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...

The Gift of Life by Keily J. Adey is a lovely accounting of one woman's struggle to conceive a child. After multiple miscarriages, the author and her husband decide to find out what is "wrong". This involves medical testing which reveals that basically, everything is...

After reading Michela O’Brien’s Playing On Cotton Clouds, you’ll not only wish you were a child of the 1980s, you’ll reconsider everything you thought you knew about coming-of-age during this era of fluorescent clothing and punk rock. Told over two and a half decades of...

In The Jewish Ninja, Allegra Coleman has given young adult readers a taste of living and growing up in a Jewish community. Following the death of her parents in an automobile accident, twelve-year-old Alexia is forced out of her comfortable world of friends, family, and...

Karin Gunderson's book Encounters with Heaven is a lovely collection of stories to inspire those undergoing daily stress as well as those about to make the passage from life to death. The book consists of personal stories related to the author as well as those...

Gambit of the Glass Crowns by Ethan Risso is Volume One of The Sundered Kingdoms Trilogy. Connor unwillingly becomes a herald of his era, due to the poisonous Féinmhuinín’s arrow that nearly killed him. Wars, tension between clans, political conspiracy as well as magic and...

In Cutting Right to the Chase, Chase Williams is an import/export executive at Ernesto Ceccarelli’s Cashmere in Turnesia, a beautiful medieval city in Italy. Yet, as a former officer of Scotland Yard, he’s always at the right time and the right place to stop crime....

When a recently deceased cheerleader clambers out of the grave, the small town of Krapper, Kansas, becomes the center of media attention. Is it a miracle? Lazarus Syndrome? Sorceressi? Everyone's interested and harboring a tiny hope that maybe their own dead loved ones will do...

Henri Duval’s The Ambition of Madame LaFargue is a witty, amusing story set in a tiny village in France. Celestine LaFargue, like a modern day Madame Bovary, is bored with her comfortable life as the wife of a wood merchant in a sleepy rural community....

The Battle of Trust and Treachery: Maycly the Trilogy - Part 2, by Janet Beasley, takes off from where the first part ends. The reader is again taken on an adventure trip where the characters go through heartaches, fantasy, whimsy, and everything that appeals to...

The Queen: Maycly the Trilogy - Part 3 by Janet Beasley is the last part of this adventure series. The book begins with Iona's childhood, then proceeds to the actual story. We see the introduction of a new creature in this book, and now the...

The Apple of my Eye by Christine McGreggor is about Michelle and her grandmother with whom she shared a special relationship. When her grandmother dies, she leaves the house to Michelle. The apple trees in the yard remind Michelle of her times with her grandmother...

The Power of Being Articulate - Your Words Can Make You Healthy And Happy by Pete Geissler is a very motivating and inspiring book on how to improve your communication skills. The author speaks about the importance of being articulate to succeed in the current...

Perspective by Mel Morton is a collection of stories that will linger in your mind long after you finish reading the book. The seven short stories all deal with complex personalities and relationships. Perspective is a day in the life of Isabelle as she is...

Holly Horse and The Great Quest by Jennifer Loveless is a delightful book about Holly the horse, her adventures, and her meeting Gary the goat with whom she becomes very friendly. This is one of the best children's books I have read because it is...