A childhood home is a place that remains deep in our memories for our entire life time. There are other things, little things, that spark a memory, like a blue marble lying in the dirt where it was once thrown away in anger, and later...

In times like ours, when the spirit of consumerism is rank and rife, and when people tend to seek personal profit without caring about what happens to others or to the environment, An Extraordinary Year by Theresa Konwinski comes across as a powerful reminder of...

Coming Home tells the story of ER doctor Elizabeth Fitzgerald and her journey back to the woman she used to be when called home to Windsor Falls. After back to back tragedies sent her running across the country a decade ago, her mother’s health scare...

The Intersect: When Life Veers off Course, Strangers Find Comfort and Lasting Connection by Brad Graber is a compelling and fascinating story with a powerful political and social setting, a story that explores the links between humans in a fast-paced consumerist culture. Set against the...

The Northeast Quarter by S.M. Harris is a historical event novel laced with drama and built around a powerful political and historical setting. The story starts in 1918 with little Ann Hardy, ten-year-old daughter to Colonel Carson who runs an agricultural empire. She is watching...

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if you enjoy the spate of Marvel and DC superhero movies that have been popular the last few years, then you are going to enjoy The Knights of the Saltire, book one of...

Painted Days by Peter John Driscoll is 'A Tale of Origins.' Wind back 8000 years, back to the lowlands where tribes war against one another. A hunter puts himself at risk of death and enters Doggerland in search of big game. Instead, he finds a...

Not Without Spirit by Ruth Ann Cramer is a novel about the Ku Klux Klan so beautifully written that the reader will feel drawn irrevocably into the dark world of the clan, a story with an unlikely hero and one that features great creativity and...

I am particularly fond of novels about ancient Rome. The novels I have liked best deal with how Rome conquered other nations, but novels describing Roman politics and the struggles between powerful families are fun too. Age of Gold by Cecily Paul presented Rome to...

When twenty-one-year-old virgin Jordan Sullivan discovers she is pregnant and having twins, solving the mystery of how she got pregnant, when she’d never had sex, quickly takes a back seat to a whole new set of choices she is now facing. Initially, it seems that...