My Dad's Beard by Zanib Mian is a delightfully charming story about a little boy's observation of beards. The little boy's dad has a prickly black beard. His uncle's and grandfather's beards are different. The beard tickles him when his dad kisses him. The beard...

Zanib Mian and Bill Bolton have written an absolutely adorable story in Oddsockosaurus. Most preschool and young elementary age children love dinosaurs. Mian and Bolton will draw in parents and young readers quickly and easily with the colorful, playful, and funny images within Oddsockosaurus. The...

Better Remote Work: Do It Right, And Reap the Benefits by Jarkko Oksanen, after an introduction to this style of working, explains the increasing popularity of such a work model. The benefits and challenges of working remotely are applicable to firms of different natures such...

Behind The Fun Zone is Book 4 in Bruce Edwards' young adult fantasy series, The Age of Amy. Amy's best friend, Fred, is terrified of water, but still he agrees to go out in a paddle boat with her on Summit Lake. Amy and Fred...

How Learning To Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live is an excellent book by Joffre McClung which addresses a range of subjects such as grief, loss, coping with financial troubles, and building inner spiritual strength. It is an account of real life events leading...

Think of The Maltese Falcon in the milieu of 21st century Silicon Valley, and you’ll end up with something like Bad Karma (A Jack McCoul Caper) by Dwight Holing. Jack McCoul, the main character in Holing’s series of mysteries, is a former high-end burglar and...

In the cozy mystery Killer Kung Pao by Patrice Lyle, we accompany Dr. Piper Meadows to Florida for a three-day body, mind, and spirit expo. The expo is intended for spiritual/psychic types, and not for someone like the good Dr. Meadows, who is a naturopathic...

Five Weeks: A Lifetime, The True Journey of Clinton Jacob is a mother’s journal of her pregnancy, giving birth in a hospital 12 hours from home, surgeries and tubes, and mourning his passing. How do you juggle work and time with her two other young...

I just finished reading The Hunter of Hertha, book two in author Tess Collins’ The Midnight Valley Quartet, and I can’t get over what an enjoyable read it was. Following the story of Connor Herne over the course of several decades of his life -...

Cauliflower Heart: A Romantic Wrestler by Diana Hart, named after an acquired deformity or hardening of the ear affecting the fighters, reflects on the trials and tribulations of living in the wrestling milieu. Through the story of Claudine Bellamy, who grew up in the wrestling...

Jet Girrl and Mr. Bizarro: Surviving Natural Disaster by Nowell Berg chronicles the flooding that occurred in the hometown of Jet Girrl and Mr. Bizarro. Jet Girrl is an air hostess by profession. Her beau depends on Jet Girrl for support. Unfortunately, when Jet Girrl...

It's a Dragon-Eat-Dragon World by Ty Burson is the second novel in the young adult fantasy series, Modern Dragon Chronicles. Steve lives in a small town surrounded by giant redwoods on the edge of the ocean. Two years ago, he had learned that his father...

Zephyr the West Wind by R.J. Tolson is the first book in the young adult fantasy series, Chaos Chronicles. Zephyr has the gift of understanding other people’s emotions, but he never managed to understand its use while growing up alone, isolated and hated by the...

It Must Have Been You is a children's picture book written by Zanib Mian and illustrated by Fatima Mian. It's the story of a young girl who just keeps on getting into trouble. She's bored and hungry, so first she tries to reach the pie...

In Cara's Twelve by Chantal Seabrook, Cara is a young woman who lives in the province of Crowthorne, in Elbian. Here, she is forced to live her life according to a community and a belief system for which she has zero tolerance. However, her fate...

Circulus de Potentia is a magical children’s fantasy adventure written by Jim West, and it forms book two of the Magicae Mathematica series. In a world where magic is derived from the archaic patterns and symbols of Latin and Mathematics, our young hero Alex has...

In Glyphbinder (Tales of the Five Provinces Book 1) by T. Eric Bakutis, Kara was desperate to put an end to her mother's suffering. Her plan was to force her own soul to switch places with her mother's so she would live in the ailing...

The Suffering of Innocents is a contemporary fiction novel written by Marc Zirogiannis. Laura and Sam Job have been happily married for over 25 years. They're both attorneys who have adjusted their schedules to accommodate their careers and the needs of their family. Sammy is...

Illusion is a non-fiction motivational book written for young adults by Carly Sotas. The author asks her readers a number of discussion questions about their lives, aspirations, weaknesses and strengths, and fears. Then she leads the discussions by offering her own personal stories or the...

Unlike any other travel book in the world, Gunnar Garfors has written a collection of anecdotes and observations about his travels to every country around the globe. In 198: How I Ran Out of Countries - By Visiting Random People on Incredible Travels to Every...