In the dedication of Typo Squad (yes, some of us do read dedications and introductions), Stephen Lomer tells us this crazily brilliant book of his is dedicated to proofreaders and copy editors. He needs to add book reviewers to that list i.e. all of us...

The Singer at Penn Station: A Script Based on a True Story by Josephine deBois is filled with drama, intelligently written and exciting, to say the least. Sergeant Samuel is downgraded and he finds himself working with Huang in the traffic control department. It is...

It had been a long time since college, but Bobby Wade travels to Cedar Key to take care of business that he should have handled years ago in The Promise of Cedar Key by Rick Robinson. Playing catch-up is difficult though, especially when it involves...

The Tommie Felon Show And Other Outrageous Stories by Colin Heston is a collection of short stories that is both entertaining and provocative. Consisting of twelve short stories, the first story is The Tommie Felon Show, which sets the tone of the material; engaging, hilarious,...

Ellen Sortell, a fifty-something socialite, lives a comfortable, yet unremarkable life in her condo in Florida. The adopted daughter of one of the wealthiest families in America, Ellen has never wanted for anything and spent most of her adult life as an artist in France,...

With her heart set on escaping her draining lifestyle for a few weeks, Dr. Jessica Atkins decides to stay at her vacation home in the quaint coastal town of Raven’s Nest. To her surprise, she finds herself face to face with four men seemingly misplaced...

“Sometimes you have to do crazy things to truly experience life.” The mantra of young adults who don’t yet know the fragility of life. As the story opens on a summer's day, we find ourselves in Snowdyn, North Dakota, riding along in an old yellow...

The Bucket by D.J. Cattrell is a short and magical story about a slightly snooty, but altogether kind-hearted young girl named Rachel. Rachel has a secret, a secret she does not even know she has. One day she stumbles upon a seemingly ordinary bucket, though...

If you are looking for a light easy read with lots of smiles, then you won’t go far wrong if you pick up Tie the Dingo Down, Mate!, written and illustrated by Nicole O’Connor. It tells the story of an Australian vet who goes to...

The Prison Book: Alcoholism/Addiction - A Life Sentence by Tamara Segars Ott is the story of an alcoholic who is stuck in the endless loop of a battle with her addiction and her need to recover. This is the story of Marley Thomson Marx, a...