Adventures with Divot & Swish in the Ozark Mountains by Beth Brown is a fun story about bike riding and adventuring! I loved how it encourages kids to get out there and explore the world while being physically active. I also loved the various plugs...

The legend of King Arthur continues to provide a delightful tale of life and adventure in a different era. In Guinevere, The Dragon Ring, a modern-day Guinevere visits the Glastonbury Tor on two separate but fateful occasions. As a child, she finds a bracelet adorned...

The 4C Heart: Curls, Kinks, and Knots of My Dry, Thirsty, Single Soul by Anna E Styron is a bold, brave, and sometimes confrontational personal story of the author’s journey as a woman. It opens by explaining the title. “Black hair, like the heart, can...

If ever a story and its author were worthy of the accolades it has received, it’s the memoir Strip by Hannah Sward. I have read dozens of memoirs, even written my own, based on early childhood abuse and its lifelong effects on the child, but...

My Father's Suitcase falls into the autobiography, family drama, and inspirational writing genres. It is best suited to adult readers and contains a discussion of abuse as well as other adult content and language. Penned by author Mary Garden, this gripping memoir delves into the...

A Trevott's Tale is a charming story about small people and their doings in a land named Trelandia. The tale starts by introducing some of the people and places of this world. It progresses to a particular young Trevott by the name of Waldon Woodott....

“The Golden Scarab: The Quest Series - Book 1” by S.W. Lothian shares the story of JJ, Linc, and Rani, as they are called back through time by Egyptian gods Anubis and Horus to recover a Golden Scarab containing the evil nature of the god...

“The Cursed Nile: Quest Two” by S.W. Lothian is the follow-up story to “Quest One: The Golden Scarab”, and is every bit as action-packed and thrill-filled as its predecessor. This author has blazed a new trail for writers of adventure fiction taking place in ancient...

"Riverside Tales: The Adventures of of Franky and Mousey" by Audrey Donoghue is a collection of 16 poems based on Frank the rat and Mousey the field mouse. The rhyming poems are amusing and full of fun and mirth. The bright and colorful illustrations is...

The Fallen Pharaoh by S.W. Lothian is the third book in this marvelous series, following The Golden Scarab (Book 1), and The Cursed Nile (Book 2). All three stories are good enough to stand alone, but they really are better read in order. Various references...

Birdbrain by Virginia Arthur is a sweeping semi-autobiographical chronicle (the author states in the foreword that many of the book’s events actually happened) of the life of a birder biologist/conservationist whose journey takes her to some of America’s most biologically diverse and unspoiled places. Protagonist...

Time Square/The Shift by S.W. Lothian is a fascinating story with a lot of suspense, mystery, and adventure. The story is set in the 1930s. Eva and Lewis Hudson disappear one fine morning along with their father. Their father, Rex Hudson, is a part-time archaeologist...

In Chances and Choices, Ann Omasta brings us two books that follow the complicated love story of Abigail Brown and two manly hunks, Sam and Seth. Abby is not your run-of-the-mill girl. She is 28 years old and is already divorced. Some bad decisions of...

Genetically Privileged - Redux by A.W. Daniels starts with an introduction to Joe and Mary Christianson, a childless couple who, like many couples unable to conceive naturally, are at a fertility clinic looking to science and modern medicine to conceive a child. So far, so...

Perseus by Simon Spence is a illustrated children's book about the story of Perseus, a Greek myth. Perseus' mother Danae is a princess, but is locked away by her father when a prophecy states that her son will cause great harm to the king. Although...

Have you ever had that kind of week where your (largely uninsured) home/business burns to the ground, your wife leaves you, and the IRS starts hounding you for back taxes? That’s the kind of week it’s been for Herodotus Shapiro. When he decides to escape...

Hayden and Briar meet in a most unlikely place to find love – a hospice center. Hayden Crewe is the pianist, singer and composer in the popular Australian rock band, Jackaroo. He receives a phone call that his mother, from whom he is estranged and...

Sister Superior’s Thumb, the Pope’s Ring and the End of Childhood by Robert McNally begins in 1946 when Robert is 14 years old. This is the second book of a trilogy by McNally that he calls The Memoir of a Boy on His Dangerous Journey....

Michael Pronko, a highly-accomplished author already, offers up a truly stellar performance in this debut mystery-series novel, The Last Train. Set in modern day Tokyo, a literary hologram for the enticingly complex and still largely inaccessible – to foreigners – Japan, about which Pronko is...

White Plains by Rebecca Perkin is a good fantasy tale for young adult readers. I like stories where someone from our version of Earth is taken to another world. The connection to our place and time makes the protagonist’s actions and reactions understandable, but the...