Haiku Dance by Cora J. Ramos is a story of young love torn apart that soon blossoms into full blown adult love after the two reunite. Young Miyoshi and Shino live as neighbors on Mount Takao where tea farmers were prevalent. They quickly become friends...

In a fun guide with lots of good information, The Two Week Wait Challenge: The Sassy Girl's Guide to Surviving the TWW, author Lindsay Fischer has done a great job of providing an easy to read and humorous perspective on what can be a very...

Organizing for Your Lifestyle: Adaptable Inspirations from Socks to Suitcases is a non-fiction self-help book written by Jane Stoller. For Stoller, organizing is a joy and an art form. Her book is designed to introduce the concept of home organization and to suggest ways to...

In Immortals’ Requiem by Vincent Bobbe, there are creatures that only live in our nightmares. The bloodthirsty, vicious creatures that lurk in the recesses of our imaginations. An immortal beast thought vanquished two thousand years previously has returned, emerging from the ground, and its sole...

Easy 8: The Big Event is an action book for children by Carrolyn Foster. Bull riding season is almost over and competition is fierce among the contestants. Every bull is determined to achieve the best score to win the Bull of the Year award. Winter...

Dragon Knight's Ring by Mary Morgan is Book 5 in the Order of the Dragon Knights, a perfect blend of romance and fantasy. Adam MacFhearguis is a crusader and a man troubled by a past he’d do anything to forget. While on a quest to...

Lucidity in Sin City: A Mystical Journey to Clarity and Serenity by Jay Troska is an autobiography about his life from the time he decided to move from Minneapolis to Las Vegas, Nevada. The story starts off with his background and growing up in the...

Parents for Sale by Dr. Nicole Audet is a short audiobook that plays along with the children's book of the same name. It starts out with a section about Pistachio called Dog for Sale where the parents tell their children, Luke and Lucy, that they...

Dancing With Tex: The Remarkable Friendship To Save The Whooping Cranes by Lynn Sanders is an uplifting story about saving the Whooping Cranes from extinction. It also speaks about the power of friendship. Tex was born in San Antonio Zoo and Fred, the zoo keeper,...

I Dare You to Try It is a contemporary romantic novel written by Elie Jerome. The gentleman worked several jobs to help his younger brother, Gabriel, finish his schooling. Since their parents died, the gentleman took it upon himself as his responsibility to take care...

Graveyard Rose by Ginny Clyde is set in the time of fancy dresses and horse-drawn carriages, yet is not your average paranormal romance. Nothing about Lena is typical. She may wear the fancy dresses to parties when required, but she is a Guardian, the only...

Susan Carnes’ Epiphany: Starting Over in Oregon reflects the soul of a woman. At the height of success, Lori Meyers leaves her marriage of twenty-six years and her family farm in Wisconsin. Tapping into her dormant spirit of adventure, Lori heads west to Oregon, searching...

My Cat Is Dying: What Do I Do? Navigating Emotions, Decisions, and Options for Healing is Book Three in the Pet Bereavement Series, an insightful and well-written work on the science of grief for lost pets. A lot happens from the moment one gets the...

Stuart Craigie writes an action packed thriller in The Pakistani Connection. After 9/11, Bin Laden disappears. The government leaders of the UK and the US want Bin Laden and his top leaders found and eliminated. The war on terror escalates; Special Forces from both nations...

I loved Mythtefied by Camille Michaels. This is not a surprise to me, as I have loved myths from the very beginning of my journey into the mystery of books. The particular media or format doesn't really matter. Comic books, paperbacks, television shows, thick hard-cover...

I have a strong love for historical fiction, especially when the story is based on true events, and so I was incredibly excited to read Clevenger Gold by S.E. Swapp, which is based on the 1886 murder of Samuel and Charlotte Clevenger. After selling their...

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,...

Timothy Rags, or Taylor as he liked to be called, is a detective. He’s on a sabbatical of sorts, imposed by his employers. He’s been sent to de-stress in a tiny village, Kipper’s Cove. Stumbling out of a storm into a quaint store, he discovers...

Beyond the Tiger Mom: East-West Parenting for the Global Age is a parenting book that tries to strike a balance between the Asian and Western ways of raising children. Author Maya Thiagarajan is a practicing teacher and has experienced both worlds, and this gives her...

In Long Road Out of Ur, Joel Thimell introduces us to Abraham, Lot and Sarai before they became the archetypal biblical characters of the Old Testament. This epic tale, told by the elder Lot in flashbacks, begins in the Hursag Mountains of Ur (Samaria) with...