Rise From The Ashes by Joana James is a two part series that will tug at the readers heart. It is the story of a mother who turns to alcohol, drugs and prostitution in order to deal with the deaths of her husband and her...

Lore: East and Eight is the sequel to Lore: A Pirate's Charm which should be read prior to taking on this selection. When he was a teenager, Thomas was a slave to sea captain, Marcos Lapuente, and in spare moments, read up on magical lore...

There are all types of programs that deal with alcohol consumption: AA, Celebrate Recovery, and The Last Call are just a few of them. In Moderate Drinking Made Easy Workbook, Donna Cornett takes a different, yet unique, approach. She offers readers a workbook to help...

Both of my parents are from Detroit, and I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, so I have a great deal of fondness for the Great Lakes and their beauty. When I first heard about A 1000 Mile Walk on the Beach, it sounded like a...

Anatomy of a Kidnapping; A Doctor's Story is a perfect title for this book, as its author, Steven L. Berk is a physician who responded to the events of March 6, 2005, with the instincts and skills he had honed in his many years of...

The two children who witnessed their mother’s death were sent to live with their aunt. The trauma left them emotionally scared. Their Aunt Luce lived in an isolated cabin deep in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. I have never read a Charles Frazier...

Hannah’s Prayer by J. William Caswell is based on historical fact. The setting is the City of Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, August, 1775. Johnny Dyre was a blacksmith at the time of great unrest in the colonies. He had no desire...

. I don’t normally give 5 stars. When I do, it’s because the book blew me away. Such a book has great, fully fleshed out characters that become as real as my next door neighbor; it keeps me hooked with an intriguing plot that flows...

In The Technologists, author Matthew Pearl has brilliantly portrayed the first precarious years in the development and survival of the Massachesetts Institute of Technology. It is 1868, and MIT is to graduate its first class. And then, frightening things begin to happen in the city...

This book is definitely intended for little girls, with the use of colors like pink, purple, yellow, and light green looming out from the cover illustrations. The illustrator, Julie Ross, created a dreamy image of a little girl lost in imagination. Each image matches the...

Only 22 pages into reading the book, author Brenda Bence already had me hooked. She challenged the reader to set a time for three minutes, and within that time frame, to write down everything you can think of that you CANNOT do with a paperclip....

Jacob Reckless has been fascinated by his father's study with the mirror that says, "The mirror will only open for he who cannot see himself." Jacob has crept through that mirror by himself into an alternative world, but this one time that he uses the...

Paul, known to many who have read the Bible, may remember him as an unsavory character; this book brings a refreshing new point of view to change that thought process. Through the informative and mood-setting foreword and subsequent chapters, the readers are given scripture and...

Diane Dettmann writes of her long-lasting grief at the death of her first husband, John Hohl, after twenty-eight years of marriage. John and Diane never parented children, but their marriage was a testimonial to two people bonding together completely and the devastation that the surviving...

Parents, relatives and neighbors looking for a nice, affordable gift for a child will love The Snowman's Revenge. With colorful, full-page illustrations and a rhyming scheme that will bring Dr. Seuss to mind, Mark Smythe brings to life this early grade school story of a...

In the fairy kingdom of Solandia, Queen Magenta and King Godfred punish the king's brother, Prince Thorkel, for attempting to steal the sun orb which gives power to the entire kingdom from the sun. Years pass, Thorkel's survival is unknown, and Queen Magenta gives birth...

"Imagine what the world would be like if each person had the opportunity to develop their gifts and turn their gifts and passion into profit." This quote from The Parents' Guide to Raising CEO Kids sets the foundation for what the book will build upon....

The Great Bellybutton Cover-up is a delightful children’s book written by Susan Ross. Violet is a beautiful and wooly sheep who wins first place at the County Fair in the sheep beauty pageant. She is devastated when Farmer Shepherd sheers her glamorous wool coat leaving...

Echo of Souls is the perfect book for this season of Halloween. Ronni Parker taking a leave from her company, has driven hundreds of miles across Florida to find her inheritance, a cabin nestled on Paloma Road in the backwoods land next to the Suwannee...

Froggy Boots Go With Everything is a creative and fun children’s book written by Jill Zabkar Martin and illustrated by Kristen Gaede Van Mourick. A young boy just loves his froggy boots and is proud to wear them everywhere he goes. He has adventures in...