Heaven’s Playground: New Beginnings Can Sometimes Be Disguised As Painful Endings by Tracey Smith is an inspirational read involving a very difficult subject matter. The death of a loved one is a sorrowful and traumatic experience, but it just seems so much worse when the...

A “Closet Sherlockian” is what Trisha White Priebe calls the Sherlock mystery lovers in her book, A Sherlock Holmes Devotional - a case by case devotional based on the Sherlock Holmes mysteries written by Arthur Conan Doyle. In a surprising twist, this book contains Sherlock...

Katie and the North Star by Katie and Bethany Lopez is a delightful story of a fallen star that Katie finds lying in the hay one morning. Polaris, the star, thinks she must have fallen down during the meteor shower the previous night. Polaris takes...

Love and Recipes by Bethany Lopez is a book that adopts an interesting way of presenting recipes. It covers a range of American foods while citing the context in which the food was referred to in romance author Bethany Lopez's novels. In doing so, the...

The Lost Remnant, Book One: Pieces of Eden is a young adult fantasy novel by J.N. Race. The plot centers on a young woman named Azsha Daggerwall, who lives her life as part of a travelling gypsy tribe. Confined to this life by her overbearing...

C.D. Bryan has written an excellent introduction to his Flight Knight series. In his first book, No Aliens Allowed, the three children are introduced. Parker, along with his friends Hanna and Mark, are being chased by bullies when they stumble upon an alien crash site....

The second book in C.D. Bryan's Flight Knight series, Take Me to Your Leader, tells about a mysterious mission for beginning Flight Knights Parker, Mark, and Hanna. They receive a message that there is an alien threat to the nearby community. Parker's new neighbor as...

Never Board A Green Bus (Flight Knights, Book 3) by C.D. Bryan is a fun, witty story for middle graders and preteens. When Hanna Stevens receives an emergency alien alert, she believes she has enough time to wait for school to end before putting on...

Sherry Strawberry's Clubhouse by Donna E. Hart is the story of Sherry Strawberry and her fruit friends, including Molly Mango and Gabbie Grape, who decide to go to her clubhouse to play. When they get there, however, the ladder is missing and they can't get...

Contending for the Faith by Christopher H.K. Persaud was a very different kind of read for me. I found it to be extremely compelling and thought provoking as well. Persaud has a real knack for writing and it shows through in this work. In today's...

Names such as Darwin and Einstein will immediately be associated with a heightened mental acuity and scientific authority until one reads Christopher H.K. Persaud’s Evolution: Beyond the Realm of Real Science, a compelling and insightful book that systematically unveils loopholes in the theory of evolution....

The Miracle Mitzvah Moose by Dawn Wynne is a beautifully written story about a young girl named Abbey, who feels out of place and out of sorts after moving to a new home. Abbey has no friends and she is feeling down and alone when...

Ah, Sweet Life by E. Adrian Dzahn is an extremely moving, beautifully written fictional story about a woman named Andrea Gabe, or Andy. Written in the first person narrative, Andy recounts her childhood and the instability that accompanied it, including sexual abuse and rape by...

One Night At The Jacaranda by Carol Cooper is a story of discovery, a tale of one night that can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself or about life. The Jacaranda is holding a speed-dating event. Sanjay has been diagnosed with terminal...

The Audacious Little Princesses (The Audacious Series) by Janet Breceda Wright, A.E. Wright, and Nataly Michelle Wright is the story of six little girls who lived in the same neighborhood. They lived in a land of tamales, bagels, wontons, collard greens and hamburgers. Although their...

The Quiet Kill is a mystery novel written by Luke Taylor. Loeb Cohen is a young writer who's had a best-selling novel published and made into a popular television series. His agents, of course, want more. His days are spent quietly trying to write at...

The Shining Stone is Book Two of the epic fantasy series, The Avatar of Calderia. This is fantasy in the grand tradition of Tolkien with all of the classical elements. The Shining Stone opens with a glimpse of a huge, powerful, dark army boarding ships...

Things to Do in Amsterdam: Museums by Marko Kassenaar and Liesbeth Heenk presents art in a conversational and enjoyable way. This is a 4-book set of lavishly illustrated pages, with Book 1 showing the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Book 2 - Anne Frank House, Book 3...

South Face by C.F. Waller is a thrilling paranormal fiction read. The story recounts how in 1989, Karl and Fiona Blaine, along with their friend Zachary, went on a Mt. Everest climbing expedition, but only Zachary came back alive. Twenty years later, an unrelated climbing...

The Vintner's Daughter by Kristen Harnisch is by far the best historical romance novel that I have read in a while. It centers on a young woman growing up on a farm, whose family sells white wine until the fatal death of her father. Soon...