Love Unfeigned by Nadine C. Keels is a novella. Lorraine Tyson and Isaiah James are childhood friends and she used to call him 'braces boy.' Her first meeting with him is on the playground where she challenges him at a game. They connect well after...

Immaculate Conceptions by S.E. Sward is a story of hope and heartbreak. Teddy, Maggie, Kelly, and Liv are all women who are desperate to have children but for whom time is ticking away. They meet on a website for wannabe mums to talk about infertility...

Words of Inspiration Sister to Sister: So Then I Learned is a collection of inspirational writings and poems about various struggles young women face every day. Tonya White Johnson is writing to all women, but in particular, young women battling with low self-esteem and low...

Seven Exes are Eight Too Many by Heather Wardell is the tale of MC and her stint on a reality TV show. Madeline Cora Spencer, better known as MC, is a very private person, but when she is pushed to one side by a good...

Energize Your Retirement: Stories of Passionate Pursuits is a non-fiction book written by Christine Sparacino. The author conducted a series of interviews with retirees and seniors who have hobbies, interests or pastimes that make their lives meaningful. Each interview covers that person’s interest, how they...

Boats, Barns and Bungalows is an excellent collection of water colour paintings by T.F. Hempel. They are vivid, beautiful, exquisitely rendered with a lot of eye for detail. Amazingly, Hempel is a natural artist, mostly painting scenes from his home town in Iowa, and has...

Think of The Maltese Falcon in the milieu of 21st century Silicon Valley, and you’ll end up with something like Bad Karma (A Jack McCoul Caper) by Dwight Holing. Jack McCoul, the main character in Holing’s series of mysteries, is a former high-end burglar and...

Janalya by Marie Godley is a young adult fantasy where Janalya learns she has a special power that can control an element of Earth. She attends a special school to further develop her skills as an air elemental. But when the number of other air...

Capering on Glass Bridges by Jessica Hernandez is a young adult fantasy that follows sixteen-year-old Kaia Stone. Kaia is one of two that the Utdrendans have named for an impossible task. To free the Kingdom of Mar. The task seems simple enough, but Kaia is...

Forget Me Not by Allison Whitmore is the story of Teddi and Calvin – two young people who should not even be friends but find themselves deeply in love. The story takes place in the early 1940s in a small quiet town in New York...

Pankyland by John Hope is an adventure story for young adults. Panky had the dubious honor of being named after a Florida theme park, Pankyland. On his eleventh birthday, his family and their neighbours, the Derbers, all go to the theme park. The two families...

In Destination Adventure by Karen Jonice Bricker, Kit, her parents, brothers Kevin and Dick, and dog Jesse know that the next adventure is about to begin when Dad starts to fill his pants pockets to the brim with all types of balls and yo-yos. The...

I Once Knew Vincent by Michelle Rene is the story of two people whose lives were less than perfect. The novel is about Vincent Van Gogh, the acclaimed painter, and a woman named Marie. The story follows them when they are expecting nothing stellar to...

Mirror Images: A Holistic Approach To Happiness by Christine and Cheryl Lyric is a path discovered by two sisters, both of whom struggled through a lifetime filled with depression and sadness. “We came to see this sadness as an unrelenting force that propelled us in...

“Why should a man of my intelligence do lab tests for colleagues who were obviously inferior? How absurd! But university politics and lack of independent funding to pursue my project dictated this reality. Nonetheless, I figured out a way around that.” Giant Dreams and Dragons by...

You’re Not a Caveman, Don’t Eat Like One by Jennifer Swallow RD is a guide to enable people to make choices based on preferences, desires, or health and not based on misinformation or myths. Jennifer attacks the first myth by asking, ‘We are not cavemen,...

Dark Justice is a true crime memoir written by Dianne Cooper. The author’s childhood was abruptly ended when she became pregnant at the age of fifteen. Her father rushed over to Joseph’s house to confront his minister father and demand that Joseph marry his daughter....

Wow! I just finished reading Full of Fire by debut author Jennifer Millikin, and all I can say is, "Wow!" In a wonderful story of romance and intrigue, readers will follow Lila Mitchell as she meets and becomes interested in Xavier Townesend, a nightclub owner...

Fight for Dawn: The Dawn Trilogy Book 2 by Komali da Silva is the follow up to Angels Dawn, and Dawn knows she should have known better. Dawn wanted her life to go back to normal after the loss of her best friend Nate, but...

Yukon Audit by Ken Baird is a thriller beyond all thrillers. The Yukon is a mystical place. It is the land of the midnight sun. It is the home of the Klondike gold rush. And it is a place to launder money with a gold...