Renee moved to Hollywood with aspirations of being an actress. When her mother is killed in a car accident, the inheritance sends Renee to the land of opportunity and she enters a beauty school in Burbank. A backup career is what she called it…just until...

Defense attorney Mickey Haller represents the scum of the earth, the forlorn and the disparaged. Once in a while, he catches a break and gets an a-lister as a client. Things that seem too good to be true are usually like this case. It isn't...

"The Best Of Me" by Nicholas Sparks This is a review of the audiobook. Nicholas Sparks always amazes me. Most books concentrate or emphasize the emotions of the female. However, Sparks successfully develops and demonstrates the emotions of his male characters as well. In "The Best Of...

In this 19th novel by Michael Connelly, Los Angeles lawyer Michael "Mickey" Haller returns to work after treatment for drug addiction. He inherits murdered trial lawyer Jerry Vincent's case loads, the most outstanding one being the double-homicide case against movie mogul Walter Elliot. Mickey finds...

In The Ridge, we meet a variety of characters: Deputy Sheriff Kevin Kimble, a man in love with the woman who shot him; Audrey Clark, the keeper of sixty-seven large cats, including a rare black panther; Wyatt French, a peculiar man who keeps a light...

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea is advertised as the story of 26 men who crossed the Mexican American border into the desert of Arizona to Devil’s Highway. Twenty six entered the desert, but only twelve came out alive. Urrea discussed...

To Be Sung Underwater was written by Tom McNeal. The plot centers on Judith, a married woman going through a midlife crisis. The text moves smoothly back and forth through time as the 40-something Judith thinks back on her childhood and teen years. The catalyst...

The Siege of Scarn is book one in the Trance Warriors series written by Robert C. Auty. This book has it all: thrills, adventure, action and entertainment. The lead character was Connor, an assassin who killed the wrong man. The evil Queen was furious; however,...

This series of books by James Patterson is geared toward 7th-10th graders. In previous books Whit and Wisty’s parents were taken captive. Whit and Wisty were prisoners of the One Who Is The One. They discovered they had magical powers. After escaping they take refuge...

Every family has a secret or two, but what if that secret could possibly destroy or humiliate the family? Tom's sister, Diane, is a rising actress who falls in love with a well-known star of an American Western Show. Eight-year-old Tom is enthralled with the star...