The Goodbye Girls: Putting the Fun in Funerals by Juliet Mary Domvile is a gripping novel about grief, friendship, love, and funerals. It follows Aislin Fitzgerald, a thirty-year-old who moves back to her hometown and tries to put her life back together after alienating some...

Colin the crab is undoubtedly a master builder, famous for constructing one of the most elaborate houses on the eastern riverbank. Forever tinkering with his tools, he loves to renovate his house now and then, adding little details here and there. Moreover, he never fails...

In The Fox’s Palace by Tuula Pere, Francis is a cunning fox who leaves home and settles in the city. His life in the city is a lie; he sends fake pictures to his mother, who, despite wanting to believe her son, knows his unscrupulous...

The Fox's Tower is the third book in the Francis the Fox Series by Tuula Pere. Francis the Fox's reputation was damaged after an incident with beach property, but he hopes to rectify it by building a tower on a small piece of land. Using...

Francis the Fox's goal is to get popular, or at least, famous by broadcasting his shows from morning till night. Since he is desperate for fame, he doesn't hesitate to fabricate stories about his fellow villagers and step on toes to get his desire. Enter...

The Fox and the Election Fraud by Tuula Pere is book 5 in a series of tales about Francis who never seems to learn his lessons about life. Always a schemer, always thinking about how he can get ahead without thinking about anyone else, Francis...

The Awkward Optimist: A Field Guide to Human Connection by Hector M. Rodriguez offers a comprehensive look at social interactions. Rodriguez talks about attraction in both the physical and psychological sense, leaning into how shared values, proximity, and personality traits influence relationships. He's got plenty...

In The Victory Dance, author Nancy Pristine advocates that with certain mental exercises, anyone can put him/herself in the winner's circle, be it in a sporting event or in life in general. In order to engage in entering into a victory dance, the reader must...

The Daddy Diaries by Paul Kemp chronicles a year in the life of the father of two active young boys. “What started out as a way to chronicle my sons' younger years for their later enjoyment,” he writes, “evolved into a way to vent my...

In the five-hundred years since the Pulse caused the Great Collapse ending the Golden Age, civilization has digressed to the point of basic existence. The survivors have been told of an ancient prophecy about an artifact, said to be powerful enough to dramatically change the...

Author Bryna Kranzler writes of her remarkable grandfather's life as a young man in "The Accidental Anarchist: From the Diaries of Jacob Marateck". In the early years of the last century, a young Jew, Jacob Marateck, goes from his yeshiva onto enlisting in the Russian...

Hundreds of years ago, a curse was placed on the Han empire by celestial spirits and since then no Han woman has given birth to a female offspring. Fearing that his country will die out, the Han emperor issued a decree ordering that all females...

If you could enjoy your life based on your perception of time, value and money, would you? If you could quit your job, bid a fond farewell to your boss and travel the world while effortlessly generating multiple streams of income, would you start packing...

For ages, the people of the First Realm have lived peacefully. But the selfish and deceitful eldest son wreaks havoc in the hope to control and seize the realm creating a chaotic world. The sisters of the Bloodwind take the courage to fight the Evil...

After a dragon destroyed his village and killed his grandfather, Ragg swears that he will hunt the beasts down throughout the land until every last one of them is dead. He inadvertently worked together with another dragon slayer, Trallian, whilst hunting a young dragon. Trallian...

The Deliverers: Sharky and the Jewel (The Deliverers Series) by Gregory S. Slomba is an adventure story where Stig, a talking owl, calls 12-year-old Eric Scott to help him save a fishing village in another world. Once they reach there, they realize they have many...

The Eagle Cries by Larry Lindstrom is the third book in the We The People trilogy. In this story, agents Louis Elliott and Lynn Martin had been shot and left for dead. As the book opens, each of the agents is being told that the...

As a HUGE steampunk fan, I was thrilled when I got a chance to read The Lotus Effect, the first book in the Rise of the Ardent series by Bridget Ladd. Lily Emmerson is the daughter of two of the most important leaders of her...

The Adventures of Joe-Joe Nut and Biscuit Bill Case#3: The Case of the Missing Arch by Renee Hand opens with Dr. Cedric E. Meant (Dr. Ced), a world-renowned researcher on erosion, giving a lecture about erosion. As the lecture ends, Dr. Ced discovers that...

Adam and Alec are identical twins in looks only. In their minds they are complete opposites. Alec is deeply disturbed, and takes after their father. Adam longs for a normal life, and he risks it all to run away and try to find that life....