Meet the Pops is a children’s adventure story by Belinda Barbieri. Coco is excited that she and her brother, Soda, are starting school today. But Soda doesn’t feel that way because he’s adopted and believes he won’t make any friends. No one wanted to make...

Meet the Pops: Flag Day Every Day is a children’s story by Belinda Barbieri. Lolly Pop lives on a special farm with Cherry, his wife, a son named Soda, and daughter, Coco. The Pops grow candy corn, lollipop trees, raise strawberry and chocolate milking cows,...

Two weeks before Christmas, a murder is committed in a small Mississippi town and the local busybody searches for the culprit in the delightful sleuth mystery, Death at the Midnight Dragonfly (Lily Gayle Lambert Mystery #3) by Susan Boles. Lily Gayle doesn't have the Christmas...

Molly Ivers has landed an internship in Paris after she graduated from college. She finds herself torn between whether she should pursue a relationship with Evan Castle, the rock star bad boy she lost her virginity to, or focus on her trip to Paris and...

Known as Joey to his mother and sister, Joseph to his aunt, and “Ba” to his younger brother, the main character of this tale by Joseph P. Myers loves bugs. His daily quest is to find ants, caterpillars, pill bugs, dragonflies, butterflies, crickets…any type of...

Silly Fun on the Farm: 5 Word-by-Word Build-Up Funny Stories by Maria Ellis is written for very beginning readers. There are five stories, each containing 25-30 words and the stories build by introducing words like “pig” and “duck” and then combining the words into a...

Let’s Go to the Zoo with Sam and Sue is a picture book for preschool children written by Deborah Dolan Hunt and illustrated by Xavier Pom. Mom, Sam and Sue are spending the day at the zoo. There’s so much to see that it will...

A Fire in the West by Harry James Fox and Lucia Midgway is the third book in the Stonegate series. I read the first two and they are great. They are both award winning novels. If you haven’t read them, I strongly advise that you...

Crossing the Jordan: There is a Golden Road for Everyone by Melany Bungay is the author's conversion story, a story that chronicles her journey from atheism to Christianity. Melany was a nonbeliever who had been anything but clean. Promiscuity, booze, and adultery were just a...

Could you imagine your wife or husband suggesting, out of the blue, that the two of you should have an “open relationship”, enjoying sexual flings with no guilt and only 3 conditions, one of which is not to discuss your current hookup? That’s what Julia...

In June Jenson and the King's Lost Treasure by Emily Harper, readers are taken on an adventure to Egypt after June Jenson finds out about the possibility that the ring of Solomon might indeed exist. June is famous because of the TV show she stars...

Mr. Boggarty and the Haunted Hospital is a children’s adventure story by Tevin Hansen. Trixie, Darby, and Darren were excited to assist elderly Mr. Boggarty and his siblings entertain sick children on Halloween night. But they didn’t know the hospital was haunted by a troublesome...

Felice the Christmas Fairy by Irene Mathias, with full-color illustrations by Anja Uhren, is a wonderful story for young children (and adults who are children at heart.) Told in jaunty rhyme and accompanied by luscious artwork, it tells about Felice, a Christmas tree-topper fairy who...

Billy wanted to play basketball but he rarely got the opportunity to play. The Championship game was fast approaching and he watched how his friends Little Bo, Eli, and Harold practiced. He always sat on the bleachers and dreamed of making baskets. Billy also...

Nic De Castro and Nathan Pettijohn have created hope for the small businessman and in fact for anyone who is bogged down in emails, scheduling, and event planning in their book Zen and the Art of Admin Tasks. They observed a colleague stressing over a...

Leonard the Liar by Nicholas Gagnier opens with Leonard having a conversation with his daughter about her unusual name - a conversation which leads Leonard to reflect on some pivotal events in his past which helped to shape his life. It was a time when...

Aaliyah and Grandma Cindy are ready for a new adventure in the storybook Aaliyah P. Travels the 50 States! The Little Adventures of Aaliyah P. Book 4 by Lucinda Weeks. They both board the shiny bus to travel around the United States. Grandma Cindy is...

Dilby R Dixon’s The Time Dreamer by Tony J. Perri takes us on a magical adventure through our imaginations. Dilby Dixon is an eleven-year-old just about to graduate from Elementary School and head off to Junior High. Dilby was once a non-entity among his schoolmates,...

Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century by Theodore Modis is a lyrical tale of resilience and romance, set against the backdrop of turbulent political climates and following characters that are rock-solid and likable, a tale with powerful historical references. Theodosia...

Jane Congdon's How the WILD EFFECT Turned Me into a Hiker at 69: An Appalachian Trail Adventure is Congdon's memoir of her Appalachian Trail hikes, particularly in 2015. She was inspired by Cheryl Strayed's memoir "Wild," an account of Strayed's 1995 hike on the Pacific...