I was pleasantly surprised to see Scepter: The Emerald of Phaunos by Scott Collins turn up on Reader’s Favorite list of available books. It hasn’t been that long ago since I read and reviewed the first episode of Scepter. This is a great YA story...

Don’t have the home, the career, the spouse, or the glamour that you have always dreamed of? Well, according to Bonnie Trachtenberg in The Fine Art of Delusional Thinking, you can have all of that and more. Why spend your life fretting in the real...

Dany Madrid and her father, Dante, move to a ranch in Montana after her mother, Ellen, died. Dany is free spirited and stubborn, and prefers to wear cowboy clothing instead of dresses, much to the disapproval of some townsfolk. Dany becomes involved with a cowboy...

The Birthday Triplets: Granny Rosie's Amazing Magical Day by Kelly Tooman is a delightful and endearing story for children that will take them on an adventure trip. Granny Rosie is sad because she is alone for her birthday. She decides to create a birthday party...

The Lullaby Illusion: A Journey of Awakening by Susan Joyce is the story of an American woman and the situations she faced in her life while living in Europe and the Middle East. The story takes you to the time when Susan was living in...

The Mind of an American Revolutionary by Jon Foyt takes place in Philadelphia on the eve of the American Revolution. A Hessian officer and proto-psychologist, Major Wilhelm von Lowenstein, interviews William Morris, one of the most prominent men in the colonies, to find out why...

In an earnest and well written memoir that details the crumbling of the facade of a perfect life, The Shaken Snow Globe: Finding Happiness Beyond My White Picket Fence by debut author Kristy Dominiak, readers will find a highly engaging account that many will be...

The Irish Patient by Paul Byrne takes us to Ireland and gives us a very candid look at what it was like to grow up in the '70s and '80s on a council estate. A story that comes right from the author's real life which...

The Strength of Love by G.L. Ross is the story of keeping faith and finding second chances when you are least expecting them. Rachel Thompson is a 26-year-old middle school counselor. She has seen a parade of her friends fall in love, find the love...

I was so impressed by The WILD Way to Lucid Dreaming by Slider. I have been interested in lucid dreaming for quite some time and this is the only method that gave me any success. I was able to reach the first goal the very...

In this fast-paced world of trinkets and high tech toys, it is so easy to get caught up with the newest and latest toy, discarding the old toys with random abandon. There is a growing need to take a step back and visualize what’s really...

The Cupcake Adventure by Strika Karmack, Navos Karmack, and Gus Karmack takes children on an exciting adventure with six cupcakes to a big old refrigerator. They cannot wait to reach there and find out what awaits them. Candy Cotton, Deep Dark Chocolate, Peter Pecan, Minty...

The Prison Book: Alcoholism/Addiction - A Life Sentence by Tamara Segars Ott is the story of an alcoholic who is stuck in the endless loop of a battle with her addiction and her need to recover. This is the story of Marley Thomson Marx, a...

It’s not always the magnitude of the crisis that makes a novel great, but how it is handled and Paul Shadinger shows incredible skill in conflict development in this novel. The first book I read from this author was Code Name: Crescent and, seduced by...

The Side Job by Don Lubov is a short, interesting and realistic story that follows a young mother on a daring journey to save her sickly daughter. Maggie Gomez gets pregnant at seventeen and, abandoned by her boyfriend, she is left alone with the child....

The Artist’s Journey: Bold Strokes to Spark Creativity by Nancy Hillis delves into helping artists through the common frustrations and road blocks that hinder their inner creativity. It is a map that guides the struggling, the uninspired, and the lost with unique exercises, quotes, video...

In The Capsule by Olga Loukianova, Liza lives in her 20x20 flying capsule. Liza’s life takes place inside Net City, like everyone else’s, with their fake avatars and the fake world around them. They’re so used to their virtual reality that meeting someone for real...

The Jade Mystery: Adventures of Teddy and Trouble, Book 2 is an animal adventure picture book for children written by M.L. Moyer and illustrated by S.W. Moyer. Teddy was asleep on his favorite rug in the living room when Trouble came barreling into the room....

The Reunions is the third installment of Tina Hogan Grant's Tammy Mellows series. Tammy Mellows continues to fish for crabs off the coast of Malibu alongside her boyfriend, Dwayne, while raising her son, Matt. As the years pass by, Tammy is constantly reminded of her...

Jake has a fast life of alcohol, drugs, and random overnight stands since he lost his family to a drunk driver. The Road Home opens with Jake waking up to an emergency phone call from his best friend Greg. Greg states that Arianna has been...