The Paleo Lifestyle Explained, by Jeffery St. Julien, RN, is a valuable health promoting book about the Paleo Diet sensation. More than the Atkins diet, it is a low and optimal carb diet based on the way our ancestors theoretically would have eaten — at...

Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends by Victoria Noe is one of a series of books about techniques for handling grief. This particular book speaks to a generation of people who lived through the beginning of an epidemic that has...

Year of Trial, Year of Grace: A Catholic’s Search for Faith, by Clayvon C. Harris, is a surprising and delightful book of devotions. It was written as a series of reflections for a weekly church bulletin, and evolved into an examination of Harris’ own faith....

Thrilling. Gripping. Exhilarating. Seeds of Freedom by David Smith is hard to put down once you start reading. The book winds through rural Wales and cosmopolitan London, through politics and love, through sinister designs and plots to create unrest to simplicity of peaceful country...

“Are you ready? Your husband is really a woman.” A visit to a therapist changed one woman’s life drastically. In Truth Be Told: Adam Becomes Audrey, author Alexandra Bogdanovic shares her true story about her beautiful love and marriage that was turned upside down when...

Birdbrain by Virginia Arthur is a sweeping semi-autobiographical chronicle (the author states in the foreword that many of the book’s events actually happened) of the life of a birder biologist/conservationist whose journey takes her to some of America’s most biologically diverse and unspoiled places. Protagonist...

More than 100 years after their births, the road to Happy Trails still begins with Dale Evans, The Queen of the West, and Roy Rogers, The King of the Cowboys. What a tribute to this legendary couple of all times. “Spending summers working at the...

Tess Collins and Theresa Collins tell a tale of a Kentucky coal mining town during the mid-to-late 20th century. Notown is a place where survival is up to the individual, regardless of age. In 1987, Randi Jo Gaylor thinks back on her life as she...

Diamond Strength by Brianna Poster is a cute little story for young children with a strong message. Ophelia is a girl who realizes that she has to find her strength after being picked on for everything in her class. She begins her journey and goes...

“You are what you eat!” This quote is definitely proven in Bill Calhoun’s novel Emerald Crystal 5. When a friend asks Stone Maddox, former leader of a secret Navy Seal unit for help and suddenly dies, Stone suspects murder. Japanese conglomerate Global Health and Fitness...

Rescue Me, Maybe by Jackie Bouchard addresses love and loss as well as how to move on. Cancer claims Jane’s husband Ryan and her dog Barnum within the first chapter. Jane is sorry her husband died, but she is devastated over the loss of her...

Hazelet's Journal: A Riveting Alaska Gold Rush Saga is more than the adventure of one man; it is the adventure of a nation seeking something bigger and more than themselves, of people who were willing and able to try to make a new path. The...

Grak is a small-minded, self-centered nomad living in a tribe before pre-recorded history. And as the title of the book - Things Grak Hates - says, he hates things. Lots and lots of things. When things don't go his way, he blames everyone but himself....

The Serpent Beguiled Eve by Acacia Slaton is a fascinating book. From the bright and personalized cover to the very last chapter, it manages to hold your attention and forces you to ask yourself tough philosophical questions about love, life, and your own personal relationships....

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...

The Stranger Box by Pamela Cuming is a psychological thriller that will have you gritting your teeth. Katherine Blair is vain and she does everything she can to stop her daughter Eden finding out who she really is. Eden wants revenge and she will do...

Soul Secrets by Miki Jacobs is an interesting and useful spiritual guide meant for people interested in contacting their soul "team," which includes spirit guides, guardian angels and departed ones. What I love about this book is that it is a simple guide which first...

Imagine that your talented, brilliant husband, a renowned scientist and doctor devoted to his patients, starts to exhibit erratic behaviour patterns, becomes aggressive when questioned, and becomes ‘someone else?’ In Slow Dancing with a Stranger, this is what happened to journalist and author Meryl Comer....

The Beltway Beast opens with a depressing summary of the American political system that is subject to corporate lobbyists and focus by Congressmen to get reelected rather than serve the interests of the people and the country. It is an interesting approach as it reinforces...

Yummy Stories: Six Stories to Stimulate Your Mind and Appetite is a children's book written by Lil L. Alexander and illustrated by Anda Cofaru. Each story is a fairy tale or fable. The Pea and the Princess may remind some readers of Jack and the...