A World of New Beginnings, written by Melissa Garin, is a small book with a big message for young people: change is scary and not always easy, but adventure waits on the journey and life is infinitely more interesting and fun when adventure is included....

I found New Beginnings to be a charming novel that combines romance and drama. Deborah King draws her readers in with Sophie Tucker's dynamic personality, who appears to have everything going for her. Her family's legacy is a ranch that caters to PTSD clients. When...

To Begin Again by Jen Knox is a collection of short stories and essays. Due to the length of short stories and essays are very difficult to develop the meat of the plot or situations. However, Knox had no problem with the task. The common factor...

The pursuit of a personal desire can lead oneself into a journey like no other. In Shadow’s Fire: A Chance Beginning, by exquisite author Christopher Patterson, this is just the case! From giving up everything to pursue a life of promise, potential and purpose to...

Hidden Treasures in Secret Places: Words of Wisdom for Everyday Life by Velma Hagar Ristaino is a gift of faith and wisdom, a tool that leads us to treasures available to us, no matter our status in life, background, or calling. In this book, the...

If there was a way to give Another Sunset by Jason Zandri more than five stars, then I would. This book was an inspirational and, at the same time, very emotional read. When David Stephenson, a drifter, arrives in the small town of Westville, Texas,...

Ten-year-old Kasandra Cortez is not too happy about moving all the way to America from her home in Brazil in the storybook Magic Charms: The Adventure Begins, Book One by Louise Marie Miller. Her parents think America has better schools and jobs and their mother...

Thomas is a very smart student at his school. He excels in Math and French, but because of this he is called "teacher's pet" and "Genius" by the basketball team captain, Victor, and his friends. After school one day, coincidentally on his birthday, he runs...

Into the Woods is a novel of suspense set in the late 16th century, written by Josh Soule. John, Thomas, and Henry had grown up in Carn and, were now adults and still the best of friends. They were each different. John’s artistic inclinations had...

C. Gary Johnston pens an insightful dramatic tale in New Leaves in Winter. It is the holiday season; the weather has turned cold and somewhat precarious for travel. However, the frigid and threatening atmosphere of Starlinger’s Advertising far surpasses the wintry elements outside. Daniel Pierce...

This book is amazing. The author did a superb job putting it from the perspective of on how Jesus is the Shepherd and we are the lost sheep in accordance with Luke 15. Every step of the way I was moved by how it elegantly...

To protect both the magical and non-magical world from evil, The International Bureau of Wizards and Witches forges The Treaty of Earthly Peace with the non-magical communities of the world. The goals are to create a world where both sides could live and work together...

Naia the Witch by Carmen Parets Luque is about a young witch who doesn't want to be good like all the other little girls. She wants to be naughty and likes to cause trouble by turning herself invisible. Naia is supposed to attend a school...

In Tales of the Gemstone Elves, Volume One: Beryl's Journey by Patricia Elizabeth Bennett, there once was a time when elves and humans lived peacefully together and worked side by side. Our story follows the gemstone elves, more specifically Beryl and Jasper as they travel...

Maurpikios Fiddler: The Magical Amethyst of Spes is the second installment of a fantasy series by M.J. Logan. In the first book, The True Meaning of Magic, readers are introduced to young Maurpikios Fiddler with a mission to save his own life and those of...

Running from the Mirror by Howard Shulman is a memoir about Shulman’s life. When Shulman was just a newborn baby, he contracted a staph infection that ate his face off. His parents did not want to deal with a child that had so many health...

Truth, Lies & Propaganda in Africa (Truth, Lies and Propaganda Book 1) by Lucinda E. Clarke is an engaging and powerful memoir that takes readers on a journey from that of a primary school teacher, to announcing on the radio, to scriptwriting for radio and...

Shedding the Wife by Madison Meadows takes readers into the author's personal life where she speaks about the split with her husband and how she was consumed by anger and hatred toward her husband and the woman he left her for. Her story is about...

Meet the Number Nibblers, written by R.E. Hoskins with illustrations by R.E. Hoskins and Jody Dawaliby. The number nibblers are the creatures that live off a diet of specific number-shaped foods. For example, Neo eats only ones and Venes eats only sevens, Wot only eats...

I personally grew about three inches reading My Feats in These Shoes, and no, it wasn’t because I put on high heels. Ronda Beaman’s “A Solely Original Memoir” was a smash hit for me. I laughed at her incredibly clever analogies to shoes. I’ve not...