest in service to the Lord of Chaos is performing gruesome experiments on children and animals, yet a nameless young girl seems to rise above it all in Sorrow’s Heart by G.S. Scott. As this innocent child develops into a young woman, she...