A picture of a dead horse: Living • Loving • Laughing • And Spinal Injury by Trevor Herdman begins with his last year in school, a time for unbridled fun with his friends. During one such occasion of revelry, an accident at a swimming pool...

Own the Scrawny by Rich Samuels is the second book in a series about Alexander. Alexander has done something pretty stupid and he did it in front of the entire school. Now a video of it has appeared online and it’s gone viral! If that...

The Confessions of Gonzalo Guerrero is a brilliant book. Being taken into the mind of Gonzalo Guerrero and being able to understand what dilemmas he faced and what motivated him made for a very interesting narrative. The story begins with the young Gonzalo in Spain,...

Calamity Chick is moving to a house in the countryside. He packs up all his belongings and begins the trip to his new home. Along the way a few misfortunes (or calamities) happen to him, but in the end he picks his head up and...

F.A.I.T.H. Finding Answers In The Heart is a soul searching book written by all types of various individuals with different beliefs and viewpoints (Nanette Littlestone et al.). While I don’t personally agree with many of the writers and their personal views, I do find it...

My Gift For You, written by Vinai Moua and illustrated by Yee Thao, tells the story of a special gift that a parent has for a child. It is told in rhyme which flows beautifully, and the colourful illustrations really bring the story to life....

Wow. Just, wow. That’s all I can say after finishing reading The Red Road: A Novel by author Jenni Wiltz. In this great addition to the field of literary fiction, we meet young Emma, a smart girl with big dreams. Her family life is stressful,...

The great accomplishment of indie authorship and self-publishing is that books like Hedon by Jason Werbeloff will not only be written, but they also provide for a reading experience beyond the limits imposed by traditional publishers. Mr. Werbeloff has written a sci-fi fantasy that is...

In 2079, Carmela Akronfleck is a physicist at Wakeup Technologies, working on a time travel experiment, spurred on by her life-long determination to get back to her own time and see her biological parents. However, an unexpected incident causes her colleague, Justin Westmoreland, to disappear...

In a Flash, a contemporary romance novel by Jan Tilley, hits every aspect of a true romance story. It is not just about the love between a man and a woman. It is not a story of flowers and Valentine sweetness. Rachel and Brad have...

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like in eight hundred years time? Have you wondered what humanity would be like after an Armageddon or apocalyptic disaster? Would the human race even exist? And what in what manner would those surviving humans thrive? Liberty...

Country Love is a contemporary romance by Chelsea Dorsette. Paden Thomas is working as a radio announcer in Nashville when she’s asked to interview the lead singer of a hot new country band. So she does what any reputable interviewer would do; she researches her...

As the Earth shifts on its axis, all the continents either divided into small islands or converged into desert or ice. Humankind is caught in a war of survival and time. Captain John Garrick of the Phoenix ship is a time enforcer at the National...

Crown Cliff: An Investigative Thriller is a short story written by Marc A. DiGiacomo. Kelly Vetter and her family are newcomers in Salem, New York, a small town with an old history. Diving off nearby Crown Cliff, a 50-foot drop into Salem Lake, is a...

In Learning to Waltz, Kerryn Reid has written the perfect historical romantic novel. Deborah Moore is a young widow, a mother to Julian and a loner in her village. Evan Haverfeld is a rich and single heir to the Northridge estates. He has no interest...

Bali and Blu: Friends of a Different Color is written and illustrated by Andrew Fairchild. Bali is a little elephant who has an unusual best friend. Not another elephant, but a tiny grasshopper. Bali thinks he needs to change for it to be acceptable for...

Journey to Honeysuckle Mountain is the second book in The Adventures of Lorenzo the Bear, a children's animal storybook series written and illustrated by Carmela Dutra. Lorenzo wakes up one morning and discovers that he is out of honey for his breakfast oatmeal. He decides...

Bachelor At Her Bidding by Kate Hardy is the story of Ryan Henderson and Rachel Cassidy. Ryan is roped into being auctioned off for charity, even though he really doesn’t want to date. Ryan has come back to Marietta to help care for his aging...

Posie Pixie and the Copper Kettle (Whimsy Wood) by Sarah Hill is a delightful adventure story where young readers find themselves being taken on an adventure along with Posie Pixie in Whimsy Wood. Posie the Pixie is looking for a new house for autumn as...

Flight of the Black Swan by J.M. Erickson is part of the Birds of Flight series and is an action/adventure tale with espionage at its core. When the chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Agency is found dead, Alexander Burns discovers the chairman’s hidden bunker holding...