The Addicted Child by Richard Capriola is an insightful book that will assist the parents of addicted children to help not only the child they love but also themselves as they navigate the problem. The book is all about adolescent substance abuse and the author...

The Other Side of Eden by Fazle Chowdhury, a family epic, begins in 1947 as Sultan Aslan tries to restore peace and harmony within his province. He is pressured from both East and West who try to convince the Sultan that they can help to...

This was an exciting day for Calla. Every year, her town has a musical showcase: garden plots in the community gardens that create music. Flowers are planted on a musical staff and, when complete, the flowers sing their own magical tunes. Calla has worked with...

The Cauldron Stirred (Guardians of Erin Book 1) by Judith Sterling is the first book in a new series. All that Ashling has ever wanted was to make a positive impact on the world but nothing she ever did felt good enough. Given the opportunity...

In The Train to Kuranda, a broken man, emaciated and deformed from his wartime experience, Bill Allen boards a train in Cairns to travel to Kuranda, hoping to connect with the wife he left behind to go to war. In straightforward language, author David Maiville...

What defines a single person’s life? Is it the number of people they reach out to? And how they reach out to them? The memories of award-winning author Rachel Field speak of her humble ability to love and show compassion, to care about others, and,...

A thought-provoking book that alternates between the past and the present, The Epistles of Jesus by Bayard Hollingsworth operates on the premise that what if Christ’s teachings are discovered to be inconsistent with long-standing doctrine? And so it conceives a gripping thriller that takes you...

The Black Candle Killings by Andrew Segal launches straight into a terrifying murder. Tammy Pierre, a retired police officer, is contacted by her former supervisor, Bob Walker, and asked to consult on a case. It is clear the police response is inadequate and the body...

Murder, financial fraud, money laundering, and political corruption are some of the themes that give depth to The Fake: Deadly Finances by Karlheinz Moll, a thriller with a well-crafted international setting that takes readers across continents, from Europe to Asia to the United States. Two...

The Young Reader: A Game Plan for Parents to Teach Their Little Ones How to Read and Problem Solve by Margaret Craig is a useful book for parents who want to guide their children to read and solve problems. The tips and techniques in the...

There’s nothing like a good fairy tale to teach us, yet again (as we often need countless reminders), that true beauty is not something we see – true beauty comes from deep within a person. Life is hard and not always fair, but each of...

Coco's hair had 1000 knots and her mom wanted to know how it got so messy. Her hair had ribs, honey toast, and spaghetti in it, all the things Coco loved the most. Her hair was a disaster and her mom needed to brush out...

In The Green Room by Janet Sierzant, we meet Dona Pearson who is abducted by an unknown man and held captive in a room painted green in an unknown location. While isolated, communicating with her disguised captor on a computer screen and fed mostly peanut...

The Worthy Negotiation by Kenneth James Allen is a psychological thriller with quite a few puzzling twists and philosophical debates to grip readers. Although James Worthy was accustomed to and trained in the most violent ways of life, he had trouble accepting his current reality....

Rainbow was born different in a beehive far away. Instead of black and yellow stripes, this bee had stripes of different colors. That is why the Queen Bee decided to name the bee Rainbow. Rainbow not only looked different but liked different things too and...

The Motto Effect: Transforming Hashimoto's with 10 Powerful Health and Lifestyle Mottos by Meena Chan is an engaging book that will guide readers through the mind, body, and soul, and gives a lot of information in a simple and easy to understand manner. The author...

During The Great War, a virus quickly spreads throughout the world, killing more victims than the war in the historical fiction novel, The Pandemic Report by Kenneth R. McClelland. Devon McCall is a cub reporter sent to get a story that nobody else wanted. Traveling...

The Restructuring: Who Are You? by J.L. Stafford is a poetry collection geared towards enabling you to find your true self at a variety of psychological levels. The interrogatory style used by the author puts you on the edge of your seat, as you feel...

The Hasidic Rebbe's Son by Joan Lipinsky Cochran is the second book in the thriller Becks Ruchinsky Mystery series, preceded by The Yiddish Gangster's Daughter, both of which read as stand-alones. In this installment, we meet a Hasidic Jewish student named Menachem “Menny” Tannenbaum as...

Why would anyone want to read? When there’s computer games, television, high tech this and that, what could possibly be the allure of reading? Deziri loves to read (as do I). Why? Well, why not, is what I would ask. Reading takes you to worlds...