It's OK to Lose! is a wonderful educational story for children by Stephanie Chan on how to deal with losing in the everyday activities of life. The first thing I noticed and liked is the opening page. On this page, children can fill in the...

Antipodes by T.S. Simons sees Campbell Mackintosh urged by his sister, Sorcha, to attend an information session regarding a virus that is threatening the global population. As Campbell fills out the questionnaires and undergoes a battery of tests, it becomes evident this is no ordinary...

Tainted Harvest by E. Denise Billups is the first book in the Simone Doucet series. Simone Doucet is a travel writer searching for a purpose in her life. A new assignment sees her heading off to Natchez, Mississippi, to the Magnolia Sunrise bed and breakfast....

Song For Someone is a fascinating love story of two people who defy the odds. It's the first book in the Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler Mysteries by KD Sherrinford. It follows Charlotte Sapori, who learns her parents' long-kept secret. Charlotte knows her mother, Irene...

How Do I Get To Be Me? is the second book of the Choosing New Ways Forward Series by Elizabeth Jo. Building on the ideas discussed in the first installment, Shifting Our Relationship With Trauma, this book offers a conversation on moving beyond trauma. As...

Shifting Our Relationship with Trauma is about cutting ties with trauma. As the first installment in the Choosing New Ways Forward series, Elizabeth Jo refers to trauma as a relationship we have built on fear as a means of survival. These relationships fill us with...

In My Heart: A Book About Kindness by Julie Nichole, illustrated by Blueberry Illustrations, is an adorable children’s picture book. The story follows Katelyn and her dog Toby on an adventure as they explore ways to be kind to others. It can be a simple...

Throughout the DI Amy Winter thriller series by Caroline Mitchell, Amy has had to build her life around the knowledge of her family history, and a career of relentless criminal investigations. In book one, Truth and Lies, Amy must confront her psychopathic serial killer mother,...

Meera Makes Aloo Paratha is written by Sangeetha Narayan and illustrated by Noor Alshalabi. Meera wants to be the teacher instead of being Shelly’s student. Meera spends time with her grandfather Dadaji, and explains her problem to him. Dadaji decides to make Aloo Paratha while...

After having her daughter, Tracy thought her second pregnancy would be easier, but God had other plans for her and her family. The first sign that things would be different was the abnormal results of her first-trimester screening. Luckily, they were ruled out as possible...

Cruel Duplicity by Sarah Stuart is the third book in the DCI Gerald Croft Crime Thriller Series. Croft is back on the case when he is asked to investigate the disappearance of a woman four years before. Her husband, Paul Tindall, has reported an assault...

In the second book in I.C. Lawrance's Blood Influence series, Apostasy, Mortella has been summoned to the Tower, and her fate is to bear a child to provide for the Code. The Bowl, which is under the protection of the Code, was a prison for...

Hunnie Bunny's Garden is a children's picture book written by Deborah Carter Martin with illustrations by Sandamali Kamalchandra. It tells the story of Hunnie Bunny, an adorable gray bunny with a cheerful personality. One beautiful spring day, she ventures into the woods, carrying her tiny...

Can you forgive and forget? Sometimes, it’s difficult to do. What if you were told that a vicious predator had changed and could be your friend? Could you forgive him/her and go to his/her party? In Hilary Lawrence and Katherine Summerville’s A Leopard Never Changes...

“Things I Wish I’d Known” by Julie-Anne is the book we’d all like to write. Who hasn’t had occasion to think “if I’d only known then what I know now . . .”? Julie-Anne took that lament one step further, and put it on paper,...

Sixteen-year-old Jules Blaze belongs to a race called the Elfies – a mix of Elves and Fairies – who live in the cursed kingdom of Reign. The curse has shrunk the people in size, leaving them to live in trees or under rocks. The evil...

In I, John Culpepper by Lori Crane, John Culpepper had a lot of responsibilities and obligations to uphold. He was born into an enormously wealthy family. Growing up in an English manor was fun, he never wanted for anything in his life. But there are...

Haiku is a very ancient form of Japanese poetry. It's basically three lines, but it's defined in the number of syllables per line and the nature of its subject. Haiku may look simple, but it's not. Traditionally, it centered around topics of nature, but its...

Hieroglyph: TC's Adventures, Book 1 is a children's and preteen historical adventure novel written by W.J. Scott and illustrated by John Helle-Nielsen. TC lives with her Aunt Letty who's been her guardian, more or less, since the disappearance of her archaeologist parents. Letty is committed...

Animals Can Sing is an illustrated children’s book, written in rhyme by M.O. Lufkin and illustrated by Saptarshi Nandy. With full sheet music and lyrics provided, Animals Can Sing can either be a sing-a-long tale (by those who are musically inclined) or simply be read...