I’m so glad I met Margaret Eleanor Leigh. No, not in person…in her book, Everything Will Be Just Perfect! What a character she is! She couldn’t be more interesting if she had created herself for a fiction book. But Everything Will Be Just Perfect! isn’t...

An Abduction Revelation: The Comeback Kid Returns by Thomas Hay is an entertaining story about the life of the comeback kid, told in vignettes broken up and scattered throughout the history of this man, as well as songs reflecting the time and theme of the...

The Color of Character by accomplished author Glen Shuld is a gem in the history of a certain part of the 20th century, one that everyone around the world has come to recognize as very important in the integration process of schools in the 1960s...

When an author claims that his or her book is funny, inwardly my eyes are rolling. Most people don't have the chops to be either stand-up comics or humorous authors. I am amazed and delighted to introduce readers to Vicki Lesage and her collection of...

In a truly lovely story of the power of the human/animal connection, The Story of Figaro: The Story of My Real Black Stallion by author Laura Luszczek is a wonderful telling of a story that will, in turns, have readers laughing, crying, and with hearts...

Five Hours, penned by Lucinda Weatherby, is an in-depth and revealing account of how the birth of Theo, the writer’s son, changed her perception of life and death. It is a well written memoir which describes the lives of Lucinda and her husband who have...

Mother, Can You Hear Me? A Mother/Daughter Story by Joy Ross Davis is a heartfelt book that reflects on the author’s experiences, emotions, and coping mechanisms during the time when she took care of her aging mother. Mrs. Frawley was a woman of great inner...

Adam MacDonnel is a social worker who tries his best to do good. He deals with a very troubled young boy, Dylan, who goes through several foster homes until he is eventually adopted aged five. He then leaves his position and life moves on. Ten...

Running from the Mirror by Howard Shulman is a memoir about Shulman’s life. When Shulman was just a newborn baby, he contracted a staph infection that ate his face off. His parents did not want to deal with a child that had so many health...

Wow! Just wow! How's that for a review? Well, that's what I found myself saying as I finished the last page of author Lisa Carlson's book, Bait and Switch: Life with a Two-Faced Narcissist. A true life story so interesting that it reads like fiction,...