The Mark of Noba (The Sterling Wayfairer Series Book 1) by G.L. Tomas is a young adult fantasy about Sterling's attempt to make his mark on his senior year. But when students start to disappear from school, people start to ask questions. Sterling learns that...

The Commode Companion by Rolf C. Margenau is a collection of photographs termed by the author as an excellent bathroom companion. I felt bad, thinking he was belittling his work, then I read that his decision was in line with the scientific finding; laughter cures...

Time Management: How to Plan Your Week, Stay Productive and Motivated the Entire Time by Andy Smith mentions getting a calendar as step one of this process. Finding a space with no distractions and other important elements, namely activity recall and mind dumping are then...

Stop Renting, Start Buying: 8 Steps to Buying a Home After the Housing Crisis is a non-fiction business/finance work written by Tonya Brown. Brown wants renters to consider whether becoming home owners can improve both their daily lives and their fortunes. While acknowledging the hesitant...

Steer Your Big Boat Your Own Way by Udolph Singh begins with a deeply inspiring story to introduce self-confidence and its importance in life. Thereafter, he discusses self-motivation and self-efficacy. In both of these also, he suggests a lot of ways to enhance one's talents,...

Meagan Jeffrey reaches out to readers with her incredible voice and unique expressions in her new collection, Untouchable Words – Poetry Volume 2. Bordering around emotions like pain, sorrow, love, joy, heartache and humor, the author finds a comfortable space with readers with her beautiful...

Persephone loves flowers and nature, and especially the light of the sun. She and her mother Demeter live happily on Mount Olympus amid the nymphs and flowers that bring such joy. Then disaster strikes when Zeus, the father of gods and men, as well as...

I chose to read Friend Grief in the Workplace: More Than an Empty Cubicle by Victoria Noe because of all the violence happening at workplaces nowadays. When I see people crying for their lost co-workers, my heart goes out to them. Before this book it...

Killer Carat Cream by Patrice Lyle is the second book in The Health Nut Mysteries. Dr Piper Meadows is two things – a naturopath and self-confessed chocoholic, as long as it is dark chocolate, of course. Piper is hosting an evening to launch a brand...

Straight Talk About Franchising: What I Learned and You Need to Know: A Comprehensive Guide to Making a Choice and Putting It into Action is a non-fiction business/finance book written by Cynthia Readnower. The author was a franchisee for six years and owned two franchise...

The human race is at war with a highly advanced race, the Quols, evil lords of darkness who like to toy with their intended victims, fomenting war and discontent and using the resulting chaos as the basis of a game of chance. Three undercover operatives...

The reason I chose to read Creamed at the Coffee Cabana: A Cozy Mystery by Constance Barker was simply because it had “coffee” in the title. When the most hated lady in Sweet Home, Florida, is found murdered in the Coffee Cabana, Lily Parker, owner...

Shellie Nichol takes you on a scenic journey down the road called life in her book, Destination: Hope - A Guide Through Life’s Unexpected Journeys. When tragedy happens, when you face a detour or a fork in the road, how do you react? Hide? Get...

Whoa! What an epic read. In author D.E. Zlotnik's new novel, Myk: Prince of the Vends, readers will find themselves absolutely immersed in the world of second century Europe (in roughly the area that we would now find Poland.) We are introduced to Myk, the...

Hippiebanker: Bringing Peace, Love and Spirituality to the Workplace by Camille Sacco is a 12-week guide book about learning how to become a “spiritual activist” by incorporating spirituality into the workplace. Camille begins with an introductory note: “We don’t need to quit our corporate jobs,...

Black Plastic is the story of four friends, Bill, Corbin, Ryan and Shane, who are visited by aliens and chosen to be ambassadors for the human race based solely on the fact that they are ridiculously high at the time. When they realize that the...

Sioux Sunrise by Ron Schwab is the perfect cowboy and Indian story. Sarah is the only member of the Kesterson family left on the ranch after a small Sioux raiding party kills her parents and kidnaps her young brother, Billy. Tom and Joe Carnes are...

In a heart-wrenching and heart-warming read, When Will the Secrets End? by Patricia K. Batta, we find ourselves immersed in the lives of husband and wife Marge Christensen and Pete Peterson and their foster sons, 12-year-old Eric and 11-year-old Benjamin. Marge and Pete are eager...

Inconceivable! by Tegan Wren takes place in a European country. It follows Hatty, a college student from Missouri, and the heir, Prince John Meinrad’s life. They met at a bar accidentally. It didn’t take long for them to fall in love with each other. Soon,...

CA Jamison pens an electrifying tale in Polarity: Children of the Orb. An Indiana mining accident uncovered an alien orb. A cosmic storm brews within this orb, releasing rejuvenating power. All those who touched it were healed and became ageless. The survivors of the cave-in...