Bill Thomas’ The Sixty-first Minute is a “selah” read, it has many “let’s stop and think about it” moments. Life is full of challenges; good and bad decisions are the stepping stones of life. But what if in your dying breath, you were given one...

It’s that time of day, or should I say early evening. The time when, with pyjamas and slippers on, children can curl up on their bed or on the living room couch next to Mom, Dad, or a grandparent – or all of the above...

Overwhelmed and Undernourished: Use Food as Medicine and Turn Your Life Around is a great introduction to holistic health care. The author Karen Thomas went through several years of health problems, as did her husband. She happened to watch a movie on Netflix called Fat,...

In The Ascension by Lauren Hudson, Desdemona, Felix and Jinx Anchor, triplets separated at birth, were normal teenagers living their ordinary teenage lives with their ordinary parents until their fifteenth birthday, when life as they knew it abruptly came to an end. After each teen...

In Kevin Killiany’s sci-fi novel, Down to Dirt, Mom and Dad have decreed that daughter Mara, born in space, must spend her vacation with relatives on Dirt (that would be the future planet Earth). Mara, her cousin Beth, and best friend Jael tell the story...

Exhort, Encourage, Edify: An Independent Baptist Devotional by E.M. Kennedy is a inspirational book composed of words of knowledge and poetry created from a Christian perspective. This is rather a different inspirational book. I enjoyed how the author incorporated poetry into this wonderful Bible study....

Merry Chris Witch is a novella written by C.K. Dawn. Christopher Aspen Heron hates Christmas. Not only does it fall on his birthday, but every single year the festivities go on and on for months, whereas celebrations for his favorite holiday, Halloween, only last a...

In Life After E.L.E., the first book in an exciting new series, Frozen World by author JC Morrows, we enter a white, frigid world. The earth has been struck by a rogue moon, causing chaos and an Ice Age Event. Preparations were made for this...

Aspects of Love by Margaret Montrose Aphrodite is an offering of love, a collection of short stories that will invite readers to open the petals of their souls to a new energy and to enjoy stories that are as entertaining as they are refreshing. In...

That Church Life by Teresa B. Howell follows Missy Jones as she seeks comfort from her calling as a pastor to guide her through the obstacles in her life. When her boyfriend is shot in her church, she struggles to understand her confusion and feelings...

Journey to Colonus, a stupendous novel by Franklin Debrot, is accessible to readers on every level: plotting, character development and revelation, dialogue that is authentic in every way, an empathy for racial and personality differentiation that leaves one wondering about the author’s own, and prose...

Only If by Ariana R. Cherry opens with Bill, an elderly dishevelled man, ranting to himself in his jail cell. He has been accused and found guilty of the murder of his wife, Clara. Bill, however, won’t accept he is in any way to blame,...

In Teiresias Centaurus 3047: The Dhungwana Chronicles (2117-3451) Part 2 by Baibin Nighthawk and Dominick Fencer, almost a complete millennium has passed since the attempted human rebellion in Dhungwana. Dhungwana, which was the last habitable section of Earth, has been rendered hostile to human life...

Anyone who has ever had to take on the onerous task of being chief caregiver to parents, once they have become incapable of fully looking after themselves, will fully relate to Virginia A. Simpson's memoir, The Space Between. In my own late adult years, I...

Zoe stands on the parapet of a bridge, preparing to jump. The opening of The Inbetween by H.K. Thompson takes us immediately into the heart of the action. Zoe has lost her beloved husband days after their wedding and, feeling that she can’t go on,...

Painting for Honey Bees: A Beekeeper Educates with Art by Donalyn Kent is a wonderfully educational story about honey bees. In the story, the kids at school are excited because today is the day that the Honey Bee Man comes to visit. The Honey Bee...

Go on a journey of self-discovery and learn to accept yourself in Mubu the Morph by Stephen Nawotniak. Mubu is a Morph. He can do many things. He can be many things. But Mubu is confused. Who is he really? What is he really? As...

Blue Mubu by Stephen Nawotniak is book three in the Mubu series. It is a wonderfully illustrated book written for all ages. Mubu the morph is sad. He has been living under a storm cloud for almost a week, with neither a smile nor a...

Handsome Dr. David Gosfield has returned to London after a two-year tenure studying abroad in Boston. He’s set to teach psychology and psychiatry at Johns College, and has also been elected to head up the college’s new Society of Psychical Studies program. Despite his excitement...

War of the Heart by Jenna Victoria is another heartwarming and inspiring story in the Snow Globe Christmas Collection. Louise has gone to England as a result of her dying father's last wish. Prior to his death, he gave Louise a snow globe with the...