Dick Weiner’s Caribbean Christmas: An Overstuffed Sequel by author Luther Banks is an out and out farce designed to make us laugh out loud. This is the second iteration of the Dick Weiner story and although I have yet to read the first, I can...

Twelfth Grade Hopes and Fears: American High School, #4 is a coming of age novel for young and new adults written by Bruce Ingram. While this is the fourth book in Ingram’s series, he provides enough background information to allow this book to be read...

In Remembering Green: An Ojibwe Girl's Tale by Lisa Gammon Olson, Wenonah was racing through the forest, calling for her great-grandfather, and she finally found him sleeping under a majestic oak tree. Wenonah's grandfather was the eldest member of the Lac du Flambeau tribe in...

Finding Fate is the first entry in the Tied by Fate Series by Keelan Storm, a coming-of-age, young adult romance with unforgettable characters. Tucker Patterson has lived all his life in the beachside community where he’s developed a relationship with Isabel “Izzy” Dearly. He’s never...

Low Reign by Mario D. King is a coming of age story of two boys as they try to find a way to chase their dreams while making sense of their reality. LJ and Bee are two friends on the brink of adulthood. The boys...

"It vanished as if a wave of invisibility had washed over the object - beginning from the satellite's north polar region, through its equator, and eventually swallowing the celestial body's southern pole. The Moon was gone! It had faded away into obscurity right in front...

When a friend vanishes in mysterious circumstances, three YA brothers fly to the Navajo Reservation to find him in the exciting suspense novel, Betrayed by Joseph Lewis. George's friend Rebecca calls him from his hometown to tell him someone has killed some of her family's...

Aftermath: A Novel by John Reizer is the story of a man as he tries to make sense of the chaos around him. A graduate from the University of South Caroline, Kyle Wilson was a self-employed computer entrepreneur. It was close to Christmas when everything...

Rowan has been drinking himself into a haze for the past few years. He knows he hasn't always been this way. He knows something happened that made him this way, but, for some reason, he can't remember what it is. Then there are the strange...

Cooking for Cannibals by Rich Leder is a horror-comedy novel that revolves around an introverted scientist, Carrie Kromer, and a freshly paroled expert meat butcher looking to parlay his skills into a new career as a chef. When Carrie steals the recipe for an age-defying...

My Name is Sam...And Heaven is Still Shining Through by Joe Siccardi is a moving fictional memoir about friendship, love, family, and faith. As four friends move into their adult years, their paths begin to part. One of the friends, Samantha (Sam) meets a shy...

One Hot Escape: Hot Brits, Book 4 is a sizzling contemporary romance novel written by Anna Durand. Maddie couldn’t deny that she needed a rest, a vacation, and the island resort Rika and her husband had sent her to seemed the perfect venue. She had...

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: A Memoir of One Citizen Activist by Lois Nicolai is a call to action to everyone who cares about our planet and the damage we are doing, especially as it relates to nuclear power and nuclear weapon proliferation. Lois Nicolai was...

Watching a loved one struggle with memory issues is difficult. It takes a kind, patient person like Silvie to help. But, as the anger surfaces along with the confusion from lost memories, it makes the caring task more than just difficult. Silvie is very patient...

Veggie Adventures: Mr. Broccoli by Natasha Mills is filled with fun and essential knowledge. Illustrated by Ramile Imac, this book is visual and will appeal to children between the ages of two and five. Baby Jacob is a victim of bullying at school because he’s...

A woman boxer? Nowadays, it may not be something to be surprised about, but in the eighteenth century? Gasp! How unladylike. In A Lady’s Revenge by Edie Cay, Lady Lydia Somerset is just that, though only a select few know why. Even fewer understand the...

Anthracite Boot Camp by Louis Ronald Scatena is the story of the author's father, Pete Scatena, and his mother Caroline, and about anthracite mining along the mountainsides where the coal seams slant upwards. This is also the true story about men struggling in a black...

The award-winning Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging by Julie Ryan McGue is a compelling, poignant memoir about the search for truth and belonging. The premise is right out of a Lifetime movie. The author is a twin who is adopted,...

After losing his wife and unborn child in a siege, Shindara attempts to guide his wife’s spirit to the next realm by meddling with a force he doesn't understand: the Yomi, the world of darkness. Consequently, he begins to fade away while his soul is...

Where Eagles Never Flew by Helena P. Schrader is a tremendously moving tale of human conflict, be it struggles within individuals coming to terms with their mortality or sweeping battles across nations driven by territorial prerequisites. Told chronologically from the battle for France through to...