When things get tough, we all look for something or someone to lean on; some turn to booze, drugs or money while others discover that family and friends are best to hold them up. Jevon E. Thompson tells the story of a family struggling to...

Previously Loved Treasures by Bette Lee Crosby is a heartwarming fiction story, book two of the Serendipity Series, about protagonist Ida Sweetwater, a recent widow. Left alone with little money and forced to come up with creative ways to finance the professional services of a...

Crimes of a Guilty Land by Brooke Stewart follows two families - the Harts and Beauchamps - through the years of the 19th century. We first start with them in 1825 with Robert Hart. Years down the line, just before the Civil War breaks out,...

Alana Terry writes a riveting story about the cost of professing Christianity in a society that rejects the existence of God. Brave young Chung-Cha endured the unimaginable trauma that comes from being dragged out of one’s home in the middle of the night and being...

I just completed one of the most engaging reads of recent months: Long Live the Suicide King by Aaron Michael Ritchey. It opens with 17-year-old JD, who is troubled by an event that transpired just days prior while with his friends and under the influence...

A-M-I-L-O-U ... and That Who Is: Observe, Recall, and Reflect Book by October Wind and Carolina Son is an inspirational story that speaks about self discovery and capturing the spirit of our inner self. Amilou is an intuitive girl who can see the aura around...

Every so often, there are books that grab you at the beginning and hold you spellbound to the finish. The Legacy Letters by Carew Papritz is such a novel. A man and a woman have a misunderstanding and the man goes his separate way, uninformed...

The Great Hawk, written by Karl F. Hollenbach, is a short story about Jimmy, a little boy living in the time of the Great Depression and his dreams and desires of training a hawk. The story begins by describing Jimmy’s journey to his grandparents’ house...

When we meet Jackie for the first time, we encounter a third-grader who is abused by his father and tormented by his classmates. Diagnosed with Autism, Jackie does not fit into the world correctly and is ultimately pulled out of school to be educated at...

Lemonade Revealed by Will Chluho is a somewhat ground-breaking novel for those wanting a personal philosophical study without spending classroom time. Initially, a boy is discovered unconscious on a Pacific Island beach and when he awakens, he is startled to find three entities attempting to...