Most people understand being sad in different situations; however, most do not understand the clinical forms of depression, including Bipolar, Major Depression, and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Sam, a young boy, suffers from SAD and is ashamed to share his condition with others because of...

Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes: Healing the Scars from Childhood Mistreatment—Second Edition by Larry Godwin, Ph.D., is a compilation of the author’s lifelong problems from having grown up with a single abusive mother, who, her husband having abandoned her, placed all her attention, useful and not,...

His parents have sacrificed a lot to give him a life, to send him to college. And now they are gone. Russell Stevens seems to be responsible for it. So Ryan vows to find him and make him pay for such a tragic loss. The...

Cordell’s Poems of Spiritual Inspiration is a short collection written by Mack “Cordell” Moore. The main intention of the author is to introduce the world to Jesus Christ, and strengthen or renew a person’s faith in God through his writing. The meaning of unconditional love...

Insanity By Increments: Stories is a collection of literary short stories written by Alaric Cabiling. The nine stories that comprise this collection seem to share a theme of dislocation and/or alienation; many of their heroes are cold, disaffected or out of step with the world....

The relationship between Nick, Lily and Dan is one that has been long in the making. It is one that they are incapable of changing and that they don’t actually want to change. But one night, while they are working on their latest video game...

Anything for Him by LK Chapman is a fast paced, exciting thriller. We meet Felicity, who has lost her parents in a very tragic way; Jay, who hasn't had a easy life; Sammie, Jay's first love; and Mark, Jay's childhood best friend. Jay is looking...

Functional Emotional Fitness™ (The Mechanism of Emotion and The Gut-Brain Influence) by Kelly Burris is a nonfiction health and fitness book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of adults and young adults who are looking to improve themselves through increasing the level of...

Life is hard for 24-year-old Truly Alaney. She works three jobs to keep living in an apartment owned by a horrible landlord and to pay for her psychiatric consultations. She has trouble sleeping and suffers from nightmares. She has no memories of her childhood. When...

Where Grass Grows High: And Slavers' Hounds Don't Howl by Nancy Glenn Powell is a non-fiction book on the life and family of Samuel Glenn, one of her ancestors that lived during the Civil War times. This book follows his story based on the memories...

Healing Yesterday's Tears by Kyli Santiago is an inspiring poetry book about overcoming emotional baggage and discovering self-love. Using her own life as her muse, Kyli Santiago pens beautifully crafted poems that draw inspiration from some of the darkest moments in her life. Kyli had...

The setting is the small town Raleigh, Missouri. This book begins by introducing the readers to a diverse group of characters at first they seem to have no connection except, they all live in the same town. As the plot develops the reader watches as...

In the year 2032, Professor Carlos Rodriguez was returning to his birth country, Venezuela, for the first time in twenty-five years. He was not happy to be returning to a country where the citizens were losing more and more civil liberties. An old friend, Bernardo,...

We've Never Had A King is a fascinating look at the lives of Mary and Brad Bradbury and a bit of the history of Iraq. The setting is the 1950s, Iraq. Brad was a guest of the state, and advisor to the Government Oil Refineries...

Delani Bleu returned to the profession of teaching after a cushy job. While her major was educational journalism this is the first time she’d had the opportunity to teach it. To prepare for the year she took a graduate class to learn the computer programs;...

Aaron Anson's autobiographical memoir is something I am glad I took the time to read. His unique life story and his emotions make up the pages of this interesting, informative and sometimes a little hard to take in memoir. I can't even imagine what it's...

Diane Dettmann writes of her long-lasting grief at the death of her first husband, John Hohl, after twenty-eight years of marriage. John and Diane never parented children, but their marriage was a testimonial to two people bonding together completely and the devastation that the surviving...

"The Owl in the Tree" by Peter Kay is the story of a family. While he shares the stories of his mother's declining health and how she spent her final years in a nursing home, he also weaves together snippets of his family life. We...

Detective David Johansen of the Sunlight City Police was an expert in weird cases. When his boss brought him a surveillance tape from a small diner of a woman escaping from a man with a gun, he knew he had to take the case. Johansen...

Paul Zecos is a man to be reckoned with. He is on a mission to impart his version of what Jesus’ messages were to humankind. The subtitle - "Theory of Everything" - explains what he is attempting to do. I believe he is an heir...