The Adventures of Polo the Bear: A Story of Climate Change by Alan J. Hesse is a charming and humorous tale about a bear that embarks on a journey around the world and discovers important lessons about climate change. Polo has a serious problem. His...

Kate Porter’s The Last Echo is a sublime dramatization of what happens when love is derailed by the pretension and conceit of parents, riding roughshod over their spoiled son’s quest for happiness. Lisa Hayes becomes the latest victim of this prejudice when she meets and...

The Land of Nod is a 29-page children’s picture book written by Alicia Antonio and illustrated by Manqing Jin. The story centers around a mother putting her daughter to bed and telling her about a whimsical land called Nod that resides across a rainbow arch...

Maryvonne Fent’s The 35₵ Dowry highlights the difficult childhood of Minouche, a young French girl whose early life was shrouded in violence, abuse, poverty and undying love for her mother. Minouche dreams of travel, education, and love, which all seemed just slightly out of reach...

The Dream by Deborah Arlene begins with a dream, the kind of nightmare from which the victim wakes up disoriented and drenched in sweat. But Seth Siracke's nightmare isn’t an occasional kind of dream. It has become something that disturbs his sleep, nags at the...

The Curious Case of the Missing Head is a work of thriller fiction set in the medical sub-genre and was penned by author Gabriel Farago. This involved and cunning mystery is a standalone novel, but it also features as the fifth book in the Jack...

From the author of the spellbinding The Minstrel Boy comes another exciting read, The Bloody Road. In Nigel Seed’s military thriller, Michael McGuire, who retired from the army after the Boer War, is called back to service when WWI breaks out. As Colonel, he takes...

When The Girl Who Looked Beyond the Stars by L. B. Anne begins, Sheena Meyer is just an ordinary girl, but that doesn't last long. Her life changes when her father gets in a car accident and she goes to the hospital to see him,...

The Spell is a work of fiction in the fantasy, fairy tale, and suspense sub-genres, and was penned by author C. V. Shaw. Taking the classic atmosphere of fairy tales and giving them a dark and thrilling twist, we find ourselves in the kingdom of...

Imagine a young boy shunned by his schoolmates finding new adventures in underground worlds and faraway planets! That is exactly what happens to Jimmy in Wallace E Briggs’ brilliant book, The Amazing Adventures of Jimmy Crikey. Jimmy is a young boy with unusual features –...

The Road to Ladysmith: The Last Imperial War by Nigel Seed is the second installment in the gripping Michael McGuire Trilogy. After his life-threatening escapade in Sudan and recovering from his wounds, Captain McGuire sails south as the government is having trouble with the Boer...

The Unconscious Community is the real-life story of author Patrice Griffin's childhood, filled with psychological and physical abuse, and her eventual return to society, overcoming overwhelming odds to lead a healthy and fulfilling life. Patrice grows up in a healthy family with a loving grandmother,...

In Terrene A. Davenport’s The Great Balance, Brie had been haunted by nightmares since the death of her mother, with dark figures and sinister occurrences plaguing her sleep. But little does she know that these night terrors are just the tip of her troubles. For...

The Lost Symphony: A Historical Mystery Thriller is the sixth book in the Jack Rogan Mysteries by Gabriel Farago, and you don’t need to have read the previous books in the series to enjoy this spellbinding story. Jack Rogan is an Australian journalist who inherits...

In The Meaning of Myth, Neel Burton (psychiatrist, philosopher, wine expert) brilliantly discusses and exhibits the meaning of myth. First, he defines it as “a piece of lore” and then separates it from legend, fable, fairytale, parable, religion, ritual, magic, and science. He presents a...

We often hear that if you want to keep your correspondence, you should not write emails but letters because it is much easier to delete and forget the former rather than the latter. That may be true, but Mike Rembis' The Rembis Report is an...

The Center of Gravity by Patricia Brandon has an intriguing title, one that makes you think. After reading this historical novel you’ll find yourself dissecting aspects of the book’s storyline and “what ifs.” This is a sweeping novel that takes the reader from the days...

To Anna, love was total ownership and worship. It was beautiful until it wasn’t. Anna and Ambrosia (Rose) were cousins, best friends, and soul sisters. After losing her sister and mother as a little girl, Rose filled that void for Anna. But then Rose got...

The 'Great' Kickin' Dog: A Family Tree by Kenneth Allen Crutchfield, Sr. is a novel with its own beauty and dignity in exploring the life of a dysfunctional family. John Coleman is the main protagonist, an ex-musician, assembly line worker, and alcoholic. Don’t call him...

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...