What defines a single person’s life? Is it the number of people they reach out to? And how they reach out to them? The memories of award-winning author Rachel Field speak of her humble ability to love and show compassion, to care about others, and,...

Stepping Into the Fire: A Journal about Growing-up in Appalachian Ohio by Steven P. Keller is an incisive book that explores the author’s memoirs and experiences of Ohio. The story features some of the favorite people in the life of the narrator and presents their...

It's Elijah's big day! Today he turns four years old, and his mom, dad, and sister, Madison, have a special party planned for him. The house has been beautifully decorated for the big day, and many of his friends are there to celebrate with him...

Reading Qisas by A. A. Freda is like riding in a speeding truck with your family being pursued by the most dangerous people in the world. The action and complications never stop, and you are forever trying to figure out exactly what is going on....

Love Over Pizza by Jen Lowry is a cozy, hopeful holiday romance involving mistaken identity. Two near-strangers from the same tiny town - Pepper Pines and Luca Giovanni - each enter the holiday season with a limited social life and are keeping busy to cope....

Invocation is the second book in the Three Times Blessed fantasy series by Nicole Warner, a great story that reads like a standalone. The novel features two compelling central characters, Eadred and Anais, who are caught up in a world that brims with conflict and...

Many legends have been written around the scythe-bearing figure known as The Reaper. This dark and mysterious character links the tales in Reaper by Amy Louise Hill, which includes three stories that have little else in common. They all encompass Death, but the situations are...

I’m sure we’re all afraid of something at some time or other. Sometimes our fears take over our lives and that’s never a good thing. That’s what happened to Paulie. He’s a plover, a shorebird (or beach bird) who spent the warm summer months at...

A thought-provoking book that alternates between the past and the present, The Epistles of Jesus by Bayard Hollingsworth operates on the premise that what if Christ’s teachings are discovered to be inconsistent with long-standing doctrine? And so it conceives a gripping thriller that takes you...

A Multicultural Picnic: Little Polyglot Adventures, Book 3 is an educational adventure picture book for children written by Victor D.O. Santos and illustrated by Eszter Miklos. Dylan and Isabella loved the picnics the family would have whenever their grandparents from Brazil and grandmother from Ukraine...

Leading At the Edge: True Tales from Canadian Police in Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping Missions Around the World by Ben J.S. Maure M.S.C. is an uplifting book that will take readers across a number of post-conflict zones to scenes of devastating natural disasters. The book also...

Twilight in Saigon by Zev Cohen is a mix of short stories and one short novella that covers the whole gamut of human emotions and experiences. If there is one feature that ties these disparate ideas together it is probably the bittersweet nature of the...

Trigger Point by Douglas Misquita is A Luc Fortesque adventure thriller. Luc Fortescue is under an Interpol Red Notice and he possesses knowledge about a terrorist plot that not only puts the world under huge threat but also incriminates the Holy See. Now Luc is...

Coustaud, the French bulldog, and Maxima, the magical grey horse, are best friends. They enjoy going on adventures together. When met by a Queen Bee, Coustaud is nervous, afraid he might be stung. But the Queen Bee is much too weak to even consider stinging...

In Corfu Capers by Joy Skye, Kate Delaney only has her son, and her whole life is wrapped around doing things for Scott. So the story opens up with Kate making arrangements for her and Scott and his girlfriend and a few others to go...

In the lightning-moving Satan’s Gold, author Michael Ray Ewing plops us down into the action in the very first line and doesn’t stop until the surprising but gratifying ending. Tyler Jackson is a Quantico graduate now using his training to track down his rival Daemon’s...

Tactile Therapy: Volume One by Durell Arrington is a science fiction novel with plenty of action and drama to keep you entertained for hours. The story follows two aliens who arrive on Earth with different goals that lead down the same path. Minutia came to...

Never Stop: Teaching and Leading Help Heal Our Nation by Herbert I. Burns Jr. is an insightful book that makes readers aware of the unhealthy times America as a nation is going through. It is in dire need of healing using the help of leading...

The Black Candle Killings by Andrew Segal launches straight into a terrifying murder. Tammy Pierre, a retired police officer, is contacted by her former supervisor, Bob Walker, and asked to consult on a case. It is clear the police response is inadequate and the body...

Working in the kitchen can be so much fun, especially for children. It’s a great way to bond, adult and child, but also a great way to teach the basics of cooking and baking as well as the importance of eating well. But, eating healthily...