The Seventh Medallion: Bartholomew the Adventurer Trilogy, Book 3 is an epic fantasy written by Tom Hoffman. Oliver, Bartholomew, and Edmund the Rabbiton have found themselves on yet another quest. This time it's at the request of Madame Beffy, Oliver’s love interest and the baker...

Maintaining one’s faith in the face of today’s distractions is not always easy, but Tom McQueen provides an excellent guide for making the effort in Jesus Therapy: The Best Advice Money Can’t Buy. This well respected Christian therapist has put all his knowledge of scripture...

I Am Bathsheba by L.J. Minx puts a profound spin on the ages-old story of King David and Queen Bathsheba. The biblical story of David and Bathsheba includes nuances of adultery and promiscuous sex, but L.J. takes that tale a dozen steps further to draw...

Grandma's Lost Treasure is a children's picture book by David Huerta. Kin and Sugi are two siblings living on their grandmother's farm in the small mountain town of Daigo. While going through her attic, they stumble upon a mysterious box full of old dishes that...

In The Gomorrah Principle by Rick DeStefanis, Brady is a man on a mission, a mission to discover what happened to his best friend, the brother of the woman he loves. In order to accomplish his mission he’ll have to go to the last place...

Kurt and Bongo and the Hippies by Al Gromer Khan revolves around three main characters: Kurt (a German), Bongo (an African), and Toby (an Indian). There are other side characters in the story, but they are just that -- side characters. This does not mean...

Garden Walks: Hand in Hand - Poems to Relax By, penned by Gary W. Burns, is a book of poetry about the iridescence of new beginnings, despite knowing that it has to end. The book is separated into five parts. Colorful Blooms describes the start...

From love to reflection, journeys to interpretations, Gary W. Burns' Bridges: To There is a collection of short poems that reflect on many things, and encourage the reader, in turn, to reflect on themselves. Peaceful, tranquil, and relaxing are but a few things stirred as...

Love, nature, wonderment, humanity, and the pulse of life are just a few of the currents that run through the pages of To You With Love: Selected Poems by Gary W. Burns. It is a collection of poetry that celebrates love, the lover, and intimate...

Moments: This to the Next: Poetry - Now and Eternity by Gary W. Burns is a poetry collection composed around the concept of time against the backdrop of nature. In Moments, Gary has brought together the various elements of time such as the past, present,...

If you were to commit some heinous crime like murder, should you be punished under the legal system without your admission of guilt? That’s what Dr. Agnes Taylor defends in her thesis on self-accusation. She’s visiting a Halifax university, job-hunting for a professorship – somewhere....

Fate is a hidden power, something destined to be regardless of what path we follow. It is our destiny that controls our path into the future. “We,/ Innocently free,/ Sit rocking/ In the lap/ Of Destiny.” Simple words which both soothe and demand further contemplation....

“What are we going to do today?: Brilliant ideas with Hoobsy and Dubsy” written by Helmut Degen and illustrated by Manuela Soriani is an adorable, interactive book to share with young children! Hoobsy and Dubsy are young groundhog brothers who are never bored because they...

Orphaned girl Fiona Thorn, along with her talking horse Manzy, sets out to save her best friend Jaydin Rowan, who had wrongly been put in prison. But Fiona finds that the rescue is not as easy as she was hoping it would be. What she...

If chocolate were purple and bumblebees swam, For lunch we’d have rainbows, not PB and jam. These are just the first few lines of this wonderful little book! This is the cutest little story. What if chocolate was purple, or lizards sang, or dolphins flew, and bananas...

Zenobia by Don Maker is a meticulously researched historical thriller. If you like historical tales that contain an element of romance and an inside look at the internecine strife that was an intricate part of all feudal societies, then this is the book for you....

Stan I.S. Law, aka Stanislaw Kapuscinski, has written what I anticipated to be a highly interesting book with deeply profound metaphysical and spiritual components. WALL - Love, Sex and Immortality (Book One of the Aquarius Trilogy) most certainly is composed of those aspects, alongside the...

Mid-Summer Nights, Dreams, and Consequences by Holmer Johnson is a collection of poems that were dreamed up during a hot summer in 2013, according to the author. The author has included many issues in his poetry such as politics, love, relationships and life in general....

Letters: Building an Alphabet with Art and Attitude (ABC… the Art and Poetry of the English Alphabet Explained in a Philosophical Verse of Rhythm and Rhyme) by Peter N. Liptak is a light-hearted discourse on the twenty-six letters that make up the English alphabet. Cleverly...

Zoe stands on the parapet of a bridge, preparing to jump. The opening of The Inbetween by H.K. Thompson takes us immediately into the heart of the action. Zoe has lost her beloved husband days after their wedding and, feeling that she can’t go on,...