Baby Princess was out in Market Street with her mother and her favorite doll. The shops were filled with things from different lands and there were people everywhere. She saw a doll her size in one of the shops and it made faces. Though...

The North American Six-Horse Hitch Classic Series is the most prestigious draft horse event on the continent and forms the basic inspiration for a series of picture books written by the well-versed children’s book author, Shani T. Night, a skilled storyteller. With the former book...

The Reunions is the third installment of Tina Hogan Grant's Tammy Mellows series. Tammy Mellows continues to fish for crabs off the coast of Malibu alongside her boyfriend, Dwayne, while raising her son, Matt. As the years pass by, Tammy is constantly reminded of her...

In the beginning of Gillian Thorp’s intensely personal and moving memoir, The Colour of the Sun, an early reader remarks: “… there are some stories that don’t just stick with you; they become a part of you.” I quote this observation because it’s true. Sometimes,...

In Mike Mackay's crime thriller, The Scam at Old River, after a night of celebration, Jack Rhodes woke in the morning to a knock on the door. Debbie, an accountant, was the reason for the unwelcome visit; she had taken an incriminating file as an...

Primed to Kill is the second book in the Kill Crime series by Mike Slavin. It follows Jeff Case, a former Green Beret and two-war veteran whose soul is scarred by pain, loss, and tragedy. Life is quiet at his house, a ranch outside Houston,...

Ada and the Helpers by Travis D Peterson is a story about a clever little dancing fox who also happens to be deaf. Her parents get her “special ears with batteries” that she wears every day. These special ears are her helpers, and her parents...

Night Warrior by Jordan J. Scavone is a great story that is skillfully written for fans of fantasy. Seventeen-year-old Viranda’s home is hit by lightning during a thunderstorm. When she awakens from the shock, and still groggy, she finds a strange man settled on her...

Tour of Insanity: Manifesto for Better Home Design by authors Kelly Mitchell and Matthew Zakutny is a non-fiction book mixed with humor along the way. It describes the birth and evolution of what surrounds us in the everyday lives that we lead, from bathrooms to...

Dads are wonderful. They love their little girls and they enjoy spending time with them. But, one thing dads are not very good at doing is a little girl’s hair. Especially if it’s long and thick. As a little girl, I don’t think I could...

Have you ever had a green cake? No, not a mint cake, but a green cake, one made with pistachios. That’s right, pistachios, also “called the happy nut because they smile at you.” Well, at least that’s what Grandma says. She’s visiting Shani for the...

Path of the Phoenix is a work of fiction in the fantasy, boarding school drama, and adventure sub-genres, and was penned by author L. Scott Clark. The work is intended for the young adult reading audience, and it forms the first novel in The Sorcerer’s...

Shani has a new friend. It’s a honeybee. She calls him Paul. Later, she learns that this honeybee is a she and not a he, so she changes the name to Paula. Shani loves to watch her honeybee fly around the flowers outside her window....

Family Skeletons is the third book in the Baker City: Hearts & Haunts series by Josie Malone, a compulsive romance that is emotionally loaded and psychologically rich. Sullivan Barlow is a first-class Sergeant who has served in Afghanistan and it was there that she lost...

Thank you, Gregory Hublar, for A Miracle Named Mark! At Mark’s birth in 1964, the doctor said to his parents, “Your son has Mongolism. He will never walk, he will never talk. He will never show any emotion. And he will ruin your family!" At...

The Kingdom War by J.D. Ruffin is a fantasy that starts with a prophesy inscribed in a glassy black stone. A loyal servant sworn to her cause will see Irina, the most powerful mage on the continent, return when the time is right. Hidden in...

In Crash Course by Alyssa Wilde, Arden Hart’s life is disrupted by a collision with a drunk driver. Nora has not been the ideal mother to Arden, often more interested in a man, a party, a buzz, rather than her own daughter. And after another...

M2 Agent Tim Stryker and his wife, Angie, lost their little son to brain cancer, making them drift apart. The couple and their daughter took a trip to Italy for a holiday, a private reconciliation, and a friend’s wedding. However, after another fight, Tim left...

Dr. Barbara Koltuska-Haskin is a neuropsychologist who has graciously shared her vast knowledge and experience on the brain’s functioning with us in How My Brain Works. This may sound boring to most of you, but trust me, it is not. Barbara has taken a scientific...

If you think poetry collections are all the same and that it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to find an innovative one, you will have to reconsider your opinion. I had one of the most pleasant surprises myself when I found Vashti Stopher Klein's The Soprano,...