In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt sent a large group of officials on a diplomatic mission to Hawaii, Japan, Philippines, China and Korea. With Roosevelt’s approval Secretary of War, William Howard Taft made a series of secret agreements with the Asians. The agreements were unconstitutional. Alice...

By his own admission Dr.John Telford is a great man. He believed that he knew what was wrong with education and it motivated him to find ways to correct its problems – especially as it pertained to his black students. He was successful at every...

Peter McFadden is an unemployed computer graphics designer. Peter is a very cynical man. He  invents a “fortune telling” machine and calls it, Horokinetics. He never expects anyone to take it seriously. He is surprised when Horokinetics becomes the next fad. He is the latest...

Seventeen year old Maggie Hagger expects the Virginia Colony to be a paradise. She was indentured to John White for four years. He paid sixteen dollars for her to care for his pregnant daughter. The land was not the paradise she expected. There were savages,...

Mary Dixon is a talented poet. Her words grace the pages of her book. Through Eyes Of Faith. She successfully expresses her faith in a way I cannot. The first poem in her book is my favorite, Can You Imagine? The poem asks us to...

Star Over Askar begins with Richard Campbell receiving a telegram. The message brought fear. His daughter Lillian had a sense of adventure. She had insisted on teaching in the Middle East. He had helped her find a job. She was in trouble. Lillian was missing....

Many women face breast cancer. Kimberly Fairchild was only thirty-five years old when she was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. I’d Give My Left Boob For That…Oh, Wait, I Already Did is her story, her pain, emotions, struggle and triumph. She offers readers a very...

Jill DeSena-Shook offers readers an honest and humorous look at the job seeker, employers, and recently hired employees. She stresses the need to be prepared before the interview. Research the company. Collect business cards and social network. Be willing to gain experience, you weren’t born...

Sue’s Nightmare by Dean Roberts reminded me that ultimately we are responsible for our health and medical treatment. While I know that doctors and other medical personnel are mere humans, they sometimes forget that fact. In their arrogance they forget they are treating a fellow...

Garret was only five years old when his way of life was completely altered. A freak accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. While he lost all use of his limbs and could not breathe on his own, his mind was unaffected. Dr. Karen...

Long ago the world was turned upside down. The sun shined all night and the stars all day. Rain fell upward from the ground to the sky. Sam knew something had to be done. He though hard to form a plan on how to make...

Hot Issues, Cool Choices: Facing Bullies, Peer Pressure, Popularity, and Put-Downs is filled with short stories that 10-15 year olds will relate to. The stories are easy to read and very interesting. Each scenario is followed by a few questions to ponder on and a...

This is the second book in this series. It continues where Dyad Dreams left off except in this installment Jude and Aiden are the lead characters. The Dyads were part of a race of Diarchy. They mixed with the human race to assist in pollution...

Michael Deeb shares his walk with Christ with readers. One of the things that jumped out to me was the way the Deeb’s turned to God in prayer. They specifically prayed for a house. They not only prayed for Mike’s family, Mike asked God specific...

George-Ann has lived under her father’s control all of her seventeen years. She is not allowed to socialize with friends. She was forced to live a life of perfect or at least what her father considered perfection. She had no identity other than the one...

Gary R. Ryan is brutally honest in his autobiography Blessings In Disguise. He states that his childhood was not the stuff of which fairytales are made. I suggest he look at more fairytales. They usually have a wicked stepmother. All he need do is insert...

Overseer’s Island has an unlikely hero. Jack Murphy is a down on his luck alcoholic in a dead end job. Carl Langum is Jack’s elderly neighbor and only friend. Jack has dreams, more like nightmares. He dreams of his own death. Over and over again...

Jeremy Barandela takes readers on a medieval fantasy adventure in his latest book Dawn of Darkness. Zar Khan and his demons have been released from the underworld. The Collective, deceived by Khan, are released from one curse only to be placed under a different one. He...

Sir Walter Scott was just a child sitting at the knee of his grandmother listening intently as his she and his Aunt Jenny told the tale of Robert Bruce’s efforts to win Scotland’s freedom from England in 1314. Years later Scott would retell the story...

Author Ruby Dominguez offers readers a tale surrounding the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Claddagh rings. Hundreds of Irish Claddagh rings are found in the collapsed World Trade Center. Dominguez brings the history of the legend of the ring to life. The legend...