If you are looking for a light easy read with lots of smiles, then you won’t go far wrong if you pick up Tie the Dingo Down, Mate!, written and illustrated by Nicole O’Connor. It tells the story of an Australian vet who goes to...

Do You Have a Catharsis Handy? Five-Minute Writing Tips is a nonfiction writing skills guide by Kathleen Kaska. Kaska is a blogger, author and the Marketing Director of Cave Art Press. She was also a middle-school science teacher for twenty-five years, and is an avid...

Here I Am: A Novel by J.R. McCabe is a book that will entertain readers while bringing value to their personal lives. A woman sets out to find love, but ends up finding a practical path to freedom, vitality, and the secret to creating happiness...

The Crying of Ross 128 by David Allan Hamilton is a good mix of sci-fi adventure and hard science technology. The story is about a hobbyist radio enthusiast named Jim Atteberry who receives an alien transmission. He tries to do the right thing and share...

In Carolyn Arnold's The Secret of the Lost Pharaoh, Matthew Connor is once again called upon to unearth a legend. A map possibly pointing the way to the mythical Emerald Tablets is discovered by a colleague in Egypt, along with the tomb of an unknown...

Houseboat: A Novel by Paul Shadinger is an engaging story steeped in mystery, with distinct, well-developed and enjoyable characters. Matt Preston is a guy addicted to the game of poker, a man who had once lost a 57 Chevrolet convertible in a card game. Then...

I have always longed for characters one can stick with like Lee Child’s Jack Reacher and James Patterson’s Alex Cross and in Code Name: Crescent, A Matt Preston Novel by Paul Shadinger, I have found another interesting character to journey with, a man with an...

It’s not always the magnitude of the crisis that makes a novel great, but how it is handled and Paul Shadinger shows incredible skill in conflict development in this novel. The first book I read from this author was Code Name: Crescent and, seduced by...

Salvation in the Sun: Book One of The Lost Pharaoh Chronicles is a historical fiction novel by Lauren Merewether. The story is set in the religiously and politically turbulent, though artistically unique, Amarna period of ancient Egypt. It tells the story of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten...

In Hierophant by Heather Licano, Gabriella ‘Gabbi’ Hayden is a witch and a hired demon assassin. She receives a request from a priest who runs a parish in Clyde, California, claiming that they are experiencing horrible demonic incidents. A girl was tortured to death and...

Stage Fright by Trisha B. Perez is the story of a little girl named Josie who wants to audition to sing at a school talent show. In the shower and all other private places, Josie thought she was a talented singer. In public, she would...

The Future Memoir of Ann Jones by Alex Bailey is unlike any story you’ve ever read. Ann shares a vision she had. A vision about her husband dying, her moving from the west coast to the east coast and joining a knitting club. This so-called...

The Face of Expression by Aaron Woodson is a collection of unusually and poignantly written reflections and poetry, each so short it fills only a page or half of it — snippets of thoughts, an emotion, a glance into reality, a feeling of change, a...

When reading an author’s recollection of the sudden, awful realization she is having a stroke, and of the ensuing fear and uncertainty associated with how one’s life may forever change, roll-on-the-floor hilarity isn’t the first reaction that comes to mind. However, Kimberly Davis Basso manages...

William Mears is working towards his doctorate at the University of Southern California. But he doesn't want to take the easy road; he wants his thesis to matter, to impact the world, and be complete on presentation. He wants to take it beyond the lab...

Iron Dogs by Neil Chase is a western horror novel set in 1873 in the small town of Testament, New Mexico. The story opens in Testament with Father Ramon Bernal aiding a member of his parish and staying too long until the sun sets. The...

A beautiful collection of poetry and prose, 70 Chronicles of Confessions by 1UniqueWriter is split into five different parts: Alone Reject, Mysterious Mysticism, Nostalgic Love, Pressing Depression, and Regretful Confusion. Each part is full of emotional pieces about pain and love and having the strength...

A man who has lost everything — his job, his wife and daughter — gets the one chance to redeem himself, to save a person’s life. In The Chosen Ones by Lisa Luciano, Brody gets fired from his job as a reporter and his wife...

Make it a Habit! Creating Health and Happiness for your Body, Mind, and Spirit by Sylvie Heyman is an insightful and motivating book that speaks about how habits play a crucial role in affecting body, mind, and soul. The book helps readers find better health...

JonSun knew from the moment he caught a fleeting glimpse of her that his heart called to the mysterious woman in the library. Vigilantly he returned, hoping to catch sight of her again, and when he did, the unimaginable happened. Despite being far beyond his...