In the opening pages of this spellbinding nonfiction business book, The Stepford Employee Fallacy: The Truth about Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace, Jonathan D. Villaire states the purpose of the book in unequivocal terms: “In the following pages, I will be dismantling the contemporary...

Why Don't We Listen Better? Communicating & Connecting in Relationships by Dr. James C. Petersen is a self help guide to sharpening communication skills. This book is drawn from both personal experience and the study of communication. Dr. James C. Petersen has worked with several...

Struggling to maintain a personal relationship with God is part of what many deal with because of religion being filtered through people or organizations. IDEOLATRY – God is Not Your Problem by Dr. Rich Masek deals with many misconceptions as well as religious ideas that...

Naomi is the second book in the Maggie Trilogy by Mya O'Malley. The author has left breadcrumbs all over the book to help readers unfamiliar with her previous book not to feel left out of the plot. Naomi, the protagonist, after helping the souls of...

The First Nations of the Northwest coast of British Columbia have a long and vibrant history, one that includes numerous myths and legends that they carved into their stories as well as their totem poles. So much of that history has disappeared, along with the...

Healthcare 911 by Bhupendra O. Khatri MD, FAAN provides a unique glimpse into the US healthcare system and the damage caused to patients and doctors alike. Physicians tell their personal stories about a working environment which has the highest rates of suicide of any profession....

My First High School Musical: From Auditions to Opening Night and Everything in Between by Joanne Vassallo Jamrosz is a succinct, useful guide that will help you prepare for your first or next musical. At the preparation stage, she provides useful tips on how you...

Anneros Valensi's Where is Home? How a Childhood in East Germany during World War II Shaped My Adult Life - 2nd Edition is a poignant memoir about a little girl growing up amidst the turmoil of the Second World War. The place is Falkenau in...

In Old Bones Never Die by Lesley A. Diehl, Connecticut fashionista Eve Appel has gone into business with her friend in a consignment store in Florida, but things never run smoothly and Eve just can’t keep her nose out. Becoming an apprentice to a retiring...

Teilhard de Chardin: The Search For The Light In Evolution is a work of non-fiction by author Bernard J Fleury. The book forms Volume three in the Called into Life by the Light Series, and focuses mainly on philosophical issues posited by religion and belief....

Geza Tatrallyay’s latest novel, Twisted Fates, is the third and final story in his Twisted trilogy. This time we find crime novelist Greg Martens and his wife, former Interpol agent Anne Rossiter, on a mission to rescue their friend, Julia, from the clutches of powerful...

All You Need is Love: Love in the City Series, Book 2 is a romantic comedy novel written by Melissa Baldwin. CJ Evans was beginning to feel as though she had finally gotten her act together -- maybe not totally -- but she was definitely...

Crocodiles and Kaleko: Dangers and Designer Clothes in the Solomon Islands is an entertaining and informative memoir. Paula Henriksen arrived in the Solomon Islands in 2010 to manage a multi-million-dollar health program for the Australian Agency for International Development as part of a multi-national peacekeeping...

Bright Moon Ridge: A Search in China by Linus Treefoot is a beautiful romance mixed with adventure, a tale of interracial love with an international setting in Santa Cruz, California and China. In 1978, Bartooth was beaten and left for death by thugs in China....

Metaphase: Beauty in the Chaos by M Street took me by surprise. Metaphase is the second novel in M Street’s Mitosis series. In this installment, readers are given a flashback to Piper’s literal infancy and, soon afterward, it picks up where the first novel left...

The Time Between by Bryna Hellmann-Gillson looks at several young Jewish women and how they responded to the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. Hannah, like Anne Frank, spent her early years in Germany, but her family moved to the Netherlands after the...

The Adventures of Raven Darling by Lára Dawn Michelsen is a story about a young girl who left her life behind after high school in order to travel the world. She lives as a free spirit, exploring one country after another and earning money for...

Meet Goti, the shiny red bus, and Vivek, the dusty coal train, in the storybook The Dusty Train’s Sweet Surprise: A Lesson in Kindness by Subhash Kommuru. They were both very hardworking but Goti always made fun of Vivek, saying he was faster than Vivek...

In Panhandlers by Nick Schuck, the world of poverty is laid bare in places where there seems to be little else to do but sell drugs, sex, and violence. The story begins with two young boys, Hank and Teddy, and works through aspects of their...

Colonel Trent Winters was the wealthy owner of a twelve-hundred-acre sugar cane plantation on the banks of the Mississippi River in the 1850s. He and his wife Collette lived in a beautiful, large plantation home. This successful operation was fueled by dozens and dozens of...