Raquel Franco’s Keep Me Wild has a delightful way of connecting to the reader and consequently we are left with a different experience after reading each poem in this collection. Her poetry touches on love, heartbreak, and rising above to find strength in yourself. She...

The Last Rhino by Deborah Stevenson is a children's animal book that seeks to educate young readers on the horrific effects that poaching has had on rhinos. The story features a young rhino, Ayubu, as he struggles to survive in the unforgiving African jungle. Grazing...

The Spirit of Man by Michael E.B. Maher is an insightful and thought provoking book that will help readers understand more about their spirit and how to develop it. There is lot more to human beings other than their physical bodies, and the book tells...

Handwriting is an important skill that needs to be learned in school. In Letter Tracing: Handwriting Practice for Preschool and Kindergarten, author Ceri Clark guides children in letter tracing practice for both capital and lower case letters. Tracing letters is the first step in writing....

Lettie’s Plight by Michael Bussa follows the life of Lettie, a single-minded and audacious young woman, as she leaves Bethnal Green, East end of London for Somerton. With the thought of making something out of herself, she marries Roman, a wealthy brute who owns the...

If you’re unfamiliar with schizophrenia and how it affects a person, The Unraveling of Brendan Meeks by Brian Cohn will both fascinate and frighten you. This first novel by Cohn sucks you into Brendan’s chaotic mind within the first few sentences: Brendan is running; he’s...

Truth and The Serpent by J. Rutledge is a compelling retelling of the myth of creation from the point of view of one of the characters of the “fall,” the serpent himself. Throughout the course of history, the myth of the fall has been propagated...

The Snow White Files by Sonya M. Black is the first book in The Twisted Files series. Brendan Hunter left his father's life of magic and politics, but it always seems to find him again. He finally has his life the way he wants it,...

Outsource by Douglas G. Hearle is a political thriller with an interesting cast of characters, a strong plot, and an exciting setting. A New York businessman, a globetrotter, is employed by the CIA to carry their messages surreptitiously to their contacts in Southeast Asian governments....

Vaconius has changed. The slaughter of the Northern warriors did not quicken his pulse with the thrill of battle. Instead, it sickened him. Vaconius’ lack of enthusiasm hasn’t escaped King Fialsun’s notice. Greedy, insane King Fialsun cannot have his best captain struggling with his morals...

Degrees of Love by Lisa Slabach is her debut novel, but I would have never guessed that. I was immediately hooked by the story, and I couldn’t stop swiping frantically at my Kindle to see how the story unfolded. We follow Susan Sinclair, a wife,...

Freaks and Greeks by Timothy Bowden is a beautiful blend of an epic fantasy with sci-fi, a story that will appeal to fans of mythology and stories with well-crafted settings and strong characters. Miltiades of Athens has never gotten any great appreciation and recognition from...

Unstable: Hooked Book 4 by Charity Parkerson is a gay erotic read about two men who, despite their demons, still love each other deeply. Seventeen-year-old Eli had recently been thrown out of his parents' home, so he constantly struggles to survive. When he tries to...

Podunk Moon: An Anthology, 2016-2003 by Erin Geil is a mind-blowing collection of poems. It consists of different parts, including Acknowledgments which expresses how much being loved and being supported in your dreams by your family and your friends makes creation and creativity possible. We...

This short collection of poems entitled Popcorn by Katie Lewington is engaging. The verses that abound in this compilation center around a theme, food, and the author’s eating habits. There may be a word or two that will make Americans scratch their heads. One of...

In this fascinating narrative account of Black Bart, we travel back in time to the Old West and learn that when Wells Fargo Bank ruins Charles Boles’s successful gold mine operation, he stops mining and starts robbing ... Wells Fargo stage coaches, that is. The...

The White Horse by artist and poet Harold Louis Deen is a short fiction tale set in Cork, Ireland in the early 1800s. It revolves around the sale of a fine white Arabian horse to the representative of a foreign ruler. While the sale of...

Nap Time With Harry is a wonderfully picturesque children’s adventure, written by Claressa Swensen and illustrated by Yogesh Mahajan. As young twins Tony and Tina watch cars drive by on the street below, a bright red car flies up to their apartment window. Driverless, the...

In Ana Costa Alongi’s Mortal Flesh: The Last Hero of Pompeii very little is as it seems. As one of the elites of Roman society, Marcus Poppeus wants for nothing. A life of luxury and promise stretches out before him, courtesy of his parents’ money...

To New Safe Ports Found: A Poetry Tribute by artist and poet Harold Louis Deen, with photography by Ana Costa Alongi and Harold Louis Deen, is a visually stunning and emotion-stirring collection. The stanzas of two companion poems, “To Ron” and “To Victory’s Height,” are...