Book Reviews

Woody’s Leap of Faith by Julie Boden Schmidt

Woody’s Leap of Faith by Julie Boden Schmidt

About the Book: From beginning to end, readers of all ages will fall in love with Woody, a little wood duckling, and his siblings, Buzz and Zoey. The day after hatching, the ducklings must jump from their nest, forty feet high in a tree. Buzz and Zoey are ready –...

Mia, The Crooked Road by D.A. Jennings

Mia, The Crooked Road by D.A. Jennings

About the Book: Adventure comes when you least expect it. Sometimes, when that happens life turns upside down. In this sequel to Mia, Ripples in the Water, Mia finds herself wandering down a path she never planned to take. This detour forces her to question who she is...

The Art of Lifelong Customers by Mihaela Akers

The Art of Lifelong Customers by Mihaela Akers

About the Book: We’ve been conditioned to treat strangers better than customers and to endlessly chase what we don’t have. But the key to a highly profitable and fulfilling business is acknowledging and appreciating what we already have—in particular, our existing...

The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise

The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise

https://youtu.be/THqelemyeBA Story Summary: She is a rebel. Lilla is fighting for the refugees's freedom from oppression. The king, her father, lost touch with reality ever since Lilla's mother died. Now everyone else is paying the price. The arrival of Callum, a...

Ballet Orphans by Terez Mertes Rose

Ballet Orphans by Terez Mertes Rose

Book Summary: It's 1990, and New York soloist April Manning is trying to rebalance her world in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths. An offer to join the struggling West Coast Ballet Theatre as a principal dancer seems like the perfect opportunity for a fresh start—a...

The Twelve Realms by A.D. Sloane

The Twelve Realms by A.D. Sloane

Book Summary: There are messages told through language. There are messages told through symbols. And there are messages told through terror. Nabii Akachi, a young Moorish royal, unveils a series of cryptic messages and discovers her dreams are linked to an ages-old...

Shadows by William Stephen Edwards

Shadows by William Stephen Edwards

Book Summary: Poet William Stephen Edwards is a professor and a pathologist, a hippy and a Vietnam veteran, a lover, a cowboy, an explorer…a chronicler of life from his side of it. The poems in Shadows, as a collection, stretch and dive through a multitude of...

When We Were Brave by Karla M Jay

When We Were Brave by Karla M Jay

Book Summary: In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish boy whose positive outlook is challenged daily as each new perilous...

I AM Manifesto by SB Hilarion

I AM Manifesto by SB Hilarion

Book Summary: A book of 366 mantras or affirmations to raise and encourage the self-esteem and self-belief of children (plus adults), told through the eyes of young siblings Hao Finley Lee and Sabine Yi Lee. Written in the form of a journal and calendar, there is a...

Possessed: From Darkness to Light by Cordelia Lee

Possessed: From Darkness to Light by Cordelia Lee

Book Summary: Cordelia Lee has experienced something few in the Western world have even witnessed: exorcism. Demonic possession brought her to a Taoist shaman who could drive out her tormentors, but only temporarily. Cordelia’s problems were multifaceted: a troubled...