E.B. Willis has created a wonderful interactive educational book that is ideal for children, as well as special needs children and adults. The Wiggle Exercise Book is a beautifully written short story about a little girl, Gia, and a little mouse, Morie. Once upon a...

Pasha: From Animal Shelter to a Sheltered Life by Inge H. Borg is the story of a shelter cat named Pasha, adopted by the author who is a volunteer at a local animal shelter. The story is told from a first person point of view...

Shadow Love by Inge Borg is a fabulous suspense novel. It is a story about a year in Monika Lenz's life that has an Alfred Hitchcock-like twist. Monika is one unlucky woman when it comes to relationships. She makes poor choices every time. After ending...

Santosh the Little Elephant is a children’s book written by Gilbert-Ian Rueda and illustrated by Gülistan Yildiz. Santosh is much smaller than other elephants his age. Avoiding all talk of the upcoming move, Santosh pretends to be asleep and overhears his parents discussing how they...

Songs of the Osirian by Christopher D. Abbott is an epic tale of good and evil. It is a tale of the enduring power of light in a world where darkness is relentless. I like the idea of a force for good quietly teaching men...

Dancing With Tex: The Remarkable Friendship To Save The Whooping Cranes by Lynn Sanders is an uplifting story about saving the Whooping Cranes from extinction. It also speaks about the power of friendship. Tex was born in San Antonio Zoo and Fred, the zoo keeper,...

Luckey Haskins and the Zoo Adventure by Brian Sooy is an encouraging and educational book for children that will motivate and guide them to go on adventures, unlock their imaginations, make every single day extraordinary, and create magic in their lives. Luckey Haskins was like...

“Disease kills what the sword does not.” This prophetic statement says much about Og: Conquest of Canaan by talented writer, Brittany Shannon. Og is religious historical fiction at its finest, with liberal doses of spiritual conflict and adventure all rolled into one, sure to please...

I have read a lot of self-help books. Too many to list here, but many of them are known to almost everyone who has sought to improve themselves or their lives. A Catholic priest once labeled me as a “seeker” and I don’t mind owning...

Liberty (Two Democracies: Revolution, Book 1) is a sci-fi novel by Alasdair Shaw. When the ship, The Indescribable Joy of Destruction, is damaged during a battle with the enemy, its survival mode takes it to an isolated planet system to self-repair and lay low from...

Sid the Sasquatch by Wendy Elliott is a beautiful, inspiring, and poetic story about friendship, love, and acceptance, a story that every child in this generation should read. Growing up, Sid was taught by his mother to stay away from humans, so no wonder that...

Young Hannah Wallace loved adventure more than anything. When her older brother Seth decides to join the forces fighting in the Civil War, Hannah is beside herself with envy that he would be leaving the family to participate in the most exciting event of his...

The Candle Star by Michelle Isenhoff is the first book in the Divided Decade Collection and an incredibly engaging read. The pre-Civil War novel focuses on a teenage girl named Emily Preston, who has been sent to live with her uncle in the North. Upon...

In The Quill Pen by Michelle Isenhoff, thirteen-year-old Micah Randall discovers a magic pen while cleaning the attic of Widow Parsons. Micah does not want to listen to his father’s choice of future for him and decides to help Widow Parsons. When he comes across...

Wendy E. Slater’s poetry collection, Of the Flame, is an in-depth exploration of one’s own mind and a separation of the ego and the self. Many of these poems revolve around the feeling of desire, while others leave you reeling on the edge of something...

Eye of the Storm is a terrific fantasy from Frank Cavallo. Anthropologist Dr. Anna Fayne and ex-SEAL Eric Slade lead a team on a research mission, but a peculiar storm takes them through a portal to a remote, prehistoric region where they are captured by...

Point and Shoot for Your life by Robin Murphy is a tale of mystery and suspense. Hannah Mills, local photographer, is struggling for work and to pay her rent. Great-Aunt Dorothy comes to the rescue from beyond the grave after she leaves Hannah a First...

In Kevin Killiany’s sci-fi novel, Down to Dirt, Mom and Dad have decreed that daughter Mara, born in space, must spend her vacation with relatives on Dirt (that would be the future planet Earth). Mara, her cousin Beth, and best friend Jael tell the story...

Universal Colloquies Inside of Me by Veronica Thornton is a collection of poems inspired by Veronica’s own personal struggle and life. I found the title of the book intriguing and the poetry even more so. Universal Colloquies Inside of Me starts with a brief introduction...

An Enlightening Quiche by Eva Pasco is, to shamelessly promote a theme, superbly rich and delicious. One cannot know if such writing comes naturally to the author, or if she suffers from the agony of meticulousness required to produce such an exquisite work. The end...