The Midnight Call by Jodé Millman is a legal thriller. Jessie Martin is a successful attorney, mentored by a high school teacher, Terrence Butterfield. Midnight. The phone rings and Jessie answers it. Terrence is pleading for help, admitting to killing someone, and loyalty has her...

The Naughty List by Thomas Conway is a delightful winter treat for any time of the year. Christmas is at risk when Santa fails to attend Macy's Thanksgiving Parade and is soon discovered to have been kidnapped. Mrs. Claus and the elves don't know how...

The Boiling Frog: How Complacency and Ignorance Created Our Leadership Crisis and What We Can Do About It is a work of non-fiction which is focused on current socioeconomic and political affairs, and was penned by author Michael Darmody. As the title of the work...

Leila Del Sol worked at Arizona Prime Path Mortgage and was happy with her job. She had a successful career and everything was going according to what she had planned. It wasn't easy being a curvy girl and living in Phoenix and that weekend they...

The Burden of Darkness (A Marcie Kane and Nathan Harris Thriller) by Barry Finlay is the latest in the Marcie Kane and Nathan Harris series and it does not disappoint. As the story begins, Nathan is a shell of his former self, sleeping all day...

The narrative form of the memoir is very common, and Amy Jean’s The Kingdom Has Arrived Volume 1 Foundations is a welcome departure as it combines essays and poetry to look back at her spiritual formation and the divine inspiration that led her to write...

Prince Manny loves his father, King Immanuel, and his home, the kingdom of Crownington. Today, Prince Manny is excited to start his first day of school, but is disappointed when he discovers he won't be going to school in Crownington; instead, he will be going...

The Spell is a work of fiction in the fantasy, fairy tale, and suspense sub-genres, and was penned by author C. V. Shaw. Taking the classic atmosphere of fairy tales and giving them a dark and thrilling twist, we find ourselves in the kingdom of...

The Kingdom Has Arrived Volume 2: Passion's Fire: Snippets from a Wild Ride - A Prayer, A Poem, A Prophecy by Amy Jean is a memoir that beautifully documents the protagonist’s journey of faith and her intoxicating love for God. In this memoir, the author...

In The Language Theater by Maria Beatty, we are introduced to nine actors who are part of English grammar. Theo the grammarian is the lead of the show and soon we meet Verb, Noun, Article, Adverb, Adjective, Pronoun, Conjunction, Preposition, and Interjection. Each actor is...

We may not always understand everything about our lives, our looks, or our purpose but everything works together for good regardless of what we believe, think, or feel. In The Three Magic Keys by Rita Mendoza, with illustrations by Emely Fernandez, a wonderful story unfolds...

The Cat with Three Passports: What a Japanese Cat Taught Me About an Old Culture and New Beginnings, written by CJ Fentiman, tells of how the author travels with her partner, Ryan, to Japan to teach at a language school. They found their first experience...

In the beginning of Gillian Thorp’s intensely personal and moving memoir, The Colour of the Sun, an early reader remarks: “… there are some stories that don’t just stick with you; they become a part of you.” I quote this observation because it’s true. Sometimes,...

The emperor and founder of the Ming Dynasty isn’t fond of the way his history is recalled on the Imperial Tomb Tablet, as The Lacquered Talisman by Laurie Dennis opens. It says nothing of the despair and misfortune that befell his family, nothing of how...

The Clovis Dig by Teri Fink is a story about an archeological excavation in Washington state, in an orchard owned by Claire Courtney, a young single woman. She is struggling to survive financially with only the help of a Mexican employee, Carlos Barboza, and her...

The Lucky Man: An Act of Malice is an engrossing novel by Monika R. Martyn, a gripping story. Jack Spencer is an attractive man who also knows how to mess up with beautiful young women. But having an affair with a woman about to marry...

Several groups of students compete to win a science competition in which they must solve the mystery of stardust in the captivating educational book, The Stardust Mystery by Peter Solomon. When a famous scientist announces a contest with superb prizes at a school science fair,...

The Garden of Calilily, written by Chrystie Keller, is a children's book that promotes mindfulness through fairy tales. The book features two fairy sisters, Marigold and Sweetpea, who usually do a good job. However, they each have personalities that tend to distract them from their...

In The Best Thing About Bennett by Irene Wittig, Bennett Hall’s final day at Bancroft, Chandler and Co. may have gone unnoticed by her work colleagues, but she is determined to enjoy her early retirement now that she is no longer carer to her egotistical...

The Mystic's Way for Regular People by James Alexander is a slim book that explores communion with God and shows how accessible it is to ordinary people. Many people tend to believe that to become a mystic one needs to be learned, a scholar of...