Together Everyone Achieves More, by Dr. Charles H. Clark Jr. and Shemon J. Reaves, was written to help understand the real happenings and lives of parents, students, and teachers in today's educational system. It takes the system to task for being too reactive, and attempts...

Do Not Worry, Do Not Be Anxious, Do Not Be Afraid: Self Help Manual for People Who Worry a Lot and Suffer Anxiety and Fear is written by Thomas Lamb. If you haven't convinced yourself to stop worrying yet, then this book gives you plenty...

Reading I Just Wanted Love by D.J. Burr was a revelation. It was also heartbreaking to so intensely feel the pain and confusion of what it is like to grow up gay and "co-dependent." Just what does it mean to be a "co-dependent"? According to...

Nelson Mandela once said that a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. Ghislaine Dean's novel shows us how one of the "advanced" countries in the world deals with its prisoners -and it's not a pretty...

Irish Dancing Girl is a cute illustrated work from Mamma Macs. The simple and childlike rhyming scheme will have your little ones rhyming every other sentence and laughing about the fun moves and costumes in the story. I liked how there is an element of...

Lies That Bind: Emma’s Story by Leigh Michaels presents the friendship between Emma and Kendall, and a tragic event that threatens to rip the pair apart. Emma and Kendall are inseparable, ever since they met in the third grade. Kendall appoints herself a sort of...

John Matsui's Late Bite is part courtroom drama and part vampire thriller with plenty of humor and fascinating characters. Al Hamblyn is a pudgy, down on his luck lawyer when he gets called in to do the impossible: defend an accused vampire in court. His...

Living Faith: A Journey Into the Nature of Faith, A 7-Week Program for Individual, Family-Integrated and Small Group Study is a religious education work written by Christy Anderson. Anderson takes a detailed look at faith, starting with a linguistic analysis of that concept, which incorporates...

Love is not real. It's a myth fabricated by a hurting world. Rona knows this. She knows it has to be true. But after an encounter with an immortal god, Rona is appointed as the savior of true love. Being the savior of something you...

Listener in the Snow by Tim Jollymore tells the tale of Native Americans who are resistant to yielding to modern methods of conceptualizing and interpreting the world. Tatty Langille is a Floridian and a Mi'kmaq story teller who is in a fifteen-year marriage with Mary,...

In Meek and Mild by Olivia Newport, shunning is common among those in the Amish faith because they believe shunning one of their own will bring them back to the faith and roots of their Amish people. But is shunning friends in your Amish community...

Yellow Pansies in a Blue Cobalt Jar by Nancy LaPonzina brings Rhose Guerin's life to the page. A bibliotherapist, Rhose uses books, movies, poetry, anything with words really, as tools in her private practice. At an age between where her daughter's and mother's lives are,...

Daughter of the Fallen by Madeline Wynn is an incredible and fantastic story about a teenage girl. She doesn’t want to follow along with everyone else in their adoration of Jack, the popular rich kid. Starting The Daughter of the Fallen off, you are introduced...

Natalie’s Art is Susan Fleet’s latest crime thriller - the fifth in the Frank Renzi novel series. This time, Frank is tracking Natalie Brixton, his foe from the third book in the series, Natalie’s Revenge. This story first finds Natalie in England, trapped and coerced...

Montpelier Tomorrow by Marylee MacDonald is a well-written and comprehensive account of the family struggles that ensue when one member is diagnosed with ALS. You will meet Sandy and Tony, a young couple and parents to little Josh and baby Ben. Their world is shattered...

Moira, an art student, along with her sister, Tabitha, and her brother, Dai, travel to Meini Hirion, a stone circle in Wales, just outside the town they live in. They go to perform a spell from Tabitha's Wiccan religion to try to contact their late...

The Year of Soup by Howard Reiss was a wonderfully insightful read. Tess is relatively put out. After three jobs and as many failed loves, she's ready to break out of the habit that she's in. Starting a restaurant seems only natural, as she's always...

The Missing Thane’s War by Brandon Draga is the next installment of The Four Kingdoms Saga. Elf maiden Enna Summerlark sets out on a quest with her new found friends in search of her origins. When O’Doc’s aunt Merida introduces the group to an eccentric...

In Part II of Actor/Doctor, author Milt Kogan lets the reader tag along as he reviews his life as a young adult. Kogan is torn between the practical life of a physician and that of a struggling actor who must borrow money from a father...

Actor/Doctor, An Autobiography is a three-part story about a Jewish family that emigrated to America in the early 1900s. In Part I, author Milt Kogan describes the plight of his grandfather's family as they struggled to make a living in Europe and escape harm during...