I’m sure we’re all afraid of something at some time or other. Sometimes our fears take over our lives and that’s never a good thing. That’s what happened to Paulie. He’s a plover, a shorebird (or beach bird) who spent the warm summer months at...

A thought-provoking book that alternates between the past and the present, The Epistles of Jesus by Bayard Hollingsworth operates on the premise that what if Christ’s teachings are discovered to be inconsistent with long-standing doctrine? And so it conceives a gripping thriller that takes you...

A Multicultural Picnic: Little Polyglot Adventures, Book 3 is an educational adventure picture book for children written by Victor D.O. Santos and illustrated by Eszter Miklos. Dylan and Isabella loved the picnics the family would have whenever their grandparents from Brazil and grandmother from Ukraine...

Leading At the Edge: True Tales from Canadian Police in Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping Missions Around the World by Ben J.S. Maure M.S.C. is an uplifting book that will take readers across a number of post-conflict zones to scenes of devastating natural disasters. The book also...

Twilight in Saigon by Zev Cohen is a mix of short stories and one short novella that covers the whole gamut of human emotions and experiences. If there is one feature that ties these disparate ideas together it is probably the bittersweet nature of the...

Coustaud, the French bulldog, and Maxima, the magical grey horse, are best friends. They enjoy going on adventures together. When met by a Queen Bee, Coustaud is nervous, afraid he might be stung. But the Queen Bee is much too weak to even consider stinging...

In the lightning-moving Satan’s Gold, author Michael Ray Ewing plops us down into the action in the very first line and doesn’t stop until the surprising but gratifying ending. Tyler Jackson is a Quantico graduate now using his training to track down his rival Daemon’s...

Never Stop: Teaching and Leading Help Heal Our Nation by Herbert I. Burns Jr. is an insightful book that makes readers aware of the unhealthy times America as a nation is going through. It is in dire need of healing using the help of leading...

The Black Candle Killings by Andrew Segal launches straight into a terrifying murder. Tammy Pierre, a retired police officer, is contacted by her former supervisor, Bob Walker, and asked to consult on a case. It is clear the police response is inadequate and the body...

There are shapes all around us. Everything has a shape. Even sea creatures have shapes: like the octopus with its rectangular eyes that help them escape danger. There are even boxfish that are, you guessed it, shaped like a box, the whale with its triangular-shaped...

Downhill: Whatever It Takes by Karlheinz Moll is a thrilling tale of murder and mystery. Kitzbühel, a prominent ski resort, is the scene of a deadly murder when a real estate developer dies of a shooting on a downhill ski run. A politician running for...

Murder, financial fraud, money laundering, and political corruption are some of the themes that give depth to The Fake: Deadly Finances by Karlheinz Moll, a thriller with a well-crafted international setting that takes readers across continents, from Europe to Asia to the United States. Two...

Ego Shooter: The Depth of the Pain by Karlheinz Moll is a gripping tale of mystery and murder, a well-plotted thriller that will have readers racing through the pages. When a man is shot in Montana in broad daylight, investigators see a link with another...

What Does It Profit A Man? by Jon Bulgari is an imaginative chronicle of an Italian family’s rise to affluence. From a small village in northern Italy, the family moves to the UK and the U.S. When WWII is declared, Tommy Beales, the main character...

The Young Reader: A Game Plan for Parents to Teach Their Little Ones How to Read and Problem Solve by Margaret Craig is a useful book for parents who want to guide their children to read and solve problems. The tips and techniques in the...

Rendezvous by Geoff Spellberg is a mesmerizing read, full of adventure, history, romance, danger, and fascinating storytelling. Rendezvous explores the world of the mountain men who worked in the fur-trading industry in the early 1800s. It is also a love story between Nate, a young...

Finding Father is an adventure novel about two men in search of their fathers' roots in Vietnam and discovering themselves in the process. Written by Peter S. Glick, Finding Father follows Y'Dun, an American lawyer of Vietnamese ancestry, whose discovery of his father's journals leads...

You have probably read a viral article about persons seeing religious images in the most unlikely places and objects like an animal cracker, bread toast, clouds, or a wall. In the case of author Lisa Leikam, she found a life-changing sign from heaven that mysteriously...

Kiss My Mike by Mike Talplacido is a no-holds-barred, frank memoir of the exploration of a young man’s sexuality both in the country of his birth, the Philippines, and later in the United States. Mike was the second child of a working-class family in the...

In Reforming the Duke, Laura Beers takes us back to the early 1800s where we meet three sisters who are very good at matchmaking couples with the emphasis on a ‘love match’ and not the usual status and financial matching of the time. They have...