Magelica’s Voyage is a fantasy children’s book written by Louise Courey Nadeau. Curious about her parentage, and where she’d come from, twelve-year-old Magelica runs to the cottage from the forest, in order to seek shelter from a sudden storm. At home, Magelica's carer, Gri, runs...

A riveting tale taking place during the German occupation of Paris during World War II. The Indigo Rebels by Ellie Midwood presents to the reader a story of three siblings, with very different lives, coming together in the most unexpected of fashions. Giselle Legrand, the...

The here and now, or the hereafter? A Day in Eternity by Kathryn Gabriel Loving addresses this question. After crash landing his plane, Anson Roe wakes up in a place he knows well, the Panhandle of Oklahoma. He feels off, in a bizarre state of...

What does it mean to be a good daughter? What does it mean to be a good mother? In this practical and heartbreaking tribute about mothers and daughters and saying goodbye, Alison Melotti-Cormack documents time spent with her mother, sister and niece in July...

The Fabulous Life of Minnie the Sassy Chick: The Egg-Straordinary Egg by Cindy L. Shirley was a fun read. Two young sisters find a rather distinctive egg. They decide to care for it until it hatches. They each take turns babysitting the egg in their...

The Carlswick Deception: The Carlswick Mysteries, Book 4 is a young and new adult mystery novel written by S.L. Beaumont. While this is the fourth book in the series, the author provides enough background information to allow this novel to be read as a standalone...

Doodle and the Magic Christmas Float is a holiday-themed children’s picture book written by Cindy L. Shirley and illustrated by Cleoward Sy. Doodle was a little girl who lived with her grandparents, Mimi and Paw-Paw, on their farm in the town of Tinsel. There were...

If you’ve ever wondered what the adjectives “rip-snorting” or “humdinger” mean, pick up The Chaos of Change by J.T. Riggen and you’ll know. Talk about an intense, fast-paced, often complicated, yet understandable political thriller! But be prepared to come away with a sense of chaotic...

It’s always fascinating to see how an author has created an absorbing and informative story around some obscure historical person. That is what Beth M Caruso has done so very well in One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging. That so-called...

Are you a writer who often feels like he/she is getting nowhere? Then Overwhelmed Writer Rescue by Colleen M. Story could be a life-saver (or rather book-saver). Many writers are, for some reason, not finishing what they start, or never even start on their project....

Sam Lerner tries to return to the comfort of his roots after the death of his wife, but finds that things are not always what you remember in Inside Sam Lerner by Gwen Banta. Depending more and more on alcohol to ease his pain, Sam...

The Naked Truth about God: The Quest to Find Evidence for Whether God Exists Reveals an Epic Discovery that has Eluded Religion and Science by Brian Goedken is a comprehensive book that brings together a unified discussion about the existence of God, or lack thereof,...

Writing is Murder: An Emlyn Goode Mystery by Susan Lynn Solomon is about a writer, Emlyn Goode, who has a witch in her family history. Emlyn has joined a writer’s group, and is dating a cop, and has a best friend who makes potions. Oh,...

Go-Cart Gertie is an action and adventure, social issues graphic book for children and preteens written and illustrated by Cindy Shirley. Ten-year-old Gertie wished that she could hang out with her big brother and his friends. She was tired of going to school and coming...

Instant Wisdom: 10 Easy Ways To Get Smart Fast is a nonfiction self-help book written by Beth Burgess, a therapist, coach, and author. She’s also the founder of Wiseism.com, a site designed to assist people who want to enrich their lives through amping up their...

From time to time I read something that doesn’t seem to fit (for me, at any rate) into any traditional genre classification. Such was the case with The Junk Yard Solution: Adventures Among the Boxcars and Other Lost Causes by Peter Kelton. The story opens...

The Trevor Truculence by Peter Kelton is a standalone work of literary fiction set in a tiny village in Spain, perched within reach of the Mediterranean. The village is as much a character in the book as all those who live in it, creating enough...

When I read Reminds Me of My Innocence: Amorous Adventures Among Kissing Cousins by Peter Kelton, I knew I would read anything from this author, so I was just as eager to read The Yesterlings: Secrets Among the Wild Horses of Sable Island, and again...

Reminds Me of My Innocence: Amorous Adventures Among Kissing Cousins by Peter Kelton can best be described as absurd at times. The story follows two brothers and their female cousins who come into their lives and make for some pretty adventurous times. I have to...

The Carlswick Mythology: The Carlswick Mysteries, Book 5 is a sleuth mystery novel written by S.L. Beaumont. While they had had their share of adventures together, Stephanie Cooper and her rock-star boyfriend of eighteen months, James Knox, were finally going away together on vacation. She...