Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success by Tina Hallis is a non-fiction book on how to change one’s mindset and incorporate positivity in daily life. The book starts off with a short introduction on how we, as human beings,...

Introverts: Leverage Your Strengths for an Effective Job Search by Gabriela Casineanu is a book written for introverts by an introvert on tips and strategies for an effective and successful job search. The book is based on the premise, which is true, that the world...

Tale Half Told: A Christmas Ghost Story is a paranormal thriller novel written by Killarney Traynor and Margaret Traynor. His wife, Susan, and their friends, Linda and Johnny, were not all that thrilled with Michael’s plan to take a detour on their way up to...

Summer Girl by Linda Watkins is a heartfelt story of a boy and a girl. For Jake, living on Cutter Island, off the coast of Maine, life is pretty laid back. That is until the summer of ’65 when he meets fifteen-year-old Andi. That was...

That Is How Things Are by Mrs. D. is a book with two short stories, The Autumn Wind and The Kitten and the Sparrow, which explore the magic and beauty of autumn. In the first story, readers get to see the gray-silver headed wind rising...

When your favourite secret playground has been vandalised with a sign that reads "Archaeological Site #238, do not disturb, official archaeological research," what's a boy to do? He goes in, of course. After all, Jim had already survived a strange encounter with a being not...

I chose to read For No Reason by Kathleen Gauer because my daughter has had a similar problem to Jamie’s with a boy in her class. In the book Jamie is being bullied by the new kid. Jamie wants the bullying to stop, but she...

Who Will Feed Stacey First: Story 1 by Mrs. D. introduces readers to Stacey, a little girl who is hungry and wants to know what is for dinner. Frank the fridge is stuffed with food and can hardly speak. Orange juice thinks it is good...

Trial By Fear: Fallen Powers, Book 1 is an epic fantasy novel written by Bruce Arrington. Beon had been raised by goblins ever since he was an infant and they overran his village, but he was determined to never feel the results of their wrath...

In Los Angeles: A City of Fame by Vlasov Andrey, the author captures the beauty of the place in some stunning images. Los Angeles is one of the biggest and most famous cities on the west coast of the United States, and the photographs in...

Over A Barrel: The Phalanx Blood Series, Part 2 is a young adult thriller novella written by Bruce E. Arrington. Time usually seems to go much too slowly when you’re sixteen, but for Bernard the last ten weeks or so had flown by with nightmarish...

Coverup: The Phalanx Blood Series, Part III is a young adult serial thriller written by Bruce E. Arrington. Life was a beach for Bernard these days, literally, as his home was now a three-story, 10-bedroom beachfront mansion. His days were spent training with his bodyguard,...

Max’s Wild Night by Meg Welch Dendler is the story of a runaway dog, Max, who is unhappy with his new routine where his play-time has been cut short because the Daddy-man and Mama-lady are both busy. One day when Daddy-man lets him out at...

Pay Up Or Fall Behind: Phalanx Blood, Book 4 is a serial young adult thriller written by Bruce E. Arrington. Bernard is still haunted by recurring nightmares about monstrous beings keeping him cuffed to a steel gurney as needles steal away his blood and life....

Before We Died takes place in the early 1900s and focuses on two Irish-American brothers, Jack and Baxter. Growing up in a poor environment, they decide to try their luck with the rubber business in the Brazilian rainforest. They embark on this journey in hopes...

Autism Is...? by Ymkje Wideman-van der Laan is a delightful, positive and affirming picture book for young children. A boy hears his grandma tell a friend that he has autism and asks her what it means. In an upbeat manner, Grandma tells the boy all...

Winifred Rose Armstrong: IT Happened by Lillie Sloan shares the story of a kindergartner who thinks life is just wonderful. She has friends. She has fun at school. She has her parent’s attention. She’s an “I’m in charge” kind of kid. That is until her...

DG’s family isn’t like other families. For one, her father is a pipeliner so her family is never in one place for very long. They go from state to state and country to country, wherever the work is. More importantly, though, her beloved mother...

Progenie is a powerful opening in the Scions of Darkness series by Mack Little, a compelling urban fantasy with an unforgettable protagonist. Zen knows nothing about what happened to her mother. From childhood, she’s been taught to defend herself. She is aware of her incredible...

Geza Tatrallyay has woven his latest novel, Rainbow Vintner, into a factual, historical background. Morgan Kenworthy, a Berkeley student studying abroad and a guest of the de Carduzac family, owners of a magnificent chateau in St. Émilion, uncovers a coup to bring down the French...