Innocent: A Spirit of Resilience by Kevin McLaughlin and Opwonya Innocent is set against the backdrop of the unrest in northern Uganda three years after Opwonya Innocent was born, which was amid the escalating war. His father was wrongfully convicted of treason and...

London Walsh, a young adult, is living and working in San Francisco when she gets a letter to come back to her hometown of Christmas Falls to sing in the Christmas pageant. The only thing is, her parents have moved to Phoenix and her mother...

The self-publishing book industry is growing at an alarming rate. There are a lot of good authors out there being passed over by the traditional publishing houses. Taking the self-publishing route is their ticket to publishing success. Or is it? Do first time self-publishing authors...

Networking and social media are the way things are done these days. Everything, it seems, has gone virtual. Whilst traditional publishing in the past depended heavily on the shelving of real books in real bookstores, the reality of the present, and probably for a long...

Nina Taylor, who suffered a mental breakdown, is fighting to keep her sanity and her family intact. Rodney is her husband and seemingly no longer interested in her. They have two little girls, Bree and Laila, whom they both love dearly. Nina’s best friend, Deja...

Suhasini Mukherjee's Luth: A Place Called Home brims with poems and words that cannon solidly into your gut. The poetry is in free-verse style and encapsulates perfectly some of the subject matters that she touches upon throughout her chapbook, those subjects being love, life, and...

I love futuristic science fiction. I like action oriented tales that take place within a well thought out and detailed future. That is one reason I loved Orion The Hunter: The Spiral Arm Stories Season One by Clifford VanMeter. The action and the future that...

What is feeding, empowering and developing the next generation? Is it the TV, music, movies, tech toys or the videos games that they're exposed to? These vices possess a great hold and influence on the future generation. Through these vices, both the current and future...

A dog with a unique way of communicating uses his gifts to help his private detective companion search for the missing proprietor of a rescue dog shelter in the brilliant sleuth mystery novel, Requiem for a Rescue Dog Queen (The Talking Dog Detective Agency Book...

Narrated from the first-person perspective, The Archfiend Artifact by Selena IR Drake is a beguiling read. Cybil Starr is stuck with her horrible grandmother ever since her parents were murdered in a bizarre way. Unhappy and feeling like she doesn't belong to this world, Cybil...

If you enjoy a good murder mystery built on unexpected plot twists and a fascinating cast of characters, this one is for you. The Study of Silence: A Lady Evelyn Mystery is the third book in the series by Malia Zaidi. Set in England in...

Cassie Pup Takes the Cake?? is a children’s picture book written by Sheri Poe-Pape and illustrated by Dasguptarts. Cassie Pup couldn’t wait to get started in her new position as Baker Bindi’s doggie helper. When she first entered Bindi’s Bakery, which was to be her...

Can love really happen between an eighty-eight-year-old woman and a forty-eight-year-old man? Richard Alther’s novel Roxie & Fred will make readers believe that age doesn’t matter when real love calls two souls to find themselves in each other. Meet 88-year-old Roxie, a woman who has...

Bigger than a blueberry, the Saskatoon berry has many other benefits that outshine the more commonly known blueberry. For instance, it’s high in vitamins and fibre and, of interesting note, it contains 11 percent of the daily intake required of calcium. The First Nations knew...

Darkly Wood II: The Woman Who Never Wore Shoes by Max Power is a sequel that can be read as a standalone. Darkly Wood looks innocent, situated on the slope above the isolated village of Cranby. Its name is related to the Darkly family who...

The Deadly Scarab is the third book in the Crime Cats series, both written and illustrated by Wolfgang Parker. After a botched robbery by Corwin Bachert, Clintonville’s young resident superhero, Jonas Shurmann, suddenly finds himself in possession of a mysterious ring. Rumored to have...

A Purgatory of Misery: How Victorian Liberals Turned a Crisis into a Disaster by Frank Parker and Patrick Lillis has a comprehensive introduction that places the arrival of William the Conqueror in Britain in 1066, continues through the government of Oliver Cromwell to the restoration...

In Soul Sanctuary: Book Two Of The Spirit Shield Saga by Susan Faw, Avery Tierman and her father, Gaius, flee a Primordial Encampment where they have seen more than is wise, only for Gaius’ horse to fall on top of him, trapping him and seriously...

Matt had retired from the Baltimore Police to move to Rehoboth, a small vacation town, with his son, Henry, where he was serving on the local Rehoboth Police Force. When the Director of the Rehoboth SPCA is murdered, it is clear there are a lot...

Rainbow Monsters by Sylva Fae is a children’s picture book that is subtly designed to teach youngsters the order of the colours of rainbows, and the sunshine and rain needed to create them. Each of the seven monsters first appear “on a mixed up rainy,...