Wow...just, Wow! How's that for a review? That's exactly how I felt after I finished reading Before Your Next Excuse: A True Story of Addiction, Loss, Hope and the Power of Choice by debut author Ned Barrett. In a wonderful, funny, emotional and at times...

Ramakrishna Michaels was born and raised in a family where expressing emotions was taboo. As a result, he was forced to bottle up many painful emotions, an act that would affect the rest of his life. In his memoir titled Growing Old With Grace: How...

In Follow Me Home, Jen Benjamin has her heroine, Katie Kendall, tell her story in the first person, making it easy for us to understand Katie's doubts, insecurities, and loneliness. When the book opens, Katie has already had her first novel published; it became a...

The Adventures Of Stupid The Cat by Brenda Borders and Bruce A. Borders is a fun and entertaining story for all children, especially cat lovers. Chips is picked up one stormy night by a girl who tells the cat that it's going to live with...

Wow. Just wow. I just finished reading Until We Meet Again: Battling Mental Illness & Suicide - A True Story of Loss and Survival, the personal story of author Lauren Panobianco, and I am still thinking about it. Follow the story of Lauren's brother, Frank,...

Maternal Threads by Frances Susanne Brown is a very interesting read. The author discovers a hidden family secret after her mother’s death. Brown goes on to talk about her own relationship with her daughter. However, I thought the secret that Brown found out came out...

I Want to Write a Story: A Kid's Guide to Writing by Lisa Waters is a guide for children to help them grasp the basics of writing and how to structure a story. It contains links to certain websites where they can find story prompts...

“Death is an illusion. We can’t die. Our essence is eternal. Your body is no longer alive. It’s impermanent. But as you can see, you’re more than a body.” Moments after her departure from Earth, Ursula is counselled by what will be her spiritual guide...

Inside The Paris Effect, readers will find a woman who is not smooth around the edges, but is rough and a little frayed. Amy and her friend Kat take up much of the novel. In everything Amy does, she either has her husband William telling...

Blooming Serenity is an arts and crafts book illustrated by Karen McDermott and published by Serenity Press. Inside this beautiful book, the inquisitive reader will find fourteen full sized floral designs. With a little imagination, these designs can be colored in thousands of unique...

Life. Love. Romance. Adventure. What do all of these terms have in common? They are the words of expression that the authors used in telling their stories in Rocky Romance: A Serenity Romance Anthology by Serenity Press. Exactly what inspired this type of book? Rocky...

Wolf Wood (Part One The Gathering Storm) by Mike Dixon is an excellent period piece set in 1436-1437 in late medieval England. The story is based upon the conflict over ownership and use of a baptismal font, with the two sides being All Hallows Church,...

Gilded Moon by A.L. Meinhold is the second book in The Sapphire Star Saga. I read and enjoyed the first book and this one provides more of the same action, adventure, and drama. I strongly advise reading the first book of this epic saga before...

Black Horse (Breaking Black Book 1) by Addison Kline is a romantic suspense with plenty of fire. Averi Ford has been best friends with Colt McClain since they were young. Now they are more than best friends, but Averi’s brothers are not happy about the...

While it is certainly true that not everyone is cut out for college and that college doesn’t guarantee success, in College: Success Without It Edward Wynn makes some bold statements about the lack of need for a college degree. For those who are curious as...

Death on Lake Michigan is a murder mystery novel written by Steven Arnett. Mike O’Brien is a reporter and assistant editor for the Gull Haven Observer. While he could have tried to get a journalist’s position at one of the big city papers, he loved...

Beneath the Surface by Heather Nadine Lenz is freakishly surreal. Natalia awakes feeling trapped within herself. Everything is off, foggy, things are not right. Actually, almost nothing makes sense. Questions invade her mind. Why does she feel so terrible? Who are the children...

Caching In by Tracy Krimmer is a love story told from Ally Couper's point of view. Ally Couper is your average 29-year-old woman who is unhappy with her current job and who has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend after she found out that...

K: The Awakening by K.R. Fajardo is an epic fantasy that will take you on a journey to a place where there is magic, love, myth, and a lot of adventure. Mikel lives in a small town named Vicaris; he has a daughter named Citera...

The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner Trilogy Book 1) is a zombie apocalyptic horror story by Stevie Kopas. The end of the world is bad and Kopas is there to show us just how ugly it gets when humans become flesh-starved, crazy, vicious monsters. The story hops...