My foray into the world of the Mystic Carnival Collective, henceforth known as MCC, introduced me to an authoress of exceptional talent and a story with a magical pulse. With Dark Perceptions, Debra Kristi has written a paranormal/fantasy story that, if I’ve done my research...

Destiny Awaits by Jaidis Shaw is a story about a young woman who has visions, some of which are of the man she is destined to fall in love with. A year after her parents' tragic deaths, Alayna has decided to start over in the...

There is nothing like learning you can perform magic to make learning math more fun! That’s exactly what Alexandria Grate discovers after falling out of a storage closet in school into a strange, new world and becoming a student of Archimedes in Libellus de Numeros:...

In Jeunanne Alkins' informative children's picture book, Island Babies Ready. Set. . . Hatch!, Mummy is a leatherback turtle who swims thousands of miles across the ocean to find the perfect place to lay her eggs. Crawling up the warm sands of a Caribbean island,...

Something strange and dark is hiding in Africa, but no one is certain just what it wants. When Virginia and her family head to Africa on a two-week trip, they expect to experience the wilderness. What they don’t expect is two months trapped in a...

Ever since she arrived home from Totoba, Virginia hasn’t been able to forget the experience she had. Of course the experience isn’t complete and all she seems to remember is a man named Nick and some strange times at a pavilion. For three years she’s...

Belongings in the Sand: The Tale of the Red Heeled Shoes is an adventure short story written by Carol Knox. Dr. Adiba of Journal English was supposed to be picking up the young professional woman from the Dubai airport. She was carefully and suitably dressed...

The Moorigad Dragon: Age of the Hybrid Book 1 is a dark romantic fantasy novella written by Debra Kristi. Kyra is a Moorigad Dragon, a hybrid born to a fire-dragon father and a water-dragon mother. She's not what anyone in her family wants her to...

On the way to his usual Wednesday golf game, Jonathan meets Dave, who is gathering material for a book about playing golf. Dave offers to observe how Jonathan plays over nine holes, and the skeptical Jonathan plans to show this chair expert how a pro...

Escape in Time: Miri's Riveting Tale of her Family's Survival During World War II is a young adult historical novel written by Ronit Lowenstein-Malz, translated by Leora Frankel and illustrated by Laurie McGaw. Nessya is a young Israeli whose best friend, Rachel, has given her...

Dear Babies: Crazy Life, Simply Explained by Amy Denby is not your typical parenting book. It is a book of letters to Amy’s babies. Every time Amy experiences something new, she writes them a funny and honest letter. The letters follow the whole ten months...

Bible study is an important practice for anyone trying to develop and maintain a positive Christian attitude. With many different approaches for understanding the word of God, Songs of Deliverance by Debra Griffin Mitchell offers a fresh, straight-forward guide for identifying examples of deliverance. Debra...

Life as the daughter of two of the greatest rock singers in the world is never easy, and when your parents are divorced and feuding against each other, it is even worse. Sadie McRae doesn't think it can get any worse than this, but she...

Sink into a novel of mystery and suspense with a bit of romance thrown in for good measure as Inge-Lise Goss takes you through the murky depths of the oil and gas industry and reveals The Cost of Crude. Gwynn is devastated when Julie, her...

Alec is not your ordinary drop-dead handsome man, he is a vampire, and he smells the most amazing blood he has ever met. He is looking for it when he finds it at a festival. Desiree is a young woman with a broken heart and...

No Good is an historical Southern fiction novel written by John Hope. Johnny's twelve now, and he had long ago given up on the idea of a little brother. When he was an infant, his mom and dad had been in a car accident which...

Google Brown - Boy Detective: Google Brown Mysteries, Volume 1 is a collection of short mystery stories for children and preteens written by Garry F. Taylor. Geoffrey Brown is an 11-year-old who lives with his older sister Susan and their parents in Thomasville. While his...

The Twin Souls is a vivid and intense novel comprised of two stories set in two Native American tribes. It is full of suspense and drama and is about the difficult circumstances under which lovers meet and the challenges they face later on due to...

In Frizzy Tizzy Goes to the Park by Wendy Hinbest, Frizzy Tizzy gets to do something new. She gets to go to the park. When she wakes up that morning, she smells bacon and eggs. When she runs downstairs and eats her breakfast, her parents...

Frizzy Tizzy has a new adventure in Frizzy Tizzy Camps In by Wendy Hinbest. This time Frizzy Tizzy gets to go camping in her back yard with her mom, dad and her friend named Emma. This is Frizzy Tizzy’s first time ever camping and she...