Doogie Duck is a detective duck. When asked why the chicken crossed the road, he wasn’t thinking about the riddle, but the actual chicken who disappeared because he crossed the road. Doogie looked everywhere, but it was finally his encounter with the mysterious, sly fox...

Overwhelmed and Undernourished: Use Food as Medicine and Turn Your Life Around is a great introduction to holistic health care. The author Karen Thomas went through several years of health problems, as did her husband. She happened to watch a movie on Netflix called Fat,...

America’s presidential race is the biggest showcase of democracy in the world, but never before has it so captivated the world’s attention, with the clash between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton dominating America. Trump evokes extreme and varied emotions among voters in a way no other candidate in...

Author Maria Ashworth deftly weaves colors, counting, and animals into My Big Tree. A bluebird has found a place to nest in the Big Tree and slowly many other animals follow her there. The little bluebird finds it crowded and tries moving out. But she...

Step One, Step Two, Step Three and Four by Maria Ashworth is a beautifully written and illustrated children’s book about co-mingling families. One day a mother told her daughter that she was getting married. Her daughter began to wonder if she would have to share...

Wild Roots: Coming Alive in the French Amazon by Donna Mulvenna is the journey of the author through the French Amazon where her experiences, travels, insights, and horrors will introduce readers to an entirely new world. They will venture into the depths and mysteries of...

Cat Crimes and Wannabes (6th Grade Revengers Book 1) by Steven Whibley features Jared, grounded by his family, Dad, Mom, elder sister Ronie, and six-year-old Sky. Marcus, son of a couple that works with computers, is Jared’s best friend, and the owner of a pet...

Candy – sweet, sugary, all kinds of flavors, all kinds of shapes and sizes. As much as you can eat ... candy! Wouldn’t it be nice? Well, Sam thought so. All he wanted to eat was candy. And he’d throw a tantrum if his parents...

No Longer an Orphan: A Story of a Dog and His Adoption by Trisha Conklin is the charming story of Lucky, an adorable black puppy who is lost, wounded, and needs a home. When Lucky is found, he is taken where he can receive...

Twin Tails of Mason Beach (The Twin Tails Series Volume 1) by CILLYart is a fascinating modern day story laced with fantasy and adventure. Mateo and Marnie Perez are walking on the beach one day when they discover a giant conch with two sleeping baby...

Red Death by Jeff Altabef is a science fiction adventure set in a world where the Soulless are considered less than human by the citizens of Eden, mostly because they fear the Red Death that plagues those poor souls who inhabit this war-torn world. Aaliss...

Emma's Birthday: Learning to be Gracious by Amber Richards is a children's story about Emma turning seven years old, and how excited she is about the overall experience of the gifts, cake, and her family that help her celebrate. A child's birthday is a very...

A demon who has waited for a hundred years, planning an unthinkable evil, is about to unleash his deadly powers into the city and to submerge it in utter darkness. White witch Sage Mathews, a woman with unspeakable gifts, and the very person connected to...

Abe-vs-Adolf: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Abe Peck is a non-fiction biography written by Maya Ross. Abe grew up in Szadek, Poland; a town that had a thriving and healthy Jewish community living within it before the Second World War. He was 90 at...

Timothy Rags, or Taylor as he liked to be called, is a detective. He’s on a sabbatical of sorts, imposed by his employers. He’s been sent to de-stress in a tiny village, Kipper’s Cove. Stumbling out of a storm into a quaint store, he discovers...

Visby The Virtuoso by Liane Alitowski is a modern day fable about a musically gifted and adventurous cat that finds itself on a cruise ship in the harbor of New York City, bound for some of the most beautiful and historic cities of Europe. Upon...

In The Ascension by Lauren Hudson, Desdemona, Felix and Jinx Anchor, triplets separated at birth, were normal teenagers living their ordinary teenage lives with their ordinary parents until their fifteenth birthday, when life as they knew it abruptly came to an end. After each teen...

If I hadn’t checked Nesly Clerge’s bio, I might have concluded that When The Dragon Roars was written by someone with a degree in psychology and criminal studies, or that the author was at least a therapist of some kind. But the brilliant Nesly Clerge...

Bullying is at an all-time high in this country. Bullying shows up in various forms and at times turns into domestic violence. Freedom: Defeating the Bullies - A Personal Journey is Ryan Finch’s story about how his life was plagued with bullying. Freedom is about...

The Faithful Steward by Dmitri Dobrovolski is a interesting take on stewardship. The author has created inspiring stories of stewardship as a means to show how faithfulness will not go unrewarded. The book is broken down into ten chapters involving creative stories to demonstrate the...