Ox Herding: A Secular Pilgrimage by Jackie Griffiths is an intriguing novel about one person's journey to find inner peace. Jae feels that something is missing from her life. A cryptic note left behind by her recently deceased grandmother starts her on a quest to...

Miss Carrie is a delightful tale which chronicles the early childhood years of Ben Williams. Ben gets involved in the usual childhood pranks with his buddies. After succumbing to a dare with his friends, he encounters Carrie Stephens who is known to be an “old...

Patriot Priest: A Personal Perspective of History from WWI, WWII to the Vatican is a work of non-fiction in the historical biography and religious figures subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Patricia Daly-Lipe. As the...

The Ox-Boy of Ur by Rose Shaw is a brilliantly researched and developed book for young adults. Set in the year of 2000 BCE, we find a thirteen-year-old boy who has just been sold to a slave trader to pay his father's debts. The young...

Timber’s Gambit by Alisha Kent is an exciting book about the adventures of a wolf, from the animal’s perspective. The story upholds the value of family closeness, the importance of teamwork, and the significance of standing up for one's beliefs and defending one's friends. Timber,...

Motherhood Made ME Get Over MYSELF: A Metamorphosis is truly that. It's the story of one woman and the changes that she makes in her own mind, perception, and body as she progresses through life. Made all the more meaningful for being a true and...

Cultural Anthropology for Writers: A World Builder’s Guide by Laura Milanovich is a handy guide to world building for authors. Included are the tools and techniques to creating believable characters in world construction. Culture sets people apart and thinking in terms of beliefs, social norms,...

A combination of a Cinderella story and a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer story, Great Gray by Beverly Davis is a very cute tale about a funny looking elephant and how his odd looks aren't so odd after all. When Gray is born, he doesn't quite...

Strange Times in Yeehaw Junction: A Bizarre Journey Born of Unforeseen Circumstances and Questionable Decisions by Rick Sanders points out that the line between sanity and being just flat-out nuts is indeed a thin one. The best friends of the story, Thomas and Lee, find...

In the novel Open Source, author M.M. Frick offers the reader top-notch international intrigue. A cargo ship is hijacked and it is assumed that a ransom demand will be forthcoming. Instead, vending machine deliveryman Casey Shenk becomes intrigued by the short television report of the...

How To Draw Cool Stuff: A Drawing Guide for Teachers and Students by Catherine V. Holmes is a useful guide for students, teachers and self learners which will make them look at drawing in a unique way. The book gives interesting and informative lessons that...

The Book of Ezra: A Story of Provision and Protection (Daily Bible Reading Series) by Deborah H. Bateman is an ideal book for Christians who are more familiar with the Bible. This is a daily Bible reading aid for the Book of Ezra in the...

Mirrored Time by J.D. Faulkner is the story of a young woman’s incredible journey of discovering herself. Gwen believes she is a normal woman who decided not to go into law school because her aunt is fighting cancer. Instead, she answers an ad for a...

A brilliantly written, extremely well conceived and superbly researched book about the struggles of an ordinary man caught in the crossfire between a greedy, despicable politician - one of the kind whose only aim is to get rich, thoroughly corrupt and morally way past dead...

In It’s Raining Men by Beate Boeker and Gwen Ellery, Grandma Charlotte is close to the end of her life and needs to ensure that her grandchildren are cared for. She has property and numerous collectibles gathered from a life well spent; however, the only...

Hardt’s Tale: A Mobious’ Trip Novel by Gwendolyn Druyor takes the fantasy genre to a new level of sophistication that is reminiscent of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin. Protagonist Hardt starts his life in tumultuous circumstances, eventually settling for a peaceful...

The Great Adventures of Peter the Fish by Glenn Thorpe is a fun little book. Peter is a small fish who lives with his parents in a pond surrounded by a beautiful forest. Although tiny in size, he is a super fast swimmer and often...

The Directive is the report the Federal Reserve releases upon the completion of their regular meetings. The one that determines the fate of the economy. If someone had advance knowledge of that report... In Matthew Quirk's latest novel, The Directive, attorney Mike Ford just wants...

If you have a child with autism spectrum disorder, you may well find some helpful hints in Learning to Dance in the Rain. Author Melanie Bennett described her three years as an assistant to an autistic child in which the child went from being unable...

Peril in the Park (A Jamie Quinn Mystery) by Barbara Venkataraman is the third in the Jamie Quinn Mystery series. In this novel, Jamie Quinn, a lawyer who gets involved in unlikely murder mysteries, is once again the somewhat unwilling participant in two mysteries. A...