Short & Tall Tales in Goose Pimple Junction by Amy Metz is filled with short stories and one long tale. All the stories are focused around Metz’s characters in her Goose Pimple Junction series. All the stories are also connected with each other somehow. Before...

Buddy Comes to Breakfast is a children’s nonfiction animal picture book written and illustrated by Dee Marvin Emeigh. The book also contains a number of Emeigh’s photographs. Buddy is a small desert tortoise who lives with the author’s friend, Amelie, in the desert. He lives...

In the riveting novel, Winds of Freedom by Rebecca Carey Lyles, Kate and Mike Duncan battle extreme situations in an effort to save all that they care about. Together with Mike's widowed mother, Laura, they run a bison/guest ranch, Whispering Pines, in Wyoming. Kate's Aunt...

Rebecca Carey Lyles has joined with over thirteen other authors to create a wonderful collection of short stories in Passageways: A Short Story Collection. It appears that Rebecca carefully selected these authors because of how each story melds together. This is a great book for...

The Black Guard by C.R. Daems is an entertaining science fiction read. I would describe the genre as science fiction meets military drama meets action/adventure all rolled into one. The story follows a girl named Rivka, who was given over to the military by her...

Rowan’s Home Psychiatric Institution hides a terrible, old secret in White Walls by HMC. That is where Dr. Jade Thatcher has secured a new position as a psychiatric counselor. She has chosen to move back home to be near her brother and father after many...

The Esoteric Path of Marriage: A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment Through Relationship by Maha Brown and David Pan Brown is an engaging read which revolves around the importance of being in the right relationship. This will take one on a liberating path of spiritual enlightenment...

“I cry because I want to still be a boy, not a guardian. I miss my life and I miss my home.” Pixies in Neverland are dying, and without someone to believe in them, Neverland would soon cease to exist. Tink is the only pixie...

MacAoidh (Kie) Armstrong is trying to take up residence at The Ring, a lovely Scottish homestead, but unusual events conspire to keep him away in The Ghost Tree by Sara Bain. After an unprovoked attack on a neighbour, Libby Butler is called in as Kie's...

After eighty years of conflict, the War of the Roses is nearing its end. Edward IV made a disastrous mistake when he married Elizabeth Woodville. Her ambitious family did everything to increase their power and suspicions were aroused when Edward died mysteriously at the age...

Terry the Troublesome Troll by Dylan Ingram is an adorable story for kids. Terry the troublesome troll lives in Happy Land and no one there likes to play with him because he is not nice to anyone. One day while he was playing, Mrs Sparklebottoms...

Coloring Serenity by Karen McDermott is a collection of mandalas that can be colored appropriately for one's taste. They generally are of abstract forms, of geometrical shapes and figures, and the full set contains twenty different patterns. These more or less resemble contemporary designs and...

Recovered Essence: How Toxic Relationships Impact Your Inner Child by Christine A. Wilson is an inspirational and uplifting book that will be helpful to many readers in overcoming betrayal and heartache, taking them to a point where there is true hope. Most of us will...

Lost Souls by Penny de Byl is a thrilling novel about what happens when man decides to play with creation. The future proves that man's survival depends on venturing into outer space, and Biogen Corporation has found just the place to do it: Titan, a...

What a creepy, creepy little read I just finished. The first book in author Victoria Randall’s Children in Hiding series, Get on Board Little Children, gives readers a glimpse into a dystopian future, one in which high tech surveillance keeps tabs on every citizen, and...

I'm Not Crazy... I'm Allergic by Sherilyn Powers is a recounting of her own experiences written with a story component, her own observations, and medical studies to help explain the connections between allergies and depression. Through the experiences of Julie, the author acquaints us with...

The New Du Rose Matriarch by KT Bowes is the fourth novel in the Hana Du Rose Mysteries series. Re-joining Hana and Logan, as well as baby Phoenix, the small family is recovering from the tragic events that occurred at the end of Du Rose...

Randi M. Sherman’s The Lobby lets readers be a fly on the wall at the prestigious Shipley Hotel in San Francisco. The many intertwined stories take place over 24 hours from 4:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. the next day. The Shipley is hosting both a...

Clean is a young adult coming of age novel written by Mia Kerick. Lanny Keating is entering his senior year in high school as a popular football player with strong prospects for a scholarship to a good school, but underneath the strong good looks and...

Pianist and composer Alexei Georg is on a devoted quest to compose his next symphony of the beluga whales of White Sea in Russia. Struggling for emancipation in his career after much bad press, the murders in Boston don’t bother Alexei as much as the...