Glitch: Lost in Time Book 1 by Brenda Pandos was an intriguing blend of zombie-pocalypse, time travel and dystopian YA genres. Our heroine, Abby, as a result of her leap year birthday, discovers herself to be a glitch in a complex system of parallel universes...

Bala-Gala The Brave and Dangerous by Gita V Reddy, illustrated by VC Arts, is a delightful bedtime story for young children. Bala-Gala can be many things – a deer, a crocodile-scaring tiger, a dinosaur, or a monster-defeating dragon or whatever he needs to be. Sometimes...

The Ant Thief: Bed Time Tales 2 by Gita V. Reddy is a children’s story about an ant named Noira. Noira has a problem with stealing things. One day Noira steals a magician’s cloth that makes her invisible when she wears it. She then attempts...

Growing Up Alaska: Memories of a Town, a Time, a Place, and a People Planted in a Little Pocket of Wonderful by Niki Breeser Tschirgi begins with her move to Alaska as a little girl, with a truck, a hundred pounds of wheat, and a...

Damian Hopkins, a young San Francisco newspaper reporter, undertakes an assignment that will change his life and outlook on other people in Mr. Meeks: His Life & Times 1812-1867 by David S. Larson. Hired by a wealthy benefactor to interview William Meeks, Hopkins is at...

Life's Lemonade: Taking Life's Tartness One Humiliation at a Time by Louise Wright had me laughing out loud. In this book Wright shares some embarrassing moments that have occurred in her life, and there are a lot! She also shares a few embarrassing things that...

I am so glad that I read The Importance of Christian Friendships: In Good Times and in Bad by Beth Gable Hicks. It made me examine my friendships and see why some people act the way they do and how true Christian friends will behave...

In an excellent new guide for a person considering undergoing psychotherapeutic treatment that includes use of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), author Tal Croitoru's book, The EMDR Revolution: Change Your Life One Memory At A Time (The Client's Guide), provides readers with an absolute...

Do you feel stagnant? Do you believe that your goals are unattainable? Do you feel that you have no choice when the decisions that you make seem to fail and appear to fall apart? The Productivity Zone: Stop the Tug of War with Time...

In a story set in the 1930s, amid the struggles to survive life in the Depression, Amish housewife, Gloria, and her English neighbor, Minerva, grasp at faint straws of hope to make it through yet another winter. Their clashes and disagreements formed long ago as...

A great, fast paced memoir, Some Way Outa Here: A Personal Story of a Time That Transformed America by Mark Lauden is a coming of age account of his life growing up in the late '60s and early '70s, along with two female friends. It's...

Growing up, Victoria Woodhull — the sixth of ten children — knew nothing but abuse at the hands of her father, poverty, and all sorts of dysfunctional family ties. Her first marriage proves even worse than the family she was born into. In spite of...

The Cow in the Doorway is a young adult/new adult coming of age novel written by Gino Bardi. Tony Vitelli was not all that sure he really wanted to go to Cornell University despite the excited urgings of his father. He’d feel a lot more...

Finding Happiness: Building Stable Relationships in Turbulent Times by Paul W. Swets is a helpful and useful guide to all those who are in search of happiness and want to build good friendships and live an enriching and fulfilling life. Life is worth celebrating and...

Super Sized Success: 9 Steps to Maximum Riches in Minimum Time by Linda Zander is a useful tool to readers looking for successful relationships, financial freedom, hope, joy, and much more in their lives. The nine steps to success, crafted and arranged in this book,...

Journey: The Life and Times of Lawrence Howard by Mykl Walsh and Richard Saunders is the story of a young man who spent all his life keeping his brilliant mind hidden from people. Lawrence Ronald Howard was born just a few months after the death...

Trapped Within Illusions by E.S. Tilton is an imaginative and intriguing fantasy that takes the reader on a long and exciting ride. Straight away we meet the main characters of the story. Parian, one of the seven seers, has been searching for The One for...

Yetunde: The Life and Times of a Yoruba girl in London by Segilola Salami is a West African folktale that highlights the love shared between a mother and daughter. Yetunde does not speak English very well - she is more familiar with Yoruba - and...

I really appreciate being drawn into a very real fictional world where the author has taken the time to paint in details so intricately that you find yourself wondering if this story really could be true. I also appreciate a good vampire tale. Not the...

I was expecting Donna Mulvenna's book, Farm Sitting: How to Travel the World One Farm at a Time, to be anecdotal stories of life on other peoples' farms. Instead, I found a wonderful self-help guide to becoming a professional farm sitter. Donna Mulvenna briefly recounts...