Birthday Cake Disaster by Ruth Whenham is a color illustrated rhyming story for children. It’s Mum’s birthday. Tess and her dad are making a special cake for her birthday tea. Dad claims to know exactly how to do this and the antics begin. Without a...

Infinite Reiki, Infinite Healing by Angie Webster familiarizes us with the Reiki (Universal Life Force Energy) system of cure. It starts with the beginnings of this system of healing in Japan and explains how its tenets fit into the modern world. After a discussion about...

Elias Zapple's Book of Slugs by Elias Zapple is an adorable book that has a lot of slug facts. Young readers can meet slugs named Steve, Selina, Gina, and Akira the Ninja Slug and many more. The author's love for slugs and his sense of...

Coprolite: A Really Crappy Story is a children’s education picture book written by Lori Gesch and illustrated by her and Michael Dunne. The author’s subject is poo, and she delves into more science and scientific fact about that subject than one would ever dream possible,...

Be Mine by Isobelle Cate is the first novel I have read by this brilliantly talented writer. Her words create real people and places that pop right off the pages. Be Mine is a novel featuring a woman's loss and her journey in finding love...

Larkin's Letters by Jax Jillian explores a friendship turned more between actor Ryan Boone and his long time best friend, Larkin. Their friendship has spanned from high school to the fifteen years that he has been in LA becoming a famous actor. They spent years...

Oh, my my! That is exactly what I thought when I finished the unusual, interesting and overall great new book by author M.L. Sanford, Travel the Wicked Road. In an absolute rout of a paranormal adventure, readers will follow the inhabitants of the strange little...

The Revenants of Middle England: Saviour and Savagery (Tempest Green Book 1) by Charles Cavanagh is the story of a medieval town under siege from the Revenants - zombie like creatures who inject a venom into people to turn them into Revenants too. After a...

The FunGkins: The Battle For Halladon by C. Raymond Gray is a fantastical tale about FunGkins. This is a magical race of beings that for centuries were enslaved by the evil Leprechauns and forced to mine gold, and suffered many hardships, until they were able...

Wow. In a sad, touching and unfortunately appropriate story for the times, author Gwen Sutton has provided her readers with an absolutely wonderful piece of work in her new novel, Endurance. Follow the story of the beautiful Dereka Jones as her life changes from one...

To Live Out Loud: A Novel by Paulette Mahurin is not only a novel, it’s a good primer on the Dreyfus case, a cause celebre in late 19th century France that highlighted the issue of French anti-Semitism. In To Live Out Loud, the story is...

His Name Was Ben by Paulette Mahurin is an excellent, heartfelt book. It follows the growing relationship between Sara and Ben. They are each dealing with different forms of cancer, which take them along separate routes until they are referred to a particular specialist clinic....

Stand For Something or Stand For Nothing is a nonfiction autobiographical work written by Ebony Jones-Kuye. The author’s earliest memories of her family were of a cozy and connected threesome. There was her mother, a successful hairstylist with her own business, her half-brother, Chucky, and...

The Adventures of Zealy and Whubba: A New Life Begins! is created by Roe De Pinto. An adorable baby seal pup named Zealy is born. Zealy is a beautiful baby, covered with white fur. Zealy opens her eyes for the first time to discover her...

The Seventh Medallion: Bartholomew the Adventurer Trilogy, Book 3 is an epic fantasy written by Tom Hoffman. Oliver, Bartholomew, and Edmund the Rabbiton have found themselves on yet another quest. This time it's at the request of Madame Beffy, Oliver’s love interest and the baker...

Wesley Out West by Rhonda Walker is a delightful adventure story for children where they get to read about Wesley the Walrus's journey to the Big West to save that town. Octopus wants Wesley's help as Old Walter the Whale has taken over and they...

Sheronda L. Barksdale’s He Made Me Laugh, Unlimited Love and Life: The Chronicles is a poignant love story and is a woman’s story as well. As a college student, Octavia Snow had a relationship with Bryce that resulted in pregnancy, but she had an abortion...

Oh my goodness! I just finished reading a book that I simply will not be able to stop raving about! Lexicon Chase: Scrolls of the Harlequin by debut novelist Jonathan Fore is simply a masterful read in the genre of fantasy for young adults, introducing...

The Sky Drifter by Paris Singer is a super fun young adult sci-fi about a student named Seven who’s just trying to make it through class like any other normal teen. Except he lives on board a space craft in an academy that houses the...

The basic elements are life are really quite simple. Or at least they should be. Perhaps this is the beauty of Haiku poetry - the ability of a creative thought transpiring through marginality of vocabulary. Yet, it's not really marginal. Each word, each syllable, has...