This engaging novel begins on the twenty-first birthday of Ben Steiner, a Jewish student at Columbia University, in May 1975. Living a comfortable life in Beit Yitzhak, or the “B”, a communal house for Jewish students, seemed boring to Ben. He was ready to find...

All who have ever loved a dog and lost him/her, whether through death or otherwise, will find A Dog Called Hope, by Jason Morgan and Damien Lewis, bringing them to tears. This is a true story, in as far as Jason Morgan is able to...

A World Without Color: A True Story of the Last Three Days with My Cat by Bernard Jan is a quick read, a novel that is emotionally rich and told in the second person, like when you write a letter to someone, addressing them directly....

How Me Found I: Mastering the Art of Pivoting Gracefully Through Life by Abigail Diaz Juan is a powerful book in the area of personal development and the quest for meaning, a book that will help readers reconnect with their ultimate purpose and learn to...

I can’t review this book without stating how it caught me off guard. I had picked it to read, poised to write a review condemning the sale of gorillas, but little did I know it would turn out to be one of the best things...

Highly Effective Teaching Strategies is a great book for developing course outlines and instruction motives that can be used for years—even if the type of curriculum changes. Author Marc Hoberman provides lots of examples of how he prepares lesson plans, adds questions, and discusses a...

El Camino De Santiago by Simon Green is a diary of his journey across northern Spain. For some people this experience is a religious journey, for others a trip perhaps of general interest. Simon begins on day one, and continues right up to the end,...

One Chance, One Moment is a stunning opening entry in The Mandy Story series by Judith Ann Kohnen, a riveting contemporary romance with believable characters and a gripping plot. A series of unfortunate events has led the renowned singer, Garry Danzlo, to the point of...

The takeover of the world by the Chinese has begun, but not with destructive weapons, as such, but by simple weight of numbers. All over the world, Chinese men have been mobilized to march into foreign countries by their millions, taking over the financial resources...

In her sensitive and poignant memoir, You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties, Carol E. Anderson bares her heart and soul to readers so beautifully and intelligently that even if you aren’t gay and weren’t born into a Fundamentalist Christian...

“The task ahead of you is never as great as the power behind you.” Nigel Seed's 160 Degrees East: A Fight For Survival And The Need To Right A Terrible Wrong is an engaging military novel. Major Jim Wilson and his team are given an...

I love books with characters that are real, flawed and relatable, and a setting that is, of course, colorful. Roses, Wine & Murder: In the City of Steeples by Rose Young didn’t disappoint me. I must say that I found more than what I bargained...

There couldn’t have been a better book to read this time than I Am . . .: Identity Crisis Undone—the Discovery of Who We Are Through the Eyes of God by Adriene Law, a book that trains the reader to shift their self-perception and embrace...

If you love well-written stories with three-dimensional characters and sophisticated plots, then Magus Star Rising: A Tale of the Galactic Nexia by Larry Ivkovich, a sci-fi novel will be a delightful treat. It’s a story that revolves around the mysterious Magus Star that will appear...

Rock Candy Mountain by Earl Davis is quite a different type of memoir in that it focuses on just a short period of the author’s life, up until the age of fourteen, with most of the story revolving around a two-year period from the age...

Pajama Paydays: How to Make the Internet Work for You by Hwayda Kater is an enlightening read that sheds light on the online job market and how anyone can thrive in it. According to Kater, job security in the corporate sector in the modern world...

Not everyone can trace their roots and A Walk Through Minden: In the Lives of the Crone and Vegh Families by Lillian Frazer shows just how much they may be missing. Beginning with great-great-grandparents, most of whom immigrated from Europe in the mid 19th and...

Free Falling is a contemporary romance novel written by Ana Simons. Brian Anderson had had enough of betrayal by the women he had fallen in love with. No amount of playing the field or maintaining a somewhat predatory mindset lessened the impact of those betrayals...

Almana (Ali) is an angel, a heavenly servant of God, with a very special talent: Ali can see visions of the future. Recently, she has been burdened with two contrasting visions. In one, Earth and its humans prosper and recover from the terrible war that...

My Pashtun Rabbi: A Jew's Search for Truth, Meaning, and Hope in the Muslim World by David Eden is a book that takes a completely different look into the Muslim world. While most writers show a side of the Muslim world that the propaganda media...