When beginning a review of an autobiography, there is a fuzzy area that must be managed. Are you reviewing the book itself, or are you judging the life of the author? Susan Shumsky’s autobiography, Maharishi and Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles' Guru, makes me...

Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii by TW Neal is a mesmerizing memoir that takes readers on a somewhat hilarious ride through the life of the author raised by hippie surfer parents. Born in 1965, Toby quickly discovers that her hippie parents...

The Dark Archer by Robert Cano is an epic fantasy with unusual and strong themes. Bene suddenly finds himself trapped between life and the void. He wanted to protect the princess, but the results have brought him to a place where he experiences neither the...

SkyLine: The Dragon Commander by Kennedy King is a riveting sci-fi story with a setting in the future, a world transformed by technology in 2350. It is an age when people are already familiar with AI nanotech police officers and where life vacillates between a...

If you operate a website, it's likely that you often receive emails offering SEO services. Self-proclaimed experts in search-engine optimization proliferate in today's hungry, high-tech world. There is no shortage of site owners wishing they knew the secrets to attracting more attention. So SEO techs...

The Carlswick Mythology: The Carlswick Mysteries, Book 5 is a sleuth mystery novel written by S.L. Beaumont. While they had had their share of adventures together, Stephanie Cooper and her rock-star boyfriend of eighteen months, James Knox, were finally going away together on vacation. She...

Angel on Assignment: An Angelic Tradition by Wanda Carter Roush is an enchanting book and a great way to introduce children to angels. The book begins with a Heavenly Messenger coming down from the sky and telling Mary about a wonderful surprise. They send a...

Chloe and Shauna are on holiday on the beautiful island of Bali and they decide to visit the Monkey Forest Sanctuary. They both are very excited and they read the rules of the Sanctuary before entering it. The Blue Board has lots of rules on...

Body Art (The Joshua Lucas Chronicles) by Sterling Samuels is an interesting thriller featuring two indefatigable detectives and an evasive serial killer. SBI agent Joshua Lucas and lead homicide detective Samuel Santiago are determined to solve the murder of the lead singer of a band....

Crazy About Kurt is a coming of age novel written by Will Link. Spring was in the air, and especially appreciated after a long, cold Long Island winter. As the seniors walked into Smithtown High School, there was an air of anticipation mingled with a...

Reno Ursal has produced a rare type of tale with Enlightenment, one with a fictional story line told over historical details which teach the reader things they didn't previously know. The story is told mostly from the perspective of two people; Dorothy Dizon, a high...

In Animal Wisdom Word Search: Yoga for the Brain, authors Cristina Smith, Rick Smith and Lauren McCall have compiled a volume of interesting word search puzzles that highlight the communication between humans and animals. Each section contains an insightful conversation between Lauren McCall and the...

A compelling historical novel with a setting in 1916, Beneath the Willow by Michael J Murphy plunges the reader into a world ravaged by war. It's against this backdrop that the author weaves a narrative that explores the horrors of war, with powerful hints of...

You Owe Me One by Kathryn Hollingworth is a horror novel covering the lives of two men who became indebted to the devil. Set in the 2000s, Joe was very young when his sister saved him from imminent death. He was never the same after...

Children get scared every time the dark skies roar and grumble, and they jump into their parents' beds in The Sky Monster Grumbles by Regina Puckett. The rumble leaves children quivering with the covers pulled over their heads, and sometimes they shiver and cry....

Sometimes it’s hard to accept who we are and what we look like. Wilhelmina is a pretty little fairy. But she’s different. She has only one eyebrow that stretches across her forehead. It’s heavy and makes flying difficult. And all the other young fairies laugh...

J.P. Robinson begins Bride Tree with Pope Clement XIV commissioning twelve-year-old Fabio (aka Alexandre) to a life of deceit and destruction. His mission is to destroy the Bourbon rule of King Louis of France. All this so the Catholic church can step in and rule...

Truly the Fairy's Great Adventure by Lana VanValkenburgh-Bennett will take readers on an epic adventure along with Truly the Fairy. Truly lives in a forest known as Hopsmeadow. It is a lively little village full of Dinkyhop families who live in quaint huts made out...

I suspect very few people are unaware of events in the recent past where immigrant children of families seeking asylum in the US were forcibly separated from their parents and subsequently housed, like animals, in cages while the government decided what to do with them....

Babu and Bina at the Ghost Party by P. Tomar is the fascinating story of two elephant youngsters, Babu and Bina, who go to see the old Indian fort. Their parents, Papa Trunk and Mama Trunk, tell them that there will be lots of colors,...