Badoo’s girlfriend, Sade, has called him every night since they first started dating, the only exception being the period between her death and the day she was buried. At first, the Nigerian police officer thinks the calming herbs Pa Fakunle gave him are causing hallucinations,...

Painting with Words, Poetry for a New Era by Ian Prattis is a collection of poems that is split into six parts, each part having its own distinct theme. This collection of poems takes the reader through the full gamut of human emotions. The author...

From time to time I read something that doesn’t seem to fit (for me, at any rate) into any traditional genre classification. Such was the case with The Junk Yard Solution: Adventures Among the Boxcars and Other Lost Causes by Peter Kelton. The story opens...

The Trevor Truculence by Peter Kelton is a standalone work of literary fiction set in a tiny village in Spain, perched within reach of the Mediterranean. The village is as much a character in the book as all those who live in it, creating enough...

When I read Reminds Me of My Innocence: Amorous Adventures Among Kissing Cousins by Peter Kelton, I knew I would read anything from this author, so I was just as eager to read The Yesterlings: Secrets Among the Wild Horses of Sable Island, and again...

Reminds Me of My Innocence: Amorous Adventures Among Kissing Cousins by Peter Kelton can best be described as absurd at times. The story follows two brothers and their female cousins who come into their lives and make for some pretty adventurous times. I have to...

The Hitch: Knots That Bind is a work of romantic contemporary fiction penned by author DonnaLee Overly. The third book in the Knots That Bind series, we have so far followed the beautiful Gabriella King through her not so perfect life of love trials and...

The Vogels: On All Fronts by author Jana Petken is a story of love, loss, life and the ties which bind or divide us. The continuation of the Half-Bloods Series, this episode takes place during the horrors of the Second World War as race, nationality...

The Bling Bling Bird is a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Linda M. Gentry. Bling Bling Bird was just an ordinary bird but she really felt that she was much more than that. She loved the colorful bow that she wore on top...

Alan J. Paul calls his children’s book, Confuchsia: An Early Bird’s Tale, a fable, and it is, but it is based in prehistoric fact and the fossil record of long ago China. It tells us the story of Confuchsia, the last hatchling born one day...

Providence by Amy Marie is the third book in the Statera Saga. Nora has three of the elements at her side, but she's lost Darcy who is now cursed and under Lilly's control. The end of the world is fast approaching and they need to...

Good memories from our childhood can evoke so many simple pleasures. I love bubbles and on occasion still play with them because of the freedom that they offer as I watch them kiss the earth and touch the sky. Watching children at play was the...

Power Over POTS: A Family Guide for Managing Postural Tachycardia Syndrome by Scheldon Kress, M.D. is a book designed to help families understand and manage the complexities of POTS syndrome, as well as the diseases that co-exist with this hard-to-recognize condition. This in-depth guide explains...

While entering and leaving without a trace, an unknown element is mutilating cattle on two ranches causing the ranchers to question their origin in the chilling science fiction novel, Encounter At Cloud Ranch (Legend of the Clouds) by Robert James Connors. While on a short...

Quandaries of Love is a sizzling hot romance novella penned by author Valerie J Runyan. This quick read romance takes a diverse route to its romantic conclusions, featuring couples of the same gender, age-gap relationships, and romance between differently abled people. In this very different...

A fascinating thriller, Blessed: The Prodigal Daughter by A.L. Bryant features an unusually gifted protagonist, Glory. Set in 2021, the narrative follows Glory, who finds herself stabbed multiple times and left for dead. No one in St. Ann’s Hospital thought she could live through the...

Christmas is a special time of year for many children around the world. Children learning to play a musical instrument are eager to perform their favorite Christmas songs, like “Jingle Bells”, “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”, “Up On A Housetop” and so many others....

Hooked is the first book in the Hard Wired Trilogy by DeAnna Browne. In the future, virtual reality is part of everyday life. People go on dates in VR, have parties in VR and experience the wildest things in relative safety. Some, however, take VR...

When beginning a review of an autobiography, there is a fuzzy area that must be managed. Are you reviewing the book itself, or are you judging the life of the author? Susan Shumsky’s autobiography, Maharishi and Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles' Guru, makes me...

Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii by TW Neal is a mesmerizing memoir that takes readers on a somewhat hilarious ride through the life of the author raised by hippie surfer parents. Born in 1965, Toby quickly discovers that her hippie parents...