The Creation: A Letter by Donald Jordan is written for his grandchildren. It's part memoir and part advice, with a bit of warning thrown in...something every grandfather should take the time to write for his grandchildren. There are many great lines in this book, but...

Norm Cowie has a wicked sense of humor! Just the title of this book is enough to make you think, "Wink, Wink! Say no more!" If you think of The Flintstones for world-weary grown-ups, then you have the essence of this crazy little book. It...

We're Not Leaving, 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice, and Renewal comprises 125 interviews with First Responders who rushed to help after the horrific attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2011. In the three hundred pages of this book, NYPD...

Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson, Laura Park, Bryan Kennedy and Chris Tebbetts is a funny look at life in those painful formative years. The story revolves around Rafe Khatchadorian. He begins the new year with a quiet attitude, but...

Achala Kshirsagar shares her heritage as well as her knowledge and passion for cooking in her cookbook, Smorgasbord of Indian Recipes. She has complied a large amount of Indian recipes for anyone and everyone to try and enjoy. Split into various sections, the recipes...

Tamed by a Highlander is set in those historic years in England's history when King James is about to be crowned while his nephew, William, waits in the wings for his own turn to govern. Connor Grant left his Scottish Highland home and lovely Mairi...

Lady Julianne Gatewick is horrified as her brother, Tristan, involved with the birth of his first child, selects as her guardian the notorious Marc Darcet, Earl of Hawkfield, better known as "Hawk." Hawk's guardianship will be overseen by his much married Aunt Hester who doesn't...

The Rise of the Einix is a story of fraternal twins, a young woman and a young man, who are very different from everyone else. Trixie Smith and her brother, Einar, are thirty years old and have been sheltered and practically imprisoned in their home...

The Man who Lived in an Eggcup chronicles a collection of a physician's experiences from med school through the final decade of his accomplished career. Gamel, an ophthalmologist, takes us inside the mind and the heart of the physician as he learns his craft. There...

In Fever Dream, Pendergast discovered that his wife was murdered. Twelve years previously someone had tampered with her gun when she and Pendergast were hunting a lion. The lion attacked her and pulled her body off. Pendergast dearly loved Helen. He was devastated at...

Author Jane Congdon is a devoted fan of the Christopher Lee Dracula movies. As a teenager in the 1950's she loved going to the movie theater in her West Virginia hometown to watch the tall, elegant actor play Count Dracula. It was a welcome escape...

Robert Dell is an out-of-work journalist living in South Africa. His father, ex-CIA agent and general mercenary Bobby Goodbread, has just been released from jail after serving less than the life term he was given for murder and mayhem committed during South Africa’s struggle against...

Annie Cleaving's mother has died, and her young son, Ethan, has been killed in an automobile accident by the drunken youngest son of the town sheriff. Annie is grieving deeply, so she quits her job and sells her family home in Kentucky. She doesn't want...

Brilliant, eccentric, and charming are just a few words that begin to describe Romanian immigrant and educator Dr. Edward Theodoru,Ph. D., otherwise known as Ed, the man author Marie Marley calls her best friend and the love of her life. "Ed and I were lovers...

Birdie’s Big-Girl Dress is a delightfully written children’s book by Sujean Rim. Birdie’s birthday party is tomorrow, and she is so thrilled about her big party; but when she tries on her favorite party dress, she finds it is too small for her. Birdie’s mom...

This book does exactly what the author felt challenged to do; it explains the idea of cultivation of new generations of deepening people who will rise to positions of influence in and beyond their congregation. Author Gordon McDonald presents some wonderful examples of this challenge...

Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank Is the story of two people deeply in love but separated by a tragic event in their past. Twenty years ago Betts McGee left Charleston and took a secret with her; she never intended to return. That all changed...

Dan Simmons offers readers a thriller in flashback. The story follows Nick Bottom as he investigates the death of a government adviser. Neither the police, nor the security team, solved the murder. Nick investigated the murder as a police officer. Now five years later, the...

Lin and Larry Pardey lived an adventurous, free gypsy life on the seas for over a decade before deciding to build a new yacht and focus on writing. Their decision to move to a friend's stone house in Bull Canyon, a desolate place without power...

This is one of the most charming books I have read for a while. It has a Halloween-y feel to it and kids from 7 years old on will love it. It is written in an easy English, lightly witty and flowingly well done. It...