How to Develop Happiness: A Doctor's Journey to Find Meaning and Be Happy in Difficult Times is a self-help manual. Dr. Rafal Zielinski writes that people can live enjoyable and meaningful lives by applying the philosophies and practices that he has learned through his personal...

Makings: Explorations in the Poetry of Thought by Steven Henry Miller is true to its title in exploring the crossing paths of poetry and philosophy. The book is divided into five sections. The first part presents aphorisms and literary fragments, from simple thoughts such as...

Time does not stop for anyone, and a retired firefighter and his entrepreneur wife were well-aware of this. They traded the comforts of their home in Canada for a tiny home on wheels, ready for an adventure of a lifetime. The road was full of...

Two Floors Above Grief: A Memoir of Two Families in the Unique Place We called Home by Kevin O’Connor is the best self-published memoir I’ve read this year. This concerns a family of undertakers and provides an examination of the day-to-day concerns of family life...

The Beast in the Shadows is a thrilling second book in Douglas L. Hoover’s Dirt Bike Detective series. Oliver and his friends have succeeded in saving the world from mayhem and are happy to pick up another mystery to solve: what happened to the pizza...

Over the years, there has been a steady rise of successful start-ups which have managed to claw their way into the customer base of large-scale corporations. This is because big companies are stuck in the traditional way of doing things that have become incompatible with...

“The winners are those who control the game and all players are suckers” is a quote attributed to gangster Meyer Lansky in Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas by Jeffrey Sussman. Las Vegas wasn’t founded by the men...

Yoko Ono breaking up the Beatles is a story as deeply entrenched in pop culture as the British Invasion itself, and Nirvana fans have long maintained Courtney Love was to blame for Kurt Cobain’s tragic death. But how did these women, and so many others...

From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet by father and son David and Jon Moscow is based on a TV show of the same name shot between 2018 and 2021 in numerous countries. These include Mexico, the Philippines, South...

Gone Before: A Grief Journey in Poems by Ruth Fanshaw is a collection of the author's poetry written to process the depth of heartache that comes when we lose someone close to us. In Fanshaw’s case, the loss was her mother, and the verses she...

The Delivery Man: The Art of Turning Ideas into Products in Silicon Valley by Sebastien Taveau is a must-read for anyone who would like to build a successful career in today’s complex technological world. It’s a candid and fascinating account by a Silicon Valley veteran...

Eight-year-old Sola and her younger brother Jackie had just moved to a new home with their family. While visiting a bookstore, Sola decides to buy a mystery book called The Adventures of the Magic Rose and the Magic Crown. However, when she starts reading it...

In Myth Takes: Rhyme and Reason in the Age of Entitlement by Agee, the poems are flashbacks to the times of the mythical Greek gods and kings and explore their traits and fetishes. For instance, Zeus, King of Olympus, had a weakness in controlling his...

Of Starlight and Bone by Emily Layne presents an intriguing science fiction mystery. Aurelia Peri is the adopted daughter of the GIC. She has finished her basic training and is on her first active mission as a DISC agent. Her first mission goes horribly wrong...

Your English is Better than My French: Adventures in France and Hack for a Great Vacation by Eric Kirchmann is a travel guide and an adventure narrative that takes readers on an informative and enjoyable tour of Paris and the French countryside. Four decades after...

In My Story, His Glory, Nathaniel X. Arnold shares his heart-warming and inspirational testimony of God’s love with us. He tells of his encounters with his Creator, the tests he had to endure, and how it has all aided in helping him understand God and...

Beyond Death by Sally Muir catalogs her conversations with Ninette Roll Peterson and her own experiences. Muir takes the reader through detailed conversations with Ninette after her death. Ninette, through the author, conveys her time on the next plane of existence, covering the value of...

Eric D. Oberer uses his experience as a prosecutor to explain how injustice occurs in Courts of Law Not Courts of Justice: Why Justice is Hard to Find in America. The book is divided into four parts. The first explains the Constitution and the amendments...

We all have areas in our life where we feel we have limitations and want to improve and some books make the process much easier for us. Surf the Seesaw by Scott A. Davis is one such book that has made the strongest impression on...

Cupid Ain’t Stupid: Cupid-in-Training by Zoe Michal with illustrations by Nejla Shojaie shares the delightful adventures of Cupid and his fellow students as they attend Valentine’s Day School. Cupid and his friends must learn many lessons including how to fly, create poetry, make chocolate, and...