The Dreamer’s Stage by Joanne Vassallo Jamrosz is a delightful teenage drama that explores the choices and sacrifices a young person must make to follow their dreams and how those choices affect others and cannot, fairly, be made in isolation. Josephine Ricco (Joey to her...

In Bibles and Bones in the Forest by Flora Reigada, an installment of the Angels at Pine Brook Ranch series, Laura and Chris Murillo run the Pine Brook Ranch and Rescue in a rural area of New York. Laura tends the rescued horses and gives...

It may come as a surprise to many readers that as recently as the beginning of the last century, peasants were working the land for the local baron with no modern machinery. In Maryona by Thomas Macy, he describes the almost medieval life in Lithuania...

Rise is a historical fiction coming-of-age drama by Kat Helgeson. It's the year 1968. Joanie Beckett has recently moved to Houston, Texas, with her family, who are in the limelight because her father, Walter, is an astronaut at Cape Kennedy. Joanie has been taught to...

Denis McClean’s Memoirs of a Pleb is an extraordinary story of an ordinary man. While he is not a celebrity, his life resonates with regular people who sacrifice for love, build grit, and keep standing, even when the world crumbles around them -- a story...

Why Do You Want to Come to America? by Eric Reese is a contemporary essay aimed at the person who wants to migrate to America. Specifically, it is aimed at Muslims who want to migrate to the United States. The essay explores the subjects of...

Supernatural thriller/mystery readers are going to love Ashley Fontainne and Andrea Emmes's Eternal Beauty. Bridget Higgins was seven years old when her parents tragically passed away. Raised by her loving grandmother, she developed a fascination for horror fiction and videos of herbalist and social media...

Helena P. Schrader's Cold Victory is book 3 of the Bridge to Tomorrow series about the Berlin Airlift during the post-war period of 1948 -1949. A well-written summary of the first two novels, Cold Peace and Cold War, is provided. As a result, I was...

Woobee's Journey by Antwinette Scott is a fun, heartwarming children's book about a young boy named Isaiah. When Isaiah was really young, he received a handmade blanket, called Woobee, from his grandma. Isaiah takes the blanket everywhere. But then his grandma dies, and the blanket...

As the Pizza Burns by Nick Powers is a story told from the perspective of Tony, yet another unhappy employee of Pizza Corp, a nationwide chain of fast-food takeaway and delivery conglomerate. We meet several of his fellow workers, none of whom want to be...

Beauty Comes with a Beast: Overcoming an Eating Disorder is a nonfiction self-help book written by Korrie Jo Vance. For Vance, her eating disorder, commonly referred to as ED, was not an urbane and attractive man, but rather a vicious and spiteful female entity whose...

The Little Child is with his mother in the supermarket and he is having fun tossing his red ball in the air. The second time he tosses the ball, the Little Child is not able to catch it. It bounces, hits, rolls, and stops in...

Taquida Falls by B.J. Whillas, the first book of An Emily Hargreaves Series, signals the start of the biblical apocalypse. Emily Hargreaves wakes up for her morning run that ends with Emily on the brink of death. A nine-foot-tall glow of blue light visits Emily...

All You’ll Never Be: Because of Who You Are by E. L. Neve is what the author describes as “A thought-provoking, smiling book.” And that description brilliantly sums up this charming, witty, whimsical self-help presentation which the author also refers to as only a “ten-minute”...

Mr. No Face by Mr. Darrell Wayne Henry Sr. conveys a lesson by dissecting the anatomy of bullying. When we meet Mr. No Face, it’s clear that he is very different than other adults. His clothes were always the same and quite unconventional—some were meticulously...

Early Lessons From Grandma: The Night Before a Special Day by Debi LeFaye offers a heartwarming glimpse into the wisdom passed down from one generation to the next. Drawing from her cherished childhood memories, LeFaye shares the lessons her grandmother taught her in preparation for...

"The Weight of Deeds", a collection of short stories by Eli Thorpe, contains fourteen well-crafted, thought-provoking stories: tThe lone male, searching for the source of his recurrent nightmare; an adolescent wrestling with the sea and the need to prove to himself and others that...

Sandi Berger, a Certified Fitness Trainer and Life Coach, offers her own view on the readers obtaining both a fit mind and fit body. Her special strategy is to create a vision, even if it is cutting out a picture from a magazine, and then...

Where Angels Play is a metaphysical novel written by Daniel Chiera. Father Hogan and his friend Jeremiah have spent their lives studying scriptures and apocrypha. Dr. Louise Natale, a psychologist, has been consulting with Father Hogan about a patient of hers, Mary Therese, who has...

It's pretty impressive that author Kristi Burchfiel could have packed so much into Piecing Together Forgiveness: A Study of Philemon, considering that the book of Philemon is only 25 verses. An otherwise easily overlooked book of the Bible, it is full of lessons about asking...