Growing up is very difficult. There is so much to learn and so many decisions to make. For instance, there is that overwhelmingly important decision regarding one’s future and what one can and will be as an adult. Tiev is trying to come up with...

In an intelligent and intriguing new installment in the Heroes of Distant Planets series, Return to Lan Darr by Anderson Atlas is a book that readers will have a hard time putting down after they start reading. Follow the story of 15-year-old Allan Westerfield, a...

Wow! Just, Wow! That’s all I could think after I finished reading The Warlords of Woodmyst, the fourth installment in the excellent series The Woodmyst Chronicles by author Robert E. Kreig. This book was one I simply could not put down until I finished it,...

Cut Your Cravings: Discover Why You Fail To Diet & How You Can Lose Weight Once and For All is a non-fiction health and wellness self-help book written by Rae Roth. The author is a personal coach whose online site helps people adopt a healthier...

In Alex and Jade: His Wyrd against Hers by Susan Netteland Gerbi, Prince Alex and Princess Jade are young adults in an era where it is expected that parents will make prudent political matches for their children. The children accept this practice and can only...

Somebody Else's Business by Charlton James is an intriguing drama that weaves together the lives of people from completely different walks of life. Sergeant Major John Willoughby has just proposed to his fiancée, Tiffany Adams, and the two seem destined to have a beautiful life...

Life for Sparkles had many stages as it does for everyone. Sparkles hatched from her egg as a caterpillar, ate leaves, built a cocoon, and then woke up from a deep sleep as a beautiful butterfly. Life didn’t begin the way Sparkles thought it should...

Mark Lucas' first mistake was to be the first person to discover the asteroid that would permanently change the Earth's axis tilt. His second mistake was contacting President Walsh about the inevitable doomsday to come. His third mistake was trusting that the government would actually...

I want to go to Awesome Land like Caden did in Caden and Awesome World by Naomi Melton. In just 24 pages, Caden meets a three-headed dragon, a gopher wearing glasses, a rickety wooden bridge over crocodiles swimming in water and much, much more. Too...

In The Blood Of The Greeks - The Illustrated Companion: Intertwined Souls: Eva and Zoe Companion Series, Volume 1 is an educational historical companion volume to the Intertwined Souls Series written by Mary D. Brooks and illustrated by Lucia Nobrega. Part of the book is...

Welcome, Reluctant Stranger by Evy Journey is book 3 in the Between Two Worlds series, a captivating story centered on a young girl’s growth, her coming to terms with the harsh reality of separation, and what happens when she falls passionately in love. Leilani is...

There was the Percheron horse, Jesse, retired from pulling logs and carriages, who resisted human or, for that matter, any other form of contact, preferring to stick to himself. Then there were the snuggling orphaned baby raccoons. And there were cats and dogs and sheep...

The Monsterbet: The ABCs Do Not Scare Me is an educational children's picture book written by Sarah Steele and illustrated by Daniel Manduka. Some kids might find learning the alphabet rather daunting and a bit too much of a struggle, but once they've met the...

Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms by Rohana Ulluwishewa is an uplifting book that explains the nature of thought, feelings, consciousness, the nature of our minds, and our physical brain. The author blends the most important teachings of modern neuroscience and the latest discoveries...

Body of the Crime: A Chip Palmer Forensic Mystery is a police procedural murder mystery written by Jennifer Chase. Detective Sergeant Hugh Murphy was the officer in charge of the investigation of the body of the young woman discovered by two hikers in a desolate...

In Beyond the Screen Door by Julia Diana Robertson, Nora Lee Sutter is a seven-year-old girl living in the small Washington State town of Hoquiam in 1945. She has been able to see spirits since she was four years old. That summer, Nora hasn't spoken...

The Mighty is a stunning opening to the Druid’s Guise series by Michael J Sanford, a book that will entertain and surprise young adults and adult readers alike. Wyatt, a fifteen-year-old kid, is sent to The Shepherd's Crook because he isn’t normal. Everyone thinks he...

Ever met a creative genius? Read Garage Band and you'll meet two of them. The first is the author, Adam Rabinowitz; the second is his protagonist, Lanthus Trilby. And Lanthus is surrounded by a supporting cast of colourful characters, each of whom is a genius...

The Reclamation: The School of Ancestral Guidance Saga Book 1 by Thorn Osgood is the story of Corilan Troxler. A girl who always knew that she was very different from the people around her. So she does the things that make her feel happy and...

Michael Gordon Bennett's 7-10 Split: My Journey As America's Whitest Black Kid is a non-fiction memoir. Bennett's parents were teenagers when he was born, and his dad decided to join the armed forces to make sure he could provide for his family. The author's first...