Sharky Marky and the Scavenger Hunt: An Alphabetic Adventure by Lance Olsen is a very educational book for kids and adults. Sharky Marky and his ocean dwelling friends are on an underwater alphabet scavenger hunt. I first want to say that if you read this...

Search & Seizure is a coming of age memoir written by Marc Hoberman. When Marc was eleven, he got to meet his maternal grandfather, a composer whose work was used in film and television throughout the '40s, '50s and '60s. That meeting and the one...

Gildemer (The Gate Series 1) by AS Oren is a young adult fantasy story and the first in a series. On planet Gildemer, which has a white and a purple moon, the humakats (and others who are part human, part animal) live in a strict...

Wisdom on How to Live Life (Book 5): Transforming Earth into Heaven by Tommy S.W. Wong is the hypothetical story of the sixth conversation between Tom and Guru Harry. Guru Harry is a compilation of someone wise, from a strong spiritual background, who gives advice...

Transforming Earth Into Heaven is book two in Tommy S.W. Wong’s Wisdom on How to Live Life Series. It takes the form of a light but enlightening conversation, questions and answers, between a young seeker of truth and a guru. Guru Harry explains to young...

Wisdom on How to Live Life (Book 3) by Dr. Tommy S.W. Wong is about the spiritual wisdom that can transform earth into heaven. It is in fact a conversation that, Tom, a common man, has with Guru Harry about life, when the Guru remarks...

Drizzling Dreams is a collection of poetry by Mansi Tejpal. Tejpal is a seventeen-year-old poet who has been writing since early childhood in both Hindi and English, and this collection promises a full range of emotional discovery with uplifting undertones. There are a total of...

The Shadow and the Light is a young adult fantasy novel by author S.K. Michels. Drawing on the traditional parallels of dark and light, evil and good, the story takes place in a world where the Shadow, a powerful dark force, has been imprisoned, but...

Blood Haven: Magic Has Awoken is an urban fantasy written by Anthony L. Smith. The date, December 21, 2012, was anticipated with fear by those who took credence in its significance in the Mayan calendar, but Jerry Fox wasn’t one of them. He had weathered...

Epiphany – The Silvering by Sonya Deanna Terry picks up where The Golding leaves off with another budding romance. Meanwhile Rosetta Melki is making discoveries about both her early childhood and the secret project one of her friends has been working on, a project that...

Fated Volition: The Sapphire Star Saga has all the elements of a classic sword and sorcery novel. There is a prophecy meant to help save the kingdom from the darkest magic. There are wizards, witches, sorcerers, and magical creatures aplenty. All of the classics are...

A Warrior’s Son by Duke Pasquini deals with social issues that affect thirteen-year-old Jake Bennett. Jake misses his Army father, Nick, a soldier deployed in Iraq, but does his best to cope, despite constant bullying at school. He takes his frustration out on his mother...

Snowball: Chronicles of a Wererabbit is a young adult coming of age/paranormal fantasy written by M.Y. Zeman with illustrations by Jason Moser. John Everly is a vampire scientist whose research has been stolen by people who will use it for evil purposes. His friend and...

Wisdom on How to Live Life: Transforming Earth into Heaven by Tommy S.W. Wong is an uplifting book which is the fourth in the wisdom series of conversations between Tom and Guru Harry. The book helps Tom and readers to become wiser and more prepared...

Twenty-one-year-old college student Jolie Montgomery wakes up in an alley next to her corpse. She doesn’t remember what happened, how she ended up in the alley and who killed her. In her desperation for help and justice, Jolie stays close to the enigmatic Detective Avrianna...

In Hurricane Crimes by Chrys Fey, Beth Kennedy is alone in her house with Hurricane Sabrina beginning to bear down on her Florida home. As she watches the storm through her front window, a car comes zooming down the road and slams into a tree....

It’s every parent’s nightmare. Children grow up so quickly and their bodies mature much faster than their minds. A new and exciting world beckons and some are ill-prepared for its dangers. Nineteen-year-old Brooke was attracted by the bright lights and excitement of Seattle’s nightclub scene...

Lady of the Imperial City by Laura Kitchell is a fresh historical novel that takes place in ancient Japan. I am highly fond of historical novels, and Japan is one of my favorite settings. I loved James Clavell’s series of books set in Asia, especially...

Whoa! What an epic read. In author D.E. Zlotnik's new novel, Myk: Prince of the Vends, readers will find themselves absolutely immersed in the world of second century Europe (in roughly the area that we would now find Poland.) We are introduced to Myk, the...

Emily had it all: a fun job on the board walk, a sexy surfer boyfriend, and a killer camera. Her grades were great and her future was bright. So why not live it up and party with her friends? Why not enjoy those fleeting moments...