When Death Comes Knocking for Your Patients: A Guide for Nurses and Palliative Caregivers by Meina J. Dubetz is a powerful nonfiction book on dealing with loss and on the importance of empathy as a fundamental tool for healing. Based on the author’s experience as...

When we express ourselves honestly, we remain true to ourselves and are authentic. Being honest sets us free from the burden of maintaining the contradiction between what we feel and what we express. Children should be taught that telling the truth is always better than...

No Ordinary Hate (A Gamble on Love Mom Com Series Book 1) by Whitney Dineen and Melanie Summers is the start of a new series. On the surface, Harper has the perfect Hollywood life with an adoring handsome husband, the famous Brett Kennedy. Except that...

Someone’s Kid by Patti Carpenter opens with Jesse in the throes of an overdose. The description is as real as it gets. Patti knows what she is talking about. I would be surprised if the first few pages do not grab you. From the opening...

Marilyn B. Wassmann introduces us to her family and has compiled a varied collection of poems written by them. Pen Scratching Poets: A Collection of One Family’s Creative Pursuits comes in two main sections. The first part comprises poems written by her family members. The...

In Raftery's Ghost by JB Michaels, a detective named Mac finds himself sitting in the Tiny Wanderer in Geneva, a kind of all-purpose store where you can have tea, lunch, and buy historical items and is also a hotel. Mac is an ex-detective, author, and...

Quinn's junior year is not off to a good start. In Carpool to Christmas: A Sweet Teen Carpool Romance, Nicole J Schubert dives right into the dramatic comedy that young adult readers are sure to love. With her helicopter sister off to college, Quinn is...

Gerald Everett Jones has applied his admirable talent to the real-life account of the brash businessman Milton Reynolds, who hustled his way to millions of dollars in the late 1940s using the common ballpoint pen. Mr. Ballpoint is told from Milton's son's point of view....

Herbs and Homicide: A Small Town Contemporary Cozy Mystery by Carly Winter is the first book in the Heywood Herbalist Cozy Mystery series. Sam has moved to Heywood to put the past behind her – the prying eyes of Hollywood and the fraudulent mess her...

Poisoned in Provence by Cat Green is a Nina Brown Paranormal Cozy Mystery. Thanks to Nina's job, she and her roommate Holly have been given a free vacation to Provence. Nina arrives ready to enjoy gorgeous scenery, the delicious food at the chef competition, and...

Silenced in Salem by Cat Green is a Nina Brown Paranormal Cozy Mystery. Nina's latest review brings her to Salem where she gets to stay at a boutique hotel just in time for Halloween. Not only does she enjoy delicious food but she even meets...

The serial killer thriller What Happens In... by Steffanie Moyers introduces readers to Knox, a stripper who dances at the most exclusive strip club in Vegas, The Strip. A high-end club hidden in The Cosmopolitan, the club can only be accessed by people with the...

Mika's Quest for the Lost Artifact: A Magical Hunt Through the Streets of San Francisco by Cat Fan is about an imaginative and perceptive girl called Mika. With her unicorn companion Polo, Mika travels through a magical world. She embarks on a quest that demonstrates...

People who laugh tend to live longer. Not only that, but in over 40 years of marriage counseling, I have never seen a couple headed toward divorce who remembered how to have fun and laugh together. There is an old saying that laughter is good...

Intestinal Fortitude: A Memoir by Earl Llewellyn Goldmann is a brutally honest memoir in which Earl takes the reader through every painful and joy-filled moment of his life. Earl shares the most poignant events, from growing up, falling in love with basketball, and so much...

The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience is told using the voices of three women: Roselle “Rosie” Madrone, Robin Detmer, and Kris Dutter. Kris, the mother of Roselle and Robin, embraces the dream of building a life outside the confines of...

Neverdying by Shanti Hershenson is a bleak dystopian young adult fantasy novel. Scarlett Caldwell discovered that she was an immortal at a very tender age. Immortals are not accepted in this society and are deemed to have an unfair advantage in life. She has a...

Only love and forgiveness have the power to re-awaken a heart that has been long dulled by acts of hatred. Out of the Ashes by Samantha Grosser is a historical novel that explores this theme. The year is 1944, and German prisoners are sent to...

Secondhand Hearts: A Last Chance Beach Novella is a touching story by Kathryn Hills. Kat (Katrina) Worthington, thirty, returns to Sandpiper Cottage on Last Chance Beach holiday island. Her mother asks her to persuade Haddie Marshall, Kat’s 77-year-old grandmother, to move to an assisted-living community...

Children learn according to their natural abilities, but they have to be motivated to acquire new skills. Teachers must also learn to connect with each student individually. Childhood education prepares them for a better future and real learning begins in an efficient classroom. Connect...