In When Your Hand is in the Lion's Mouth, Nita Whitaker recounts her father Green Whitaker's life and his core values of family, hard work, and faith. Despite the unimaginable pain of his wife's passing, Green remained devoted to his children with total resilience and...

Climate change is causing a paradigm shift all around us. If you take a careful look you will see it. There has been much speculation surrounding the causes. Areas that were once cold are now being impacted by warmer weather and the reverse is also...

In the books, we have the chance to meet great characters and explore incredible places. This happens to the curious reader who ventures with Aleksandra Layland into the magnificent world of Ansgar: The Struggle of a People. The Triumph of the Heart. We are in...

I was wrong about my first thoughts of The Appomattox Generals: The Parallel Lives of Joshua L. Chamberlain, USA, and John B. Gordon, CSA, Commanders at the Surrender Ceremony of April 12, 1865, by John W. Primomo. I thought this book would compare and contrast...

Operation Nana: A Plan Full of Love, written and illustrated by Kelle Lima, is a story for children about the people we love. This imaginative story features both the family we were born with and the family we build with our hearts. Both are important....

The football season is upon us. Lipstick Football by Diana Weynand invites us to look at our lives through a prism of American football. Diana is a history maker. She played the women's professional tackle football with the Los Angeles Lasers, becoming their general manager...

I Am Brave Enough to be the Light, subtitled Herstory: The Healing Journey of a Girl With Chronic Migraine by Miss Penny relates the experiences of a young girl suffering from debilitating chronic migraine. She struggles with its physical, mental, and emotional impact. Her network...

Eileen Bader Williams is a charismatic and energetic woman who relates her life story from her difficult childhood in the '50s to her wedding in the early '80s. Eileen left her family and college to follow an uncertain path. As a young girl, she questioned...

Not a Real Enemy by Robert Wolf and Janice Harper is a spellbinding memoir that follows the true story of a Hungarian Jewish man and his quest for freedom. Fans of Holocaust survival literature will devour this memoir that reads like well-crafted fiction. In 1944,...

Glucose Spike is about all things glucose. Glucose is essential to the human body, and if it is not controlled, it can lead to many ailments. Diabetes is one of the most common diseases caused by glucose spikes. The author provides a list of warning...

Where the Magic Lies: Perils of Portia Saga #1 by Hermione Lee commences as Amethyst and her mother bring home a log. They are shocked to be confronted by fairies who accuse them of stealing treasure. The penalty is death, but Amethyst bravely offers herself...

“You can’t bury your pain successfully although you might convince yourself that you have. There will always be a reckoning.” That bit of wisdom was shared with Asha, the young adult protagonist of I Touched the Moon: A Tale of Abduction and Redemption by Sila...

A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste by Kelly Sullivan Walden starts with a humorous modern adaptation of the myth of Persephone, the goddess of the underworld. Despite the contemporary twist, the meaning of the myth is still the same: we are not insured...

Paws in Paris: The Adventures of Tenny and Bella is a middle-grade novel by Elizabeth M. Grieco which is laced with adventure, suspense, mysticism, and a light introduction to Paris and the French language. Sarah, a famous American journalist who recently retired, is visiting Paris...

Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver is a work of non-fiction in the social issues and memoir subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by Gretchen Staebler. As the title suggests, the work handles the tricky topic...

It all began with a black-and-white Border Collie and the desire to work with sheep. This is a unique memoir about the meaningful canine-human relationship between Luke and Naomi in Away To Me, My Love: A Sheepdog’s Tale of Two Lives by Naomi McDonald. A...

Evens and Beginnings is a fantastic collection of spellbinding poetry written in a pure, occasionally harsh, raw, but fascinating writing style that intriguingly addresses many profound thoughts that represent life to the fullest. True love: is it genuine or simply an illusion? Why might later...

Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery by multi-linguist and professional translator Linda Murphy Marshall is a unique memoir triggered by the death of the author’s parents. Returning to Ivy Lodge, her childhood home in the Midwest, with her siblings to sort out the...

A book by author Deep Thought, 42 employs a scientific and rational approach to finding answers to questions about the universe and making choices that lead to a wonderful, meaningful life. Unlike many ancient texts that claim to have all the answers, this book aims...

Living with mental illness is never easy. Nor is seeing a loved one suffering from it. All you can do is try to become stronger to stop the illness from dictating your life. This is the message that Kristin Rohman Rehkamp reiterates in her moving...