David Longstreet, a young and idealistic school teacher from New Hampshire, is drawn into the battles of the Civil War when Volunteer Regiments of his state are called to war. He is attracted to neighbor Sarah but must leave his life behind as he endures...

What an intriguing book for young adults! In "I Hunt Killers," Barry Lyga has offered high school students all they could have hoped for. There is the son of a serial killer who has nightmares of becoming just like his father and a shaky identity...

Coach Ken Carter made headlines around the world when he locked his Richmond, California High School basketball team out of the gym because some of the players had not honored the contract they had signed with him, in which they agreed to keep a 2.3...

Pamela Wells loves her job as a wildlife rehabber, but she has a special reason for opening up her rehab for wild animals. After being diagnosed with Lupus, her lawyer husband decides he needs a wife who could help him, not someone with a life...

"Betrayal of Trust" is a very interesting book that has a unique mystery story. We have a murder, that of a young girl that isn't a murder, then it is a murder. A suicide in the Governor's Mansion is the next. Our detectives are Beaumont...

The moment I saw the cover of "Future Tense" by Eddie Upnick I knew I had to read this book. The cover alone teases the reader with shades of muted green, the hint of a bright light and a not quite human looking figure standing...

"Lap-Band For Life: The Complete Patient Guide to Success with the Lap-Band" by Aril Ortiz Lagardere MD FACS is a must read book if you are considering lap-band surgery as a means of weight loss. Over the last few years I have packed on the...

Marilyn Brown offers readers a fictional account of the Prophet Jeremiah based on scripture. The author has naturally taken creative license to fill in the personal life of the man. The title of the book is "Fires of Jerusalem". Jeremiah was known as the weeping...

How many times have you wanted to find the right words to say to someone special but they just wouldn’t come to you? Well, I might have just what you are looking for. In his book, “Wonders,” Kevin Hollingsworth pens a collection of literary prose...

In "Charlie's Hoot", author H. Trussell Pyle introduces us to Charlie, a teenage boy with a man-sized brain which he directs towards computer espionage. Charlie is in the game for excitement and money. He is supported by his mother who works at the Dairy Queen...

Logan Thibault, a US Marine, is in Iraq for his 3rd tour of duty. On one of his rounds he happens upon a picture of a pretty girl half hidden in the sandy dirt. The woman in the picture intrigues him! Should he toss...

He lives on the edge. She walks the straight and narrow. His life is an open book. She keeps her secrets close. He is secure in his public image. She lives in the shadow of her perfect sister. Danny and Lauren are both trying to...

"It's Our Prom" offers a delightful and well-written look at teens and their world of friends, school, and, yes, proms. Azure, Radhika, and Luke have been friends for a long time and now are in high school together. Azure is lesbian and Luke is certain...

Shelby Crewe's mother dies tragically of breast cancer which has traumatized both Shelby and her father as death frequently does. But before she dies, Shelby's mother makes Shelby promise that 1) She must listen to her father, 2) She must love as much as possible,...

"Of Tapestry, Time and Tears" is the story of a news reporter and war correspondent Edwina Kleberg that will hold the reader's attention through every page as Edwina's life unfolds. Edwina's father, Joseph, loses both parents in devastating storms in Texas decades after the Civil...

The New World is filled with tribulation, fear and The One Who Is The One. Two siblings, one a witch and the other a wizard, find their purpose as they battle the darkness, growing increasingly aware of the powers they have been given and the...

Odete Martins Bigote is very learned and knows what she is writing about when she quotes from Stephen Hawking, William Shakespeare, and most especially, the Holy Bible. In "Before the World Began: The Point of the Encounter of Love and Science", she states that we,...

Congrats to 10 year old Jesse Dowell, the author of this children’s book, and to his parents as well, who have inspired his love of books and the desire to write at such a young age. I didn’t realize this book was written by a...

Life is never exciting enough for fourteen-year-old Bobby Irukurehc. Part of Bobby’s problem is that his life is already mapped out for him: prep school, Harvard, and then joining the family law firm. Bobby wants something more, something of his own choice. The family is...

Wei, central character in "A Touch of Cold", has gone to medical school in China, but her older brother, Gun, is incurably ill and Wei has tried everything, even Japanese acupuncture dano-kyu, to cure him but Gun never responds. Their father, Wang, is an archeologist...