Morsels: Tales of Love and Passion by Sera Maddox Drake is a collection of short stories. The subtitle perfectly summarizes its subject. A Tale as Old as Time gives a sneak peek into the passionate life of Beauty and her captor, Beast. The Muse is...

Sera Maddox Drake’s Excavations is a haunting exploration of love, desire, identity, and mortality, articulated through a lyrical and evocative voice that transcends traditional poetic boundaries. The collection features poems that draw upon mythological, historical, and personal narratives, revealing the various layers of human experience....

Will There Be Love? by Whitney Cubbison is a vibrant, emotionally layered novel that navigates the complexities of romantic and platonic relationships over one tension-filled weekend in Ibiza. As Ophelia celebrates her fortieth birthday with a motley crew of past and present companions, buried secrets,...

Cristina Garcia teaches children the importance of teamwork in The Pesky Problem, a delightful children’s book. Various pumpkins and gourds live at the top of a nice, sunny hill in the countryside. This would be a perfect place to live except it has one big...

After the Before by Ernie Gammage shows us a hauntingly beautiful post-apocalyptic landscape, where memory, mystery, and survival weave together in unexpected ways. Scavengers Sophie and Markus stumble across a mysterious sealed box buried in the ruins, hundreds of years after a global collapse. Driven...

In this tale a boy questions whether his parents truly love him. If they loved him they would not make him ___ (you can fill in the blank). He confronts his parents with the question, “If you love me so much" why should I brush...

It was the prime of Janelle’s young life when heartbreak and love both came to her in quick succession. Her father died suddenly, leaving her a sizable amount of land, a thriving farming operation, and a tidy sum of money. She had barely walked away...

Edited by Dena Clayton, “Living Through Grief” is the third book in the 'Love Revealed series' and is a fine collection of short stories. The writers are ordinary people with extraordinary skill in writing their stories dealing with loss, overcoming obstacles and finding love. It is...

Hypnopoetics…Modern Love Poems and Hypnopoetics Inductions, by Phil Billitz, is the hopeful lover’s tool for seduction. In this special collection of poems, Billitz uses carefully crafted rhythm, meter, and rhyme to create mesmerizing poems that are designed to relax and woo your potential lover. These...

Good Morning, World! by the mysterious Mrs. D, is a classic children's book. The illustrations were rendered superbly, in brilliant and vivid colors, by Eladziem. This is not another “A-B-C” book, or “1-2-3” learner. In fact, what this book teaches best is reading! I find...

School is out for twins Marcus and Ellie, but their summer just got interesting when their grandparents told them that they will mind The Magic Shop during their vacation. It was to teach Marcus discipline and to improve Ellie's social skills. Looking after the shop...

Adam’s life is about to change. He is waiting eagerly for his new sister to be born. But when Emma decides to make her appearance early, she has to be put in the NICU part of the hospital in a little, clear box-like home. When...

The Red Sun: Legends of Orkney by Alane Adams is a book that will take children on a roller coaster ride of adventure and fantasy where whimsical and menacing creatures and witches will enthrall readers. Twelve-year-old Sam Baron meets a dwarf in the garage and...

Just when you think that Kathleen Shoop has delivered her most heart-breaking and sensitive romance, along comes Return To Love, book two in the Endless Love series. The novella returns us to the relationship of newlyweds Hale and April, where a whole new level of...

Turmoil turns to comfort as April Harrington escapes what many believe is an idyllic life and returns to the summer home of her childhood in Home Again. Kathleen Shoop brings to life a swirl of emotions after April leaves her would-be husband at the altar...

An Accidental Murder: A Yellow Cottage Cosy Mystery Book 1 (The Yellow Cottage Cosy Mysteries) by J. New is a short novella, but it offers a really big story. When Ella feels led to return to the seaside resort she went to with her family,...

The Road Home (The Letter Series Book 2) by Kathleen Shoop is a very well written and engaging book. I am a fan of historical novels, and The Road Home is a well-told yarn that held my attention and gave me a wonderful reading experience....

Elias Zapple's Book of Slugs by Elias Zapple is an adorable book that has a lot of slug facts. Young readers can meet slugs named Steve, Selina, Gina, and Akira the Ninja Slug and many more. The author's love for slugs and his sense of...

I really enjoyed reading The Thing with Feathers by Anne Sweazy-Kulju. This story starts off in the 1920s and is about the lives of Blair Bowman and Will Marshall. Blair has been abused by her father since she was a little girl. Will decides to...

At the Corner of Magnetic and Main is a paranormal fantasy written by Meg Welch Dendler. Jake Thatcher was relishing the forbidden pleasures of a day off from work spent riding his motorcycle on the hills and curves of Highway 62. It was spring, and...