Bosley Bear is back again and this time he's making a tree house! This book is at a higher grade level than the first Bosley Book I read, and there is a much greater level of vocabulary and context being taught in this one, which...

Dreaming of a Highlander by Lily Conway is a historical romance novel which introduces readers to life, love, and tragedy in England and Scotland during the of Battle of Culloden in April 1746 to 150 years thereafter. Katrina Kelly is a highly respectable and hard...

Requiem for a Lost Youth by Diana Hockley is a short story that starts off with someone receiving a couple of incriminating photographs along with a newspaper piece with the headline: “Murder in the Mountains.” Shocked and terrified because it had happened several years ago...

The Eclipse of a Black Sun by Suzanne Cowles is a speculative fiction story that focuses on the mysterious deaths of people who appear to be extremely elderly, but the corpses may not be what they seem. Mixing elements of science fiction and fantasy together,...

Every person at some point wants to be someone or something else and that desire starts at a very early age. Wanting to be bigger, stronger, smarter, braver or faster afoot are the motivations behind a great deal of human behavior. Author Valerie Harmon expresses...

The potential to be transformed into something else is a powerful human desire; folklore and mythology are full of stories where a living creature is transformed into another. Examples are werewolves, the Greek gods assuming animal and human form and similar stories of animal-human shape...

The Elephant Who Wanted To Be A Bee: A Children's Picture Book on Goal Setting and Perseverance (WantsToBe 2): Book 2 of the WantsToBe series by Valerie Harmon is the charming story of an Elephant who wants to become a Bee. Elephant is allergic to...

The Crab Who Wanted To Be A Dolphin: A Children's Picture Book on Learning Kindness (WantsToBe 7) by Valerie Harmon is, as the title suggests, the 7th book of the WantsToBe series. In this story, we meet a crab who wants to become a Dolphin...

The Peacock Who Wanted To Be A Pig: A Children's Picture Book on Hard Work and Determination (WantsToBe 4) by Valerie Harmon is another book in her series of animals who are not really happy about who they are and who would like to become...

The Alligator Who Wanted To Be A Dog: A Children's Picture Book on Making Friends (WantsToBe 3) by Valerie Harmon is a picture book about an alligator who had enough of his life as an alligator because people and other animals were always scared of...

Do you ever feel shy? Have you ever wondered how some people, some animals, can chatter away about nothing at all? Some people, some animals, do have the gift of chatter. They are outgoing, social creatures who crave the attention of a good listener. That's...

It is a seemingly inexorable law of nature that all human bodies slowly break down as they age, some faster than others. A great deal of time, effort and money is expended in slowing it down, but nothing works for long. All of the things...

When Parenting Is A Foreign Language by Diane Ross-Glazer is a useful book on parenting and gives a peek into a child's emotional world, allowing one to become more aware while bringing up kids. It's a book that can be read many times and can...

How to Make a Woman Happy by Denis Hickey begins with a warning that consistent use of the ideas contained in this guide may inundate one with happy women! His ideas cover almost all aspects of male-female transactions, offering explanations and practical suggestions for each....

The Education of a Traitor: A Memoir of Growing Up in Cold War Russia by Svetlana Grobman is a story of survival, secrets, and the struggle for sanity and understanding in a society that rejected even the basic simplicities of livelihood – Cold War Russia....

Heartless: A Shieldmaiden’s Voice provides a thrilling prequel to S.R. Karfelt’s Kahtar: Warrior of the Ages, introducing us to Carole Blank, an orphaned, violent misfit in the USA’s foster system. Carole’s earliest memories are of other people like her: people who can hear thoughts, people...

On Becoming a Dinosaur: A Typesetter Speaks by Java Davis is a very well written and informational piece about the life of a woman trying to make a better life for herself. In 1970, women had few working options, but Java Davis wasn't about to...

Musings From A Demented Mind by Derek Ailes and James Coon is a collection of horror tales that will keep you entertained. A man hears his mother's voice after she has passed; a man in a retirement home discovers that secret experiments are going on;...

Bill Weston is an astute businessman, trusted and well liked by many. Yet he becomes greedy and starts to line his pockets with the investors’ hard-earned money. His investment gradually turns into a Ponzi scheme. Some of his so-called charity organizations were never meant to...

As the world looks on and judges those women who wear head coverings, judges those who make women wear these coverings, people argue the justification of such subjugation. Are these women's rights being violated? Or, are they comfortable with the world in which they were...