Reminds Me of My Innocence: Amorous Adventures Among Kissing Cousins by Peter Kelton can best be described as absurd at times. The story follows two brothers and their female cousins who come into their lives and make for some pretty adventurous times. I have to...

It’s hard getting into the spirit of Christmas when everything around haunts you with sad memories from Christmas past. Travis’s older brother, Brent, was only a young boy when he disappeared on a snowy Christmas. His parents died of grief shortly after and Brent, now...

Reading is an important means to understanding a language. English is particularly difficult to learn for non-English people. With this in mind, stories written at different levels of difficulty, but still maintaining a compelling plot, interesting settings and characters, and vocabulary tools to assist the...

The Eclipse Dancer by Laura Koerber follows the journey of a thirteen-year-old as she learns of her hidden identity and later as she comes back home after years away from her family. Andy had always known she was different and more than once she was...

Shattered Moon by Renata Lanzoni tells how Maddy accepts an invitation to go with her best friend Cindy to Sri Lanka. Cindy has business to conduct there and Maddy needs a holiday and a break from her home in Oxford. Her son had disappeared, her...

I, Claudia: A Novel of the Ancient World by Lin Wilder is one of the fascinating books I have read — wonderful historical references, Christian and mythological underpinnings, with strong considerations of some of the troubling spiritual questions of all time. Born in Delphi and...

Hannah Deane, a sweet ninety-year-old woman sets out on an unexpected journey that touches the lives of everyone she encounters. With companion Jack, her "friend" the angel, Hannah is transported to a place she has never been and set in the midst of people she...

Augustino Lee Cumpton grew up in the coal mining town of Jeweltown, West Virginia, living a life not too different from many of the middle-class families he lived alongside in the late 1960s. He enjoyed summers at Grandpa Salvatore's camp, worked after school at the...

Aya has a family history that haunts her and makes her a target for FBI investigations, even though she’s done nothing wrong. Trip has a history that haunts him too, one where he’s accused of causing the death of his friend, a druggie who managed...

A splendid blend of social issues, family drama, and women's fiction, Bedside Manners by Heather Frimmer is a tightly woven story that explores the relationship between mother and daughter and how tragedy can change the way we approach both work and life. Marnie Novak is...