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...

The story of Funny Fairy Tales: Red Riding Hood is similar to the classic tale. There’s Red, her grandmother and the wolf. However in Reut Barak's version, the old lady is evil and has told Red the story of the wolf just to scare her!...

Funny Fairy Tales: Rapunzel by Reut Barak is a hilarious retelling of the classic tale. In this version, Rapunzel works as a hairdresser with her mother, way up in a tower. One day, their assistant, a cat named Malik, was very rude to one of...

Kailyn is crushed by the loss of her grandfather, but that feeling soon turns to amazement when she discovers a secret he left behind in A Queen’s Wish: Noblesse Oblige by G.F. Denehy. While searching for the watch he never took off, but which wasn’t...

Adriann is in second grade and the thought of going to school makes her feel reluctant in Adriann Takes a Stand by Melondy Roberson. She is still adjusting to her new school and Nya and her entourage do not think much of Adriann. Nya has...

The Way of Gabriel by Gabriel of Lebanon is a visionary book that invites readers to rediscover who they truly are — sons and daughters of God, loved and redeemed. The book inspires and motivates readers to seek the light of the Divine, and to...

Kandy Hamm and the Lost White Owl by Michelle Path is a charming story revolving around the white witch, Kandy Hamm. She has been helping people with ailments and misfortunes ever since she set up her shop in the new cottage. Her business is booming...