Evocation: To Love, To Hope, To Dream by J T Milford is an engaging collection of poetry that revolves around the themes of past and current times, life in South Louisiana, music, war or peace, marriage, hidden things, and death. The poems look at the...

Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love by Marylee MacDonald is a moving coming-of-age story about adoption straight from the heart. From the first few paragraphs, you will be touched by how adoption shaped her--from birth, through her formative years, and later, as a...

The Secret of the Magic eyePad by Marsha Tufft is a beautifully written story for fourth to sixth graders, featuring an interesting female protagonist: Putney Hicks. She is an imaginative twelve-year-old girl with a magic eyePad, an aspiring artist who is worried sick over her...

Have you ever wondered how a butterfly flies? How does it manage to lift off? Putney is studying her butterfly image in an attempt to improve her butterfly stroke in swimming. She has a swim meet in about a week’s time and she has to...

Pathway to Home: A Becker Family Novel by Pat Wahler will appeal strongly to fans of contemporary romance with complex characters. Not long after casting the ashes of her mother into the waters, Mira is given a letter her mother left behind with her friend,...

Barry Holmes Mysteries by Brenda Mohammed combines three intriguing mystery thrillers. Barry Holmes meets his girlfriend's father with the intent to ask for her hand in marriage. Informed Crystal would never be good enough for him, and the father had someone with more ambition for...

Three Shocking Stories: Scoundrel, Shameless, Sins & Secrets by Noreen J. Byrne features three stories that are beautifully written. In Scoundrel, Susan is an eighteen-year-old girl with an angelic face, a girl who has lived a very sheltered life in her upper-class home in Chelsea....

Colours of Life: A Colurful Magic, by Md Taslim, is an inspiring, aesthetic work of fiction that encourages readers to celebrate life in all its colors. The author is comprehensive and perceptive when discussing the myriad aspects of life, from simple pleasures to deep pain....

Project Onion by Karen Stensgaard is book one in The Melville Consulting Series. Kat Jenson has a new job as an audit consultant at an investigation company called Melville Consultancy. Assigned to Project Onion, Kat’s job is to investigate the bank accounts of a...

Changing the Game by Mia Wenjen introduces seventeen Asian Pacific American Female star athletes. They have overcome crippling injuries, poverty, racism, and other life-altering events to win Olympic medals, and achieve other honors in their chosen sports. These women practice martial arts, kayaking, swimming, soccer,...

Standing before the world's largest oil painting, Tintoretto's Paradise--a monumental depiction of Heaven--in Venice, Nick hears a disembodied whisper, "Amore mio." His wife Julia believes him to be delusional and insists he see a doctor, but Nick insists the voice is real and returns to...

The Ransom Drop is a work of fiction in the military genre and is the first installment in The Response Files series. It is aimed at the mature adult reading audience and was penned by author Robert Phayre. The book tells the story of a...

Halley Harper, Science Girl Extraordinaire: Summer Set in Motion is a children's adventure novel written by Tracy Borgmeyer. Nine-year-old Halley Harper is a science prodigy. Labeled lovingly as Miss Disaster by her parents due to her tendency to cause minor accidents like clogging up sinks...

Stay With Me, Wisconsin, by JoAnneh Nagler, is a short story collection of eleven stories. All the stories focused on well-developed characters. Another interesting point is every story connects each character to another person in an earlier or following story. Ponty Bayswater is the first...

Being a parent can be challenging at the best of times. Add the additional factor of a special needs child and the workload multiplies substantially, but, then again, so does the love and the inevitable learning curve that goes along with these needs. Jess was...

The Sea Turtle Spy Project (Putney Hicks Inventor Adventures–Book 4) by Marsha Tufft is a children’s adventure story that would appeal most to a mixed audience of children and preteens who enjoy mystery adventure stories. Putney Hicks is a 12-year-old self-proclaimed wannabe artist/inventor who has...

Chosen by the Creator: Bible Stories by Brenda Mohammed is aimed at helping the reader trace the line of descendants as far back as to the beginning of mankind, with the story of Adam and Eve. Mohammed, who is a firm believer in the fact...

In Finding Jane by Elizabeth Conte, readers are introduced to Jane, who is looking for true love. She thought she had found it with Stephen. They had planned a life together – or, at least, she had. But Stephen found someone else and left Jane...

You Are Your Healer: The Ultimate Guide to Heal Your Past, Transform Your Life & Awaken to Your True Self by Yol Swan is a comprehensive guide to a fuller and healthier life. Indeed, it awakens you to your true self and values that will...

Abby discovers a painting while searching through some of the antique stuff in the basement and she shares this find with Holly. The painting has a strange key pinned behind it but there is no obvious indication of what the key is supposed to open....