Splintered by Thomas London is a humorous twist on an old fairy tale. We all know the story of Pinocchio, and we all know that he couldn’t lie. Now Pinocchio is a politician and he can’t tell the truth to save his life. Once upon...

When Matthew finds a tiny girl under the old truck in the yard, he questions her in hopes of discovering why she was there and from whence she came. Where were her parents? How did she get to this location? Feeling reasonably confident that he...

Jesper Jinx Goes Fishing (Volume 4) by Marko Kitti is a collection of stories about 11-year-old Jesper Jinx and his wonderfully wacky adventures. Jesper Jinx is bored. In order to alleviate his boredom, Jesper Jinx goes through an entire series of adventures. First, he spies...

Email Management using Gmail by Ceri Clark shows ways to automate one's email organization, specifically aimed at users of Gmail. It helps one in doing more productive work, rather than fighting the monster of email overload. It begins with a general discussion on the use...

Logoons: Cartoons from Word Definitions is a non-fiction humor work written by Dennis Garcia and illustrated by David Camacho. Garcia plumbs the alphabet in search of weird, unusual and not-so-unusual words and then proceeds to put his own weird spin on each of them. This...

Sometimes a single bad memory overshadows years of wonderful ones, but realizing it is what saves Elli Eversol from turning her back on her favorite place on earth – Sand Dollar Cove. Nancy Naigle has created the quaint North Carolina coastal town of Sand Dollar...

Gus belongs to a big family - a really big family. There are nine children in his family and another one on the way. His parents named the children alphabetically, which puts Gus somewhere in the middle of the family ages. He's seven and he...

Cisco Bandits (A Gwynn Reznick Novel) by Inge-Lise Goss centers on newly trained operative Gwynn Reznick, who goes undercover for her first assignment; investigating one of the highly private companies who call on Ruben Dordi’s Investigation Group. Posing as an accountant for the Prudell Energy...

A young girl, scarred for life from a brutal assault, thrown out of her home by a mother who no longer can stand to look at her – this girl now lives above the comic book store where she works. She hides her scarred face...

Snapshots From My Uneventful Life is a non-fiction humorous memoir written by David I. Aboulafia. In his introduction, the author theorizes that our memories of past events are really more like snapshots taken in succession, and so the memoirs that comprise this book are his...

Not that I would wish marital struggles on anyone, but I'm so glad that Steven D. Matthews had them to eventually prompt him to write Marriage: Convenient or Covenant. I loved, loved, loved this book! Matthews writes in a down-to-earth way as if he...

Potus Goes to Washington by T. Pascal begins with an elated president elect, Potus, who was named thus (President Of The United States) for better chances of reelection, selecting the wrong speech at his swearing in. He stumbles, but starts with his busy schedule. A...

Why is She Acting So Weird?: A Guide to Cultivating Closeness When a Friend is in Crisis by Jenn McRobbie is a very fitting title. For anyone that has ever had a friend or relative or even been the one going through a crisis, be...

Wow. Just, wow. How's that for a review? Pretty great, right? Well, that's definitely what I thought when I finished reading the highly unique, highly inventive and highly fantastic book by author Mark Stone, Calasade: Sanguiem Isle. Follow the story of Caderyn, a wounded and...

Working as Lexi’s photographer assistant was the perfect job for Lindley. She could live at home and save on those adult bills that would deem her independent. That was also the problem. She was an adult and sincerely needed to be making her own way...

Alana Candler, Marked for Murder was just one twist after another in an action packed mystery that reads like a thriller. Toss in a dash of romantic tension and I just couldn't put it down. Literally. I read it in one sitting. It was well-paced...

Emma is not your typical gal, no, she moved to a tiny little town, bought a run-down looking store in the middle of town, and made it into a used bookstore and coffee shop, then bought herself a little cottage way out of town to...

Strange Luck by Amie Irene Winters is a young adult fantasy that takes the reader on a magical adventure into a strange and unique new world. Daisy is 17 and wants to save her father from his chronic condition. So she sets out...

Lady Bird: Shawn’s Sixth Sense by Gracie Bradford is a short book about a ten-year-old boy, Shawn, and how he adapts to a sight disability with the help of his friend and doggie pal, Lady Bird. Lady Bird is a beagle whose instincts and senses...

Finding Fizz by Julie Hodgson is a story depicting the power of love. The story opens with Sam in the midst of paradise, but for him heaven is hell. Although surrounded by profound serenity and beauty, Sam feels no emotion, no impact. Held within...