Awesome storytelling, captivating prose, a sensational conflict, and a vivid setting are just some of the elements that make Under the Nail Polish by Tina Griffith a story that will grip readers by their throats and hold them hostage until the last page. It’s a...

Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success by Tina Hallis is a non-fiction book on how to change one’s mindset and incorporate positivity in daily life. The book starts off with a short introduction on how we, as human beings,...

Tame Me If You Can is a humorous romance novel by Alexis J. Levi. Over in Paris, we meet Bell Torres in a miserable state and dressed as a chicken to boot. She has lost everything, thanks to one “mendacious” Sky Laverne who, besides cleaning...

Cold Case Closure (A Police Procedural Novel) by Patrick Ian O'Donnell and Charles O. Gaylor is a murder mystery novel that would appeal most to a mixed audience of mature young adults and adults who enjoy vigilante style justice stories. Detective Sergeant Grant Frazier spent...

The Girl Who Loved Pots is a delightfully imaginative children’s book, written and illustrated by Rosilyn Seay. May is a young girl who loves to pretend. Like most little girls, May loves tea parties with her dolls and toys, as well as having long talks...

It's A Bright World To Feel Lost In, by Mawson is a humor/comedy book for children of all ages written by Mawson Bear, who is otherwise known as Mark O’Dwyer. A bear’s world is bright and shiny, and filled with infinite possibility, but sometimes waiting...

The Deceived by E.C. Fisher is set in a parallel universe in which the Bible was written by the Devil and was devised to bring mankind down. In this story, Lucifer is behind religion as we know it and even Adam and Eve don’t know...

The Dead Years: Holocaust Memoirs is the personal story of Joseph Schupack. Joseph Schupack describes his life from when he was transported from Radzyn-Podaski to Treblinka and then on to other concentration camps, including Auschwitz in World War II. He tells a frank story of...

My Little Heart, Ruthie is an inspirational book of heartache and anxiety, written in limerick and rhyme by Toni Jannotta and illustrated by Jennifer Mones. A heart (known as Ruthie) feels despondent, as she holds within her a very poor image of herself after being...

Meeting Grandmom by Jessica D. Adams revolves around the story of Janiece and Janielle who have never met their grandmother because she passed away when their mother and Aunt Jenny were teenagers. The story sees the two girls traveling back in time during the Christmas...

Cultivating Ink by Kiana Donae is a book of poetry about the different styles, subjects, and tones that were written during National Poetry and Writing Month. From love to life to the mixing of other poems, this collection endeavors to explore the many ways that...

Masked by J.D. Wright is the first book in the Superheroes Undercover series. Vada is finally eighteen, which means she can register her superhero name, order her suit, and begin working as an actual superhero. She's been trained since birth to be super, to follow...

Sarah has a large family, seven kids in all, but life is only good for a short time before something evil appears in the woods near her home. Sarah has the ability to recognize it, although no one else does, because she comes from a...

The Ice Bridge by Kathryn Meyer Griffith is a gripping murder mystery. Charlotte has come back to Mackinac Island, back to her Aunt Bess, after her fiancé runs off with her best friend. When the summer tourists have gone, Mackinac closes and the only way...

I can’t review this book without stating how it caught me off guard. I had picked it to read, poised to write a review condemning the sale of gorillas, but little did I know it would turn out to be one of the best things...

The prologue to Sean Akerman’s Krakow discloses the novella’s intriguing premise: a character, who may or may not be the author himself, has found in his New York apartment two short journals written by the previous tenants – a young man and woman whose relationship...

There is a distinct fascination with seeing and experiencing life in another part of the world. The lure of travel is real and, for those who can, it becomes an experience that stays with them for a lifetime. For those who are unable to travel,...

Highly Effective Teaching Strategies is a great book for developing course outlines and instruction motives that can be used for years—even if the type of curriculum changes. Author Marc Hoberman provides lots of examples of how he prepares lesson plans, adds questions, and discusses a...

The Lazarus Succession by Ken Fry begins like many other books with the engagement of a rather suspect pair of heroes employed to find a missing medieval painting depicting Christ with Lazarus. It is said to have spiritual powers of healing. But this is where...

Summer Girl by Linda Watkins is a heartfelt story of a boy and a girl. For Jake, living on Cutter Island, off the coast of Maine, life is pretty laid back. That is until the summer of ’65 when he meets fifteen-year-old Andi. That was...