Hannah Sampson is a near normal, adolescent who dreams of breaking the ties with her barely functional family, at least geographically. She is smart, admittedly cute, has a small circle of friends (none of whom have ever visited her home) but she lacks a boyfriend...

"The Life of Vanora Brice" is the first book in a series entitled "The Life, Death and Resurrection of Vanora Brice" by Gordon Rice. The stated intent of the author was to make a book without time. In other words, he wants to develop a...

The story is set in Briarswood Cottage. Buster is the mogfather and Aslana, the surrogate mother. The scene opens with the cats waiting eagerly for the arrival of a new kitten. The initial chapters deal with the day-to-day lives of the cats in the cat...

The year is 1999 and the place is Egdon, New York, a rural town northwest of New York City. "The Rules of Dreaming" unravels in Palmer Institute, a private psychiatric hospital located around fifty miles north of Egdon. This is a place for the criminally...

"Freeheads" is the third book in 'The Dark Trench Saga'. I definitely recommend reading these books in order. "Freeheads" takes place in a society where some people are implanted with a sensor making it almost impossible for them to disobey a command. Tthey have instant...

Who knew that wildfires have personalities or that they like to play "Russian Roulette?" Who can imagine the power of an updraft, twenty thousand feet high or a heat generated in excess of thirteen hundred degrees? In the riveting read "One Foot in the Black",...

As the title suggests, "12 Anecdotes About Life" is an anthology consisting of twelve short stories that are designed to impart one lesson or another in life. The stories include 'Share and Have Some Chocolates', 'Money Can't Buy Everything', 'To Be Humane', 'Bonds with Animals',...

"Tristan Wolf is unlike most children's books. This is an enjoyable story about a little boy named Tristan who loves to daydream. Tristan is a boy who obviously feels a little different from his family, and he expresses this through his daydreams. The story line...

"The Absent Woman" is the story of a woman's journey to find herself. Virginia Johnstone seems to have it all: a beautiful family, a job and a comfortable life in Seattle. She is, however, bored with her life and the urge to give it a...

"A Sealed Fate” by Lisa Gordon is the kind of book that grabs your attention from the first page and never lets go. Valda, a 30-year-old, beautiful, educated brunette is healing from a dramatic break up from her seven-year relationship with Roger. She ditches her...