My Dad My Dog by Rebecca Warner is the heartwarming story about a daughter who brings her Alzheimer's-stricken dad from the comfortable Crestview Assisted Living to the home that she shares with her husband David and Nick, their big black Labrador. Rachel Morgan knows that...

It is not often that we experience a memoir that is both profound and articulate in narrating episodes in the author’s life. Yasmin Azad’s Stay, Daughter: A Memoir of Muslim Girlhood is a striking account of a Muslim girl’s struggles in her coming of age...

I’m going to go out on a limb here and tell you that The Pale-Faced Lie by David Crow is one of the most enlightening and entertaining true stories I have ever read. Crow’s memoir of what it was like being raised...if one can call...

In the thriller Among Those You Know, author Joshua Valentine describes the life of a group of friends that work together at The Kitten's Purr as strippers. Despite their lives being somewhat messy, they lived in peace. That until a close friend of Jules, one...

Brain Stages: How to Raise Smart, Confident Kids and Have Fun Doing It, K-5 by Patricia Wilkinson and Jacqueline Frischknecht is a good way for parents to realize the influence they have over their children's brain development. Kids' brains are elastic and this book...

In his valuable work, Democracy: Is This How It Dies, Jeff Hawkins examines the meaning of democracy and analyzes the American past and present political cultures with regard to democracy. As Hawkins notes in the work, the election of Donald Trump as president of the...

Tell Me Another Story Dad is a children’s picture book written by Julie Hodgson and illustrated by Irene Czusz. The little boy in this story thinks his dad is the consummate storyteller. His dad doesn’t need to read stories from books; each tale he spins...

Esoteric Christianity Made Simple by Con Trong Bui is an ideal spiritual guide for those seeking a deeper understanding of the Scriptures. This book explores esoteric Christianity with an in-depth look at verses and questions about the Bible while aiming at those that have an...

Fluke Family Assassin by Robert A. G. Erickson is a YA fantasy novel with a sense of humor. In a raucous tale of the sea, quirky but well-meaning Maynerd Fluke Dumsted has to battle against the Demons of the Deep to save his shipmates from...

An obscure fate is revealed to a skeptical policewoman during a Tarot reading in the extraordinary paranormal short story, Readings (A Story of Grace Bishop's Paranorm World Book 3) by Denise Bossarte. Sophie comes from a long line of seers and is gifted with...

Labour of Love by Liz Ragoùt is a collection of poems that encapsulates her zest for life as well as her home and memories that stir within her. The narration that proceeds throughout the entire book is one that feels close to the heart. As...

Questions of Perspective by Daniel Maunz is the story of a man as he goes on a journey of self-discovery and finds out everything he was missing in his life. Dave Randall is a lawyer who isn’t really happy with the direction his career is...

Heartmender by V. Romas Burton is about young Adelaide Tye, an outcast in her community at the Barracks. After losing her brother, Lyle, during Heart Reign to a mysterious vendor, Addie never left her house. Silas, a steady, expressionless boy, has been caring for Addie...

Captain V.W. and the Red Baron is a work of fiction in the subgenres of historical, wartime, time travel and science fiction, and was penned by author James Huber. This is an entertaining quick read with plenty of historical intrigue and flavor, set amongst the...

M.D. Allen continues the tale of a group of teenagers who were transferred to the Inner Realm on their sixteenth birthday. The Door is the second book in the Matilda Seer series, adding more intensity and force to the first book, Matilda Seer. Ethan and...

Murder, Just Because is a work of mystery fiction in the detective/sleuth subgenre, and was penned by author Yolanda Renée. The work is written for adult readers due to the usage of explicit language and some graphic scenes of violence and sexual situations. Subtitled ‘A...

Knowing Your Mind: Lessons from neuroscience and artificial intelligence is a work of informative non-fiction penned by author Richard Lonsdale. As the title suggests, the work focuses on themes of human psychology, intelligence, and the very nature of what marks us as different from the...

What does it really mean when someone tells you “to think outside the box”? Does it mean to do things backward? Or upside down? Or to take things apart just to put them back together again – in a different way? Perhaps ‘thinking outside the...

The murder victim is a beautiful woman named Crystal, the prime suspect is her husband Garrett. Though they are now separated and living apart, he still has reason to be in her home. Edna Rupp cleaned Crystal’s home and was also a victim, getting hit...

In Erik Henry Vick's Arms Dealers, werewolf and coffee addict Leery Oriscoe had his work cut out for him when an unlikely pair of supernaturals team up to dismember a couple of mundanes. Hot on their trail, he and his partner, Dru, have no idea...