A vivid, informative story that will pull at your heartstrings is what The Children’s Train (Escape on the Kindertransport) is all about. Hitler’s reign has begun in Germany and all of the Jewish people are his targets. England has agreed to try to save...

In a great new work by prolific author Kelly Risser, Sea of Memories, Book Four in the Never Forgotten series, readers are again treated to a fantastic read in the urban fantasy genre. The book contains a set of novellas, all set in the Never...

My Big Tow: The Adventures of Captain Recovery by Kyle Chirgwin is a fun read for children which introduces them to towing and machinery. The book begins by showing Darren and Kylie playing in their backyard sandbox. He calls for Captain Recovery who is known...

Have you ever wondered about Cinderella's fairy godmother? Who was she? Where did she come from? Was she really that old? No one it seems, until now, has felt compelled to write about the fairy godmother. She must have a story to tell, a fascinating...

Animal ABCs by Alisha Weston/Franks is a useful tool to teach the alphabet to young children. Each letter has an animal sporting a funny look or showing off something amusing which will capture the attention of young readers and make learning the alphabet easy and...

Bodybuilding For Weight Loss by James Eaton is an informal book on the concept of body building. The author has provided pictures and creditable sources to back up his theory. He goes on to provide a brief summary of the genesis of bodybuilding, and names...

American Outrage is a non-fiction health/wellness book written by Beau Chapman. The author introduces his topic with a startling and tragic statistic, one he refers to as an 'American Tragedy.' According to a study published in the Journal of Patient Safety, the third leading cause...

The Pit: Watchmaker's Hell, Book One by L.A. Barnes is an amazing, terror driven story that you will want to read again. All of us are curious about the afterlife and what happens when we die. In this novel, a group of people is shown...

Time Trials by Terry Lee follows the lives of eight friends - the Bad-Ass Girls - from when they first met in college through the next forty years of their lives. The story covers their friendship, their personal journeys, and the changes that came...

Scarred is an incredible story by Elizabeth Montgomery, which literally took my breath away. Avery is a school student who has lived most of her life with being bullied due to the scar on her face left by many surgeries to correct a cleft palate....

The Travels and Travails of Music by Ruth Finnegan is aptly summarized in the sub-title: A tale of music, culture, and radio in the South Seas. I first came across this author when I read her scholarly and insightful work, Communicating: The Multiple Modes of...

Music – what is it? Why is it so ingrained into our society? How does it exist above and beyond and within sound itself? And is it more than words spoken, even poetry? So many questions about something that so many of us take for...

In Cupid’s Got a Glock, The Black Valentine has devoted his entire life to danger, to death, and to loneliness, but things are about to change with one assignment that introduces him to a young woman with a past of her own and a child...

A Beholden Heart by M.L. Steinbrunn is a fresh and captivating YA story that gives credence to the old adage, “all is not as it seems.” About to head into her senior year in what’s been a somewhat sheltered life for reasons that aren’t...

Beautifully Undone (The Beaumont Brothers Book 3) by Susan Griscom is a stand-alone book that is a part of a series. It does not end with a cliffhanger and can be read separately. This book follows Asher Beaumont, a damaged character who has just been...

Gail Hickman, a Canadian Native American from the Okanagan Indian Band, writes a collection of meaningful poems in Reflections of the Soul. The poetry is divided into four categories: Family, Friendship, Condolences and Life Experiences. Hickman expresses: “We become our own art painting, a lifestyle...

Wow! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading Mayflower, the first book in debut author Linda Smigaj's Fly on the Wall series. This was simply a fantastic read; fun, adventurous and rooted in history with quite an interesting protagonist, a cheese fly named...

Welcome to Rio! Well Maybe Not...: Adventure, Romance, Joy, Destitution and Escape. Nothing Could Go Wrong — Until Everything Did is a non-fiction travel memoir written by Kay Henkel. The author was a young adult when the Second World War ended, and even from her...

An extremely hot romance, Hook Up by author Harvey Jones follows the story of Macy, a character driven to explore her innermost sexual desires. When she hooks up with Tobias, a young architect who is also ready to find what he thinks has been missing...

Ew! The Shabby Sheep by Scott Lemonier is the touching story of a sad and lonely sheep, nicknamed Ew, and his search for friends. Ew loves playing in the mud and doing other weird things. This makes him smelly and bizarre so no other animal...