Every legend is a story with a lesson to share. A mermaid kidnaps children swimming in a Colombian river on Good Friday, a day of religious observance, and many, fasting, easily fall victim to the mermaid who only wants children to play with her in...

The title of Christopher Lee Johnson’s collection of short prose perfectly sums up the theme of Small, Irrelevant Matters. I found myself re-reading more than one of the stories as I related to the underlying meanings that are not so small nor irrelevant. The Flea...

Pete’s not a bad kid – just a bit too playful, or at least that what he thinks. Always looking for excitement in his new home in boring, backward Hadleyville after the death of his parents, Peter Riley finds more than he can handle when...

The Great Time Lock Disaster by C. Lee McKenzie is a charming, fast-paced middle grade novel with lots of magic and mayhem. Pete Riley is not a very good wizard. He has trouble with spells and, during a magic lesson with a witch named Harriet,...

30 First Dates by Stacey Wiedower is a romantic comedy. Erin Crawford has a bit of a vendetta. She doesn’t have any luck whatsoever in her relationships and she decides that the time is right to start a new blog, one called “30 First Dates.”...

Zan’s Quest: The Chandaran Chronicles, Book One is a young adult epic fantasy written by Daniel Bryant. The inhabitants of Chandara, a small planet, live on its sole continent, which is surrounded by ocean. The feline Saberons share this planet with the humanoid quasi, and...

Interdimensional Travel for Dummies by John Lee Bunting is a rollicking good read. Imagine a multiverse where everything that can happen does happen and each alternative becomes another world in another universe. Now imagine a device that can take you from world to world or...

Dangled Carat by Hilary Grossman is one sensational read. Readers everywhere will be pulled in like a moth to a flame. This funny and romantic story will take readers on a journey, a journey deep into the lives of one very interesting couple. Women know...

Martyrs & Traitors: A Tale of 1916 by Marina Julia Neary is a historical novel based around the turbulence of Ireland's civil uprising in 1916 that eventually led to Ireland's freedom from British rule. The story begins in Dublin on Good Friday in 1916 and...

Wynfield's Kingdom: A Tale of the London Slums by Marina Julia Neary is a historical fiction set in the 1830s in the heart of one of London's most notorious slums. Dr. Thomas Grant adopts a ten-year-old thief who was beaten for disobeying his gang leader....

Wow! Just, wow! How's that for a review? That's honestly what I thought when I finished reading author Roy Dias' fantastic new novel, The Aspeans: The Invasion. Follow the story of James, a young man with Asperger's syndrome, as he and others with Asperger's have...

Letting Go (Entangled Embrace) by Jessica Ruddick is a young adult romance that tackles the hard subject of death, suicide, and moving on. Cori never expected her boyfriend to die. Even worse, she never thought he would kill himself. Was it her fault? Was...

Planet of the Eggs: Cracked Open is written and illustrated by Peggy Bechko and Charlene Brash-Sorensen. In the story, Eight Hooter is the guardian and mentor in charge of bringing the Eggs of Prophecy to safety in Tree City. The Eggs must remain un-cracked, with...

People Centricity: The Incredible Power of Putting Other People First by Stephen Hewett is about making people happy through mutually beneficial interactions. It begins with an assertion that social tribalism has been a feature of all human societies since the origins of our species and...

The Millionaire's Message by Bryan James is a book that celebrates how it’s the little things that add up to the big things in our lives. Beginning with the importance of will and its phenomenal power, the author mentions the perceived limits of our ability;...

The Wellness Blueprint by Maiysha Clairborne guides one in reclaiming health by deconstructing a healthy lifestyle into simple steps that can be integrated easily into one's daily life. The author begins by giving a rather holistic definition for wellness. In four parts, the first one...

The Hat Trick Murders by John A MacEachern is a murder mystery. Colin Macdonald has a promising future ahead of him as an NHL hockey player – until he finds himself arrested for the murder of three students, his own fiancée included. His best friend...

Murder and mayhem all over works of art? Well, it does happen and priceless artworks are often the target of money-hungry thieves. Blood splattered all over a upscale art gallery was certainly more than Tom Adams, an ordinary waiter who was slowly working his way...

Cicada: A Stone Age World Novel (The Cicada Series Book 1) by M.L. Banner is an engaging apocalyptic story where a group of people including scientists are trying to find solutions to the solar storms slowly causing harm to the earth. Now these scientists are...

True Freedom: A Beginner's Meditation Guide to an Easier Life by Amanda Rex begins with wise advice: “With meditation, it helps to dip your toe in first.” This book introduces meditation as more of a mindset of attentiveness that can be applied, rather than relating...