A wonderful guide for the new teacher, Felicia Saffold’s Becoming the Difference in a Hopeful Classroom is an insider’s look into the true reality of entering the classroom as its leader. Peppered with her personal experiences, starting as a child with a true love of...

A Diamond In The Dust by Paulette Rae is a romance that crosses genres and mixes romance, dystopia, and science fiction into a tale about loyalty and doing what is right. Adrienne is happy with her life on Earth, as long as her husband Trapper...

Improve Your Productivity By Using Conditional Formatting in Microsoft Excel by John Smith explains what conditional formatting is, and how that can multiply the information content of a spreadsheet. Use of different colors, selective highlighting, and appropriate positioning of cells are some of the topics...

I chose to read Friend Grief in the Workplace: More Than an Empty Cubicle by Victoria Noe because of all the violence happening at workplaces nowadays. When I see people crying for their lost co-workers, my heart goes out to them. Before this book it...

A body is found in the Arboretum of Cold Creek College and Faculty Sleuth Dr Sheridan Hendley swings into action. The victim died of bullet wounds to the head and the local police charge a college gardener with murder. Sheridan is horrified. The evidence is...

Delano in Hollyhook by Cameron Glenn is a young adult fantasy about the life of an orphan, Delano Farnsworth. Delano begged his uncle to tell him more about his parents, and one day Uncle Ted promised to tell Delano the truth. That day at...

Fun. Exciting. Hard to put down. Those are the words I would use to describe the first book in the Collector series, City in Embers by author Stacey Marie Brown. Follow the story of Zoey Daniels, a young woman who hasn't exactly had the easiest...

Love in the Elephant Tent is a memoir and the debut novel of former circus showgirl Kathleen Cremonesi. In 1988, a friend that Kathleen met in Amsterdam managed to cajole her into joining a circus based in Perpignan, France. It was there that she met...

Unravelled in New York is a contemporary romance written by Suzanne Nicole. Charli Cooper’s ready for a new start, and she’s leaving the familiar skylines of her native Australia for the bustle and glamour of New York City. She’ll be staying with her friend, Mia,...

Aventuras in Spain: A Memoir by Sandra Staas is a lighthearted account of how Sandra managed to learn to speak Spanish fluently while living in Spain. She writes about society in the early seventies when Franco, the dictator, was still in power. How she lands...

Tangled in Shadows by Jami Gray is a set of Kyn Kronicles short stories. Enter a world of intrigue. A world that you never knew existed, or at least told yourself it didn’t. This is a collection of five short stories that are off-shoots from...

One of the oldest of the Twelve Great Cities, Talis is second only to the capital in wealth and prestige. However, Talis is starting to creak under the strain caused by the tension between humans and faeries. The strain gets worse when a hobgoblin destroys...

Caught in Traffic by Susan Hart Snyder is book 2 of The Romantic Adventures of an Accidental Detective series. Sydney has made her way to New York and is now living in her cousin’s basement. She works, mostly from home, as an editor and spends...

How to Write an Essay in Five Easy Steps by Scribendi begins with a promising introduction, that the accompanying pages contain the answers to some of the most vexing questions a student could face. As promised, in step one itself this book opens with the...

Captive in the Dark follows the emotional and physical journey of Livvie, a young girl who gets kidnapped. As well as telling her story, CJ Roberts also tells the story from the perspective of Livvie’s captor, the unbearable and handsome Caleb, who is both her...

Short & Tall Tales in Goose Pimple Junction by Amy Metz is filled with short stories and one long tale. All the stories are focused around Metz’s characters in her Goose Pimple Junction series. All the stories are also connected with each other somehow. Before...

The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts in 21st Century by Karl Lancaster is an 82-page non-fiction book about martial art systems that defines the art, how it was developed, and features of the art. The author, who is trained in several of the arts, also describes...

After the EF-5 tornado that almost destroyed Joplin, the citizens didn’t only face the challenge of returning to a normal life, but that of almost losing their city and school district. If standing together to fight for a cause unites people, it seems like the...

When Bella returns home to St. Christopher under the guise of caring for her mother’s store while Izzie recovers from a broken leg, nothing in her hometown has changed. The little town of St. Christopher is the same in its small town propensity for gossip...

Murder in Malibu is a murder mystery novel written by John L. Evans. The bullet-riddled bodies of Dianne Mallory and her lover, Derek Ramsey, were discovered late on a Friday evening by her husband, John, who notified the police. He had been staying at the...