A friendly and curious little snail goes out on a trail one day in the storybook Choopick: A Tale of a Little Snail by Tal Shimizu. It goes to the golden bees and asks them whether they can take a break for a while to...

Taking place in both the past and the present, Searching: The Starlight Chronicles by C.S. Johnson is a stunning fantasy novel that follows a young girl named Raiya. Raiya is a fallen star who was sent to Earth to protect it from the seven sinisters,...

Little Miss History Travels to La Brea Tar Pits and Museum by Barbara Ann Mojica is part of a collection of history books for children. The illustrations by Victor Ramon Mojica are beautiful and fun: they are a mix of actual photographs and drawings. It...

A Stitch in Time: Six Thought-provoking Stories About Time & Reality comprises tales of various lengths and styles, but always capturing moments in time that are special to one or more people. Or perhaps not capturing it, for is your “now” mine? The first story,...

Kindness is Key, by author Alexis Bloomer, is a children’s book centered around the topic of bullying. Bullying is one of the very most sensitive issues that a child will have to face in his or her lifetime and in life in general. The results...

Island Games: Mystery of the Four Quadrants is an action and adventure fantasy novel for preteens and young adults written by Caleb J. Boyer. How did he end up lying on the edge of an ocean with sand, seaweed and salt water trying to find...

Jessica, Adam, and Sam are excited because they are going to visit their uncle and aunt’s farm in the opening scene of Xalien the Purple Alien: Xalien Visits the Farm by Michelle Path. They take their toy, Xalien the Purple Alien, along with them to...

"What is going on in my head?" Maya wondered. When she asked her mother about it, they discovered that she had head lice. In Maya's Head Is Itching: Lice by Dr. Nicole Audet, a part of the Felix and Booboo Series, Felix heard about his...

The Wedding Deception is a mystery by Marlow Kelly. Special Agent Finn Callaghan visits his trainee, Agent Kennedy Morris, at her apartment building to offer her a job in Montana. He meets her haughty mother and insolent sister, Riley. While discussing the job, newlywed Blake...

In Broken: Broken Not Lost (The Breach Chronicles, Book I) by Ivy Logan, the Heichi clan acts as guardians to prevent another conflict between the supernaturals and humans. When new guardian Caitlin is born with an ominous prophecy, she becomes an outcast in her clan....

The Girl with the Flamenco Tattoo by Bill Brooks is a rollicking ride, a mix of mystery and murder. A girl with no name has been found on the shore of a mountain lake. She is known simply as “the girl with the flamenco tattoo,”...

Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters, Lizbeth Meredith’s personal narrative of regaining her kidnapped daughters, is nothing if not poignant. Of course, the subtitle tells us the story’s resolution, but reading about her herculean struggles to get her daughters back from the unscrupulous clutches...

Four American Tales by Jack Messenger is a collection of four short stories: Wichega, A Hundred Ways to Live, Ballbusters on Parade and Uncle Mort. All four are set in America, and each story is concerned with money and power, secrets and the way they...

Beautiful, rugged and remote, Little Horse Canyon has been compromised by a shady land grabbing deal and will become a tourist destination in Raptor Canyon by A.W. Baldwin. Wyatt, a bottom level associate at a prestigious law firm, is called to join his boss, Todd...

Hidden with Christ: Breaking Free from the Grip of Your Past by Lisa J. Radcliff is another interesting book I have read about inner freedom and emotional health this year, a story that follows one woman’s experience of childhood abuse and her journey towards real...

Are you on the lookout for information on how to get a better performance out of your website in terms of conversions or sales? Wordpress Websites for Business: How Anyone Can Maximize Website Performance and Results by Michael Cordova is a useful tool for all...

Lily Pearl by Anne Toole is the story of a little girl, Lily Pearl, who is sweet and has the prettiest curls in the entire world. Everyone likes her, but she has one bad habit. Lily Pearl blows bubbles with the bubblegum she chews. Sometimes...

Malice in a Very Small Town: A Wiki Danser novel by Greg Jolley is a finely written story that is as disturbing as it is suspenseful. Wiki Danser believed that the future would be bright and sunny when she moved into a new home with...

In Chick-A-Bunga by Gail Kamer, Feathers is a chicken living on a farm, who desperately wants to fly like all the other birds. Feathers spends her days coming up with crazy ideas to help her achieve her dream, but none of them work out like...

Out of Necessity by John Hansen is the story of a man who was quite satisfied with his existence, but circumstances changed the course of his life and took it in directions he never even imagined. This is the story of Myles Keegan, a man...