Flip-Flops After 50: And Other Thoughts on Aging I Remembered to Write Down by Cindy Eastman hits it perfectly in the center of the bull’s-eye. Cindy makes getting old a wonderful adventure that I found myself sharing with her. Each chapter touched a piece of...

The depths of the human mind are virtually unfathomable and the effort to uncover what makes people behave the way they do takes a toll on the mental health professional. Jillian Strask is a young psychologist who has foregone a ‘normal’ life in order to...

Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice by Chris Saade begins by acknowledging the changes that are happening to our spirituality, which should have been taking place along with developments in other areas. All over the world, there is an understanding that the...

In The Demon Inside by ML Sparrow, eighteen-year-old Darcy had her whole life ahead of her. She had her loving family, the grades she needed to get into the university she wanted, and Alec, her devoted boyfriend with whom she saw her future. Then, things...

The Awakening by Sameer Ram is about bringing about transformation within individuals. All the instructions to form the technique for effecting this, as the author mentions, were received the form of dreams. The technique is divided into three distinct phases – Cleansing, Internal Transformation, and...

Love for Logan by Lori DeMonia is an inspirational story for kids that tells them more about autism. Leah is autistic. Certain places and noises upset her and she closes her ears. When her sister Logan spills a metal tin full of bobby pins, Leah...

Angela Beach Silverthorne writes an exceptional Christian novel in Cries of Innocence. Bren is seventeen, a senior in high school, and she just made cheerleader! Life should be good. However, Bren faces tremendous life challenges. Her father is abusive and the town drunk. Most believe...

The Miseducation of a Zombie by Timothe Davis is marvelously clever satire, centered around his main character - a human by the name of Jo V. Al, or Vic to his friends; a high ranking official known as a Serenity Ambassador, or keeper of the...

Mariasha and the Great Book (A Young Princess’s Quest and the Tongue Twisters that Saved Her) is written by Cary Knor. Nanny Nanny Boo Boos invade the Land of Darling and abduct the King and Queen. Land of Darling no longer flourishes and its people...

In Sweet Revenge by Jacqueline Varlotta, a princess is now a servant; that is, until she discovers the power within her that will change her whole life. Mika was four years old and a princess when her father, the king of Mareedikhan, sent her to...

Amanda Running Scared by Georgina Sellwood begins with edge-of-your-seat suspense which carries throughout the entire story. The heroine, Amanda Vanderbilt, is attacked at a party. With her surgeon husband killed two years prior and being the sole parent of a three-year-old daughter, there is much...

Finding Time for Your Self: A Spiritual Survivor’s Workbook by Patty de Llosa contains fifty-two thought-provoking reflections on questions raised by daily life, which are followed by practical exercises that will help you stay inwardly alive and present to meet life’s many challenges. The author...

Game-Day Youth: Learning Football’s Lingo by Suzy Beamer Bohnert, with the help of simple text, clear illustrations of the field and its markings, drawings of where the players play on the field, and pictures of the official’s signals, explains the questions of playing football, the...

The Underground Princess (The Balderdash Saga, Book 1 of Lower Grade Adventure) by J.W. Zulauf is a story about Princess Scarlet who lives in the underground kingdom, Balderdash, under Ashcroft village’s graveyard. Scarlet dreams of falling in love and living happily ever after, but her...

Come Empty: Pour Out Life's Hurts and Receive God's Healing Love by Saundra Dalton-Smith is an uplifting book with a lot of profound spiritual wisdom for readers which can be incorporated into their daily lives. The book has 80 days of devotion that are helpful...

Seven Weeks to Forever is a young adult romantic paranormal fantasy written by Jennifer Farwell. Cassidy knows that she'll be dying yet again in another seven weeks. She's living in the house in Los Angeles that her parents left her, far from the Boston home...

Thought Shredder: Bringing Out the Bucker in You by Chris Elliott is a tough but introspective read. The author recounts in a very raw and honest manner the details of his tumultuous relationship with his father; from the time he was a young boy all...

OK, full disclosure here. I am not a Cubs fan. And I mean, really not a Cubs fan. So when I picked up Killing the Curse by Dennis Hetzel, I wasn’t sure if I would like it, just because it follows the team through the...

I really liked the premise of Greyhound Therapy by J.R. Conway. I guess I didn't realize that the practice of shipping transients and those suffering from mental illness out of town on a bus was something that was done. Now that I've been exposed to...

A sweeping novel of historical fiction, Waheed Rabbani’s Doctor Margaret in Delhi, the second book of the Azadi series, follows the trials and tribulations of Dr. Margaret Wallace, an American doctor in 1850s India. After losing her cherished husband, Robert, in the Crimean War, Margaret,...