In Adventure on Christmas Street, a children's picture book by Kristina Raevsky, Christmas is nearly here, but not everyone on Christmas Street is looking forward to it. On her way home from the library, Holly runs into an evil snowman who chases her down the...

Sharon Ogbueze's In Search of The Magical Credit Land is designed to teach children basic financial responsibility alongside important values. Klem Jr. and Karter are brothers who live with their parents in a tent in a quiet forest. While they enjoy their life in the...

Have you ever wondered about the vital importance of reading? Dr. Tee Tee Books shows the power of reading in Ife and the Reading Rockets. In this delightful children’s book, Dr. Tee Tee shares important lessons on how to be a true friend to others....

The Lost Heir(s) by D.M. Mewha is a fantasy drama that takes readers on an adventure to the Imaginarium, a world where magical tales and creatures come to life. Albert Drake, an ordinary teenage boy, discovers he is a prince. His life is in danger...

We invent amazing things, create art, and surround ourselves with perfectly and conveniently shaped items. Our modern lifestyle implies living in an artificial world isolated from nature. But is it what God wants for us, his children? What does it take to overcome our inclination...

In Sharon Gloger Friedman’s The Other Emma, Rose Litkin was taken to the Children’s Aid Society and placed in the Girls’ Lodging House. After two years, Lucien Boyesten adopted Rose to be a sister and companion for his ten-year-old daughter, Emma. Emma taunted Rose with...

In His Image by Asher Warren and Ethan Nikkel offers a unique take on the psychological thriller genre. A serial killer is on the rampage. Named the New Orleans Vampire, he is draining his victims of their blood and leaving them displayed like pieces of...

Rodimals, felimals, avimals, reptimals, mollimals, and so many others. These are oopsimals. Kristie Moeller documents many of these unusual creatures in her book, Oopsimals: The Complete Encyclopedia. It’s an interesting read; all alphabetical. Have you ever heard of an eagloose, “a majestic Avimal that amalgamates...

Monster Science: Create Your Own Genetic Masterpiece is a children’s educational picture book written by Victoria Cerdeira with illustrations by Anna Pomelova. It follows siblings Maya and Jordan, who wish to create their own unique pet monster to play with. They discover that they need...

In Sandra L. Huska's Think of the Sunflower, Nikee Madison travels from Pittsburgh to rural Pennsylvania for her twentieth high school reunion, expecting an uncomfortable weekend. Instead, a locked metal box hidden in her late mother’s attic leads her toward a buried secret connected to...

The Energy Edge by Eric Reiners is a helpful guide for anyone who feels like the daily grind is quietly chipping away at their sanity. The author shows you how to stop forcing yourself into an unnatural schedule and instead structure your day around what...

This is a fantasy novel in which the author has creates a new world where people don't graduate from school until they turn 90 years old. It flows well, although the plot could work better if more action were added. The story follows a young...

In the novel Stay, by C.C. Jackson, Callie is shocked when she is ripped from her home in Louisiana in the middle of the night by a mysterious, muscular man. He takes her to a city named Petrona, of which she has no recollection, and...

I’ve had the privilege of reading one of David McDonald’s earlier books, “There are No Unwounded Soldiers,” and because it was so emotionally charged, I wanted to read another one of his collections of poetry. McDonald is a hero in my view. In “I Never...

"Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child’s True Potential" by Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, and Mark S. Lowenthal, PsyD, explains how and why children struggle and distills “smart” parenting into four essential components: a compassionate ability to view the world through our children’s eyes; the...

Nine year old Jeff is homeless and is busy getting food to eat from the dumpster behind his favorite Chicago restaurant when he finds himself watching a man in a strange rubber suit destroy three men in the alley below him. Those three men were...

Author Bryna Kranzler writes of her remarkable grandfather's life as a young man in "The Accidental Anarchist: From the Diaries of Jacob Marateck". In the early years of the last century, a young Jew, Jacob Marateck, goes from his yeshiva onto enlisting in the Russian...

This book is about a middling cat with a crooked tail. What is middling? The book states that middlings commonly have a comfortable standard of living, considerable economic security, moderate work plus life autonomy and often rely on their own expertise to sustain themselves. They...

What would it feel like to see the world through the green eyes of a cat? No need to guess, just read "The Unconventional Life of Haee" by R.S. Vern. The story made me keep turning the pages till the very end, as the writing...

"Stay loose." This directive early in the book grabbed my thought process and pervaded every word written thereafter. It is definitely an important directive in this guide to how a beer lover can learn to appreciate the mysterious vino and its people, and perhaps help...