The Last Vestal Virgin by Lorraine Carey is a contemporary teenage drama with a paranormal and richly historical twist. Drawing on the ancient ways of the Vestal Virgins of Rome, the novels centres on Christina Ciccone and the strange, all-consuming dreams that begin to haunt...

Classics: How We Can Encourage Children to Read Them (Volume 2) is a non-fiction educational text written by Fiza Pathan. Pathan is an educator and author who grew up loving the classics, and she views them as an essential part of a child's education. She...

Be Thou My Vision is an old hymn that Faith Blum actually blends into her inspirational, historical romance that easily pulled me back to the mid-1800s. Thirty-year-old Anna Stuart has lived on her father's farm, cooking and cleaning for him and her older brother Caleb,...

Standing by China Dennington is an exciting, futuristic fantasy novel about a girl named Gale, who one day plunges into the ocean to save her sister. The mermaids of Dellinia rescue her and tell her she is one of the few people who can travel...

Every person at some point wants to be someone or something else and that desire starts at a very early age. Wanting to be bigger, stronger, smarter, braver or faster afoot are the motivations behind a great deal of human behavior. Author Valerie Harmon expresses...

The potential to be transformed into something else is a powerful human desire; folklore and mythology are full of stories where a living creature is transformed into another. Examples are werewolves, the Greek gods assuming animal and human form and similar stories of animal-human shape...

Carol Stevens and Valerie Harmon have come up with a book that is sure to make youngsters giggle. The Snake Who Wanted to Be a Horse, as well as the other books in the series, are fabulously colorful, filled with humorous accounts and carry a...

The Elephant Who Wanted To Be A Bee: A Children's Picture Book on Goal Setting and Perseverance (WantsToBe 2): Book 2 of the WantsToBe series by Valerie Harmon is the charming story of an Elephant who wants to become a Bee. Elephant is allergic to...

The Crab Who Wanted To Be A Dolphin: A Children's Picture Book on Learning Kindness (WantsToBe 7) by Valerie Harmon is, as the title suggests, the 7th book of the WantsToBe series. In this story, we meet a crab who wants to become a Dolphin...

The Peacock Who Wanted To Be A Pig: A Children's Picture Book on Hard Work and Determination (WantsToBe 4) by Valerie Harmon is another book in her series of animals who are not really happy about who they are and who would like to become...

The Alligator Who Wanted To Be A Dog: A Children's Picture Book on Making Friends (WantsToBe 3) by Valerie Harmon is a picture book about an alligator who had enough of his life as an alligator because people and other animals were always scared of...

The Hare Who Wanted to Be a Falcon, a WantsToBe Book by Valerie Harmon features a young hare who is not content with being a hare and instead wants to be a falcon and fly. When she gets scooped up by the falcon and almost...

Do you ever feel shy? Have you ever wondered how some people, some animals, can chatter away about nothing at all? Some people, some animals, do have the gift of chatter. They are outgoing, social creatures who crave the attention of a good listener. That's...

Sex, Love and DNA: What Molecular Biology Teaches Us About Being Human by Peter Schattner PhD is an easy to follow description of the latest scientific research into the field of molecular biology. Written for a layperson, Dr. Schattner draws upon 30 years of experience...

Drawn Together: A Red Star Romance Novel by Emma Saxon is a romantic story. Cheryl Maitland is a commercial artist in London with a love of drawing cartoons. Her hero is Kent Gordon, famous Bubbles Cartoonist whose work is published all over the world. When...

Dogs Don’t Look Both Ways is a fictionalized memoir written by Jane Hanser. It’s Joey’s story from the time he was born, along with his eight other brothers and sisters to mother Cocoa. Joey is a Labrador retriever. His bloodlines are quite distinguished with a...

Alliance.125: Hirunda by Raita Jauhiainen is a unique and well crafted dystopian novel. Jani is a young man who lives in one of the biggest cities in the world. It's a city of progress that managed to survive the Great War, and bring about an...

In the Sanctity of Revenge by Brian Schnoor begins in a middle class neighborhood in Chicago where Jack Hanlon is living an ideal life with his wife and sons. Across the street, Irene Kelly is an elderly widow who has adopted, and been adopted by,...

I, Yeshua: Awakener by Lars Gimstedt is the fictional story of the life of Jesus. This life is different from the one we read in the Bible and, as Gimstedt quotes in the foreword, “this book reflects my personal beliefs on how His life may...

Wrong Place, Right Time is the story of traffic reporter Kate, who is in love with her friend and coworker Brian, who is all set to marry his high school sweetheart. Kate does what any true love believer would; she follows Brian and his intended...