Barbie has it all: good looks, popularity, the rich and handsome boyfriend; she's also cheer-leading captain and a beauty pageant winner. So then why is she so unhappy? Maybe it's because the handsome boyfriend is actually an alcoholic who is also taking steroids and has...

The Tabernacle: Living in Power Through Abiding Prayer by Timothy Dunlap is an uplifting book that will help readers find their true source of strength by learning to pray. The book speaks about the divine purpose of prayer and how it has been widely neglected...

Surya and Diya: An Indian Love Story by Nina Kedar is an exquisite collection of love poems that speaks about two lovers, Surya and Diya, the joys and thrills of their love and relationship. The poems ponder on the various stages of love, starting from...

Journey to China: An Anthology of Love Poems by Nina Kedar is a thematic collection of love poems set against the exotic locale of China. The poems are based on the feelings of two lovers, their love, loss and discoveries in their journey of love....

Aaron and Serafina is a wonderful collection of poems by Nina Kedar. In this collection, the poems are written from the perspective of each of the two lovers. Some poems come from the viewpoint of Serafina while others come from Aaron’s perspective. This unique...

The Shining Within Me: Communications from the Afterlife is a spiritualist memoir written by Freddie Rivera. Rivera grew up sensing, hearing and even seeing presences as a young child. At first, he thought that this was something everyone experienced, but later he came to see...

Indian Summer by Nina Kedar is a poetic gem. It focuses on the sun and the many relationships that are based on life's journeys. I absolutely love the poem " Anticipation." I think that we can all relate to the anticipation of meeting with those...

Caskets from Costco by Kelly Wilson is an interesting read. The book filled me with a whole mixture of emotions while reading it. The book is funny but sad at times. It also makes you want to hug the author while slapping the people around...

Connor & Gunn: Buried in Vasti by Rivka Vann introduces us to two characters (Connor and Gunn) who have spent a long time apart but they must come back together and solve a murder case. Detective work is never easy and sometimes things just don't...

The Guardian by Aneta Cruz skillfully combines historical fiction, mystery and the paranormal in one fascinating package. In Prague in 1939, Dr. Josef Stein, the head psychiatrist at a sanatorium called the Chateau, seems to be the epitome of upper-middle-class respectability. However, he has lost...

In The Mysterious Mandolin by Aneta Cruz, all Mathelda wants is to be beautiful like her stepsister, Rosalynn. It's not a vicious desire, because Mathelda is not really like the wicked stepsisters in Cinderella. It's just a desire to be accepted as someone who is...

The Song of the Owl - Latin American Folktale by Delia Berlin is a story set aeons ago when owls could sing and they had a beautiful voice. Everyone who lived in the jungle feared the Mighty Spirit because when he was happy he provided...

Sally Field Can Play The Transsexual: or, I Was Cursed By Polly Holliday by Leslie L. Smith is a story of humor, loss and inspiration. David Matthers is a gay man who is an escort with a habit of keeping responsibility in the rear view...

Stan I.S. Law, aka Stanislaw Kapuscinski, has written what I anticipated to be a highly interesting book with deeply profound metaphysical and spiritual components. WALL - Love, Sex and Immortality (Book One of the Aquarius Trilogy) most certainly is composed of those aspects, alongside the...

For the Love of Ellen is an entertaining novelette about three friends in their seventies. Blanche, Nellie and Ellen lived in the town of Cameron. They were extremely close and always looked forward to sharing each other’s company. Ellen advertised for a landscaper to...

Testing the Waters by Atlanta Hunter revolves around the theme of love. The author brings together people from different walks of life and outlooks and binds them together in this book with the universal need called love. It is a known fact that all humans...

There's a Bug in my Blossom is a children's nonfiction book written by J.C. Donaho. Donaho is a photographer who's also interested in plants, bugs and animals. There's a Bug in my Blossom is filled with pictures of flowers, and nearly every one has a...

Never Again…No More tells the story of four friends and the struggles they endure as single parents. But these women aren’t just single parents as they also have the distinction of being teen parents, which makes life infinitely more difficult. It would be easy to...

Wow! Just wow...how's that for a review? I almost feel I should just leave it at that, but it might not do The Travelling Man, the excellently creepy novel by author Matt Drabble, justice. On the surface, the small town in the desert where the...

Whispers of a Soul by Chantal Emmenis takes us on a poetic journey through young love, loss and heartbreak, questioning faith, and finally concluding with finding that sought after soul mate. I wanted to pick out a few of the poems that struck me very...