Shani has a new friend. It’s a honeybee. She calls him Paul. Later, she learns that this honeybee is a she and not a he, so she changes the name to Paula. Shani loves to watch her honeybee fly around the flowers outside her window....

Paula The Busy Bee: Shani and Friends by Shani T. Night is an excellent way to teach children about the importance of honeybees. The main character is Paula, a young worker bee. The author outlines Paula's jobs as she grows up; her first job is...

What would you be able to do if you were an octopus? With eight legs, would you be able to do more things at once and get all those nasty chores out of the way faster? Shani T. Night’s picture book story, If I Were...

The Heart of a Lion and the Body of a Cat by Shani T. Night is an illustrated children's book that tells a great story. The protagonist is a young lion who would do many things but cannot because he is sick. However, he is...

This is How Much Oatmeal Loves You: A Collection of Stories is written by Stephen R. Wagner. The stories are prefaced by two introductions which serve to introduce both the author and the genesis of most of the stories. They were written, as the author...

Every once in a while, a book comes along that keeps you up at night, even though you have to get up early the following morning. Reign of the Black Flame: The Waterglobe by B.B. Vayk is one of those gems. It is the story...

In introducing Dare to Choose: A Journey of Self-Healing, Marie Chronopoulos states: “A book on self-healing is never just a book. An idea for a book that finds its spark in the shadow of cancer is never just the seed of a story. It becomes...

In a great book by debut author Jack Kearney, Inside Out: One Actor’s Nightmarish Journey of Incarceration, we follow the story of Danny Belson, a man used to playing inmates, but not of actually being one. Finding himself in the highly unique situation of becoming...

Old San Antone: Dawn of the Legend is an action-packed novel set in the West in years gone by. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience as it contains scenes of violence and explicit language throughout. Penned by The 2-Bru Krew, this...

In Peachy The Warrior Princess by Gabriela Duran, Gaby has been rescuing dogs her whole life. Her dream is to see that all pets live a happy and free life. She thought she had seen it all as far as the suffering of dogs is...

Billie is a non-fiction memoir written by Billie King. The author had to grow up quickly when she was a child. By the age of 10, she was all too aware of the abusive and hostile relationship between her father and mother. Her father was...

Twenty-Seconds: A True Account of Survival and Hope is an inspirational memoir written by Robert M. Tremblay. The author was born and raised on a multi-acre spread of land in Vermont, surrounded by mountains and nature. His family’s influence and his own natural inclination led...

Journey Into Darkness by J. Arthur Moore is a well-crafted tale of a young man’s adventure in the Civil War. While his father is away fighting with the Confederate army, Duane Kinkade is left with no choice but to search for him after his mother...

Merry Chris Witch is a novella written by C.K. Dawn. Christopher Aspen Heron hates Christmas. Not only does it fall on his birthday, but every single year the festivities go on and on for months, whereas celebrations for his favorite holiday, Halloween, only last a...

Speak to the Fire: What to Believe in a Messed up World is the first book in the God Notes nonfiction series by Joy Ryan. It is an inspirational book in which the author shares her story and her powerful encounter with God. Born into...

"Katie and Spirit Wolf: The Spirit World Does Exist" is an excellent story that reads much like a folk tale. Author Littlewolf Griffith, aka, Lorraine Griffith, has lived a unique life in both the white man’s world and the Native American world. She is very...

Theory of Irony: How Jesus Led to Moon Golf by Erik Von Norden is a book covering the history of Christianity in conjunction with the history of the Roman Empire, carrying readers through some key moments, such as historical and biblical facts around Christ’s birth...

Temporary Insanity (Mental Moments Book 1) by Fitz Allgood is a short horror story. What could possibly cause a person to go on a sudden killing spree? A teacher, no less, on his way to school. It was nothing, just another driver who didn’t use...

Jerry Schaefer's Cruising through the Teens, Easier Than It Seems is an educational book that offers brilliant ideas to help young adults experiencing struggles in their lives. Some young adults tend to think way more than necessary about situations that have happened already, such as...

This book was really two parts of the same whole: first, the Nazi occupation of a small French village; second, the program where high ranking German men procreate and the facility in which "fit" women give birth to the "master race." This book largely...