Hacking Kickstarter, Indiegogo: How to Raise Big Bucks in 30 Days by Patrice Williams Marks comes with a warning: Do not launch your crowd-funding project before reading this book. No one should entertain the notion of funding a project with any crowd-funding group before they...

A Meeting of Clans by Kathleen Flanagan Rollins intrigued me all the way through. This fictional fantasy takes place 14,000 years ago and explores the migration of a small group of people who, for one reason or another, either have been exiled from their homeland,...

The Memory Keeper is a historical novel written by Larry K. Collins and Lorna Collins. It is the story of Tomas Romero, a Native American who was born in 1820 and spent his life in the San Juan Capistrano area. The reader first learns of...

The Queen's Spy by Ruth S. Daigneault is a romantic novel set in England before, during and after the historical event of the Spanish Armada. The backdrop of the story covers a period when the country saw a lot of unrest and there was much...

Objective: Freedom by James Huber raises the fascinating possibility of a modern-day secession of several states from the United States of America. After years of growing disenchantment with federal policies, mandates and usurping of states’ rights, a coalition of states in the southwest publicly announced...

The Trip Into Milky Way, a historical coming of age story set during the late sixties and early seventies, is written by Gary Paul Corcoran. Clay is precipitously bounced out into the world when he decides to buck authority one day and wear moccasins without...

Cold Blood: The Antarctic Murders Trilogy by Theodore Jerome Cohen is a spellbinding thriller of subterfuge, murder, deception and betrayal spanning the globe. From the ice-veiled waters off the Antarctic shores, to Chile, Brazil and Europe, Captain Mateo Valderas of the Chilean Navy has spent...

O’er the Ramparts by Nancy Foshee is a fascinating insight into the troubled times when America was emerging as a free, independent country, striving to take its rightful place in the community of nations. The known world had hitherto been dominated by the great sea...

The Mind's Eye is a young adult historical, coming of age novel written by K.C. Finn. It's set during WWII. Fifteen-year-old Kit Cavendish and her younger brother, Leighton, are on their way to Wales when we first meet them. They're part of a massive evacuation...

Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music is as raucous and ebullient as its title implies. The cast of characters is a hardscrabble, resilient and eccentric never-say-die cast including Blanche, a French dance hall girl not entirely above selling her favors, a cross-dressing frog catcher named Jenny (hence,...