Word Up! - How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them) by Marcia Riefer Johnston is about writing, the nuances and techniques of writing well, and how to improve your writing skills. The book tells you how to make your...

He's All Over the Place! by Terri Kelley is a delightful story for children. The story revolves around a young boy who gets a new pup as his pet. He tries to think of a suitable name for the pup and none seem to fit....

War, The Lash Series: Book Three by Tara Fox Hall is a complex, emotional, historical fiction novel, introducing readers to World War II, combat strategies, and the emotional realities of war. Readers may often struggle to read historical novels because of a "boring" tone or...

Kids and adults alike often take a ribbing for the way that their name sounds or the nicknames that can be formed from the use of their names. At times, those added names can be mean. However, What’s In a Name? written by Terri Kelley...

Because most people in today’s society believe that beauty is only skin deep, I Am Beautiful by Terri Kelley and illustrated by Ana Zdravkovic, is a way to start children off right, believing that their worth and their beauty is found in the many things...

Tongue Twisters are a fun and memorable part of childhood. Who doesn't remember Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers? In Terri Kelley's new book for kids aged K-3rd grade, we get to experience tongue twisters all over again. There were the classics like...

Saturday Night Dance Club (A Novel Based on a True Story) by Karen Truesdell Riehl is a novel that invites readers to share the lives of four couples during the course of a 30-year span, 1900 – 1930, in which each experienced and suffered differently...

After a brief conversation with her mother, Rose’s entire life begins to unravel. What she thought was just missing money morphed into the end of her marriage and a new chapter in her life. Looking around her soon-to-be-former home, Rose realizes just how blind she...

Figments by Julie Elizabeth Powell is a collection of short stories that includes a variety of themes; relationship between mother and son, a child and his late father, love, spiritual and even paranormal, fantasy and much more. Also included is a collection of beautiful poems...

Bad To The Bone - The True Story of David Tuccaro Jr. by Marala Scott is a story of self-discovery. It is soul stirring and heart wrenching and it can actually change your perspective on how to take things in life in a good way....

Sal, Captain of the Baby Guards, by Jennifer Reinoehl, is a delightful romp into a toddler’s imagination. Sal comes from a long and distinguished line of baby guards that have been given the important task of protecting their family from the dangers of dragons. Sal’s...

Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends by Victoria Noe is one of a series of books about techniques for handling grief. This particular book speaks to a generation of people who lived through the beginning of an epidemic that has...

Lavender Days by Robin Squire is a superb introspective romance story. This book will undoubtedly play at your heartstrings and will appeal to an adult audience. Gabriel Reeve is a 60-something bachelor, living an empty life in London, England. That is until the fateful...

A Silly Rhyming Alphabet Book About Animals from A to Z, written by Simone Da Costa and illustrated by Anindita Modak, is a fun book that will teach children the alphabet as well as connecting an animal with each letter. There is a page for...

The Other, by R Lawson Gamble, transported me to Elk Wells, Arizona, a tiny town on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Many in the town had long thought that John Roundtree had been dabbling in things of a dark supernatural nature, so when a little...

7:10 by Dominique Wilkins is a thought provoking story about a woman, Charlotte, and her twin daughters, Adele and Estelle, who are forced out of their home when a surprise Charlotte plans for her husband, Greg, goes wrong in a way she could have never...

Mantequero by Jenny Twist is a short story built upon an old Spanish superstition. Also known as Sacamantecas, Mantequero featured in a story parents told their children, to keep them from wandering too far from home. Not at all unlike probably every culture that has...

When Shannon finally admitted that she was in love with the graduate teaching assistant of her favorite professor’s archaeology class, Nate, it was forever. There were plenty of heartbreaking years attached to their love, as well as a son. Hello Again by Karen Truesdell Riehl...

Hypocrisy and true faith are contrasted expertly in The Mercy Seat (Freedom Baptist Trilogy) by Alvetta Rolle. The journey of Sofia Douglas as she moves from a lost and hopeless teenage streetwalker to a grown up redeemed woman is gracefully handled by Alvetta in a...

The stories that his grandpa told couldn’t possibly be true. There was no possible way that Grandpa Albert, who was nearly 90 years old could be a Martian. However, that’s exactly what he told his grandson Nicholas in Grandpa’s a Martian, written by Tom Wehrman...