The year is 2023 and America is increasingly concerned with issues of citizen safety as ISIS continues to stake claim on our friendly country. Military troops grow in number to offset the ill effects that Arab countries inflict upon innocents throughout the world. In an...

Huberta the Hippo: Amazing Adventures of a Happy River Horse (Africa's Bravest Creatures Book 1) by Patricia Furstenberg is a charming tale about one of South Africa’s iconic animals, a hippo from Zululand. During a three-year period in the 1930s, Huberta (originally thought male and...

To the Africa's Bravest Creatures series, Patricia Furstenberg adds Book 3, Jock of the Bushveld: Africa’s Best Loved Dog Hero. This is a heartwarming true story of a runt puppy born in South Africa that was given a second chance by a man named Sir...

“The sturdy horse was Boetie, Brother, or Vonk, undying Flame, the flame of hope.” Woltemade (“well made by God”) was his master, a dairy farmer. The two were connected, a man and a horse. When the storms off the coast of Cape Town raged ferociously,...

Moving Again!!! With Rylan And Henry by Christy Jordan Wrenn is an adorable children’s story about a five-year-old boy named Rylan and his closest friend, a mouse named Henry. Living in Alaska, the family gets a surprise homecoming and learns that they must move once...

Lamentations of The Prodigal Son: UnControlled Pen Poetry by Darrick Williams is a collection of parables inspired by the biblical story of the return of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). As the guests feast with him on his return home after being away for three...

The Bubble Kids is an historical fiction novella written by N. Chowdhry. Omar's and Adam’s lives were inevitably changed when the attack on the Twin Towers stunned the world. They had been ready to enjoy an afternoon session of cartoons at Omar’s house when their...

In the dedication of Typo Squad (yes, some of us do read dedications and introductions), Stephen Lomer tells us this crazily brilliant book of his is dedicated to proofreaders and copy editors. He needs to add book reviewers to that list i.e. all of us...

The Story That Didn’t Want to End by Joe Fortson is an adventure any avid young reader would love to experience. With a storybook waiting for his childhood reader to come back into his adventures, Joe Fortson shows the natural human instinct of avoiding change....

Étoile by Richard Aab introduces us to a brightly glowing, optimistic little star who has just been created by Mother Universe. Madalyn McLeod’s shimmering illustrations bring to life this star’s journey through the huge cosmos of space in her hopes of getting to the center...

A forest fire sweeps through Colorado's Rio Blanco county along the White River, and while the flames ravage the pristine wilderness, the ugliness of greed, murder, and revenge are exposed in the exciting suspense novel, Crime Unsolved (A Buck Taylor Novel) by Chuck Morgan. A...

Unwind. Up, Up, and Away! is an educational book for children, grades K-3, written by Christopher Gates and illustrated by Javier Ratti. Gates has been involved in the educational process for over ten years and is a Certified Social and Emotional Intelligence Coach. It’s all...

Megan's Challenge: Megan’s World, Book 5 is an animal adventure book for children and preteens written by Pamela Foland. Dr. Newton had been really impressed by Megan’s interest in veterinary medicine and her ability to work with the animals who were being treated in the...

Fault Line by TL Scott is an action-packed crime novel that grips the reader from the beginning and doesn’t give a moment’s respite until its explosive denouement. We meet Bill back in his hometown, a small town. He has returned for his little sister’s wedding...

It’s Christmas Eve and a baby is about to be born in the main house. The sheep and their keepers (pastou, sheepdog), are snug in the barn, the sheepfold, as a cold winter storm rages outside. Nici calms the younger sheep dogs by telling his...

The Great Pillow Sham: An Allegory of the Donald Trump Presidency by Travis R Dunn is a symbolic children's picture book casting doubt on the current US president's transparency. A family wakes every day to the bane of their existence – the dreaded bedhead. They...

Nicole Lyons’ Blossom and Bone is an engaging collection of poems containing honest and heartfelt expressions. The language makes use of striking words that arouse intense feelings. In the poem “Melancholy”, the poet states, “Melancholy, my longest lost lover has returned, to dance with me,...

If I Were A T-Rex (T-Rex Series Volume 1) is perfect for the young girl or boy that really likes dinosaurs. The illustrations are well done with many different pictures of the T-Rex being many different things. I think it certainly sparks the imagination of...

Squat by James T. Speirs is a straightforward, sometimes funny, sometimes deadly serious indictment of the myriad expensive diet plans and celebrity-endorsed corporate exercise gyms that we are steered to by the media every day. Speirs starts out by attacking the various exercise and diet...

It seems strange to call a book about poor orphans and dark magic charming, but that is the first word I thought of when I read The Lost and Drowned by Stuart Fryd. The central characters of the novella are two sisters, Lydia and Sophie....