Emma's Birthday: Learning to be Gracious by Amber Richards is a children's story about Emma turning seven years old, and how excited she is about the overall experience of the gifts, cake, and her family that help her celebrate. A child's birthday is a very...

Five Moons: Revolution by Bill Parker is a story about a galactic battle between rivaling species, in which the Anoza High Council stood as spectators. Something happened which threw all harmony into chaos and now Raven, the arrogant Anoza, challenges an act committed by Toron...

Five Moons: Zep Tepi by Bill Parker is the sixth book in Bill Parker’s Five Moons series and takes place in a futuristic world where humans and androids work alongside one another and space travel has become the new norm. When a medical emergency arises...

Astonishingly, Myriad of Perceptions is Brenda-Lee Ranta’s first published book. Surprising because the quality of the work would lead one to believe it is the product of a much more experienced poet. The book contains fifty-four poetic gems, each a little work of art in...

Meet My Famous Friends by Rich Disilvio is a delightful series of images that combines facts about famous people with their iconic portraits, cleverly modified to create puns on their names. Over two dozen famous friends are featured, and the roll call is a sweeping...

Deadly Demon Fire: Wicks Hollow Witches, Book 1 is a paranormal investigator mystery novella written by Nola Robertson. Alex St. Claire was determined to get a lead on the case of the three witches who had disappeared while on campus. Her uncle, whose St. Clair...

Shift of Heart: Paths to Healing and Love by Cheryl Melody Baskin is an uplifting and insightful book that guides readers towards inner peace, balance, mindfulness, and self-love. The book is for all the perfectly imperfect readers trying to find a positive way through this...

It’s Just So… Little by Brenda Faatz and Peter Trimarco is a delicious picture book in rhyme that follows the story of Lizzy as she cares for a baby tree and awaits the birth of a sister or brother. Lizzy’s enthusiasm for life and compassion...

Outsourced by Eric J. Gates is a general fiction thriller novel that all begins with a simple question: What is the most dangerous gift a fan could send to an author if the fan were a professional assassin? Nic Stiles is an author in New...

An imaginative, fairy tale-like story, Ruby Lane by RJ Simon is an exciting and enchanting tale for children. Young Ruby lets her imagination take her to faraway and interesting places while leaving her day-to-day responsibilities behind. Her room is a mess and her cat, Catty,...

Two Halves Whole: Hafu Sans Halo, Book 2 is a young adult coming of age novel written by Melissa Abigail. While the author gives enough background information to allow this book to be read on its own, I would advise that readers begin with the...

Tuma’s Boot by Gladys T. Kenfack opens with Tuma and his mother going to the river to play. Tuma takes off his boots and sets them down near the riverbank. The wind blows his boot into the water and it floats away. He is very...

Mambo's Toy Collection by author Gladys Kenfack is a delightful children's book full of pages of vivid color, and beautiful illustrations that catch the eye. It incorporates the idea of recycling into the story line, and at the end there is a toy that can...

Ed: A Matter-of-Fact, Funny Frog Book by Monique Piscaer Bailey is the story of Ed, the frog. Ed lays her eggs inside a bog and the tadpoles hatch, one by one. They swim and grow and have fun. Then one day their legs pop out...

Not a WRITER is a collection of poetry by Roxana Preciado. Preciado writes in a free verse format; her words dash and weave across the page, reflecting her creative process and interior struggles. In her opening piece, The Trenches, the repeated refrain “She haunts me”...

Tip & Lulu: A Tale of Two Friends is a delightful children’s picture book written and illustrated by Lauren Isabelle Pierre. When Lulu, a baby leopard, tries to make friends with the other baby animals on the savannah plains, she does not understand why they...

Set during the Christmas season against a snowy upstate New York background, Snow Girls by Irene Petrucci is the heartwarming story of a single mother and her three daughters, Katy, Charlotte, and Lacey. They love ice skating and sledding and, despite the setbacks they face...

Let’s begin this review of Not a Fairytale by asking if it’s not a fairytale, then what is it? Essentially, it’s a rare form of memoir, not told as a story with characters and dialogue, but as a poem based, as many memoirs are, on...

One could spend hours simply digesting the “Introduction by the Author” contained within this beautiful art book with a spiritual perspective. Artist/author Lola Angelini begins this exquisite book, entitled SoulEtude, by explaining her creative process. This awe-inspiring process is connecting to the mysterious dimension within,...

Good memories from our childhood can evoke so many simple pleasures. I love bubbles and on occasion still play with them because of the freedom that they offer as I watch them kiss the earth and touch the sky. Watching children at play was the...