In The View From My Window by Patricia J. Gallegos, Willow is an apprentice healer traveling with her fellow nomads, trading and offering their services as they make stops at villages. Yet, times are changing as tension against the nomads escalates. Change comes almost as...

Readers may be daunted by what to expect if they dare to read The Ins and Outs of My Vagina. I must say that author Karin Freeland has real guts to share so much of her intimate life. Without a doubt, more reserved female readers...

Have You Seen My Friends? The Adventures of Creativity, written by award-winning author Monica H. Kang, is an adorable book for children big and small. The story follows a character who wakes up one day feeling a little blue. It seems to have lost its...

Kyle is an adorable boy and together with his friend Tiny the Mouse, they will teach children to recognize the different types of feelings. Feelings are important because when a child begins to recognize complex emotions, they acquire socio-emotional capacities that allow them to integrate...

I Love My Kids, But I Don’t Always Like Them: Expert advice for parents of challenging kids is a work of non-fiction in the parenting and advice and guidance subgenres. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Franki...

Crossroads Moments of My Life by Gabriela Casineanu is a very short memoir of a well-known life coach who has written many books for introverts. She tells a few stories about how she went from being an engineer to being a life coach, even though...

It is never easy to lose someone you love, but to lose them before they even die is beyond unbearable. Eileen’s partner was a brilliant mind, a math professor. With early-onset Alzheimer’s, he faded away quickly, dying at the age of 69. Eileen, a journalist,...

Raccoons Stole My Baby Jesus by Jennifer Doll is the part-non-fiction, part-memoir any animal lover should have. In this amazing, heartwarming book, veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Doll tells in essay form of her devotion to the animal outcasts no one else wants. The book starts off...

Dad Is My Best Friend by Kerice K. Robinson and illustrated by Kavion Robinson tells the story of the beautiful relationship between a father and daughter. Our narrator Angela is a young girl who proudly proclaims that her dad is her best friend. She then...

Witness For My Father: A World War II Story Of Loss, Hope, and Discovery by Barbara Bergren tells the true story of her father’s harrowing and historic experience as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz during WWII. The author opens the story with...

Our style of communication begins with childhood. How we were raised reflects our perspective and the tone in which we emit communication frequencies. In her book, Does My Voice Matter? sub-titled A Journey of Self-Discovery, Authenticity and Empowerment, Cynthia James uses her life experiences and...

Children and adults have the same right to feel all kinds of emotions. Hiding our feelings is never good, but we must know how to manage them. It is a lesson every child should learn. To regulate their emotions, children must first understand what causes...

Who would have thought a baby boy born on December 14, 1952, in Hong Kong would live such a varied and interesting life? Maybe his mother and father, but everyone else would have to wait and see his life unfold. In How the Great Spirit...

In My Heart: A Book About Kindness by Julie Nichole, illustrated by Blueberry Illustrations, is an adorable children’s picture book. The story follows Katelyn and her dog Toby on an adventure as they explore ways to be kind to others. It can be a simple...

Silkie lays a perfectly beautiful egg and announces it to the other chickens in the barn. Dottie points out that her egg is perfect but not a circle like Silkie thinks. To keep Silkie from worrying that her egg is not as perfect as she...

In Not My Fault, S.B. Frasca tells the story of Hy, an underprivileged sophomore student who sees the unfairness and cruelty in her community. Unlike some of the other students her age, Hy chooses to express her feelings through her art, adopting a “Not My...

Off to School in My Wheelie Chair by Charlene McIver is a picture book about the mobility experience of a young schoolboy who moves around from one place to another with the aid of his manual wheelchair. He sees going to school as an adventure...

Sun in My Heart by Tricia T. LaRochelle is a gripping contemporary romance novel that delves into the lives of characters scarred by their pasts. Pop star Julian Sommers awakens from a night of debauchery to find himself haunted by the tragic events of a...

Swimming for My Life is a work of non-fiction in the memoir, sports writing, and slice-of-life subgenres. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience. Penned by author Kim Fairley, this powerful work chronicles the remarkable journey of the former elite swimmer, offering a...

When I read A River in My Heart, a collection of 71 poems by Vikas Parihar, I immediately realized what’s been missing from my reading choices for several decades now. What a superb pleasure to discover not only a prolific poet but an excellent one....