Reading Zhanna Hamilton’s Becoming a Female Marine brought back memories of my own training in the Army Reserve, although not as extensive. For those who watch war or military related films, many aspects of Hamilton’s booklet will not come as a surprise. From the first...

The Best Phrasal Verbs and How to Use Them by Zhanna Hamilton is a book that will teach readers how to use phrasal verbs and give more impact to the sentences they are forming and using while writing and speaking. Phrasal verbs form an integral...

Writing Prompts that Increase Your Creativity and Eliminate Writer's Block is a guidebook by Zhanna Hamilton. After a brief introduction, the book splits into several sections containing numbered prompts intended to inspire creative writing. These prompts could be used for personal practice at home, or...

The Montague Portrait by Matt Drabble is a horror fiction revolving around an ominous painting of Hugo Montague and his wife Eleanor, a masterpiece by Benedict Worthington in 1923. Driven by his degenerating mental stability and his cruel nature, Hugo accused his young wife of...

Carlisle has big dreams of being a world famous chef, but to do that she needs to win the local barbecue contest so she can pay for culinary school. Unfortunately, a mishap with ribs and barbecue sauce burns down the shed belonging to her landlord...

Starting from the premise that losing weight doesn’t have to be a tedious process, the book Weight Loss Delight: How to Win While Losing by Bibi Sidoff starts with the author’s personal experience of what didn’t work and what eventually worked for her. After a...

Chesca and the Spirit of Grace is written by Lara O’Brien. Chesca is happy living on the farm with her Ma and Da and beloved farm animals who can talk. She has a special relationship with them, especially her pet mouse. When her mother is...

Unleashed is the first in the Sydney Rye novel series by Emily Kimelman. The story opens with a prologue hinting at how the life of a young directionless coffeehouse server, Joy Humbolt, takes a 90 degree turn and she becomes Sydney Rye. In this first...

If you want to get into the soy jar candle business, How to Make a Great Soy Jar Candle: Revealing My Favourite Candle Suppliers by Amber Richards is the book for you. It doesn't cover the business aspect of it, but the actual making of...

The Willing Stone is the first book in The Adventures of Abby and Sofia series by Beth Winokur. It's a story that takes readers on a fantastic journey which grabbed this reader's imagination and kept me guessing as to what might happen next with Abby...

Shadow Journey: A Mrs. Blackstone Story by S.D. O’Donnell is a short story based on one of the characters in O’Donnell’s book, Deadly Memories. The story tells of a woman, Vera Blackstone, and her husband, Ted. Ted is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He...

In Borrowed Wings by Regina Puckett, a baby dragon faces insecurities just like any other baby. His head is too big, his wings are too small, and he can't fly like the other little dragons. His momma notices his distress and then lets him borrow...

Harry Bosch is back in a case that's not cold, but still old. On the first day of the new year, a dog brings back a bone to its owner. When the bone is discovered to be human, Bosch and his partner, Edgar, get the...

The Power to Navigate Life: Your Journey to Freedom by Tony Fahkry is an uplifting book that will guide readers to take control of their lives and navigate it properly. The book is helpful in improving one's emotional well-being and health, and in making positive...

In Homeroom Diaries, authors James Patterson and Lisa Papademetriou cover some heavy material in the very believable voice of main character, Maggie Clarke. It's junior year of high school, and Maggie "Cuckoo" Clarke has chosen optimism as her modus operandi. It doesn't matter that she...

Are you and your kids communicating? In the beginning of this book there is a neat little quiz, and I know you will find it as amazing as I did. Questions like: do your kids spend more time texting friends than talking to you? Do...

Landed on Black by Zach Fortier is a first-hand look at the reality of police work. Zach is a retired American police officer and this is where he recounts a number of situations that he has found himself involved in over the years. It takes...

Corey is completely in love with Kate, never mind that he isn't even eighteen yet. He has been in love with her for a thousand years, or at least in terms of the quantum physics that allow the jumps they do regularly happen. Kate loves...

In TJ by Boris Beedle, TJ Hartwell -- a dashing young actor, with a bitter and angry disposition in life -- will find himself in an overly eventful night he has never expected until now. He will come face to face with the bitterness and...

Andi Stevens is a Seattle artist who is leaving her old life behind her and reuniting with her career obsessed fiancé in New York. In Kiss A Cowboy, Andi doesn’t make it to New York because her transmission leaves her stranded in the Montana mountains....