The Pit: Watchmaker's Hell, Book One by L.A. Barnes is an amazing, terror driven story that you will want to read again. All of us are curious about the afterlife and what happens when we die. In this novel, a group of people is shown...

Scarred is an incredible story by Elizabeth Montgomery, which literally took my breath away. Avery is a school student who has lived most of her life with being bullied due to the scar on her face left by many surgeries to correct a cleft palate....

The Travels and Travails of Music by Ruth Finnegan is aptly summarized in the sub-title: A tale of music, culture, and radio in the South Seas. I first came across this author when I read her scholarly and insightful work, Communicating: The Multiple Modes of...

Music – what is it? Why is it so ingrained into our society? How does it exist above and beyond and within sound itself? And is it more than words spoken, even poetry? So many questions about something that so many of us take for...

In Cupid’s Got a Glock, The Black Valentine has devoted his entire life to danger, to death, and to loneliness, but things are about to change with one assignment that introduces him to a young woman with a past of her own and a child...

A Beholden Heart by M.L. Steinbrunn is a fresh and captivating YA story that gives credence to the old adage, “all is not as it seems.” About to head into her senior year in what’s been a somewhat sheltered life for reasons that aren’t...

Gail Hickman, a Canadian Native American from the Okanagan Indian Band, writes a collection of meaningful poems in Reflections of the Soul. The poetry is divided into four categories: Family, Friendship, Condolences and Life Experiences. Hickman expresses: “We become our own art painting, a lifestyle...

Wow! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading Mayflower, the first book in debut author Linda Smigaj's Fly on the Wall series. This was simply a fantastic read; fun, adventurous and rooted in history with quite an interesting protagonist, a cheese fly named...

Welcome to Rio! Well Maybe Not...: Adventure, Romance, Joy, Destitution and Escape. Nothing Could Go Wrong — Until Everything Did is a non-fiction travel memoir written by Kay Henkel. The author was a young adult when the Second World War ended, and even from her...

An extremely hot romance, Hook Up by author Harvey Jones follows the story of Macy, a character driven to explore her innermost sexual desires. When she hooks up with Tobias, a young architect who is also ready to find what he thinks has been missing...

Ew! The Shabby Sheep by Scott Lemonier is the touching story of a sad and lonely sheep, nicknamed Ew, and his search for friends. Ew loves playing in the mud and doing other weird things. This makes him smelly and bizarre so no other animal...

Emily is a very bright, cheerful and creative little girl. She loves to write stories and draw pictures. There are a lot of other things she loves too, like bright colors, the seashore, the moon and the stars. She also likes a very special mirror...

Words of Wisdom for Teens: Five Simple Questions to Reclaim Your Happiness (and have an amazing parent/daughter relationship) asks these five simple questions: 1. What Am I Feeling? 2. Why Do I Feel This Way? 3. Is This Emotion Useful For Any Reason? 4. How...

Gwen Banta's The Fly Strip is an uproariously funny historical novel that will have you in stitches. Cue Shawn Mendes. Malcolm "Weed" Clapper is a seventeen-year-old boy who has suffered a tragedy so painful that when he moved in with his grandmother, he made up...

Keith R. Mueller’s Journey to the Black City unravels two thousand years after the world as we know it has come to a devastating and shocking end. Human civilization has perished in the face of a war between two powerful countries forced to deal with...

Mr. Waldorf is off to Texas. But he's somehow lost his spectacles and he can't see very well without them. He asks us to help him find his spectacles, but in the meantime, Mr. Waldorf is going to do some sightseeing and have a little...

The Spectacular World of Waldorf: Mr. Waldorf Travels to the Wild State of Alaska by authors Beth Ann Stifflemire and Barbara Terry is a cute, educational book for children. Mr. Waldorf travels to Alaska and ends up losing his reading glasses. He then travels all...

Piano Paradises: My Piano Has A Big Secret by Elerya is an imaginative children’s book that should please early readers and keep them engaged. Six-year-old Chanelle loves to play instruments — flute, clarinet, and piano — but she really wants a piano of her own....

Peace, Love n' Mud by Kraig Geiger tells a young boy’s compelling life story. Born in North Miami Beach, Florida, Geiger tells his and his family’s tumultuous life story in almost a straight narrative manner, from before he was born to when he wrote Peace,...

Benton Johnson and the Tale of Tu'i Malila, Part 1 by Matthew Readling is an exciting YA action and fantasy story. Young Benton Johnson finds himself washed up on a remote beach after falling into the ocean whilst on a Junior Discoverers' trip. Concerned to...