Raul Ramos y Sanchez set his debut novel American Libre in the near future. A young Latina youth was shot and killed. The Latinas were rioting in the streets. The National Guard was called into keep peace. The result, twenty three...

Dao is one of ten children. She wants to go to boarding school in hopes of someday living in a country where she will have freedom from responsibility to her family. She goes to school and finally makes it to America only to discover that...

As a young girl growing I always looked forward to Saturdays. We would spend the day in town with my grandmother. She would give me a little money and I would head up the block to the drug store to buy a comic...

Steven Knutson admits he’s growing older but not growing up.  He has a positive outlook on life. When I pick up a book by Steven A. Knutson I always know I will be entertained.  I’m never sure what genre his books belong in.  His...

Daniel is not your ordinary teen.  He can create friends and family with a simple thought.   When he wants them to leave he flicks his hand and they are gone.  The hand movement isn’t necessary but looks cool.  His finger acts as a type of...

Daniel is not your ordinary teen.  He can create friends and family with a simple thought.   When he wants them to leave he flicks his hand and they are gone.  The hand movement isn’t necessary but looks cool.  His finger acts as a type of...

Mike Carey offers readers a thriller. His lead characters is Felix Fix Castor. Castor is an exorcist. The Londoner uses music to fight the forces of evil. In Dead Man’s Boots he is working on two cases. The court orders Fix’s...

In Alex Cross’s Trial, Alex is writing a book.  It is the story that has been handed down in his family.  Abraham  was his great uncle.  President Roosevelt sent Benjamin Corbit on a mission.  He was to return to his home town of Eudora, Mississippi...

For my dissertation and intellectual curiosity I read many doctoral dissertations for education and psychology. Many appeared to be much ado about very little.  So, I was pleasantly surprised reading Dr. Karen Dotson’s, “An Educational Applied Dissertation Model.” It was well designed and executed and it...

Danny Boy Cadogan was large for his age. At thirteen he beat up his father. At fourteen his father abandoned the family and Danny took over the role of provider. Danny never intended to follow in the violent footsteps of his father....

Galaxies will make you think. The author offers ideas that may surprise you. Topics he covers include matter, light, time and aging. He challenges well known and accepted theories. Galaxies is a small book with a cover that hints at the great wisdom one will...

Brenna Jacobson, aka, B J has saved all year to be able to take her Appaloosa stallion, Cloud on the trail ride in Colorado, only to get there and find out she is not allowed to ride a stallion.  After much discussion she was allowed...

In a galaxy far away, Tempus spins on its` axis and good and evil are at war;isn`t that the way of any world ,real or imagined. The king quietly gathers a rag-tag team to fight the evil Lord Vlad and his army of demons,orcs, giants,...

Meet the ladies of the Sweetgum Knit Lit Society: Eugenie is the pastor’s wife, librarian and the leader, Camille is in her 20s, Hannah is the youngest at 15, Merry is a wife and mother, Esther is a widow facing financial hardships and...

Have you ever known anyone with dyslexia?  Or perhaps you have some form of a reading problem?  Then you understand the pain of children like Charlie.  The pain often gets worse as they get older.  I recently spoke with a woman whose husband cannot read. ...

Ten scrolls are found hidden under a 5000 year old South American Temple. When they are translated they tell the story of Ammon. He was killed in a bombing, but returns to life with unusual powers. We journey with him as he searches for the...

This is a saga about a boy in the 1940's trying to become a man.  Jaycee is sixteen years old.  His parents are divorced and he struggles in school with his studies and fitting in.  He is just trying to find his place in the...

The Network is a covert organization that deals with crime in a way that law enforcement cannot. The people who work for the Network never retire; they die. The Network does not allow personal relationships; complete loyalty must be given to the organization. The Network...

Paige Alexander, who has a black belt in Judo is the owner of Black Belt to Go. Dean Porter, ex-football heart throb, King of Commercials and owner of hotels up and down the East Coast, always seems to have a beautiful blonde on his arm. When a would...

The setting is the 1930s in Pope County, Kentucky. Olivia Harker Cross lives on a mountain in Pope County, Kentucky.  She is a hard worker with a lot of responsibility.  She is raising her grandson Will'm, and taking care of her mentally ill mother.  Her father...