The Cranky Guru: Adventures in Metaphysics is a self-help book by Paul Bennett. The author bases much of the material he presents on his own 30-year journey of self-discovery. He begins with an example of his beliefs in action, when he has his passport renewed...

Sadie Vs. Big Mouth by Silas Thomson is an entertaining story book for kids. Sadie finds a new home with the Kramers who take good care of her. She feels jealous of Big Mouth, the big blue box who seems to get everything. Sadie is...

Melancholy Manor: A Hera Hunter Mystery by Ellie DeFarr piqued my curiosity immediately. It is not often that I find a murder mystery intertwined with a ghost story, but Ms. DeFarr provided both, and with an antagonist I will not soon forget. Hera Hunter is a...

Music is a metaphor for life and life exists only in harmony with all of nature. This is the profound message of The Symphony by Paul Dillon, a charming book that makes the wholeness of nature into a musical symphony, where all get along, sing...

Second Destiny is the story of Lia and Devraj, two former sweethearts who were torn apart by duty and family obligations. Lia was expected to marry a nice Jewish man instead of the handsomely exotic Hindu named Devraj, and instead of fighting for their love...

How I Became Santa Claus is a cute story written in rhyme and interspersed with illustrations by Gina Cavalier. On the way home from school one day, Nick is drawn into the general store. Upon seeing a little snowman, Nick asks the man with the...

If we’re sick, we have medicine and doctors to treat us. What about the otherworldly creatures? Where do they go for medical assistance, if they ever need it? David Gelber’s Night Clinic is a series of short stories set in an inner city clinic, where...

A PinkBoat Adventure by Kathleen Ivan revolves around the adventures of two young girls, Kathlean and Crustina. Both girls go sailing one day in Crustina's pink boat. They sail a bit farther away from the shore and, strangely enough, the story takes a different turn...

Forgotten Objects by Carlos Rubio introduces us to the life of Anna d'Amio who is the daughter of Louis and Francesca d'Amio, opera singers. The trail follows them from Mussolini’s Italy to the city of Pittsburgh during the roaring time of the mid-sixties. You will...

There is a watermark on the cover of The Moth and the Sun. If you look closely, you can see the outstretched wings of a moth. We tend to take moths for granted. In fact, many of us don't really like them. But they are...

In Who We Were by Christy Sloat, Sadie Peters is going to summer school at a different school than her own in order to gain some extra credit so she can have shorter days next year. She never intended to gain more friends or start...

Nastragull: Pirates, an epic science fiction adventure by Erik Martin Willén, is about what it takes to be a pirate in a dog-eat-dog universe. The story begins when a pleasure cruise vessel is hijacked by a band of interstellar pirates. With the precision of well...

The House by Lacey Deaver is a good Christian story from beginning to end. Cheri is a troubled young woman running for her life. She hides in a truck in Seattle and, after three days without food and water, she escapes from the truck...

Blue Speaks Eternally is a fiction work by Victoria Wagner. It's the story of a blue whale named Kip, who is a young adult traveling with his pod, or family, from their winter grounds near La Jolla, California, up along the coast, to the arctic...

Once a happy-go-lucky pre-med student with a full life and a happy marriage ahead of her, Tara has now found herself in the middle of something that she can’t understand. If having a virgin pregnancy that no one believed in wasn’t bad enough, there are...

After over three decades of tyranny, destruction and bloodshed, Avalyne was at peace again. King Dare, with the help of allies from across the lands, had finally managed to defeat the Shadow Lord and bring peace back to Avalyne and, in so doing, united the...

An Iceling named Anuun fears that Forbidden, a place where no man must ever be allowed to set foot, has been breached. Stranded on the frozen shores of the Ice Wastes, Nudd Wiggin, the only survivor of the ill-fated Albatross ship, stumbles onto a mysterious...

Paranormal Persistence ~Caveat~: True Experiences by David Allan is a collection of twenty-seven short stories revolving around the paranormal theme of experiencing something eerie and scary. The moving of souls from one realm to another, where the author speaks about the eternal life of the...

Dale Martin writes an impressive sci-fi thriller in The Lineage. In the year 3735, the land of Cassia is suffering, its people are unknowingly enslaved. The “new age of peace” is a façade for darkness. Hiding out among the poor and the beggars, King...

A true story of determination, hope and recovery, Toe Up to 10K: A Journey of Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury by author Steven Fujita is an inspirational read that’s hard to put down. When Steven Fujita, a generally healthy man, has a headache that lasts...