Author Todd Parr offers an opportunity to help preschoolers learn how to count from one to ten. In Doggy Kisses 1 2 3, a child is introduced to a dog who just loves to kiss children. There is a number with a rhyming couplet in...

Zoo on the Moon by Robin Martin-Duttman offers early elementary children the opportunity to speculate on the concept of weightlessness. A meerkat acts as a space guide, posing various possibilities to young readers in the form of activities such as flying, juggling balls, hang gliding,...

In this age of television, where even the most gruesome police drama ends with warm and fuzzies, Zach Fortier turns that notion on its head with his gritty and often dark glimpse into the life of a true crime fighter. CurbChek Reload is more than...

Red Knit Cap Girl To The Rescue by Naoko Stoop is a precious book from cover to cover! Intended for early elementary children, it begins by introducing children to Red Knit Cap Girl and her friend White Bunny. All animals are called by their categorical...

After a brief conversation with her mother, Rose’s entire life begins to unravel. What she thought was just missing money morphed into the end of her marriage and a new chapter in her life. Looking around her soon-to-be-former home, Rose realizes just how blind she...

No Strings Attached by Kate Angell is a fun beach day romance read. Mac and Dune are ageing champion beach volleyball players who seemingly can attract any bikini-clad woman on the Southwest coast of Florida. Mac rates his women according to wax jobs while...

Emma Speaks: A Journey into the Soul of an Animal Friend by Diana St. James is an insightful book about an abused and skeptical woman who finds escape in horses and who uses an animal communicator to help her dressage horse in training when the...

Love is in the air when Julian Case meets Alegra Rossini at a wedding in Italy. He is mesmerized by the beautiful teacher. The two find common ground and interests that promise to lead to a possible future relationship, despite the long distance between them....

In the Footsteps of Rumi…Modern Verse with a Whiff of the Master’s Fragrance was written by Rashid Osmani. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, also known as Rumi, lived in Persia during the 13th century. Rumi was known as a poet, theologian, and mystic. His spiritual legacy...

The year 2013 was one fraught with some mourning for fans of spy/espionage thrillers, with the loss of Vince Flynn in June and of Tom Clancy in October. While these great storytellers will continue to be missed long into the future, thriller fans will be...

The Family That Wasn't: A Novel by Gene Twaronite is an ideal story for teenagers. John Boggle always wanted a dream family; rich and perfect and a family that appreciated and respected him for what he was. Then he finds his dreams coming true. His...

Not Another Vampire Story by Sakurapu introduces us to Terry, described as mouth-wateringly handsome and suave. He also manages to be sweet and thoughtful. Young Sylvia was sure, even without glitter and hair gel to make his hair oh so perfect, that her sister Julia...

Figments by Julie Elizabeth Powell is a collection of short stories that includes a variety of themes; relationship between mother and son, a child and his late father, love, spiritual and even paranormal, fantasy and much more. Also included is a collection of beautiful poems...

Terri Ryan writes with timeliness and conviction in The Bullies' Predatory Footprint. The media has never been more focused on bullying in its many forms, and this book is a great one for pointing out the tragic and awful outcomes that originate from the stress...

Brothers, Bullies and Bad Guys by N.D. Richman is an adventure story of two brothers who set out to find their parents who have been kidnapped. Christopher and Michael unite together in this quest. They embark on this mission and end up finding out that...

Food Choice and Sustainability, by Dr. Richard Oppenlander, is a non-fiction tome with the proactive subtitle: Why buying local, eating less meat, and taking baby steps won't work. As Dr. Richard Oppenlander states in the preface, Food Choice and Sustainability is “not about what to...

Sleeping Crimes, A Connie Anderson/Alan Bowering Mystery, is written by Joyce Slobogian. Connie Anderson is the co-owner of a mystery-themed bookstore in Brandon, a small Canadian town where she attended university ten years before that. For the last two years, she's been happily involved with...

The Dust. Book 1 – Bloodlust by David H. Sharp is a post-semi-apocalyptic-dystopian inaugural volume of The Dust series. Something utterly foreign and unknown has caused a massive cloud of ash, later determined to be dust, to settle over the British Isles, fouling machinery, halting...

In The Mountain of Long Eyes: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Thomas Hamilton takes us to amazing places from the other side of the galaxy to our own backyard. There are stories of shamans battling terrorists in a decidedly Native American influenced story;...

Jilted at the altar is almost too nice a phrase to describe what happened to Andrea Lindholm two years ago. Every bride's worst nightmare of ending up at the altar alone has forever taken the hopeless romantic that Andrea WAS and hardened her into the...