Moon Girl by Beatrix S. Tambunan is an illustrated story about two sisters, Moon Girl, and her sister, Sun Girl. Moon Girl is jealous of her sister because she seems to be more popular with the creatures of the day. Moon Girl’s creatures only come...

The cover of Stamped on Every Child's Heart was the first thing that drew my attention. While I don't have children, what I see around us in the world every day, where children are being neglected or abused, committing suicide and killing others, made me...

Something strange and dark is hiding in Africa, but no one is certain just what it wants. When Virginia and her family head to Africa on a two-week trip, they expect to experience the wilderness. What they don’t expect is two months trapped in a...

Ever since she arrived home from Totoba, Virginia hasn’t been able to forget the experience she had. Of course the experience isn’t complete and all she seems to remember is a man named Nick and some strange times at a pavilion. For three years she’s...

Be Thou My Vision is an old hymn that Faith Blum actually blends into her inspirational, historical romance that easily pulled me back to the mid-1800s. Thirty-year-old Anna Stuart has lived on her father's farm, cooking and cleaning for him and her older brother Caleb,...

Imagine that your talented, brilliant husband, a renowned scientist and doctor devoted to his patients, starts to exhibit erratic behaviour patterns, becomes aggressive when questioned, and becomes ‘someone else?’ In Slow Dancing with a Stranger, this is what happened to journalist and author Meryl Comer....

Sophie and Kiera are twins. In many ways they were very much the same, but they were also quite different. While Sophie was gentle and sometimes timid, Kiera was confident, outgoing and often impatient. However, the two girls were inseparable and one thing they had...

Jill Vance startles and tantalizes the reader with her second collection of twisted short stories called Dark Between Shadows. The plots of the stories are just as varied as their lengths, and as she says “united only by having a twist in the tale.” With...

Allegory has always been hit or miss in the world of literature: in the hands of an amateur, it can be tedious and even painful; in the hands of a gifted writer, it can transport the reader to other worlds and impart universal truths. Margaret...

Angel Castle is a fantasy for preteens written by Rita Mery. Each year Papa Fairy trains seven tiny fairies from Angel Castle for an important mission to help a problematic child on Earth. However, this chosen group is the most inexperienced, complex, absent-minded bunch of...

Whether brick and mortar or online, one of the tools that a business owner needs to acquire business success and a steady revenue stream is a branded online presence. “You must utilize every minute you can to getting the most out of your efforts,” says...

Evan Meets Bucky Lee by Julie Van Elswyk tells us the story of a boy called Evan who has no hair. It never grew. When he and his family move to a new area, he has high hopes of making some new friends. His optimism...

Clone Drones is the third book in R.C. Carter and J.P. Carter's detective mystery series, the O'Rourke Crime Novels. Ryan O'Rourke has a fairly busy, if routine, set of assignments for his crew. The lone operative who won't be working is his fiancee, Siobhan, who'll...

ABC's Trip To Africa by Ozi Okaro is an adorable way of teaching children the alphabet as well as discovering the continent of Africa. In this book, the author takes young readers on an exciting journey through Africa, telling them about the plants, animals, musical...

Women come in all shapes, sizes, shades and degrees of sanity. With the collection Because She Was A Woman, Kali Amanda Browne zooms in on the group and randomly gives us snapshots of individuals. Meet the mother whose daughter punishes her with a shotgun wedding....

Dreamscape: Real Dreams Really Make a Difference by Martha Cinader is a dramatic collection of narrative and poetry meant to inspire young people to reach their aspirations, no matter what the obstacles. Covering famous inventors, such as Tesla and Einstein, Cinader brings their struggles alive...

Out from the Underworld by Heather Siegel is a memoir detailing her early years living with an irresponsible father, after the disappearance of an idolized mother. She and two siblings, Jaz and Greg, live alternately with their father in the basement of his parents’ home,...

A Dewdrop Away is a woodland fantasy novel by C.A. Allen which is suitable for all ages. Following in the great tradition of classics like Watership Down and The Wind In The Willows, Allen’s novel centres primarily on a society of squirrels living on the...

Imagine going into your room, over to your dresser drawer where your socks are stored neat and safe, only to discover they are all missing. Where could socks go? This is exactly what Suzie thought when she discovered she would have to begin the adventurous...

First time author Emme Dun has done a remarkable job of pulling together a thought-provoking and important story about the gay rights movement, one that will touch many readers regardless of beliefs or sexual orientation. The title is apt since at the heart of Bully...