"Being a birth parent in the adoption world can be difficult. It is hard to talk or write about." So confides Darrick C. Rizzo, author of The Open Adoption. That difficulty takes on a special meaning for birth fathers, silent voices rarely heard regarding the...

Oliver’s Hunger Dragon is a children’s book written by Sherry Alexander and illustrated by Amy Rottinger. Oliver has a dragon whom he’s never seen; the dragon’s name is Hunger, and he rumbles and grumbles for food. Oliver’s embarrassed by his noisy companion -- no matter...

Phoebe and the Upside Down b by Cheryl Woodward is about a little girl named Phoebe who has trouble spelling her name. She doesn’t understand why her name starts with “ph” when it sounds like it should begin with an “f,” and she gets confused...

Bountiful Butterflies by Cheryl Woodward is a concept picture book that uses butterflies to help children learn their colors and numbers. With the turn of each page, we are introduced to a new butterfly and, along with it, a new color and a new number....

The Hypnotist by Alyssa Devine is a charming YA adventure, and a very good debut offering by this new author. Ms. Devine has created a dynamic pair of intelligent, musically gifted high school students who just happen to solve a decades-old cold case multiple murder....

Activate Your Passion, Create Your Career by Madison Hildebrand is a powerful memoir/self-help/how-to guide. Most people know Madison as the handsome and sweet Real Estate Broker on Bravo TV’s “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles”, but what you may not know is included in the book....

The Plan that Launched a Thousand Books: A DIY Guide to Creating Your Book Marketing Plan by Tara R. Alemany should be one of the books on your list if you are a writer and plan to publish your book on your own (or if...

Lil’ Scrappy –N- Rail: The Missing Acorn by Robert E.O. Crewe is an illustrated story about Scrappy the squirrel. Scrappy is hungry and Mother Squirrel gives him a bowl of his favourite food – acorns. Scrappy manages to eat them all but one. Just as...

Imagine that your talented, brilliant husband, a renowned scientist and doctor devoted to his patients, starts to exhibit erratic behaviour patterns, becomes aggressive when questioned, and becomes ‘someone else?’ In Slow Dancing with a Stranger, this is what happened to journalist and author Meryl Comer....

Samantha Church has already faced tremendous danger and hardship, but things are not getting much better for her in Dead Wrong by Betta Ferrendelli. Still recovering from injuries she received during a kidnapping, Sam feels guilty for Wilson’s need for a prosthesis to replace the...

M. Elaine Moore portrays the sacrificial service of an undercover cop in her novel Human Sacrifice. Aubri Payton loves being an undercover cop and she is very good at it. Her best friend and partner gets killed in the line of duty. Aubri is crushed,...

YouTube: TheRealYouTubeStory.com by Eric Skaggs is the true story, as the author puts it, of how he, Eric Skaggs, gave Chad Hurley the entire idea for YouTube in exchange for a promise of one percent of the $40 billion company. It begins when an chance...

The Clark siblings are twins and they have a beautiful golden retriever named Pistachio as their family pet. Although they love to see their dog do tricks and respond to them when they bribe her with treats, they don't like the responsibilities that come with...

Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together by Kayla Fioravanti contains stories from the author’s life during Puffy’s twenty-one-year life span. This book is about Kayla, fondly known as Blue, her family, her furry family members, and their travels. It’s an inspiring true...

A Biography of Linda by Clyde Hoch is an intense biography of a young Chinese girl, La Fong, her family and their struggles during the changing times of the mid-1900s. Came the Chinese revolution and La Fong and her family had to escape from 'Red...

Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth is a military history book written by Steve Snyder, Howard's son. The author played at being soldiers as a boy, but did not really understand the role his...

What our minds can achieve is certainly beyond what we truly understand at this point in time. John Darryl Winston explores that concept in IA: Initiate. Doctor Cory Andersen has tapped into other parts of the mind and has begun to experiment along the edges...

As the title suggests, Randi M. Sherman’s novel, Caroline Starts Over, is about a woman who is poised to reclaim her life. Trapped for eighteen years in a loveless marriage, Caroline Matthews silently rejoices when her husband dies. Around twenty years ago, she led a...

Silent Cats: Deadly Dance by JD Wallace opens in 2005 in Tel Aviv, where a Mossad assassin and her daughters are killed in a car bombing. When Pantera, the husband of the slain woman, who is also a CIA man himself, has to identify the...

Hopeless To Husband: How to Get Out of the Basement and Change Your Life by Fred Esposito begins with great advice – get out of your comfort zones. Being an expert on disastrous dates, having faced quite a few of them in life, Fred says...