Love and loss, redemption, doing what’s right, just deserts, and finding what you need when you least expect it are some of the themes of the 14 short stories in Coffee Breaks by Carol White. Everyday characters have everyday problems and concerns and White provides...

Getting Through What You Can't Get Over: Stories, Tips, and Inspiration to Help You Move Past Your Pain into Lasting Freedom by Anita Agers-Brooks is an inspirational read about getting past traumatic life issues. The book tells the true stories of real people’s overwhelming hardships...

Chihuahuas Like Cheese by Mrs Janice Wills Kingsbury is the story of Bogie, the Chihuahua who comes from a shelter in North Carolina as a stray. He is not the typical Chihuahua and tries to act like the big dogs. Bogie is a friendly dog...

Seven Weeks to Forever is a young adult romantic paranormal fantasy written by Jennifer Farwell. Cassidy knows that she'll be dying yet again in another seven weeks. She's living in the house in Los Angeles that her parents left her, far from the Boston home...

Boats, Barns and Bungalows is an excellent collection of water colour paintings by T.F. Hempel. They are vivid, beautiful, exquisitely rendered with a lot of eye for detail. Amazingly, Hempel is a natural artist, mostly painting scenes from his home town in Iowa, and has...

Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead by Christian Picciolini chronicles the author’s experiences growing up in Blue Island, a working class neighborhood in Chicago during the 1980s-1990s. Christian’s life as the son of first generation Italian immigrants is difficult, and he often finds himself...

It is hard to remember that Leaving Montana by Thomas Whaley is a work of fiction. The family problems and secrets that Whaley writes about are very common, but very rarely are they spoken about. Whaley writes about Benjamin Sean Quinn’s life and how he...

Adventures of Faerie Folk, Volume 1 is a cute children’s storybook by Paula J. Roscoe. In Annabelle and the Strawberry Faerie, rainy weather damages the crops that Annabelle and her mother planted, and they don’t have money to buy food. Annabelle finds strawberries in the...

Think of The Maltese Falcon in the milieu of 21st century Silicon Valley, and you’ll end up with something like Bad Karma (A Jack McCoul Caper) by Dwight Holing. Jack McCoul, the main character in Holing’s series of mysteries, is a former high-end burglar and...

In A Little Goes a Long Way, written by Ashley Mills Monaghan and illustrated by Vivian Nguyen, Fin, along with his adorable dog, Sausages, tries his best to help his family out by doing some chores. From giving the dog way too much food to...

Jet Girrl and Mr. Bizarro: Surviving Natural Disaster by Nowell Berg chronicles the flooding that occurred in the hometown of Jet Girrl and Mr. Bizarro. Jet Girrl is an air hostess by profession. Her beau depends on Jet Girrl for support. Unfortunately, when Jet Girrl...

Gaia's Secret by Barbara Kloss is an exciting fantasy novel about a girl named Daria whose dad goes missing. To find her dad, she travels through a portal and finds herself in Gaia. Gaia is a land where magic exists. Everything Daria knew on Earth...

Ain't No Grave by S.A. Softley tells the tale of a man facing a changed world after a virus outbreak. The story begins as he is on a plane, on a flight to see his mother. While on the plane, the man next to him...

What a fun read! I just finished Epic Zero: Tales of a Not-So-Super 6th Grader by author R.L. Ullman, and I have to say, I loved it! The story follows young Elliot Harkness, whose entire family belongs to the Freedom Force, the world’s greatest superhero...

In a brand new novel by debut author Mara Powers, Shadows of Atlantis: Awakening, readers will be taken along on an absolutely epic journey to amazing Atlantis, focus of stories both old and new. The Atlantis of author Powers’ work is a beautiful paradise, one...

Mid-Summer Nights, Dreams, and Consequences by Holmer Johnson is a collection of poems that were dreamed up during a hot summer in 2013, according to the author. The author has included many issues in his poetry such as politics, love, relationships and life in general....

L.E. Fraser's Skully, Perdition Games blends paranormal and psychological horrors to craft a chilling tale that grips from start to finish. Gabrielle LeBlanc is a strange housewife with a mysterious past. When she disappears and all evidence points to her murder, Samantha McNamara and Reece...

Breath of Dragons (A Pandoran Novel, #3) by Barbara Kloss is a high stakes young adult fantasy full of action and adventure. After the death of a prince, Alex and Daria go off in search of Pandora's legendary box. The box supposedly holds a power...

Heir of Pendel (A Pandoran Novel, #4) by Barbara Kloss is the final chapter of a young adult fantasy series that follows the escapades of Daria. By book four, Daria has left Alex to marry a man she doesn't love in order to save the...

Collision is the first novel I have read by Kate L. Mary. Her words are magnificently intriguing. From the first page and onward, readers will be interested in what Collision has in store for them. This romantic suspense novel will lure readers back every time....