My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Cinderella by Jerry Mahoney is an interesting spin on a classic tale. When Maddie's stepbrother, Holden, breaks the unspoken rule among children and asks questions after Maddie's report on Cinderella, the two end up accidentally changing the story so that now...

Princess Anagrania is the golden grain princess. She would one day rule the Golden Grain Kingdom. As she grew up, her parents, the king and queen, wanted what was best for her. But everyone had a different idea of what was truly beautiful. They found...

Queen of Hearts: A New Beginnings Book 3, a compelling novel by Kathryn R. Biel, tells the relatable story of two individuals, Maryn and Stephan. Maryn works at a university in the laundry and the cafeteria, trying to help her mother raise her brother, while...

Melissa Baldwin and Kate O’Keeffe are two chick lit authors I’m very familiar with, so when I saw their names together on One Way Ticket: A Romantic Comedy, you bet I got excited to read this. The blurb sounded promising; I loved the cover and...

Goal setting is very important and in Goal Setting: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Life-Changing Goals by Thibaut Meurisse, readers will discover the SMARTEST Goal Method, a comprehensive goal setting technique that encompasses all aspects of goal setting, and will guide readers to achieve goals...

Charlie Sparrow and The Book of Flight is the second book in the Tales of Tree City series, written by D.F. Anderson and illustrated by Daniel McCloskey. When Charlie Sparrow learns that Mayor Peck is closed to the idea of a school of flight, allowing...

Eleven-year-old Peter has a tremendous surprise one night as his favorite toy, Monkey, comes to life and escapes with Peter out of the house in The Strange Adventures of Monkey and Peter: The Knights of the Black Heart by Nick Isles. Monkey is a special...

Megan the Pet Whisperer: Megan's World, Volume 3 is a fiction book for children and preteens, grades 4-6, written by Pamela Foland. While this is the third book in the Megan’s World series, the author gives enough background information in the story for it to...

The stories contained in I Remember New Orleans and Other Treasures read like vignettes or cultural and historical time capsules. In the first story, the author, Gerry Lites Watkins, shares memories of her early years in New Orleans while living with an aunt. Another one...

The Last Fernandez by Sandra Perez Gluschankoff is a historical novel that transports readers to a turbulent moment in history, allowing them to feel the dynamics of the Spanish Inquisition and the bloody war in Argentina. It explores what it meant to be a Jew...

Interview Season is a contemporary new adult fiction novel written by Torrey H. Chin. Jamie was thrilled to have successfully completed law school and taken the New York State Bar Exam, but the results of her efforts to find a job were proving dismal at...

What are chakras? In Chakras for Beginners: How to Balance Your Chakras, Radiate Energy and Heal Yourself by Tai Morello, readers are introduced to chakras which are energy centers connected to certain parts of the body and the subtle energy moving through it. The book...

Capsule Craze by Rebecca Ellington guides readers on a trend that began in London in the 1970s, having been inspired by Susie Faux. The trend was later picked up and popularized by Donna Karan, an American designer who is known for having introduced the concept...

Reut Barak’s Funny Fairy Tales: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a retelling of its classic counterpart. Snow White’s stepmother would always annoy Shraga, the mirror, with her infamous question of who’s the fairest in the land. In return, Shraga would anger her by...

California's Deadly Women: Murder and Mayhem in the Golden State 1850–1950 by Michael Thomas Barry tells the tales of exactly that. Crime stories fill our newspapers from cover to cover these days, but things were no different years ago. In the century between 1850 and...

Miles and Jax, written by Kimber Iverson and Illustrated by Jill Pearson, is an adorable story about two friends who rely on each other and who get into some fun adventures together. At first Jax seems to be a little scared of new things. His...

WishCraft is the story of Delilah and Brandon. She practices magic, but not in a 'pointy hats and brooms' kind of way. Just in a way that allows her to have a little bit of fun between the sheets with a handsome stranger…and have him...

Under Her Wings: Sistas Book 1 begins with author Anne Marie Citro introducing Gabriella whose life has been a nightmare for the last three years. She has been desperately seeking some way to connect with her deceased husband and sons. Her last hope is a...

Facing the Truth of Your Life by Merle Yost is an excellent non-fiction self-help book. Facing the Truth of Your Life is like having one’s own psychotherapist at hand and, indeed, addresses a lot of the questions that psychotherapy does. The book is divided into...

“For when you can’t be there for your buddy or friend, this high-five machine does the best job it can.” In Jaylen and the High Five Machine by Jennifer Pierre, young Jaylen is in a dilemma as he has to skip his friend Marcus’s poetry...