There's a growing need for people to hold themselves accountable for their actions today, perhaps more so than any other period in history. In Biblical Experiences, author I. Daryl Pressley draws on the wisdom of the scriptures to help readers overcome mental, spiritual, and moral...

That Crazy Little Thing by Kate Bracy is a love story of friendship between friends, mother and daughter, sister and brother, mother and son. And it is so much more. It takes the painful journey of cancer and makes it a beautiful story of...

The Adventured Star by Pamela T. Chandler is a delightful story about Najma, the travelling star who moves to Abu Dhabi. During her stay there, she wishes to be the star of Abu Dhabi. The book has some excellent illustrations that complement the story. I found...

Jonny Plumb's New Adventures by Kim Wheeler is an adventure story starring Jonny Plumb. The story takes off from Jonny's previous adventures with the Silver Flying Arrow Space Ship. Jonny's sea life friends, his space home Pashoo, his struggle to save Earth, humanity and the...

This is a review of the audio format of The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorsensen, read by Leslie Bellair. Callie was raped on her twelfth birthday by her brother’s best friend. Her personality changed; she started wearing baggy clothing, chopped her hair...

In Wicked Souls by Sabrina Samples, Spencer Bishop’s husband, David, dies due to the head injury he sustained in an accident. Strange things take place in no time, with the appearance of a man named Aiden who warns Spencer about an angel called Zaapiel. Spencer...

The Not Wholes by Giovanna Pezzulo is about an Italian teenager who has been castrated. The story deals with how a certain strata of the society accept him and how the rest do not. The backdrop of the story is a music conservatory in Italy. For...

Take the time each day to read a Bible verse and memorize it phrase by phrase. Rachelle Ayala suggests this spiritual devotion in Your Daily Bible Verse: 366 Verses Correlated by Month and Day. She notes that a difficult time in her life inspired her...

Express Cafe and Other Ramblings by Heather Crouse is a collection of stories dealing with human emotions and the path life takes. All the stories are different from one another but the theme is the same. Some of them are inspiring and some are ones...

The Romanian Connection by Richard Roche is a work of fiction that reads like non-fiction. I had to check more than once to make sure the author had correctly listed this book. The prologue hints at the intrigue that lies ahead. The setting is 1995;...

Chaperones by Megan Karasch is a fantastic novel of self discovery and growing up, even when the main character is already 26. Andrea was so over protected while growing up she never learned anything about life or herself. Her only enjoyment came from behind a...

Practice to Deceive written by J. R. Lindemuth is a “Sticks” Hetrick detective novel. While on a cruise with Anita Bailey, things begin to go missing, the ship's crew needs help, and then the Jamaican police need Sticks' assistance. Not much of a vacation for...

In The Dazzling Darkness by Paula Cappa, the Old Willow Cemetery is under the watch of its mysterious keeper, Elias Hatch. On March 20, when 5-year-old Henry Brooke fails to come home with his older sister, Detective Mike Balducci turns his attention to Hatch, and...

Intelligent Life on Earth? The Search Continues by Barbara Cohea is FUNNY! This entire book is a collection of short essays about… well, about almost everything. All the way through this book, I kept thinking, “This woman should be a newspaper columnist.” After the conclusion...

Billy and the Monster Who Loved to Fart by David Chuka is a children’s tale which ultimately attempts to teach children some basic manners, where the public discharge of flatulence is concerned. The little boy in this story, Billy, has a best friend who happens...

Captain Pegleg and the Greatest Treasure by Graham Austin-King is a book apparently meant to entertain children, without teaching anything… and that’s just fine. Entertainment, after all, is the reason most adults read what they read. However, there IS a lesson to be learned from...

When the world-wide war stalemate causes other military equipment manufacturers to fail, Acme remains flourishing. The company aids near bankrupt industries with loans, buying unrealized technological innovations, and providing jobs to the once dying city of Corinth. The company utilizes its massive repository of technological...

When you have a business, no matter how big or small, and you come across a book that starts with “Marketing is not as complicated as you think – once you look behind the curtain”, you can’t wait to delve into its pages and learn...

Applause for this ultra-creative time travel story! In My Two Lives by Jan Hunter, main character Jill Woods is a lovely Brit school teacher in her early thirties, who keeps her life as simple as possible and her heart well-protected -— she’s had her fill...

When we start Elodie Parkes’ The Winter Girl, we meet the winter girl, Lily, fresh from a painful breakup and new to the small town of Belvedere. Intending to take a break from men, from work, and from her old life, Lily was not expecting...