Budgeting Doesn’t Have To Suck: Create Control, Love Your Budget & Have a Better Life by Jim Miller is a marvelous how-to-book for non-accountants. Organized into ten easily understood chapters, the book comes with a free downloadable budgeting Excel spreadsheet available at the author’s website....

The Odd Chick, by author Mary Esparza-Vela, is a truly delightful cute read. It is a wonderful addition to any collection for a very young audience as a bed time story. The story of Buki, the odd chick out, gives the adult readers reading it...

The Turtle Who Imagined is a children’s picture book by Mary Esparza-Vela. Kevin Collier provides illustrations alongside the tale, which centers on a young turtle who compares himself to the other animals he sees in the woods around him. At first, the turtle is envious...

In Just Hit the Damn Ball!: How to Stop Thinking and Play Your Best Golf, Dave Johnston writes an instructional manual that flies in the face of "conventional golfing wisdom." Based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), this book is much easier to understand than the concepts...

Spanners aren’t entirely different from humans. Oh sure, they have special powers, but they’re also very human in other ways, such as their desire for more power, greater control and eternal youth. The difference is that spanners have powers to help them reach these goals....

How to Make Friends with a Plant Eating Dinosaur: My Favorites Are the Herbivores by Andy Williams is a sweet little bedtime story about a small boy who likes plant eating dinosaurs. The boy has this fear that the carnivores might end up eating him...

Rachel Amphlett’s novel, White Gold (Dan Taylor), starts off when Sarah Edgewater’s ex-husband is murdered. An extremist organization, which will go to any lengths to protect their interests, has ordered the assassination. She turns to Dan Taylor, a geologist and former soldier. With the threat...

Under Fire by Rachel Amphlett is a winner. The main character is Dan Taylor who, along with his team, has to prevent a planned terrorist attack. When a natural gas facility in the Middle East is in danger of being destroyed, a cruise ship in...

Mira Kelley’s Beyond Past Lives: What Parallel Realities can Teach Us About Relationships, Healing, and Transformation shares with readers the life changing lessons that the regressionist has learned from her clients. To quote the author herself, “This book does not seek to delve into the...

In Ali the Inventor Saves the Garden, Amir Makin introduces the reader to a young inventor. Ali encourages kids to use their knowledge of science and math in practical ways. Ali enjoys walking through the neighborhood on what he calls ‘problem patrols’. During these walks...

Run: Your Personal Guide to Winning Public Office by Senator Marian Walsh is an informative guide that lays out the necessary tools for candidacy, perfect for first-timers or re-elections, candidate supporters and informed voters. Each detailed chapter explains the political process in layman’s terms, while...

I enjoyed reading The Da Vinci Code Revisited by Christopher H.K. Persaud. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is advertised to be a novel, but comes across as based on truth. Great danger is at hand for Christians and unbelievers who may be taken...

Tamechactee: Battle for Humanity is the sequel to the Arrow Soul book and it takes right off with a fluidity that should make it easy for both those who have read and those who have not read the first book. Young author Joseph Landing, Jr....

The Story of Hunadi by Mokoka Klaas Mashishi is a wonderful depiction of a few African families living on a farm during apartheid in South Africa. We are introduced to twins Sello and Hunadi, and Gerrit, the son of the white farmer, Kruis. Gerrit is...

As Time and Again starts, we meet a young man called Hawthorne Jacobs as he’s being beaten to a pulp, presumably by the man who has abducted his sister. From the first few paragraphs the story moves quickly. Next we meet Melanie, a modern woman...

Rocko, the Christmas Bat by James L. King III is the cute story of Rocko the bat, the Halloween decoration who gets left out when the other decorations are put away. This gives him the opportunity to be there for Thanksgiving and watch all the...

A Ghostly Tail is the second in the Springer Spaniel Mystery series, written and illustrated by Nancy T. Lucas, and follows her first book, The Missing Boston Terriers of Smith Street, from 2011. Scout is the titular fluffy black and white springer spaniel, happily living...

The Missing Boston Terriers of Smith Street (A Springer Spaniel Mystery) is written by Nancy T. Lucas. Scout, a Springer Spaniel, enjoys living at home with his dad and mumma. He likes having dog parties and playing with a few neighbourhood dogs, except for those...

The pursuit of a personal desire can lead oneself into a journey like no other. In Shadow’s Fire: A Chance Beginning, by exquisite author Christopher Patterson, this is just the case! From giving up everything to pursue a life of promise, potential and purpose to...

Chasing Azrael: Deathly Insanity by Hazel Butler is the story of a woman whose husband committed suicide. Andee Tilbrook, a young widow, has the ability to see and communicate with the dead and this has kept her in contact with James, her dead husband. When...