As a HUGE steampunk fan, I was thrilled when I got a chance to read The Lotus Effect, the first book in the Rise of the Ardent series by Bridget Ladd. Lily Emmerson is the daughter of two of the most important leaders of her...

The Observations of the Obstreperous Animals (Stanley & Katrina Book 2) by Katrina and Stanley is a fun book for children about Katrina the cat and Stanley the dog. Through a series of short stories, Stanley and Katrina give readers a peek into their lives...

In the vein of Indiana Jones, The Sons of Kohath: Tragedy, Travesty, Tapas and the Ark of God by Adam Green tells the tale of archaeologist Alex Martinez. This highly respected scientist is drawn into an incredible story involving one of the most significant relics...

The Secret Price of History: Searching for the Treasure behind Alexander's Medallion by Gayle Ridinger and Paolo Pochettino has a complex plot that should grab any reader with an interest in history. It jumps back and forth between 19th century and 21st century adventures by...

The Prophesy of Hermes: The Adventures of Hermes the Sailor Cat, Book 2 is a children's animal-adventure book written by Paul Watson and illustrated by Thomas Kimbrell. Hermes is a cat who lives on the S.S. Cyclops with his human companion, Stefan. Stefan had found...

The Stones of Kaldaar by Tameri Etherton is a book about a young woman, Taryn, and her grandfather, Brandt. The two live a simple life traveling in the world we know as Earth until they are transported to a universe that is strange and complicated....

The Forest of Evergreen (Volume 1): Lost in the Wilderness by Teresa May B. Bandiola is a magical story that will take readers on an adventurous journey filled with love and fantasy. Sophie Vabueretti moves to her parents' home in a big city where her...

The Fantastic Travels of William and the Monarch Butterfly: Fly, Fly Away on the Wings of a Monarch Butterfly by Christina Steiner is a great book that teaches children and adults how to respect butterflies and other insects. This book also teaches them about butterflies,...

'The Quest of All Ages', Book One of the 'Within the Ocean of Eternal Love' Series, is a beautiful, epic tale written by Maha Devi Li Ra La. Within this timeless fantasy novel, we meet a variety of characters. Heroes, heroines, mermaids and mermen, fairies...

The Ouija Board by Shelby White is about four best friends who bought an Ouija board for a night of fun sleepover. Little did they know that their lives would be changed forever after that night of innocent fun! When Alycia, Lauren, Sacha, and Sara...

Elizabeth Jayanti Ph.D. believes that businesses today are still being conducted on premises that have long become irrelevant. In The Galileo Moment, she argues that all new research is based on old models that are no longer true or effective, and therefore are of no...

Nuzzels is a very inquisitive little skunk. He really wants to see the world outside of his den. He’s sure that it would make an exciting adventure. But his mother has forbidden anyone from leaving the den, telling them that the world outside is a...

In the 21st century there has been a rise in illnesses and diseases from Alzheimer’s and diabetes to autism. Have you ever wondered why this is so? Galit Goldfarb gives us a clue in The Guerrilla Diet & Lifestyle Program: Wage War on Weight and...

Poet Michaela Hackman is back with The Sleepwalker’s Memoirs: Moving Through the Darkness. The poems are a little different than the poems in Love Along The Way. The poems displayed in Love Along The Way were those of self-discovery, hope and love, while the poems...

In his stimulating work The Obelisk and the Cross, Tony Sunderland undertakes the academic’s most daunting challenge: to convey without ponderous explications or brittle simplifications the entire history of a subject – in this case, the evolution of religious thought – as it pertains to...

The Never Paradox is the second book in the Chronicles of Jonathan Tibbs by T. Ellery Hodges. Gone is Jonathan Tibbs, the college student. In his place stands Jonathan Tibbs, the superhero who is constantly on call to fight the forces of evil. Backed up...

I liked The Gloog Revolution: It’s The Lawyers Stupid! F. William Houraney writes well, and on top of giving his opinion, he also manages to entertain you. I like this type of book. It made me think and I could be wrong, but I think...

The Mark of the Beast Revelation 13: Identifying the Beast with the Number and the Mark by Ezra Celestin offers a fresh interpretation and very interesting facts to corroborate the meaning of Saint John’s Mark of the Beast in the book of Revelation, one of...

Flurry the teddy bear cub had already been through so much, so he couldn't understand why his mom had been so angry when she found him watching a pirate movie. The adventure was PG13, but tame compared to what he had already experienced in the...

Book three in the Flurry the Bear series, The Throne of Frost by J.S. Skye is another spellbinding read in a series that should be gaining a lot of fans among readers of children's fantasy and sci-fi. The inhabitants of Mezarim are suffering from inclement...