Soothing Rain: Living Water to Refresh Your Soul by Tonya Jewel Blessing and Sue Summers is a fantastic devotional for women. It’s divided into 52 short themed chapters and is intended to be read in women’s study groups, but I found it was also a...

Flurry the teddy bear cub had already been through so much, so he couldn't understand why his mom had been so angry when she found him watching a pirate movie. The adventure was PG13, but tame compared to what he had already experienced in the...

Book three in the Flurry the Bear series, The Throne of Frost by J.S. Skye is another spellbinding read in a series that should be gaining a lot of fans among readers of children's fantasy and sci-fi. The inhabitants of Mezarim are suffering from inclement...

The Land of the Sourpie is the second book in the charming series about Flurry the bear by J.S. Skye. After reading book 1, I was glad to see book 2 was available for review. After three months with his new family in the...

I believe one of the most important ingredients of a child’s book is an appealing and adorable character. In The Granted Wish, by J.S. Skye, that character is Flurry. This little bear is a mischievous bundle of curiosity who gets himself into all kinds of...

The Assassin's Pact: Flurry the Bear, Book 6 by J.S. Skye is a continuation of the story of Flurry and his family. Before I even begin talking about the novel and the story, let me just say that the covers of this whole series were...

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...

Michael Elliot is an investigative journalist working on an article about the abuse of opioids. He has made appointments to meet some officials in Canada's capital city, Ottawa. Because his meetings coincided with Ottawa's one hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration, Michael had made reservations at...

Ocean One: Only One Ocean, Only One Chance is an environmental science children’s storybook written by Eileen Clancy Biegel and illustrated by Sue Lynn Cotton. As a member of the U.S. Coast Guard, Biegel spent a year on Kure Atoll, which is the subject of...

To Be Had by Sava Buncic is a great read with compelling characters. A lawyer who doesn't earn more than a waiter, Boris feels trapped in Greentown. But how can he give his family the life they deserve when there are no prospects of advancing...

Haunted is a paranormal romance novel written by Shari Nichols. Karly was not in the market for a new romance. She was still recovering from her breakup with Chad, who had been unfaithful to her, and the store she and her sister, Sophie, had opened...

Politics isn’t an easy subject to discuss with anyone because it seems as if everyone is so set in their ways that they refuse to even listen to someone with different views than their own. But in The Secret to Political Happiness by AM Ramsey,...

What happens when four girls have to cohabit, especially in sharing a bathroom? The result is The Struggle: 4 Girls & 1 Bathroom (The Struggle Books) (Volume 2) by Patrice S Smith, Donna Smith, Shannon Smith, Charity Smith, and Faith Smith, the sequel to The...

Miracle on Hammertown Road: One Man's Fall & Salvation is a nonfiction spiritual memoir written by Jim “Bubba” Bay and Mic Ruzich. Bay had always been bigger than his classmates in school, but when he went away to college, he decided to change that. He...

Cleverly plotted and masterfully accomplished, Down to the Needle by Mary Deal is a great entry in the genres of suspense, mystery, and thriller, a story that follows one woman’s gritty investigation to solve an abduction that happened twenty-three years ago. It takes a lot...

Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America by John Egenes is a non-fiction travel memoir set in the 1970s. Man & Horse is a story about a solo journey that John undertakes with his horse, Gizmo, across the continental United States. The book is...

After a car wreck, a young college student wakes up inside a shabby clinic within a strange city in the fascinating urban fantasy, Caligation by Brhi Stokes. After wasting several years in college, Ripley decides to stop drifting and start living. Discarding everything in his...

Revelations by Bellamy Westbay is an intriguing romance novel with some fantasy, paranormal, and supernatural elements. The story begins with our heroine, Gwen, dreaming that she is on a beach. The only reason she knows it is a dream is because, although the details of...

Great Women of African Descent: An Artistic Expression of the Icons by Pascaliah Omiya and Odhiambo Siangla is definitely a literary and visual feast. The subject of this book is a collection of carefully selected notable African women that have made important contributions to the...

Letters to the Pianist is a historical fiction novel written by S.D. Mayes. The East End of London was not a happy place for a child, or indeed any living creature, in 1941. Fourteen-year-old Ruth and her little sister and brother were among the few...