At seventeen, Jeff Pearson knew he did not want to live a traditional life, and as fate would have it, his memoir, which he writes decades later, is far from what a normal life looks like. Miss Nude Canada's Shoes (And Other Fiascos) starts with...

Some authors possess a very subtle but potent knack for continuously compelling their reader’s attention, a talent for plotting and presence that makes the avid reader almost unwittingly keep turning pages. Most assuredly, author Ben Wyckoff Shore possesses this particular knack, and his desperately good...

A Boy Called Preacher by Cheryl Schuermann is an adventure/coming of age story of a young boy who learned that responsibility is much easier to bear when you are surrounded by love and support. Johnny Wilcox (a.k.a. Preacher) is trying his best to stay on...

My grandmother always claimed we lived in the ‘me’ generation, the era where all we care about is me, myself, and I. But there’s more to life than ‘me’. And, really, when you think about it, the ‘me’ in the equation really doesn’t take care...

Wisdom for Living with New Spirituality: How to Become a Better Soul by Dr. Tommy S.W. Wong is an insightful and thought-provoking book, the fifth in the Spiritual Living Book Series. Tom and Guru Harry discuss old and new spiritualities. Questions such as what is old...

Seductive Santino is a work of fiction in the new adult sub-genre with plenty of sizzling romance and family drama and was penned by author Anne Marie Citro. Forming the fourth volume of the Savage’s Buck & Doe series, the novel is written for adult...

One would never suspect the kind of adventures Petunia Brown has by looking at her. On Monday she traveled to outer space to watch the rockets in the flying comet race and she spent Tuesday building robots destined for Mars. Her Wednesday was filled with...

Out of Love: Your Way Back to Self-Compassion by Marianne Ingheim is an insightful book that chronicles the author's journey of unlearning self-critical patterns and going back to her self-compassionate heart. The stories and journaling prompts in the book will show readers how self-compassion is...

Seventeen-year-old outcast Jane Shackle is a young maid who has the gift of sight whenever she touches objects. For that reason, she wears gloves most of the time. Surprisingly her secret is known to Mrs. Crossey, the cook, who reveals to her the existence of...

The Music Therapy Profession: Inspiring Health, Wellness, and Joy by Christine Korb covers an interesting topic. Music Therapy is a profession that is underappreciated. Your life would be incredibly sad and lonely if you didn’t like music. I love the fact that this book is...

Frankie the cow was grumpy and her problem was that she did not like the view. That was all that she talked about and she had no time for her friends. One summer morning a hedgehog was passing through the fields and saw Frankie standing...

The Cries of the Butterfly: A Love Story by Rajeev Roy is an emotionally charged and exceptionally beautiful story of love and indulgence in that love. There was a time when Wolf Butcher was a happy man. He had everything that he could ever wish...

In S. Lynn Helton's Duplicity of Power, Namid had spent a long time hiding who she was. She had left that life behind and embraced her place in the Shadowers. But when her path crossed with the son of a renowned lord, her life would...

The Big Book of Small Presses & Independent Publishers, subtitled Small presses, book contests, university presses, and independent publishers for “unagented” authors by Marylee MacDonald, is a valuable tool for authors who have been ignored by the big presses and agents who sell to them....

The Tournament’s Price is a work of historical fiction focused around young adult protagonists and knightly adventures and was penned by author Given Hoffman. Written as the opening novel to the Marked series, this highly engaging and nuanced work takes us back to the age...

The Poison of War is a murder mystery novella written by Jennifer Leeper. Detectives Frank Silva and Arturo Vega examined the bodies of Joaquin Carrillo and Diego Vasquez, which had been found by hikers on the border of the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation. They had...

Sweet Scent of Forgiveness by Delia Latham is a Christian romance. Norah is an orphan living with an older brother in a Cinderella existence, being a servant to the lazy wife of her brother. At age 16, Norah marries a man named Chandler in order...

Then Comes Evening by Dave Witmer is a saga that stretches from Pennsylvania to Florida and from about 1960 to the present day. James is a widower whose wife had been the love of his life. Estella, on the other hand, is a widow whose...

Gifts of Fire and Ice: Book One: The FireNight Prophecies is a work of sword and sorcery style fantasy fiction that was penned for young adult audiences by author Darren Boeck. In the opening novel to a brand new series, we are introduced to the...

From most points of view, Greg is living the dream. Chasing the Best Days by Philip Wyeth tells how after years of him providing for his family, Greg’s wife Robin decides that she is not happy and files for divorce. The resulting loss of the...