I love dogs. Always have, only it wasn’t until I was an adult that I could make the decision to own a dog. I learned quickly that it was a job, one that I did gladly and with an open heart. Dogs can teach us...

Meet Mozzi the dog who was born one spring. Now he is three, grown up, and clever. Mozzi is celebrating his birthday and his dad has got him a brand new toy, a Frisbee, and he is very happy with it. He thinks the wishes...

Mozzi Presents: My Special Friends by Merav Gamliel Boschan is a collection of rhyming verses that will introduce young readers to Mozzi's friends. Gulliver is the new dog and has no friends, and then he meets Lucy and becomes friends with her. Little Toy is...

The planet has evolved and Earth has been utterly transformed. Under the United Planetary Congress, alien races coexist with each other, but huge trouble starts when an encrypted code that can cripple the artificial earth is stolen. The famous agent of the Galactic Interpol Society,...

Living in the countryside, I frequently witness abandoned pets, mostly cats, but some dogs. They wander around looking for a place to belong, to feel safe and to be loved. It’s heartbreaking. Teresa Whitaker Smith’s short story, Corrie Cocker Spaniel, really touched my heart to...

Grandma Suzanne made a lovely yellow blanket when Adison was born. Slowly Adison got very attached to the blanket that she named Bubbee Wubbee, Grandma's blanket. The blanket went everywhere with her. One evening Grandma and Adison were having fun playing together. They decided to...

Roman is living the good life and he knows it, but it isn’t any different than the lives of all of his friends. Backyard swimming pools, indoor screening rooms, and expensive sports cars for everyone are a common thing. It is a good life. And...

When Sophie received a letter addressed to her late mother, it changed her life. But she had no idea of the extent of this change. She had often thought of owning her own business, although a house of voodoo hadn't exactly been what she had...

Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah by Neill McKee is a travel memoir that informs and entertains readers and brings them into contact with exciting places, characters, and communities in Asia. The last day of work at his father's factory was on July 4,...

My Every Breath by Anna Maynard with Karen Emilson is an autobiography detailing her experiences growing up living with Cystic Fibrosis during the late 60 and early 70s. Using photos from that time, Maynard shares a more personalized look at the disease and what life...

Another Look at Life is a work of non-fiction written in the format of a memoir by author Maureen Wingham. Tracing a complete life experience from its earliest origins, we meet Maureen as a young girl growing up during the Second World War, and follow...

Insatiable in a Kilt: Hot Scots, Book 6 is a contemporary sizzling romance written by Anna Durand. Keely O’Shea had experienced quite enough romance by her fortieth year. Her second divorce had even been finalized on her birthday, and her one live-in relationship was every...

Odie is a very inquisitive dog. He loves to explore, mostly by using his nose as all dogs do. He has a new friend in his neighborhood: Phoebe. They like to explore together, but since Phoebe is new, Odie is showing her around. Together they...

Come and meet Odie. Actually, his name is Odin, but everyone calls him Odie. He has unusual coloring: a brown coat with black stripes, like a zebra in a way. When dogs have stripes, they’re called a brindle. Odie enjoys everything about his life: his...

Let's get to know Lexi and her family in the storybook Different Just Like Us by Lexi Layton with Tammi Croteau Keen. She has a dog, Teddy, and a puppy, Toby, who are half-siblings because they have the same dad. Lexi loves dogs and she...

Bubbles and Buddy are brothers. Bubbles is grey with black stripes, and Buddy is black with white patches. Though they are brothers, they both look different and like to do different things. Bubbles likes to chase butterflies and Buddy likes taking cat naps. They are...

Porky Baycann: His Summer of ’43 in Palomino is a work of historical fiction centred around the Second World War, and was penned by author Tank Gunner. The companion novel to the central wartime work Palomino, which focuses on the lives of more than 370,000...

Toast with a Side of Dragon: Harry's Dragon Tales is a delightful story by Lisa Reinicke. My seven-year-old daughter read it to me, and she was delighted to discover a character she likes in Harry, the little hairy troll who lives alone — and the...

Small Hearts by Bryan W. Dull is a unique story for me because I have never read anything like it, and while it is described as horror, I think it articulates the reality and the pain of those who have suffered tragedy in their lives....

Lady Doris Fitzhugh is celebrating her eightieth birthday, surrounded by friends, family, and important members of the English countryside where she lives in her inherited Fitzhugh Manor. The day is hot, bloody hot, but that doesn’t deter from the celebratory confusion of the day. As...