Deadvent Calendar by Ken Kirkberry is a novel of pure thrills. The whole story happens in 21 days in December and each day keeps the reader in suspense. The main protagonists are Sharon Mansell, a highly skilled agent of the newly formed World Communication and...

Let's meet Oscar the adventurous pig in the story Oscar Piggy: When Pigs Can Fly by Christina Fasolino. Oscar loved to roll in muddy puddles, dance, and play with his friends. He made friends with his wiggly giggly dance and he loved trying new...

The fourth and the last volume in the Cultural Code series, Babel: A Guide to the East-West Encounter by Dr. Ofer Grosbard puts all the pieces of the puzzle together. This culminating volume is the result of Grosbard’s professional maturing process where he presents four...

No Reprieve: An A.I. Thriller is a work of fiction in the science fiction and thriller sub-genres and was penned by author Inge-Lise Goss. The story features an intense cat and mouse game between our protagonist, the rebellious escapee Paislee Hobson, and the powerful and...

A doctor is murdered and an undefeated District Attorney fights to put away his killer in the fascinating crime mystery, The Widow Makes Three by Robert Wyrick. One morning, Dr. Michael Smith and his dog Lady go for their daily run. Later that morning, someone...

It was the first day of spring and the pugs were out wearing parkas. The dachshund who saw them thought it was not a good impression to make on a balmy spring day. She told them if they desperately needed to wear clothes, they should...

A mother’s love is a powerful thing. It’s immense, limitless, boundless; there are no restrictions. So, when a child asks how much you love him/ her, how can you possibly explain? There are no words. But you can compare. “I love you more than bees...

According to the foreword of Preferential Treatment by Williams Parsons, research indicates that the number of deaths in the United States per year from medical errors is around 250,000, which puts medical malpractice in line only behind heart disease and cancer as the third leading...

“When we start to dig into our pasts, we discover we’re a combination of all the people who came before us … On this whole earth, there is no one person quite like us.” That quote from A Reason to Be is the framework around...

An extremely interesting adventure in leadership is found in Jan Benedict Steenkamp’s book, Time to Lead: Lessons for Today’s Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History. The author has brought together an amazing variety of leaders, indicating them as possessing styles of Adaptive, Persuasive, Directive,...

Eyeless Mind: A Memoir about Seeing and Being Seen by Stephanie Duesing is a sensitive and heartbreaking memoir about her 15-year-old son, Sebastian, who was blind though he showed no signs of blindness and no one knew he was blind. Sebastian loved painting and he...

Learn to Read from Sounds is an introduction to phonics for educators and parents, written by Florence Barnes. What is phonics, and why isn’t it currently being used in teaching reading? The author gives readers a sound grounding in what phonics actually is: ‘the representation...

Danger in the Hills by Tom Waggoner is a tale about family and courage, told from the perspective of a groundhog that does what he can to protect his loved ones. Ernie has always been able to keep his family safe in their burrow home...

Adventures of the Chaotic Goddess (Chaotic Universe Book 2) by Cheyenne Bennett is a deep dive into the world of fantasy and ancient gods. The Goddess of Chaos is known by many names, however, in this iteration, she prefers to go by the name of...

Mitzvah is a work of fiction in the urban fantasy sub-genre and was penned by author Erik Henry Vick. The third episodic novel in the Claw & Warder series, this dark and fascinating work of fantasy continues to explore the world of Leery and Dru...

The Nameless by Allison Rose is book one in the young adult fantasy Tales of an Outcast Faerie series, preceded by the book zero prequel novella, Outcast. The installment reads perfectly well without the prequel, given that it was released first. The Nameless centers around...

Do you think you know the story of Hansel and Gretel? Well, think again? Sibling Wars is the newest entry in the Fairytale Fraud series by Katie Pye. We meet Hansel and Gretel and the witch, but this version has a little twist. Instead of...

Katie Pye has written half-a-dozen Fairytale Fraud books in which she tells a different, but just as likely, version of well-known stories. Breaking News is her charming version of Humpty Dumpty. Humpty’s dad is the safety-minded king who keeps the doors to the kingdom locked...

While a young woman searches for the answer to her mother's disappearance, a sinister entity locked away for twenty years is released and is wreaking havoc in the supernatural novel, Plague of Witches by John Patrick Kennedy. On her twenty-first birthday, Kana discovers she is...

Kong Boys: Seven Friends from Hong Kong Take on Eleven European Cities for Their Thirtieth Birthdays by Gerald Yeung is an interesting non-fiction book for travel fans. The author introduces readers to his four childhood friends and explores their friendship over the years, a journey...