Monster Kisses by Kyle Morey is a delightful book that looks at how love and affection are expressed by fathers everywhere. The book tells how daddy vampire kisses baby Drac, and shows daddy Bigfoot giving a kiss to his Littlefoot, daddy Cyclops giving his one-eyed...

Before We Were Perfect by S.D. Moore is a beautiful, beautiful novel that I adored. I cannot really explain how much the novel touched me and made me deliriously happy at the end. The author described the novel as a romantic "dramedy" and she was...

Liz Reeder's 51: The Beginning takes the reader on a journey into the happenings of a small county near a military base in the Missouri Ozarks. Former Deputy Sheriff Lindsey Gold encountered a strange occurrence on a call and reported it. Told to change the...

Susie-Long-Legs is a children’s story book written by Tiffany Nixon. Susie, at 9 and a half, was a very unhappy girl. She felt totally alone and left out of things, both at school and at home. Her big problem, it seemed, was her very long...

Good Girl Bad World is an in-depth guide for every girl in today’s society, who struggles with low self-esteem, lacks confidence or is being bullied. Alexis Bloomer has cleverly covered every problem, question or anxiety a young girl may face, from dealing with cyber bullies...

Kindness is Key, by author Alexis Bloomer, is a children’s book centered around the topic of bullying. Bullying is one of the very most sensitive issues that a child will have to face in his or her lifetime and in life in general. The results...

In The Remains in the Pond by Ann Swann, Gabi attends her senior prom, where she meets and spends a romantic evening with her secret crush, Matt. He confesses to her that he feels the same way about her. Matt kisses her goodnight and tells...

A coming of age story about a tenth grader named Tommy Baher, aka Johnathan’s younger brother, aka Johnathan’s less intelligent and less impressive brother. Tommy has made it his ultimate goal to get out from under his brother’s shadow by any means necessary. And then...

Every action has a consequence and nowhere is this more obvious than in Every Mother’s Fear, Joanna Warrington’s riveting work of historical fiction. London, 1959. Nineteen-year-old Sandy Lambert has big dreams of a modeling career and a trip to Canada. With a body to die...

An old man with snowy white hair owned a small pet store on Washington Street. He had lots of pets; colorful birds, gerbils and snakes, frogs, fish, mice, kittens, and too many dogs. He wanted to sell some of them because they were driving him...

Aphrodite's Tears by Hannah Fielding is a historical romance novel taking place in the 1970s in Greece. Oriel Anderson, an archaeologist from England, arrives on the island of Helios, having been offered a job excavating a wreck off the coast of the picturesque isle. What...

A Bridge To ...? is an urban fantasy novella written by James Huber. Tim Shell had a successful business making maps. As this story is set in the early 1970s, maps were still hand-drawn works of art designed by cartographers who used earlier maps and...

How I Bought 3 London Properties for a Football Ticket by Laurence Lameche is a compelling book for anyone who wants to invest in real estate. It is well-written, and packed with information readers want to know. It is hard to believe that someone can...

Rosie, Eddie, Beatrice and Detective Frank Lozano are the fictional characters who, along with real name stars like Lon Chaney and Clara Bow, are the stars of Trouble in Glamour Town by S.R. Mallery. Rosie is the young Hollywood starlet, Eddie is her boyfriend. Beatrice...

Linus Jackson is a Western novel written by Margaux Sky. All of the legal trouble that Linus currently found himself in had started as his granddaughter’s tribute to her beloved grandfather. Linus and Maxinne were the best of friends, and, when her English teacher had...

Pause: Standout Whenever You Speak by Barry Kuntz is a quick and enjoyable read that offers readers the tools they need to make a difference when they have to speak. It is one of the best things I have read in effective communication, and in...

Don’t Judge is a well-told story about hurtful behavior among children. Written by K.Y. Baker and illustrated by Allison Bennett, the tale deals with a young boy, Lonnie, who attends a new school. Rumors about Lonnie start to spread – not only between the students...

An interesting and engaging young adult urban fantasy, There Be Demons by M.K. Theodoratus is well-crafted with compelling characters. Gillen, who leads the four Gargoyle Guardians of the city, is forced to ask for reinforcements when imps and demons seize the streets of Trebridge. They...

Counting Days by Erric Emerson is an immersive book of personal poetry, formatted to read in a chronological, storytelling order of days. Each heading is titled with a typed font and followed with scribbled and free-scratched numbers, and a rogue Giant Translucent Wolf Spider. The...

Zeke Sees a Bug is a story based on a real dog rescued from an animal shelter by the author, Kelly Robertson. The beautiful illustrations by John Konecny are conclusive proof that, whatever had happened in the past, Zeke fell on his paws in his...