Who knew that wildfires have personalities or that they like to play "Russian Roulette?" Who can imagine the power of an updraft, twenty thousand feet high or a heat generated in excess of thirteen hundred degrees? In the riveting read "One Foot in the Black",...

In Alibis of the Heart, Will Woods, a newly divorced lawyer from Chicago, leaves his career and broken marriage behind and goes to Okefenokee County, Georgia. A southern small town sunk deep into the loam and rot of its namesake swamp, Will sees it as...

Even when one begins a relationship with the best intentions, it does not always end in happily ever after. Dominique Wilkins illustrates exactly how messed up things can become in Friends First. Having been rescued by her boyfriend Cliff from an abusive alcoholic father, Fiona...

Nancy LaPonzina pens a wonderful story in her book entitled A Path Through The Garden. It is here that the reader will begin to see deep within the lives of several of the characters found in the book, whether it's the land-owner Peg, or a...

Elsa Takaoka and Catherine Toennisson have combined their talents to create the delightful children’s book Goo and Spot in the Do Not Wiggle Riddle. Packed with fun and full of color, this rhyming riddle progresses through a series of fun activities and funny creatures that...

In Temper the Winds, Wilma Hamill engages readers in the lives of people grappling with love on multiple levels. Readers encounter people whose existence is filled with the kind of stimulating realism that keeps a person invested in the story. In some cases, Hamill’s tale...

Issues of the Heart by Snook is an idealist’s and realist’s work. It’s the inner thoughts of a person aware of life’s lessons, emotions and imperfections. It deals with sacrifices, forgiveness, anger, love, and confusion, in clearly written poems that deal with different experiences in...

Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?: Amazing Brain. Human Communication, Creativity and Free Will by James Tagg is a scientific treatise written in a wonderfully entertaining way that can reach the lay person. Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? is a book that explores the human mind...

Stef Smulders' Living in Italy: The Real Deal is a thoroughly entertaining read and a unique introduction to ‘the Italian way’! While attending a university course, Stef and husband, Nico, decide almost on a whim to buy a property in the wine region of Pavia...

In today's society, especially with social media, making friends can seem, if not difficult, then almost impossible. Everywhere you turn, people appear to have an intimate relationship with their smartphone, laptop or tablet instead of each other. For Larry, a shy alligator, making friends was...

Bump the Monster is a delightful children’s book written by T.D. Ashcraft and beautifully illustrated by Daniel Roper. Bump is a blue and orange monster who lives under the bed in a secret place. At night, Bump comes out to play, sometimes bringing his friends...

Teensy the Littlest Fairy by Claressa Swensen is about Teensy who is the smallest fairy at Shimmery Forest. She wants to grow and become big so that the other fairies in the forest will notice her. She does not know how to become big. Then...

Meet Baryn, Bump’s new pet in Bump and the New Pet by T.D. Ashcraft. Bump found him in a tree, and Baryn is a rainbow rhino-bat. Baryn’s horn changes color with his mood. Bump does not shut the windows in time when Baryn starts to...

Boudin's First Christmas (Boudin's Grand Adventures) by Leah Morris is a very quick read that will delight the hearts of young readers, especially those who love animals. I read it with my seven-year-old son in one sitting, studying the illustrations and enjoying the cute verses,...

Bump and the Family Tree by T.D. Ashcraft is intriguingly clever. It is a picture book likely to appeal to children who are invariably attracted by lots of colour. There is also a great deal going on in most of the illustrations, which would keep...

Breaching the Surface: A Scout in Mimic Grounds Series is a military science fiction novella written by M.T. Rose. The undersea world that had become their refuge had been terrifying and strange at first, but gradually it had become their home. From his vantage point...

Matt Nagin’s Butterflies Lost Within The Crooked Moonlight is a collection of poetry that speaks about all aspects of life. The voice that crosses every page feels like defibrillation treatment. It has a commanding jolt that makes the reader sit up and take almost immediate...

Are you a true crime fan? As someone who has always clung to the adage that truth is stranger than fiction, I certainly am. And when it comes to the content and characters in Out Here in the Darkness by Abra Stevens, I know that...

Among the Maasai by Juliet Cutler is a memoir recounting the two years the author spent living and teaching in Tanzania at the end of the 1990s. Arriving with preconceived ideas and expectations, nothing was as she had imagined. She describes her feelings of being...

Ready For The People is a mystery set in the world of law, penned by author Mike Langan. Forming another episode in the Hank Fisher Mysteries series, the story finds the central character recovering from the chaos and destruction which his last case caused him....