Adorable Scoundrels by Howard Eisenberg is a fun collection of short verses about bringing up toddlers or children. There are 43 poems, each accompanied by bright and colorful illustrations. Parents and grandparents everywhere will recognize and empathize with the humorous take on life with youngsters...

Reading S.R. Mallery’s first novel, Unexpected Gifts, is like exploring a large wooden chest, full of valuable treasures. The main character, Sonia, is a college student, majoring in psychology. Sonia is the only child of Sam and Lily; Sam is a Vietnam veteran who lost...

The Quakies is a young adult mystery/coming of age novel written by Barry L. Hughes. Jake Turner was 13 years old in the summer of 1988. His father had just been granted a divorce from his mother, who had deserted the two of them ten...

In The Exiled (The Exiled Trilogy, Book 1) by Scott A. Borgman, fallen angels Lucifer and his companions are locked away in prison for their sin. However, Lucifer is able to break out some of his brothers and sisters as the prison walls slowly degrade....

George Bailey Gets Saved in the End by Ken O’Neill is about a middle-aged man who happens to share a name with the beloved hero of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life. In George’s New York City, timing is everything and this particular holiday season...

Dear God, It's Maddie Bell by LaShaunda K. Jackson-Williams is a heart wrenching story about a ten-year-old girl named Maddie Bell. Maddie's grandmother, Bertha, dies and Maddie is left in the care of her Aunt Faye. She is quickly put into a foster home...

In an excellent new offering from author Michael Pang, In the Eyes of Madness: Declan Peters Chronicles Book One, readers will be treated to a highly original book that will keep them obsessively turning the pages from the very first words all the way through...

Someone in the movie industry should read Baby Love by Ronald Argo. This exciting, plot driven novel with all its twists and turns and colorful cast of characters would rivet thriller movie audiences. Yes, Baby Love is yet another of those books you can’t put...

Surviving The Threat by Antaeus is a book that will benefit everyone who reads it. As the author points out in the introduction, we live in a world where anything can happen and potential threats are everywhere, even the classroom. Soldiers are more prone to...

Above all else, Crossing in Time by D.L. Orton is a love story starring Isabel and Diego, who lost love as young adults only to find it again later in life. But their newly found second chance comes on the cusp of a series of...

Homicide by Hamlet is the third book in the Chubby Chicks Club Cozy Mystery series written by Lois Lavrisa. At a camp for young thespians, Dr. Annie Mae Maple is leading one of six groups in a competition where Hamlet must be performed in their...

I honestly loved The Mommy-Go-Round by Eleanor D. Alspaugh. I have already been through the child raising years, and it confirmed for me that it’s not easy to raise kids, and that the most important things you can bring to the process are love, patience,...

A collection of humorous, poignant and spiritual poems by William T. Elliott comprises the book, A War of Love. In the introduction, Mr. Elliott explains he wrote these poems over a span of thirty years. Many of the poems describe nature, whether the topic is...

Murder in A-Minor by Janis Thomas is the first in a series of Sam Wedlock Musical Mysteries. Samantha Wedlock used to work for the NYPD, but her career ended in disaster. Heading back to California, she finds the only way she can cope is through...

Nuzzels is a very inquisitive little skunk. He really wants to see the world outside of his den. He’s sure that it would make an exciting adventure. But his mother has forbidden anyone from leaving the den, telling them that the world outside is a...

Leave It to Beamer Presents: The Elephant in the Room by Clay Boura explores the idiom, “There’s an elephant in the room,” in a delightful way using a child’s imagination. The little boy hears his dad talk about an elephant in the room and imagines...

The Ice Cream Blonde (A Neil Brand Thriller) by Ray Dyson is a gripping noir novel based in the 1930s. Neil Brand is a disgraced ex-cop, framed by his crooked partner. Having lost everything, he's landed a security detail at York Brothers Studio in famed...

Wings: Gifts of Art, Life, and Travel in France by Erin Byrne comprises stories of the author's travels to France several times for stays of three to ten weeks. Through this book, the author shares the emotions and images that gave her the sensations of...

Oh, to be free! To be able to run across the wild prairie without a care in the world, free of danger, free of injury, free of hardship and starvation. The wild Mustangs have run free for generations, but not without the fear of predators:...

Whoa! That's exactly the thought that crossed my mind when I finished the last page of Book Two in the Battle Scars series, For King and Country, by author Charlene Newcomb. This absolutely epic read is a fantastic piece of historical fiction and will keep...