The Magic Water (Chapter book for ages 9 -12) by Roderick J. Robison is a magical story with water as the main character. Travis Macgregor paid no attention to the weather that day when he went down to the river. With his preoccupied thoughts, he...

Little Lambs' Christmas by Carol Movrich Gedde is a beautiful depiction of the Christmas season explained to the lambs by a crow and a Shepherd. The story is simple and captures the essence of the spirit and joy of the Christmas season. The little lambs...

The Deliverers 2: Order of the Crystal Lion by Gregory S. Slomba is a great read for those who love high fantasy full of battles and adventures. I really enjoyed the tale and the telling. It is a clean, wholesome tale of fantasy and travel....

There was an interesting mix of mythology and superhero tradition in The Starlight Chronicles, and one that was apparent right from the beginning. The book kicks off with an action packed punch of a prologue as we meet our hero: Wingdinger. Sound odd? Well, that's...

Redemption: The Further Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer by Andrew Joyce is a fantastic book. Most of us have read Mark Twain’s stories about two young boys and their life in Hannibal, Missouri by the time we are in the sixth grade. What...

Little Lambs' Lessons from Luke by Carol Movrich Gedde is a collection of eight stories which explains to the reader a verse from the book of Luke. It is first in the series of four books with a delightful theme of a Shepherd and his...

Sun block isn’t an immediate “fix-all” and not all sun blocks are created equal. The reader will understand those two concepts and more after having read Sun Care Decoded by Michael J. Russ and Peter Zahner. Most people simply assume that sunscreen is safe and...

Great books continue to have contemporary relevance, can be endlessly gleaned for fresh data and interpretation, and contain great ideas which have occupied the minds of thinkers from antiquity. Essays on the Classics by Jason R. Goetz establishes these fundamental truths as he introduces the...

After spending a month mourning the loss of the grandmother she cared for in the years before Alzheimer’s claimed her life, Tracey heads to her newly inherited beach house in Maine. Her goal is to take a break from her life and the reminder of...

Mitch Taylor is sick and tired of living a life over which he has no control. For the better part of two decades he has been a freelance undercover agent for the DEA, acting as the right hand man to one of the leaders of...

In The Afterlife of a Restless Soul: But Is God Really a Woman? author John Brinster offers the reader a provocative look at possible afterlife scenarios. Professor Jeremiah Cackelry III has died from complication of a Viagra dose. He is a brilliant scholar and an...

Lifting the Lid is a superb adventure-comedy by Rob Johnson. Some people can spend their entire dull lives living inside the box. Unfortunately, Trevor isn’t smart enough to do that. When faced with another poor job review, he decides to take the company up on...

Dinosaur George and the Paleonauts: Episode One: Raptor Island by George Blasing and Mark Miller is an exhilarating and adventurous short story, introducing young readers to the concept of time travel, paleontology, and prehistoric animals and dinosaurs. Move over Jurassic Park; here comes Dinosaur George...

Carlo the Mouse, Book 1: Too Many Rules for One Little Mouse by Mrs. D. is absolutely stunning in both its graphics and the lessons it teaches. Carlo is a baby mouse (mouselet?) who eats like a horse. He lives with his family inside the...

Fretboard Positions Diagram: A Guitar Fretboard Unscrambler by Marc Scheffel is a book for guitarists who will find this useful in figuring out how to play the Major and Minor scales, to build chords, and to make and identify the Intervals using a single diagram....

Gingerly Ruffles Some Feathers (Volume 3) by Terri Kelley is the third in the series. Gingerly, Zoey, and a few others decide to correct a mistake. Though reluctant to get involved in it, Gingerly is convinced by her friend Zoey to join the cause as...

So before I start this review, I've got to tell you that I am NOT someone who understands meditation. I like massages, breathing deeply, relaxing, all of that, but focused meditation has never been something I can understand or really get behind. Well, my thoughts...

A slow stroll through the Italian countryside during harvest time is exactly what the reader will take while reading Umbrian Twilight by Giovanna Piccozzi. Meeting an air marshal, Mike, on her flight to her farm in Italy, the story of her ancestry, her tragedy, and...

Fabrick, the start of a new series by Andrew Post, weaves a tale of good guys and bad, odd-balls and magic weavers, all set in an off-world city perched precariously on a clogged geyser. Clyde, a rather innocent young man, is thrust out into the world...

In Extracted, a YA steampunk novel by Tyler H. Jolley and Sherry D. Ficklin, Lex and Ember are two siblings on different sides of a time travel war. Lex is part of the Hollows, a smash-and-grab crew who snatch up items appearing in the wrong...