A young girl's understanding of how normal families function is challenged in the moving memoir, Purple Sky Survivalist: Growing Up a Victim of Illusions, Survivalist to Thrivalist Volume 1 by Deborah Kinisky. As a small child, Deborah felt that she and her older brother, Ryan,...

Find Your Purpose – 7 Step Challenge by 1UniqueWriter is an insightful book that will take readers on a trip of finding out if they are living out their purpose. The book challenges readers to try out the seven steps in one day or one...

Onion Boy and the Backyard Bully is a children's picture storybook written and illustrated by Daymel J Garcia. The story follows Onion Boy, a young, energetic, and curious rebel who loves running around in people's backyards. One day, while exploring a pile of metals and...

Gifted and Distractible by Julie F. Skolnick is a heartfelt book designed to help parents and educators understand and support their twice-exceptional (2e) children. The book is divided into three parts: Understanding, Strategies, and Advocacy. To effectively help your child, you first need to comprehend...

Inspiring Book of Poems, Dreams and Stories by Lisa McCarthy is a collection that explores the realms of spirituality, personal growth, and the raw emotions associated with life's trials and tribulations. Through her vivid poems and reflective narratives, McCarthy shares her journey of overcoming adversity...

K. M. Cookie’s Song of Hummingbird Highway starts when Terri, a music lover, gets rid of her boyfriend. She refuses to shed a tear and cannot imagine that one impulsive night at a Santa Monica reggae club will change her life. Enter Reynold, a beguilingly...

It’s fascinating to find a book that serves two very different purposes. Regina and Renita Tackle Nasty Nate's Nasty Ways! is a beautifully illustrated book for children in Grades K-5 that deals with the all-important issue of bullying. But it is also a very clever...

Little Frenchie and Mirror grew up together and they always spent a lot of time laughing, singing, and playing with each other. Little Frenchie's mother always told her how beautiful and precious she was. Lately Mirror had been telling Little Frenchie hurtful things about her....

Schneider the Spider sat looking at the beauty of the lake and the other spiders playing web-spit and catching flies. He really wished he had friends to play with him and he decided to approach a group of friendly spiders to ask if he could...

The Snow Monster by Jodi Dee is a picture book for young children that tells an unusual story of a young girl named Amia who made a wish on her birthday. Amia loved snow and her wish was to be able to eat all the...

A bond between a mother and her newborn baby is something truly special, unlike any other relationship in the world. Hop on for a story about a mother and her baby in this illustrated picture book by Jodi Dee. Narrated in rhyming verse, Baby Baby...

The Orchid: The Secret Code of Modern Goddesses by Rocio Aquino and Angel Orengo offers a transformative journey that brings readers to a point where they can say: “You are complete. You are not alone. You are love.” The Orchid is a serene retreat founded...

The strength of Black Stoicism by Morris Junior is in its simplicity of structure. The majority of poems in the collection have no rhyme and are written in blank or free verse. This technique helps Black Stoicism to feel very intimate, almost confessional: Junior tackles...

Beauty of Colors: Poems by Cleanne Johnson reminds us of the beauty found around and within us that we often overlook and take for granted. The poet talks about the need to appreciate people based on their character and not their skin color. She encourages...

“God knows your pain and has your healing.” These words mark the start of the first poem in Winning: 30 Days of Motivational Poetry by 1UniqueWriter. It is a compelling sentence that will resonate with many who have been through trials on their journey through...

I don’t consider myself a poetry type of guy. Southern man, ex-soldier; poetry just doesn’t fit into the self-image I’ve formed. Having said all that, I enjoyed the heck out of To Build a Home by Hinnah Mian. What’s the best way I can put...

A beautiful collection of poetry and prose, 70 Chronicles of Confessions by 1UniqueWriter is split into five different parts: Alone Reject, Mysterious Mysticism, Nostalgic Love, Pressing Depression, and Regretful Confusion. Each part is full of emotional pieces about pain and love and having the strength...

Forty-three-year-old Emerson Vaughn married right out of college. Unfortunately, life dealt her a cruel hand. Emerson lost her husband to a younger woman, and her eighteen-year-old daughter also left for college, making her a jobless empty nester. After licking her wounds, she contemplated a change...

Children should learn about diversity from the time they first begin to socialize. At some point, they will either meet people with disabilities, or they may feel different from other children. Parents must explain the subject to them as simply as possible. Marky the Magnificent...

Madeline is a housekeeper for Mr. Jeremiah, an elderly man who lives in an old and decaying Victorian house in London. When she first went to see him about the position, she was unfamiliar with both the country and the language and was relieved when...