“Food is more than sustenance, it’s a shared language of love, history, and community.” I love these opening lines in the Introduction to Lana Taylor Stuart’s My Southern Table. Food is much more than what we eat to survive: it defines who we are and...

“At the Zoo with Lil Boo,” written by Daddy Bookins and illustrated by Dania Piotti, is a fun and educational read for your young child. Lil Boo gets ready for the day. Then he heads out to the zoo with his dad and mom and...

Thorns of an Innocent Soul by Barbara Watkins is a book about the disturbing influences a bad mother can have on her children’s life. Written from the point of view of Jennifer, this novel takes us into an amazing world of betrayal, shattered innocence and...

What a life! That was my exact thought when I finished reading Abandoned in Search of Rainbows by author A.K. Driggs. Found as an infant in a brown paper bag on a toilet seat, the story of her arrival in the world made the news...

Alice in Batsylvania by Mr. Mark Newhouse is a children’s pop-up book that has thirty-four pages telling the actual story, which allows the author to tell a simple, but fairly long, tale. Each of the pages and the cover are beautifully illustrated by artist Daniel...

Protagonist William Marconi takes readers to a different world in Reverence: Volume 1 by Joshua A. Landeros. William Marconi is one of the 144,000 guardians of a new order, and people look at him with both awe and fear. He tries to uphold justice at...

Joshua A. Landeros continues his dystopian tale in End of Knighthood, Part 1: The Chess Pieces. The resistance is making a stand and begins to undermine the tactics of the UNR. Yet Chancellor Venloran has placed around him a rare and indefensible league of Knights....

End of Knighthood Part II: The King’s Move is the third installment in Joshua Aaron Landeros’s Reverence series. Once upon a time, William Marconi, a cyborg good at killing his foes, had been part of the United Nation Republic’s Super Soldier Forces. That time is...

“You just continue to break the rules and make a mess of things.” Such are the memorable admonitions we receive in childhood. Young Frank Nappi heard this prophetic utterance from one teacher when, according to older Frank Nappi, I Became An Elementary School Outlaw. Possessing...

Trust on Trial by G. S. Gerry is an enormously important and timely work that dares to ask vital questions without wavering even one iota from its central message. As its title implies, Trust, in the form of a careworn and sometimes bedraggled accused man,...

Eafin Lokdore and the Magician’s Lost Medallion by R.G. Edwards is a modern-day fantasy tale that reads like a classic from the 1800s. The story takes place in a faraway kingdom where magic still exists and good can still triumph over evil with a little...

Ted Bear Esq. - His Photo Album (Small Folk Tales) by Christine Larsen is a pictorial delight. The book comprises short tales about Ted. It takes you through some of the important moments in Ted's life, and the things he holds dear such as his...

Small Folk Rhymes by Christine Larsen is a delightful collection of rhymes that not only stir a child’s imagination, but they teach them about different animals, foods, and even a pair of shoes. The first part is full of witty rhymes that introduce each of...

Almost Unbearable Tales by Christine Larsen is a collection of short tales which not only get into explaining why Ted Bear, esquire, needs glasses in a humorous fashion, (because our arms get shorter as we grow older), but run the gambit of possible subjects from...

The Gross Gang written by Christine Larsen is about Larsen’s fascination with words that can be classified as "odd" or “extinct.” The book introduces us to many of these words (some of which I’ve never heard before) in the form of various poems. Her poems...

Small Folk Rhymes - Part 2 - Fun + Activities (Small Folk Tales) by Christine Larsen is a delightful and cheerful book for our small friends. It focuses more on activities that are stimulating for children and challenges them to be more creative and aware...

Taliyah Russo thought her suburban life was the personification of perfection; unfortunately, like many times in life, appearances can be deceiving. When faced with an overwhelming secret that her family has been keeping from her, she needs to forget about her comfortable lifestyle in Long...

The Mansion's Twins (At the Crossworlds Book 1) by Rose Channing takes us into a stunning world of magic that has been terribly harmed by a storm. Homes were leveled, families left reeling and torn apart, and even good magic twisted by the darkness. Wounds...

A Violet Fire marks the beginning of The Chronicles of Avignon Trilogy by Kelsey Quick. And what a gripping beginning it is! The author has imagined a world where vampires rule, and humans have been turned into nothing less than slaves and food for vampires....

Mud Crab Kingdom is a young adult fantasy adventure by Dr. Joel Anthony Hamilton. All thirteen-year-old Marcious Leojé wants is to build his kingdom in the muddy mangroves alongside his best friend, Etel Duetman. Son of the fair-skinned King Leojé, Marcious inherited his mother's mud-skinned...