Book Review: Ten Tales from Tibet by Lama Lhakpa Yeshe

Lama Lhakpa Yeshe’s Ten Tales from Tibet is a beautiful collection of traditional tales about the value and necessity of compassion and how to cultivate it. These stories make up part of the rich oral storytelling of Tibet, as a way of passing knowledge along generation after generation. Each of these wisdom stories may be […]

Nocturne by Kat Ross

Nocturne by Kat Ross is a new series following characters from the Fourth Element Trilogy. Here we have a whole new world to play in. Nazarafeen, still reeling from battle with Neblis, has come to Nocturne, land of eternal night, and home of the powerful daeva clans. She is a guest of House Dessarian, of […]

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My Turtle Journal by Teresa Westing Explore life as a baby box turtle! My Turtle Journal follows a wee box turtle that has been lost in a storm and ended up on a road. A caring woman finds it and brings it home to her husband Paul. They take care of the turtle, setting up a […]

Book Review: The Infernal Battalion by Django Wexler

The Infernal Battalion is the fifth, and final, book in Django Wexler’s Shadow Campaigns series. Peace came briefly to Vordan, but it is not long before the Beast of Judgement turns an eye to the country in an attempt to claim the Thousands Names, the massive steel tablets bearing the names of legions of demons. […]

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Grimms Manga Tales by Kei Ishiyama Fairytales with a manga twist! Grimms Manga Tales is a traditional Japanese manga, meaning you read the book what would be back to front to a European or American reader, and from upper right to lower left down the page. There are a handful of stories, including popular ones like […]

Book Review: We’re All Bad in Bed by Shelby Simpson

In a candid expose of bedroom mishaps, We’re All Bad in Bed is a hilarious lesson that we are all simply human. After an embarrassing moment with her mother, Shelby Simpson decides to go on a quest to gather her friends’ most unsexy moments in the bedroom to compile into a book as a way […]

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Life in the Sloth Lane by Lucy Cooke Learn the secrets to contentment from the best in the world! Life in the Sloth Lane is a little gift book stuffed full of inspirational quotes about contentment, mindfulness, and taking life as it comes. Interspersed are dozens of pictures of that most meditative of critters- the sloth, […]

Book Review: Escape Claws by Linda Reilly

  Escape Claws is a charming cozy mystery with just a touch of the paranormal. Lara Caphart has come to Whisker Jog to help her ailing aunt whose arthritic knees have made it difficult to care for her growing clowder of kitties. Unlucky for Lara, she discovers the body of local bully businessman Theo Barnes […]

Book Review: Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy

Murder has come to the peaceful prestigious coastal Cape Bonita, shattering the town’s illusion of safety. Gretchen Nelson is found murdered early one morning, in the parking lot of the local Catholic church, her throat cut. No clues as to her killer can be found. It’s not long before another girl succumbs to the killer. […]

Book Review- Manga Classics: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain & Crystal Chan

The Manga Classics version of Huckleberry Finn has remained true to the original novel by Mark Twain, doing its best to keep language and themes intact. The forward states that, rather than burying the past, the Manga Classics version seeks to help students “think critically about current racial slurs and stereotypes by tracing them back to […]