Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond: Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape by Brad Lancaster is an informative book that gives good insights on harvesting and cycling of water with other on-site resources such as sun, wind, shade, and...

Derf is Fred spelled backwards. It is a unique name for a very unique and special dog, a cherished family pet, but, more importantly, a member of the family. Derf knew he was different, even as a puppy. His coat was uniquely colored and he...

With chapter headers like Squall, Monsoon, Zephyr, and Exhalation, you know that the emotions depicted within them are going to take your breath away. In Abandoned Breaths: Poetry, Quotes, and Poetic Prose (First Edition) by Alfa, the author exposes some of her most profound, painful...

The Wendy is a captivating and charming re-imagining of Peter Pan. Wendy Darling hasn’t got a mother. She and hundreds of other babies appeared overnight on the doorsteps of almshouses across London. As she grows up, she decides that she wants to captain her own...

The Blood Stone is an exciting and ethereal work of fantasy fiction penned by author Jason J. Nugent and forms the first book of the Curse of the Drakku series. Entering the world of the dragon slayer, we meet the vicious and volatile Lailoken, a...

Echo: The Curse of the Blackwood Witches by Yasmine Maher commences as Katarus invade Tara and Jackson’s wedding. Echo manages to save her grandfather with the help of a psychic and Kirby. When she wakes up, nobody else remembers the incident. Echo visits Kirby and...

The basic elements are life are really quite simple. Or at least they should be. Perhaps this is the beauty of Haiku poetry - the ability of a creative thought transpiring through marginality of vocabulary. Yet, it's not really marginal. Each word, each syllable, has...

What do you get when you mix together a nurse midwife that delivers successful homebirths, a hippie herbalist-acupuncture clinician-Buddhist husband, a teenager rising to the heights of school popularity, and an artistic dyslexic preteen? You get the Adam & Dena Moes Family on a backpacking...

Good Buddy: A Novel by Dori Ann Dupre is a southern romance with a powerful twist, sophisticated characters, and a satisfying denouement. Jonathan “Buddy” Cordova is a defense lawyer in a small town, practicing law from his home in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is not...

Mordizan by Alyssa Roat is the second book in the Wraithwood trilogy. Brinnie hasn't seen Wraithwood or her Uncle Merlin in over a year. She's been living by her mother's rules of not using magic or playing with the shadows (though she breaks them constantly)...

100 Love Notes to my HBCU Students: From your Mama Professor by Sabrina Taylor et al. is a compilation of some of Dr. Taylor's best question and answer quips between herself and her students as a professor at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, an...

Flickering Heart is Tricia LaRochelle’s debut offering in her Sara Browne Series. Eighteen-year-old Sara Brown is a survivor, but she is not living. PTSD grips her so tightly that she separates herself from the people around her. Sorrow is her ever-loyal companion, yet she tries...

The Line of His People by C.J. Adrien is set between 799 A.D. and 816 A.D. It begins with Abriel’s town and the nearby monastery being ransacked by northmen, a common occurrence at the time. Abriel is rescued by an order of monks who take...

LOL! I really don’t know how else to start off this review, because what a fun and humorous concept for a novel. Laura Kenyon brings us Desperately Ever After, which is book one in the Desperately Ever After Trilogy. Our main characters are Belle, Cinderella,...

The 60 Minute Startup: A Proven System to Start Your Business in 1 Hour a Day and Get Your First Paying Customers in 30 Days (or Less) by Ramesh K Dontha is a ground-breaking book that proposes a proven methodology in starting and running a...

The Transformation of Anna is the first book in author Charlene A. Wilson's Cornerstone Deep Series. Brothers Cole, James, and Vincent Shilo are harvesters for the elite rulers of Cornerstone Deep. The Shilo family comes from a different dimension, Meridian, whose gods created beings who...

A short life full of tragedy will be granted to some while others will enjoy a long and happy life. After Midnight is the story first of Maria, a young woman who, because of the war, meets the man of her dreams. They fall in...

Cornerstone Deep Echoes - Book 2 by Charlene A. Wilson is the second part of the series. This book is as interesting as Book 1. Mianna is back in Cole's life but there is still a large amount of Anna in her. Both Mianna and...

If you like reading page turners that keep you guessing, you’ll enjoy The Mangled Spoon by Joan Mauch. From the moment you read about the starving, dishevelled, and disoriented Miss Joan who is found scavenging for food in a dumpster in Chapter One, you will...

Shattered by the Wars: But Sustained by Love by Hi-Dong Chai is the story a Korean boy tells in his own words of his childhood at the time of World War II, the Korean War, communism and associated turbulence. The disturbances in his life are...