Spring in Lilac Glen by Angie Ellington is a cheerful and joyous shorter novel that will delight her readers. Julianne (Jules) Baker is a successful photographer living in New York. But her dreams and paychecks are not as fulfilling as she had expected when she...

Snapshots: A Collection of Short Stories, written by Eliot Parker, contains a fascinating set of stories. With settings in large cities and small towns, in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, each story is distinctly unique. Some stories are tinged with magical realism, while others are...

A Homecoming to Forget by Emily Camp starts when Sawyer Montgomery wakes up, only to find herself in the hospital surrounded by many worried faces, some of which she didn't even recognize. With her last memory being the freshman homecoming, she is surprised to find...

Desmond is seven years old and he likes being a big brother to Omari who is two. Desmond likes sports, pizza, and building forts. Omari loves Desmond and he laughs at his older brother's jokes and enjoys listening to his bedtime stories. It is bedtime...

“Want to take the train?” What a grand idea! Did you know the fairy train is actually a bunch of snails? And the students who live in the fairy city have to take the train to school every day. Even in the summer. Well, actually,...

Fun With Sailboats by Peter Brennan is about the author's interest in sailing that began at the age of nine when he was introduced to it by his dad. He speaks about his first Styrofoam sailboat and how the family would use it when they...

ConnecTEEN: Establishing Healthy Relationships at Home by Bernardo Salcido III gives simple insights to effectively build relationships with your teenager. The book is a compilation of the most effective strategies that will help readers overcome their frustrations of dealing with a teenager. Reading the book...

Saving Sara: A Memoir of Food Addiction by Sara Somers is the author's autobiography recounting decades of binge eating. The book begins with a teenaged Somers who is withdrawn emotionally from the world despite having crossed international borders, outlining a childhood with parents who themselves...

Amy Watkins' 200 Letters is a suspenseful romance with realistic characters, a strong conflict, and a plot that makes it a page-turner. Ethan and Angela are both in abusive relationships. While Angela’s husband has a short-fuse temper and a domineering character, Ethan’s wife is manipulative...

We tend to take for granted what we enjoyed in our youth: time spent with grandparents, learning Grandma’s traditional recipes, and pottering about together in the kitchen. There is love involved in the making of food, the serving of it, and the enjoyment of eating...

“Why can’t we just be like everyone else?” lamented Shaina. Thirteen-year-old eighth-grader Shaina has three brothers, and two of them, Darren and Terry, have autism. While Darren prefers to be alone and does not like to talk to people, Terry plays drums on pots and...

In The Weight of Birds by Amanda Lewis, when Cecelia loses her husband Charlie to a brain aneurysm at just 25 years of age, her entire world falls apart. Her trust in God and goodness had disappeared and its place was grief and anger. Cecelia...

Haven't You Suffered Enough? Clinically Proven Methods to Conquer Stress by Dr. Brenda L. Lyon is a good manual for readers dealing with stress and anxiety as it is loaded with self-care tips to help readers cope when feeling overwhelmed by the stresses of their...

Charming and the Muddle Monster is a children's book from the My Favorite Most Truly Fluffy Friend series, written by Pamela Tomlin and illustrated by Tamara Piper. Charming is a house so-named by the new family who comes to see it and ultimately buys it....

A Tree Called Gabby written by Raj and Susan Hathiramani is the tale of an apple tree that loves to share her life with those that visit her. Birds and children love Gabby so much that they ask her permission to perch on her beautiful...

The North Pole is crowded with evil witches, goblins, and ghosts who hate everything about Christmas: the music, the gifts and, most of all, the Elf king, King Eilfyw, who lives deep within the village, who devotes his life to bringing gifts and Christmas cheer...

Have you ever wondered how the story of the Easter bunny and colored eggs began? Well, there is a tale of a certain bunny, William Jackrabbit, that occurred just outside the small village of Annaheim in Saskatchewan on Canada’s vast prairie. One winter, William Jackrabbit...

Eaton's Once Upon a Christmas by Susan Hathiramani is a magical tale of Christmas. T. Eaton’s Company has welcomed the Christmas season and the Wizard was filled with goodwill. Every year, he decorates the windows with seasonal displays and this year is no different. He...

The article in the financial section of the Star Phoenix newspaper about growing magical bean crops caught the attention of the Wizard of Hawarden and he went to the farmer's market to buy the magic bean seeds. The Wizard planted the seeds in his garden,...

The village of Hawarden in Saskatchewan (Canada) is almost a ghost town. But every Halloween it comes to life again, as the local high school becomes a haunted place to visit, complete with a werewolf, zombies, Frankenstein and other historic people returned to the world...