What is your reaction when your child asks you for help with multiplication? It is difficult for most kids to learn, and even more difficult sometimes to teach them. Well, now you have a great resource to help you with this problem. In her book...

Chessie Madrid wants a sister. She wants to fall in love. She wants her father to pay for what he did. And most of all, she wants to live a long and happy life. But Chessie has a serious disease that has been threatening her...

Unison by Eleni Papanou is a well-written science fiction book. It is told by Damon, the leading character of the story, in great detail. The time is after the Great Cataclysm and the city is Unity. Home is a very large dome offering protection from...

Parker Boyce's father served in Vietnam and talked of shooting out an entire Vietnamese village, referring to the dead as "gooks". Parker's uncle ran to Canada to avoid the draft of that Vietnam conflict as it was a war he just didn't believe in at...

"Zebulon and Other Short Stories" is a collection of stories ranging from science fiction to ghosts to the very devil himself. One depicts a small town where an unusual arcade game allows a strange little man to claim to be transforming into a god. In...

Seventeen year old Abigail awakens on the morning of November 11, 1990, as she and her friend Emily, who is living temporarily with Abigail and her mother, are to go to work. But Emily's body lies in the room across from Abigail's. She has died...

Author Ed Pessalano has written a baker's dozen of original ghost stories that will chill and thrill the reader. He opens with the story of Delilah the gentle old horse who is predicted to cause horse breeder Paul Deering's death. Then he continues with the...

“Human Instincts” by Ioana Visan is an apocalyptic novella which is entirely different from any other I have read. The premise is that a global war finally ended when the losing side released a biological agent over the enemy. However, they failed to recognize how...

Bearful Bear wants to do something different, so one day as he goes though the forest he decides to try and move like all of the animals he sees around him. So the fun begins for Bearful Bear as these forest creatures show him how...

What a great ride I had reading this book! I actually didn’t want to put it down. It is a smart family-friendly tale. I was worried about the theme at first, but it was very well done and it has become a great read. Pete...

"Hip Hip Hurray We Found Teddy" by author Silvia Sullivan allows the reader into the life of a mouse whose life is very orderly and tidy. Mouse enjoys his routine and finds it fulfilling, even the town he lived in was called "Everything Has A...

"Love's Promises" by Deborah Armstrong brings us into the story of Quinn and Davina Thomas. It always seems easy to make that promise to love someone forever but when life happens and your life happens to be in Hollywood it can be a little more...

Authors Janet Carpman and Myron Grant have written "Directional Sense: How to Find Your Way Around" as a guide for the traveler on how to read signs, consult maps and ask for directions. As the Foreword, by Richard Saul Wurman, states, "For directionally challenged people,...

This is a true to life story of a couple, both teachers, who raised their two children, Ian and Ali, while traveling around the world. Author Jill Dobbe and her husband Dan did not let their two young children stop them from traveling around the...

"Wicked Sinners" entails the story of magic, power and love. Adriana moved to Martinique to get a peaceful life away from those who caused her pain in Alabama. Here she met twins Jacques and Julien Dubois on separate occasions. Albeit confusing both men at first,...

"Shadowman" by Aaron Dennis begins in New Orleans when a young man, who has been partying with his friend, goes out into the street to get some more alcohol. He witnesses a killing in an alleyway, and his entire world changes in that moment. When...

This is Bear. He is flying through the air. As he flies, he remembers something his mother told him. It starts out like this: “If you ever stumble, trip and fall . . .” But he just couldn’t remember the rest. So Bear begins a...

There are books written that draw the reader in to read each and every word, and "Born in Rio" is one of those! It is 2007 and Rita Ray is a New York executive who lives and breathes her job. Then she receives a phone...

We all know what the ‘Terrible Twos’ refers to, and Kanika Wilkins has so vividly captured this phrase in her new book, “Terrible, Too.” On the day Nikki turned two, she not only turned two years-old, but she went into that terrible stage too. She...

We first meet Tabatha in "Zyanya", a contemporary fantasy by Greta Benavides Adame. Tabatha is travelling with her mother and step-father to their new home in the jungle, and she is not at all happy about leaving her home and friends back in Texas. Zyanya...