There's a new guy in town, and he's a musician. Author Colin Meloy has written a wonderful debut novel entitled Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I. The best part of the title is that there is a promise of more to come! Eleven-year-old Prue McKeel...

Red White and Boom by Karl Puttlitz is a novel dealing with espionage, terrorists and murder. With stockpiles of highly enriched uranium scattered over more than 30 nations abroad, Russia has enough to create a vast supply of nuclear bombs. When a theft of plutonium...

Throughout his teenage years, Native American Fred was one of those guys who was always playing pranks on his friends and classmates. In their little town of Granite Falls, everyone knew everyone else and of course their business, too. Jobs were in the logging industry,...

The House by Anjuelle Floyd is about Anna Manning who stayed with her husband for thirty-five years, through the birth of their four children, and now all she wants is to be free...free from the years of infidelity, the years of spending weeks on end...

A movie buff's must have, It Came From the ‘70s is a book you have been waiting for. With over 45 movies produced in the 1970's, this book is one you will cherish for years to come. The ‘70s era brought such films as Rocky,...

Fishing North Carolina is a guide consisting of a culmination of many years of background research and on-the-water personal fishing experience of the author, Mike Marsh. The guide is broken down into the following sections: Introduction, telling how to use this guide, the weather conditions...

Jack Scott, not always a happy private detective, would prefer to be at home in the north of Wales making his miniature toy soldiers. However, Jack and his love interest/partner, Sian Laidlaw, are now located on Gibraltar and are faced with Jack's younger brother Tim...

Tribulation Point by Ricci Lane reminds us that, ”Sometimes Just Making It Through Another Day Isn't Always Easy.” This is the story of Precious Evergreen, named for the orphanage where she was raised, and her son James Anthony Blackmon. Abandoned at birth on the steps...

The Wise Man's Fear began in an inn where Kvothe, the owner, was dictating his story to Chronicler. Kvothe’s story moves back in time to his days at the university and then progresses to his adventures tracking bandits. The summary may seem vague but I’m trying...

Lady Katharine Kirby has been sent to marry Lord Philip Charlesworth, the person she had been arranged to marry as a child. After the death of her father, her uncle took over the family estate and decided that either Katharine would marry Philip or she...

Life In Retirement By Ike Moran is his Tenth Group of Assignments Book. Ike, who has been the hero throughout this series, is ready to go into retirement. After years of cleaning out the underworld of druggies, the mafia, and all the villainous thugs, he...

Secrets of the Vine for Women by Darlene Marie Wilkinson is a very small book based on John 15 where Jesus uses the vineyard analogy to bring Christians to spiritual abundance. The book, which is close to the version written by her husband called Secrets...

Main character Lauren Vancouver, who heads HotRescues, a private pet shelter funded by wealthy business man Dante DeFrancisco, is visiting a puppy-mill and rescues four beagle puppies who have been stuffed down a drain pipe. At this same substandard facility, Lauren also meets up with...

Bernadette "Bernie" Hogan is one tough lady. Ex-military, excellent marksman, and martial arts expert, she works as a private security guard to self-made millionaire playboy Jeremy Bridges. She is totally in control, alert, and analytical, until one night when she notices that Jeremy's "bimbo" of...

Carolyn Moncel is a wonderful author. I like the development of the characters and the way they blended into the plot. This is not Ellery and Julien Roulet's first appearance, though. I was a little confused on that aspect at first, but once I pushed...

Easy Money by Daryl Moore is the story of two teenage age boys who want to make extra money for the summer before heading off to college. Best friends Skip and Greg are both tired of being broke all the time. Even though Greg has...

Dust On His Soul by Jason Blacker is a very deeply written book and, although fictional, is inspired by the life of Stephen Bilko and the African National Congress (ANC). Many African men joined what is Africa’s left wing political party. The story starts out...

Local Tribes by Thomas Hansen Hichenbottom has a surfer on the cover, and this might discourage some potential readers from opening the cover. That would be a mistake. As the story begins, Santa Cruz native, Marco D'Giorgio, finds himself graduated from high school without any...

In The Victory Dance, author Nancy Pristine advocates that with certain mental exercises, anyone can put him/herself in the winner's circle, be it in a sporting event or in life in general. In order to engage in entering into a victory dance, the reader must...

Keeper of the Ark begins in modern times as the narrator reaches Ethiopia and finds St. Mary's of Zion Church where the original Ark of the Covenant is kept. Why in Ethiopia? Because when Moses was still an Egyptian general, he was married to a...