Sketches are quick rough drawings based on what the artist observes. This technique allows you to see life differently by paying attention to detail. An example is to draw all those new things you look at when you go for a walk. We can all...

The Superstitious Romance is a romance-drama novel written by Anastasia Alexander. After a span of twenty-six long years, history professor Camille Marie Britain's marriage falls apart, leading her to flee from her home and her job to seek sanctuary in Island Park, Idaho, alongside her...

Inspired by Place by Chase Reynolds Ewald features ten portfolio projects in residential architecture and interior design by CLB Architects, a firm with extensive experience in the Rocky Mountain West which maintains studios in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Bozeman, Montana. Illustrating in form the key...

Fairy Tale Architecture by Kate Bernheimer and Andrew Bernheimer dives deep into an architectural approach behind various tales to create a collection that weaves commentary, Q&A, and stunning designs. The sibling duo delivers fairy tales through the unique perspective of an architect. Have you ever...

Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue by Henry David Ayon presents over two hundred colored and sepia drawings of inspiring and majestic temples and tombs. The book takes readers on a cultural and visual voyage down the Nile while enjoying explanations of the built forms. Architects...

As Rugged as the Rest: A Young Marine’s Journey to Iwo Jima by Janet Simmelink takes you on a journey through the life of a young man, Joseph Montgomery House Jr. The main characters are Joe Boy and his sisters, Louise, Leveryle, and Gale. His...

Arches to ZigZags: An Architectural ABC written by Michael J. Crosbie and photographed by Steve at Kit Rosenthal is a tour-de-force. It has sharp photographs of architectural details for every letter of the alphabet. Before reading this book I didn’t know that the strong blocks...

In Complements, Patricia Z. Smith recognizes the value and diversity of little things. Her photographs complement her words. Both her words and images cause the reader to pause and reflect. Most people pass over small items, but Patricia celebrates them. A shell, a broken piece...

Evie's Field Day: More Than One Way to Win by Claire Annette Noland is a children's book that teaches good sportsmanship. The main character Evie loves to play sports, and most of all, win! One day Evie and her friends take part in various sport...

Nawaab: Marwari Stallion of India by Gina McKnight is a story about Prince Aryaman and his beloved Marwari horses, especially the young black stallion, Nawaab, with a white star on his forehead. When an earthquake shakes the kingdom and the palace disintegrates, the prince sets...

The year is 1508. Anne of Brittany and King Louis XII of France have been married for a nearly a decade but still have no son. Numerous pregnancies and miscarriages have taken their toll, and Anne is no longer young. But her failure to produce...

Pieces of Me: A Daughter of Mental Illness by Catherine Schiffer is a powerful, inspiring biography about breaking the cycle of child sexual abuse for future generations. Sexual abuse has never gone away, and the statistics are almost unbelievable. A mind-numbing number of perpetrators are...

Scrooge and Cratchit Detectives: A Dickensian Christmas Mystery by Curt Locklear is a charming foray into a Christmas classic with a sleuthing Scrooge solving a murder. Taking place two years after the events of A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge has spent the time since transforming...

Guardians of the Solar Shield: Earth's Climate Mirrors Under Attack 2029-2037 by Sam Bleicher is a very enjoyable novel dealing with our world in the 2030s trying to cope with climate change and its effect on the planet. This is not a doom-and-gloom story but...

Nate and Gabrielle are two teenagers in love, eager to start their junior year of high school. However, their lives turn upside down when Gabrielle discloses that she is pregnant with Nate's child. Struggling to process the momentous news, Nate and Gabrielle slowly try to...

Viva Lofton: Memoir of a Beginner Dad by Lonnie Lazar is an enjoyable memoir inspired by a special muse, the author's child, who gave him the chance to become a better father than his own father. This memoir is structured in 5 parts that contain...

If you choose just one self-help book this year, make it The Manna Paradigm Shift: Creating the Consciousness of Abundance and Freedom. The audiobook guides you to tap into the power within you – within us all – to enjoy personal freedom, peace, and abundance....

“You will have a new life and, by the grace of God, a new calling.” In Sisters of the Moon by Alexandrea Weis, Durra and her companions arrive on an island in Lake Obersee. She senses a strange evil lurking beyond the forest trees. In...

The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues and Criminals, edited by Mitzi Szereto, is about actual crimes. The stories are brilliant because they are brazen, colorful, and audacious. It is about intelligent but often lucky individuals who know how to take advantage of...

More than a collection of poems, Black Forest Dreams by Joseph Kuhn Carey is a travelogue of a poignant journey through Germany. The trip is to introduce the land of their ancestors to his young family. His grandparents and his great-uncle courageously left their wooded...