The Essay is a children’s short story written by Isabell Niland and illustrated by Ashley Teets. Benjamin Stafford is a practicing attorney now, and he’s opened his own office complete with a sign created from an antique desk he inherited from his grandmother. It features...

Brown Buzzard Village is under attack. What’s worse, the Dagger of Protection, which is kept in the village’s ancient temple, has been stolen. Haethowine, the village leader, instructs sixteen-year-old Aldora Leoma to go to the royals to seek help and tell them about the missing...

Working as Lexi’s photographer assistant was the perfect job for Lindley. She could live at home and save on those adult bills that would deem her independent. That was also the problem. She was an adult and sincerely needed to be making her own way...

Trouble in Loveland by Jennifer Peel is a contemporary romance that takes a woman back to her hometown of Loveland, Colorado. When Charlee is seventeen, she has a naïve crush on Ryan, her next door neighbor. When Ryan gets married, Charlee feels like her life...

Adventures in Travel Photography: Exploring Approaches to People of India and Tibet by April Fonti is a beautiful collection of travel photographs which are the result of the author's chance encounters and living with different people. The pictures speak a story of their own and...

Rarely does a book come along that so positively mesmerizes me that I read it from start to finish in a single sitting. Yet that is exactly what I did with Embracing the Wild in Your Dog by Bryan Bailey. Bailey opens the story with...

I am a big Sherlock fan, not because of the BBC Sherlock, though I do love that incarnation as well. Sherlock Holmes is one of the few characters I can think of who have become archetypal figures in their own right, and in doing so...

The Girl from Berlin: Gruppenführer's Mistress is the second book in Ellie Midwood's historical fiction series, The Girl from Berlin. Annalise realizes that she is playing a very dangerous game when she asks for Gruppenführer Dr. Kaltenbrunner's assistance in exacting revenge on her boss, Reinhard...

Mother, Can You Hear Me? A Mother/Daughter Story by Joy Ross Davis is a heartfelt book that reflects on the author’s experiences, emotions, and coping mechanisms during the time when she took care of her aging mother. Mrs. Frawley was a woman of great inner...

About a year and a half ago, I gave up sugar when I learned that it was triggering some of my migraines. The next food I had to give up due to migraines was onions. This year, I gave up gluten for a while to...

How wonderful to find a new way to help your small child to stop using the all-too-familiar word – no! Delin Colón’s innovative children’s book, entitled Katy Rose Likes to Say NO!, is a must-have for all parents. Ms. Colón’s explanation to parents at the...

A story that begins with someone spitting in another’s face and getting tortured and killed for a secret he can’t reveal immediately raises a lot of interest and curiosity in readers, but the grim fun is yet to begin. Rude Boy USA by Victoria Bolton...

In an interesting, unique and creative work by author Jaswinder Singh, The Quest for Integrity is certainly a book that will stay with a person long after they have read the last word. Written in a highly cerebral style, the story follows the hero, Purshattam...

If you are an aspiring artist, an art student, or someone who creates art as a hobby, The Art of Patience: Black and White by Antonia Robinson is perfect, as it allows you to get inspiration from similar artists at a similar stage in their...

What I believe to be the second novel in the Mary Fisher Pentalogy, One Little Word by T.A. Peters is a fascinating tale set in nineteenth century Florida. Mary, an exceedingly tall woman with large hands and feet, assumes the role as husband to the...

Dead Diary by L.P. Donnelli revolves around young Mathilde who has the usual growing up problems of every girl. She tries to fit in at school and she is also a soul helper. She finds it difficult to help all the ghosts find their peace....

Vanessa Bogenholm’s The Moral Line explores the consequences of a woman, Alexandria, who in her late 40s begins a career in whoredom following the end of her third failed marriage. Opening with Alexandria’s husband repulsing every effort of hers to sustain their relationship, she resorts...

In a unique and interesting new take on the genre of science fiction, Sadana 999 by novelist Marsha L. Ceniceros is a book that will hook readers from the very start and keep them reading until the very end. Taking place in a futuristic Alaskan...

Midnight Over Moores is the first book in The Children of Carmen Chronicles by AMH Johnson. The readers gets to know Jenna, a nice girl from Savannah. Unfortunately, when she starts sharing a room in a boarding school, she has to learn that some people...

Get a Grip by Kathy Flann is a collection of short stories that evoke a sense of love and loss and share a connection in human despair. The book opens with Neuropathy, which sets the mood right away as a bitter and somewhat mentally impaired...