The Secret Formula: Chompy & The Munchy Bunch by Nancy Beaule is a cute children's book with spooky undertones. Chompy the Carrot and his friend Salty read about a secret formula that gives them super-eye powers. Chompy must have that formula, so he asks Salty...

Search for the Hidden Treasure is the second book in the Chompy & the Munchy Bunch series, written by Nancy Beaule and illustrated by Lauren Goldstein. Depressed at his failed attempt to replicate Doc Peppa’s super eye formula which had previously been made at...

Exiles: A Mystery in Paris: The Daniel Levin Mysteries, Book 1 is an historical mystery written by Lawrence J. Epstein. It was 1925, and Daniel Levin aspired to be a writer. World War I had been a brutal experience for him, as it had been...

I took my time reading The Pursuit: Citizens of Logan Pond Book 3 by Rebecca Belliston because I was intrigued by the story, especially by the intense drama. The story follows Carrie Ashworth. She swore to protect her siblings and find the safest place for...

The Reapers is the first book in the paranormal series, The Hunted, written by Ali Winters. Nivian is a Silencer amongst the Reapers. Well respected, she has a perfect track record, but that changes the day she is pitted against a Hunter named Kain. Unlike...

Sheen Francis Reyes has divided the poems that comprise Brave Vulnerable into three chapters, written over an eighteen-month period of her life: Coastal Cliff, Treacherous Mountain, and Misty Lake. The poetry is freestyle, as her subject demands, and they record her journey from passionate love,...

In an attempt to revitalize her creativity and particularly her writing career which had gone stale, Weam Namou enlists in an online shamanic mystery school. This book, Healing Wisdom for a Wounded World: My Life-Changing Journey Through a Shamanic School, chronicles the realizations of her...

Making The Most Out Of 2017 by Liisa Kyle Ph.D. is a comprehensive workbook with an added planner-calendar. Do you know what you want from next year? Are you ready to start 2017 with a new way of thinking, a new attitude? Making The Most...

Six Minutes Early by Patrick Parker shows the great risk taken by security operatives in the fight against terrorism. Max Kensworth, a former Delta Force officer, is given the assignment of recovering stolen nuclear weapons (SADM). Representing the Department of Defense (DOD), he works closely...

I have been reading a lot of novels based on Norse mythology this month. I like them. I like the war. I like the doom and gloom attitude of Norse warriors. The Oath Breaker by Alaric Longward met all my expectations about stories centered around...

You’re the Rogue That I Want is the first book in the Rogues of Redmere series, written by Samantha Holt. Red is a smuggler who lives and works by his own rules. When Hannah St. John meets with him in a bar, he is anything...

The Secret King: First Contact is the sequel to Dawn Chapman's The Secret King: Lethao. Kendro, King of the Aonise, has led his people to a new world called Earth. Communicating primarily with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Kendro tries his best to...

Mitch and Sandi had the perfect life: gorgeous city apartment, two pretty children, a lucrative income, and the world in their hands. And then Mitch’s law firm went belly up and his father died. As Mitch reflects on his life, he realizes that neither of...

Never Summer by Tim Blaine is an adventure mixed with elements of self-discovery, the search for meaning, and the hidden importance of mortality. Vlad D’Agostino has lived the best days of his life in Japan. Now diagnosed with tuberculosis in its terminal phase and barely...

Frank Cudgill is a self-made man, a factory owner and farmer. Wealthy and upstanding in the community, he has no enemies and he is admired. When he and his wife, Lizzie, are unable to conceive they decide to adopt. They get a boy whom they...

Boss of the Whole Sixth Grade by Ann Herrick revolves around a sixth grader, Greta, who is studying at Beach Park Elementary School, Connecticut. Her parents are separated, her mother is still upset over the separation, and her father is away in Antarctica on a...

The Sightseers Agency: The Dreadnought Collective Book 5 by Terry Tumbler is one of the most creative takes on the future that I have ever read. The author is very creative and unique, creating witty dialogues, detailed descriptions, and amazing characterizations. Terry Tumbler is definitely...

Ramonst by A.F. Knott is a dark southern fiction novel filled with suspense, thrills, and mystery. This is a book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who enjoy dark Gothic fiction. The year is 1970 and an eleven-year-old...

The Boyfriend Whisperer by Linda Budzinski is a delightful new take on the teen romance novel. Instead of simple boy-meets-girl, we have a situation where high school basketball star Lexi Malloy is secretly helping every girl out there, except herself, to find the boyfriend of...

The Day My Fart Followed Santa Up the Chimney by Ben Jackson and Sam Lawrence is a children’s adventure story. Timmy is back and his best friend, the Little Fart, is with him. They’ve got a brand new friend this time and his name is...