"Hip Hip Hurray We Found Teddy" by author Silvia Sullivan allows the reader into the life of a mouse whose life is very orderly and tidy. Mouse enjoys his routine and finds it fulfilling, even the town he lived in was called "Everything Has A...

Burned Bridges is a story about Traci Collins, a recovering alcoholic. She and her three friends, Norman, Kevin and Olivia, support one another in the tough battle against alcoholism. The book is narrated by Traci, who is a lovely woman with a troubled past. She's...

"Beautifully Absurd" by Robert Ashley MD is a curious medical fiction book that introduces us to Paul Matthews, a man who rebelled against the status quo of being a husband, father and bread winner. This rebellion will leave him with the desire to see the...

"Love's Promises" by Deborah Armstrong brings us into the story of Quinn and Davina Thomas. It always seems easy to make that promise to love someone forever but when life happens and your life happens to be in Hollywood it can be a little more...

Authors Janet Carpman and Myron Grant have written "Directional Sense: How to Find Your Way Around" as a guide for the traveler on how to read signs, consult maps and ask for directions. As the Foreword, by Richard Saul Wurman, states, "For directionally challenged people,...

It is 2307, nearly three hundred years since nuclear war destroyed the Earth. Now, the only civilization remaining is the people of the Dome, a sealed refuge from the toxic radiation that remains. The people of the Dome live in luxury, but it comes at...

This is a true to life story of a couple, both teachers, who raised their two children, Ian and Ali, while traveling around the world. Author Jill Dobbe and her husband Dan did not let their two young children stop them from traveling around the...

"My Cat Won’t Bark!" is an interesting book with a charmingly whimsical title. The subtitle "A Relationship Epiphany" refers to the author’s perspective from which he produced the book and may or may not apply to the reader’s experience. However, even if you don’t experience...

"Benjamin" tells the story of a boy lost in his own despair. His home life is less than desirable with his mother's taste in abusive men. He is ridiculed and tormented at school between bullies and a sexual predator. His teenage years are a roller-coaster...

"God’s Wake-Up Call" by Dr. Rick Metrick is a well-written book aimed at the believers of Jesus. It is intended to remind them that they are living in the last days before the rapture. This book shows us how we must look around and see...

This is Bear. He is flying through the air. As he flies, he remembers something his mother told him. It starts out like this: “If you ever stumble, trip and fall . . .” But he just couldn’t remember the rest. So Bear begins a...

"Where Shifters Meet for Drinks: The Blue Moon Café Series" by Ioana Vison is a collection of seven short paranormal stories. The short story is not an easy genre to market, especially given the proliferation of novellas these days. However, this collection works almost as...

Adoption is never a guarantee that the child you get will be what you had in mind, that the biological parents will actually go through with it at the last minute or that the country from which the child derives will be hospitable to your...

We all know what the ‘Terrible Twos’ refers to, and Kanika Wilkins has so vividly captured this phrase in her new book, “Terrible, Too.” On the day Nikki turned two, she not only turned two years-old, but she went into that terrible stage too. She...

We first meet Tabatha in "Zyanya", a contemporary fantasy by Greta Benavides Adame. Tabatha is travelling with her mother and step-father to their new home in the jungle, and she is not at all happy about leaving her home and friends back in Texas. Zyanya...

“Things I Wish I’d Known” by Julie-Anne is the book we’d all like to write. Who hasn’t had occasion to think “if I’d only known then what I know now . . .”? Julie-Anne took that lament one step further, and put it on paper,...

I was a little unsure of what to think when I got this book but I have a young cousin who needs some guidance as she is growing up and sadly her Mom is just interested in giving it. "God's Special Forces: A Manuel for...

"Heal Your Broken Heart", written by Michael Kane, is a must read book, for anyone dealing with the loss of a spouse, partner or friend. It deals caringly with the emotional pain caused by the sudden loss of a loved one. Michael skilfully propels the...

"Maggie's Fall" is a story that revolves around the life of Maggie McClellan. Orphaned and about to become a single mother, she inherited her parents' ranch and finds out that running the place is a big challenge. She settles down with Martha and Jonas, who...

“Partners” by Dave McGowan transported me back to the year 1866. Unseen, I journeyed alongside Thomas Brash in his attempt to escape memories. He left behind his hundred acre farm, a teaching position, everything he once thought was important. After burying his wife and two...