Sharing the Table: A Northwest Chef Instructor’s Quest to Recreate Memorable Meals, by Linda Hierholzer, is certainly an epicurean delight! While this book contains many sumptuous recipes, it is much more than a wonderful cookbook. In the foreword, former student and close friend Sheri L....

In How to Write Fiction: The Basics, the twenty-second book in Dorothy May Mercer's How To For You series, Mercer dives into the mechanics of writing with helpful tips for the burgeoning storyteller. Taking the reader and hopeful writer through the step by step basics...

The Trainee Undercover by Brenda Shaw is a young adult thriller. Paul Collier is high up in a pharmaceutical company and he knows something that others don’t want to get out. His family is under threat if he says anything so he decides that they...

Flight Risk - Assignment: Romance Book 4 by Barbara Valentin is the story of a woman who is scared of heights, then an assignment makes her question her fears and she has no idea that she will find the love of her life. Aubrey Thomas...

Sprouting Spiritual Growth: A Memoir and Guide to Spiritual Journaling by Marie Higgins would be “timely” for a reader regardless of where s/he is on life’s journey. Higgins tells of her period of feeling separated from God, and of feeling a growing separation from those...

When Logan, an Air Elemental whose role in life is to police other Supernaturals' behaviour, is pitted against Connell, a macho Alpha werewolf searching for the person who stole his Wolf, sparks are sure to fly. These two unlikely partners join forces to uncover the...

Spencer Hatton has created a wonderful glimpse at all it means to be human in More to Crow About: Stories of Humor and Hope. Beginning with a number of tales, which Hatton labels The Lighter Side, you find yourself smiling if not outright laughing and...

A Different Kind of Lovely: A Novel by Petra March is a story that begins with an intriguing line: “Mina Automne danced through the pain until she managed to turn it into pleasure.” And that is an awesome way of introducing a ballerina, a woman...

Some people — including myself — have always wondered why others find peace easily, gravitate with ease towards success, turn everything they touch into gold, build fabulous relationships and succeed wherever they are while others seem to wallow aimlessly through life, barely making ends meet....

Travelling through Tokyo is the second book in the Pug with a Passport series, written and illustrated by Marie Story. Kipling Pug visits his friend, Taiki, in Tokyo, Japan. With more than 31 million people living in Tokyo, it is the most crowded city in...

Pug with a Passport is a children’s book, written and illustrated by Marie Story. Kipling Pug has the travel bug and carefully explains the steps involved in taking a holiday, whether it be local or abroad. Whether getting his passport photo taken, going through the...

Predictive Analytics by Eric Siegel is a detailed but readable overview of a somewhat complex math-driven prediction technique which uses sophisticated computer programs to analyse and extrapolate information from large amounts of personal data - data which is generally available from internet, social media, and...

Ghosts and Shadows by H. Max Hiller is a mystery about the arrogance of cultivating lambs for the slaughter, as well as the consequences of what happens when one lamb goes astray. Cooter “Cadillac” Hooter is called in to investigate a string of mysterious fires...

For those seeking greater understanding of their lives from a spiritual perspective, this book is invaluable. Born and raised in Taiwan, Jiayuh Chyan came to the US in 1988 for graduate school. After a marriage of 17 years, and a divorce, the author embarked on...

Passport to Murder: A Professor Prather Mystery, Book 2 is a murder mystery novel written by Mary Angela. This was it. Emmeline’s long-awaited trip to France, which would hopefully spur the university to finally set up an official French Department, was just a day away....

Rosie’s Umbrella written by Denny Taylor is a story of an unspeakable family secret. Rosie Llewelyn and her classmates are given an assignment to research their personal history, concentrating on the origin of their family name. But, what if you don’t have a past? In...

All who have ever loved a dog and lost him/her, whether through death or otherwise, will find A Dog Called Hope, by Jason Morgan and Damien Lewis, bringing them to tears. This is a true story, in as far as Jason Morgan is able to...

Hair Brained by Nancy J. Cohen is the fourteenth book in the Bad Hair Day Mystery series. The worst has happened for Marla Vail. Her closest friends Tally and Ken were in a terrible accident. When Ken’s pronounced dead at the scene and Tally is...

Some books you read, feel enthused and utterly entertained, and close them carefully, put them back on the shelf and after few hours, perhaps days, or even weeks, the memories of the settings and the characters linger on, soon to be replaced by the next...

Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand by Jennifer S. Alderson is the entertaining and fascinating travel story of a twenty-seven-year-old whose entire perspective changes after the amazing experience she has after traveling to Nepal and Thailand. Traveling is an adventure and the author’s...