da Fischer "Micah & the Magic Helmet" is a charming book for children. Micah is a little girl with a huge imagination. She had an unstinting devotion to her magic helmet, which was really a cake pan. Once her helmet was placed on her head she...

"Season of Play" is a book written in fun rhyme about what wonderful excitement children get involved in to keep themselves busy when they are not in school. The book starts out in the summer when children are home on vacation. This was a treat...

Depression era babies, take note! In "Born On A Buzzard's Stump", Alva Harris has written a book of memoirs which seems to vacillate between a "good ole boy" style of writing and that of a lyrical poet. His childhood stories are ones to which the...

Suicide Run When Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch and his partner Jerry Edgar are called to a scene, with a dead body, everybody thinks it is a routine suicide of a small time actress. But Bosch finds anomalies at the scene that won’t leave him alone....

"Middle East Burning" by Mark Hitchcock is a book that takes a look at what is happening in the Middle East today and how it pertains to prophecies in the Bible. Anyone who has studied prophecies has learned that the lands mentioned back in Ezekiel,...

This is a short book, just 64 pages. The photos of the animals are excellent, with lots of great expressions on the faces of the dogs. Love all the different choices of the dogs that are used. They gave a lot of breeds a chance...

"Love Blooms in Winter: The Dakota Diaries" by Lori Copeland is a very good book. This book is a Christian-based story that is both enjoyable and inspiring. It kept me involved from the first page to the last. I felt as if the characters were...

From where I’m sitting, there’s no such thing as too many books about marriage. Like authors Brian and Cheryl Brodersen said, the state of marriage today is very sad and 70% of Americans believe divorce is morally acceptable. I think that instead of talking about...

Author James Randall Robison must have been reading my mind when he said he didn’t like rules or being told what to do and used to have problems relating to passages like Psalm 119:35, “Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I...

In the "Serpentine Curve" Charles Donima creates a suspenseful scenario in which U.S. genetic scientist Dr. Joanna Russo returns to Cambridge, England, where she did her graduate work. Dr. Russo is flailing personally and she lacks direction in her life. Dr. Ian Slattery, a former...

I enjoyed this fast pace book. You won't be able to put it down until you get to the end and find out "Who". The story is about Ashley Walters who has joined the police force in Montezuma, Georgia. She is trying to come to...

"In Bright But Not Broken" two authors and one contributor set out to educate those who may be uninformed about dual-diagnoses (2e)children, specifically those diagnosed with ADHD or Autism combined with a diagnosis of gifted. Unfortunately, for this reader, there were way too many redundancies...

Renee moved to Hollywood with aspirations of being an actress. When her mother is killed in a car accident, the inheritance sends Renee to the land of opportunity and she enters a beauty school in Burbank. A backup career is what she called it…just until...

"Missing Your Smile" by Jerry S. Eicher started slowly but got better and better. It appears like another story we have read and watched on TV many times in the past. However, we soon come to care about the characters and become anxious about...

Since Susan Morrow had always been her ex-husband Edward’s harshest critic, she was surprised when she received a box containing his manuscript. Eventually, she picks up the manuscript and begins reading. Quickly she becomes engrossed in the story of Tony Hastings. Tony’s story opens with...

"Christmas Even" A pawn shop owner suffering from repeated break-ins discovers what is at first assumed to be the dead body of the burglar still in his place of business. Harry Bosch, Los Angeles homicide detective, and his partner investigate and discover that things aren’t always...

Ex Marine and Iraq vet Spero Lucas works as an investigator for a Washington, D.C. defense attorney. He also has a side business finding lost items for people. Drug runner Anwan Hawkins, in jail awaiting trial, hires Lucas to find two shipments of marijuana stolen...

"Surreal Killer" has been obstinate and evil from early on in her existence. Her parents, so disturbed by her personality, actually HATE her . . . and she is still a child! Deciding that she needs to move her showbiz career from beauty contests to...

Mickey Haller is at it again! Reduced to representing foreclosure cases due to economic downturn (and defense clients having little to pay for a lawyer), he has found a lucrative niche. In fact, his team now has an office and has added an associate who...

"Christmas Gems" is a quaint little collection of romantic Christmas stories. The four stories, 'The Christmas Magi of Birch Bay', 'Wings of Love', 'A Christmas Surprise' and 'Mistletoe and Holly' were all about romantic Christmas miracles. In one story two lovers sold their most prized...