Sheep is the precursor to Cows! Both books are by Martin D. Rothery. I read them out of order, but I can truly say I don’t think that it diminished my enjoyment of either. The point is not the plot so much as it is...

Life: it’s very complex. It’s full of pain and sorrow, but it is also full of love and happiness. How does one express these deep emotions? How does one put down in words the passage of time, the meaning of life itself? It is a...

These animals are Killing Me by Katrina Morgan is a light-hearted but perceptive account of day to day life for mom Katrina as she juggles all that is entailed in being a full-time parent to three, a wife, and owner of beloved but often slightly...

Growing up is very difficult. There is so much to learn and so many decisions to make. For instance, there is that overwhelmingly important decision regarding one’s future and what one can and will be as an adult. Tiev is trying to come up with...

Willis Hancocks is not the type of person who can serenely embrace a mediocre lifestyle and his town seems too small for him. With big dreams and strung up with a firm determination to succeed, he joins the army at the outset of WWII, but...

Barely Above Water by Gail Pallotta has a powerful and heart wrenching message that we all need to hear. Suzie has something wrong with her, but no one seems to know what. Without a diagnosis, she is perceived, by some, to be lazy and complaining....

In Bernard Jan's Cruel Summer, Michael is a seventeen-year-old boy living in New York. Michael loves skateboarding and wants to ride professionally. He and his abusive father, Hank, don't get along, and his mother died a few months ago. Michael's sister, Rebecca, is in Denver...

Hook’s Little Mermaid by Suzanna Lynn is a fun take on the classic story of Peter Pan. Everyone knows the story of Captain Hook and Peter Pan. Lynn spins the tale of Jameson Shaw as he searches for the boy Peter Pan who’s responsible for...

In The Lily Year by L.H. Anderson, life has a way of throwing you a curve ball. It happened with Lily when she was very young. As you can expect, it turned her life around and took it the other way. She was living, but...

What My Brain Told Me by Thom Kudla is an introspective and emotionally rich collection of autobiographical essays, poetic reflections, and short stories chronicling the author's coming-of-age journey through family, friendship, love, loss, and self-discovery. With both tenderness and biting wit, Kudla explores the depths...

Thomas Kudla’s poetry is fresh, inventive, playful, wise, insightful, musical, revealing (in the particular way that only simple questions, simply asked, can be), and always engaging. In Commencement, Kudla leads his reader through an abecedary of poetic observations, followed by similar riffs based on numbers,...

Sparkle is a little girl whose real name is Sarah. She blossoms with light and color and loves the natural world around her. One rainy day, she's feeling sad. When her mother, Alice, asks her why, Sparkle talks about being hue-man, a child of many...

"I" Can Relate by Wanda L. Scott is a devotional book about developing relationships in the right perspective: God first, then man. The author teaches the importance of self-evaluation using biblical principles and profound teachings as readers enter moments of "I can relate," or "I...

Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society by Grace Sara is a book that will shock many readers — positively — and it is a marvel to think that a work of such depth is written by a seventeen-year old writer. In the introduction...

Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet by Cynthia Gallaher is an engaging book for all those readers who are interested in poetry and how to become a poet. The book is a useful tool...

“I wish they had told me / when I was a kid / that my allowance wouldn't buy me / a sustainable smile.” (p.16) If there is one poetry book you should read in your whole lifetime, it is How I Am Different by Thom Kudla,...

From praising women and mankind to the elements of the Most High are some things you will find in A Lover's Will by Mahiraj Jadeja. Words are feelings, emotions and truth; they speak volumes. A Lover's Will expresses the pathway to our past as well...

Primrose Goodwing may be the very worst Goodwing in existence. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t force her magic to last past midnight, which is bad enough on its own. But then she becomes the first Goodwing in history to fail her Fairy...

No one needs to love poetry to appreciate this wonderful collection of poems. Between The Lines There Lies a Story of Me by Sabaine features well-written, rhythmic, and beautiful poems that will resonate with a wide range of readers, poems that cover a variety of...

E.B. Willis has created a wonderful interactive educational book that is ideal for children, as well as special needs children and adults. The Wiggle Exercise Book is a beautifully written short story about a little girl, Gia, and a little mouse, Morie. Once upon a...