Bountiful Butterflies by Cheryl Woodward is a concept picture book that uses butterflies to help children learn their colors and numbers. With the turn of each page, we are introduced to a new butterfly and, along with it, a new color and a new number....

Media Guy: God Blesses Media, but not Media Professionals showcases the life of journalist Johnny, also known as Media Guy. Media Guy does not give up, even when things don’t go well. He works for USFTV - United States Future Television. Media Guy’s unconventional hands-on...

Striving for success is something that everyone does from the time they are old enough to understand what ‘winning’ means. Whether you’re an average five-year-old hoping to win the pee-wee soccer game or you’re a 40-year-old genius hoping to win a Nobel Prize, everyone wants...

Acts of Violence by Ross Harrison is good; plain and simple. Jack Mason is a criminal. Not high up on the ladder of crime, he'd have to have friends for that, but definitely a foe for the local police department. One night, the girl he...

Prairie Fire by Terri Branson is a compelling paranormal historical romance. In 1893, Chloe Talley-Marsh travels to the newly formed Lincoln County. She is returning home to stay with her brother after the premature death of her husband, leaving her a bereft young widow. Part...

In Julie & Kishore by author Carol Jackson, we find ourselves in the middle of an interracial and inter-cultural love connection, that between Julie and Kishore, our titular characters. Julie, a red haired, freckle faced Kiwi, always thought of herself as plain and not very...

By Water and Blood by Melanie Rose is a paranormal novel that will leave readers thinking about their own heritage as well as about decisions which impact their lives. Sophia is a young woman who feels out of sync with her world. When she discovers...

“Dead men tell no tales,” but in Last Words (A Coleridge Taylor Mystery) by Rich Zahradnik, that is clearly not the case. While parts of New York City burn and bankruptcy looms, Coleridge Taylor, a police reporter, is demoted to writing obituaries at the Messenger-Telegram....

The Schwarzschild Radius is a crime thriller written by Gustavo Florentin. Rachel Wallen is a brilliant science student at Columbia University who's embarked singlehandedly on a mission to rescue her missing younger sister, Olivia. Olivia volunteered at a mission for homeless kids which was run...

The moon would be a fantastic item to have, don't you think? What would you do if you could take the moon from the sky? Would you take the moon to lunch? Play with the moon at school and take it to 'show and tell'?...

Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering the World During a Ten-year Circumnavigation by Doann Houghton-Alico is the author’s personal story of her travels aboard her yacht on an epic voyage with her husband. The voyage spanned ten years and circumnavigated the globe. The journey included 41...

Skylark: A Novel by Ruthie Morgan is an intense and emotional love story. Billie May fell in love with Evan on a dark, stormy night in London. She will do anything for him; she will be anything he wants her to be. But can she...

Reading I Just Wanted Love by D.J. Burr was a revelation. It was also heartbreaking to so intensely feel the pain and confusion of what it is like to grow up gay and "co-dependent." Just what does it mean to be a "co-dependent"? According to...

Irish Dancing Girl is a cute illustrated work from Mamma Macs. The simple and childlike rhyming scheme will have your little ones rhyming every other sentence and laughing about the fun moves and costumes in the story. I liked how there is an element of...

Yellow Pansies in a Blue Cobalt Jar by Nancy LaPonzina brings Rhose Guerin's life to the page. A bibliotherapist, Rhose uses books, movies, poetry, anything with words really, as tools in her private practice. At an age between where her daughter's and mother's lives are,...

The Year of Soup by Howard Reiss was a wonderfully insightful read. Tess is relatively put out. After three jobs and as many failed loves, she's ready to break out of the habit that she's in. Starting a restaurant seems only natural, as she's always...

To Have a Family by Leigh Michaels speaks about the importance of family in one's life. It emphasizes the true value and role of family and how important family is to groom and nurture each one of us. Samantha Jenkins lives in a children's home....

Lucky the Left Pawed Puppy is a children’s book written by Billie Kelpin and illustrated by Julie Parker. Lucky lives with Mrs. Poppyset and his two dog friends, Shortstuff and Rags. Lucky seems to be doing everything a little bit differently than the other two...

The Dwarf and the Twins by Katharina Gerlach is about a pregnant woman who runs through the forest to escape the King's men. A dwarf named Martin decides to help her, not knowing that it would change his life. The woman soon gives birth to...

Christopher has been kidnapped! If that's not bad enough, the nasty Captain Redblade also managed to make off with a beautiful young lady and her father too. It's up to Christopher to find a way out of his predicament and save them from danger. It's...