Susanna Rodgers Simpson shares lessons and wisdom that she has learned throughout her life in her book Practical Life Lessons. The title of the book tells exactly what she has included in the book. The lessons are very practical and apply to so much of...

Dóchas: Hope Changes Things by Elle Mae O'Donnell is a spellbinding fantasy with enough drama to keep any reader entertained. Eden is the ruler of Geraldia and a woman with the mysterious gift of controlling the weather and an insatiable thirst for vengeance. Miles Everest...

Falling for Another Darcy is the third installment of Kate O'Keeffe's Love Manor romantic comedy series. It's been a year since Emma Brady met her Mr. Darcy, Sebastian Huntington-Ross, on the hit reality TV show, Dating Mr. Darcy. Now happily married, Emma acclimates herself to...

An Ocean Away: A Journey of Hardship and Survival by Peter Clarke is a well-crafted historical novel that is both touching and hopeful. Set in the mid-1800s, the story is about William (a.k.a. Bill) Smith who is sent off by his father to Belfast, hoping...

Rayne’s Summer is a tale of a nine-year-old lad growing up in a small town on the English coast. Set in the 1950s with a backstory of the Korean War, young Rayne is thrust into a whirlwind of events with meanings beyond his years. Margaret...

Secrets the Walkers Keep by J. Morgan Michaels is the first book in the Casters of Magic series. After his mother’s death, Manhattan “Hat” Walker is no longer himself. Whereas he had previously spent time with his large family weekly, if not more frequently, he...

There’s a well-repeated phrase, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” While in many ways that saying is true, it can also be said that you can’t choose a book without its cover and, more significantly, its title. When have you ever been attracted...

The Silver Thread of Life by Phillip Bruce Chute is a non-fiction collection of '50 Original True Accounts of Divine Interventions and Life-Changing Spiritual Events.' Chute has found in his 40 years as a tax preparer that his clients have a tendency to share their...

Emily: Courage Amid Shadows of the Confederacy by Ken DeHaven follows sixteen-year-old Emily Harmon who moves with her family to Missouri from Illinois. It is in the period following the Civil War and the effects of the war are still deeply felt, notably with the...

Enterprise Architecture Fundamentals: Using the Pagoda Blueprint is a work of non-fiction in the business and finance sub-genres, and was penned by author Rémy Fannader. As its title suggests, the work focuses on the complex world of how businesses might organize their IT infrastructure in...

Sundays at Simone’s by Thomas Bauer is a first-person novel that reads almost like a memoir. Our narrator and protagonist is Michael McDowell, well versed in all things music, especially classical, the Los Angeles environs, film and theater, and food (especially Italian). He is also...

Have you ever seen a homeless person in the area where you live? Have you ever taken the time and shown the compassion to buy that person a meal? Have you ever thought, “I wish there were something I could do to help the homeless?”...

Lakota Honor by Kat Flannery is the story of Nora, a young 19-year-old living in Willow Creek, Colorado. Otakatay is a half-Sioux and half-white man who has become a bounty hunter, hating white people for their treatment of him because of many factors. Willow Creek...

Erratic Boundaries is a visual and poetic display in that we must rely on our eyes to try to absorb the complexity of the surrounding shapes. Only through our minds can we come to understand it, and through our hearts can we understand the true...

Do you enjoy nature? Do you enjoy seeing birds? Are you a bird watcher or want to be a bird watcher? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Mathew Tekulsky has authored the book for you. It is called Galapagos Birds: A...

Rebirth in Acadi is a work of cultural fiction by author Susan Swanson. Family trees can be very complicated, as Elizabeth Bancroft, who renames herself Louise Dennis, is about to find out. Of course, everyone has skeletons hiding in their closet. Louise is of African-American...

In Swindler’s Revenge by Ellen Butler, the fifth offering in the Karina Cardinal series, Karina finds her lazy Saturday morning routine interrupted when the FBI comes knocking on her door and proceeds to ransack her living quarters in search of her ex-boyfriend, FBI agent Michael...

Danny does not like to brush or floss his teeth. Twice a year, Danny visits the dentist, and twice a year, the dentist discovers a new cavity in his teeth. Danny’s parents and Dr. Dent were frustrated; all their efforts to get him to maintain...

Tea for Dragons by Kandi Wyatt is a fun and imaginative picture book for young children. Have you ever thought about inviting a dragon over for tea and, if so, what would you serve them? Maybe they would like a flavored tea, and even some...

Based on the cover and title, Sixty-Five Roses by R. A. Williams is nothing like I thought it would be. It is not a bouquet of 65 roses, but a deep, heartbreaking story of a four-year-old little girl, and so much more, woven into the...