Empowered Women Empowering the World: Inspirational stories from women who are creating change within their community and beyond is a collaboration of motivational snapshots within the lives of several women, assembled by author Tammie Pike with contributions from the women represented within the book. It...

Presence, the Play by William Jefferson manages to fill a void in our imagination. In a way, you can experience it if you descend into a deep sleep. In the case of the story’s protagonist, who goes by the name of Script, the narrative unfurls...

Jam is a jelly jar. Then there’s Snap the pickle, Phil the paper bag and, the story’s protagonist, Pepper, the potato. Pepper’s friends find him buried in dirt and, you guessed it, dirty. They want to clean Pepper before they go to the fair by...

Of Ripeness & The River by Mary F. Burns tells the parallel stories of two women in alternating chapters with date headings. Mary Ferguson was the daughter of a wealthy banking family, happily married to a young carpenter. Her story is told from 1893, when...

Orlando in the Cities by Sebastian Michael is a literary novel inspired by Virginia Woolf's Orlando. The gods of the Greek pantheon fiercely debate as to who among them is the patron of the perfect city on Earth. To solve their dilemma, they chose Orlando,...

Rita H. Rowe’s Never The Moon is a romantic novel featuring Jennifer, who dreamed of leaving her small town for New York City. Then she met David, who was everything that Jennifer wanted in a husband. Throughout the summer, the couple was always together. David...

Spike and Spud the Space Boys is an educational picture book for young children by K.A Mulenga that teaches them about the planets. Spike and Spud are ready to jet off high up into the sky, in their rocket ship. They are excited to see...

Both Sides of the Border is a work of realistic fiction penned by author Terry Overton. The work is suitable for the general reading audience and contains non-graphic references to drugs and violence. Written with a strong sense of faith and Christianity, this touching and...

Secrets of the Sanctuary by Octavia J. Riley is a wonderful read in the YA epic fantasy category, a well-plotted and expertly narrated story. It is the second book in the Coven Chronicles. Thea Bauer is a spell weaver who has established herself as a...

Jeff Gunhus’s Caroline and Mordecai the Gand is a story about Caroline’s struggles after losing her father. Accepting his death is something Caroline could never think of doing at all. She just wants to stop thinking about anything and even refuses to remember even the...

A priest’s body found hanging in a church belfry appears to be an apparent suicide but evolves into an investigation of suicide, accident, or possibly murder. Father John Paziek, a battle-hardened World War II former chaplain, is the assistant pastor at Saint Francis Church and...

Bentley and the Magic Sticks, written by Claire Eckard and illustrated by Anne York, is a children's picture book centered around a big, lonely, domestic canine. Bentley is of a giant unspecified dog breed and his enormous size makes normal day-to-day living different from dogs...

"Their skin appeared scaly, dark brown in color, and their elongated faces displayed sharp features, which to Hannamyer appeared satanic, in an archetypal sense." In Unwinding the Serpent by Robert Paul Blumenstein, Earth is under threat as a ruthless alien race, the Cacatoids, intend to...

Guardians of the Garden by Theresa Pocock is a YA fairy tale. Miriam Miller just wants a normal life. Her family doesn’t want her, and neither does her town, Edenia, and she doesn’t want to be the Guardian of the Garden of Eden. But she...

We Woof You From The Bottom Of Our Hearts by Kathy Vassilakis is a children’s picture book centered around a lovely family that we get to watch grow, humans as well as dogs. A picture book with a narrative style, We Woof You From The...

Arthur Yavelberg has authored A Theology for the Rest of Us, resisting the usual theological jargon and dogmatism. When I saw this title, I thought it would be a Christian volume written on the layman’s level. I was dead wrong. Arthur incorporates Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism,...

Sketches are quick rough drawings based on what the artist observes. This technique allows you to see life differently by paying attention to detail. An example is to draw all those new things you look at when you go for a walk. We can all...

As Rugged as the Rest: A Young Marine’s Journey to Iwo Jima by Janet Simmelink takes you on a journey through the life of a young man, Joseph Montgomery House Jr. The main characters are Joe Boy and his sisters, Louise, Leveryle, and Gale. His...

Guardians of the Solar Shield: Earth's Climate Mirrors Under Attack 2029-2037 by Sam Bleicher is a very enjoyable novel dealing with our world in the 2030s trying to cope with climate change and its effect on the planet. This is not a doom-and-gloom story but...

“You will have a new life and, by the grace of God, a new calling.” In Sisters of the Moon by Alexandrea Weis, Durra and her companions arrive on an island in Lake Obersee. She senses a strange evil lurking beyond the forest trees. In...