It is Victorian times and "lady typewriter" (secretary in modern times), Hattie Davish, arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to work for Mother Trevelyn, the head of the American Women's Temperance Coalition. The AWCT is comprised of women who wish to rid alcohol from homes and...

Forty year old Keene Mason, who describes himself as a "boring engineer", has died. He wishes to have his casket filled with 2005 Saint Emilion wine which costs over 50 dollars a bottle and he wants to lie in his casket, now wine-filled, for a...

Marike is Prussian, but after World War II ends, she and her four children, Heinz, Elisabet, Helena and Edel, her sister Agathe and her children, and their elderly mother and father seek refuge in designated camps in Denmark. Marike's husband, Horst, has been missing in...

In "The Devil's Garden" by Brady Christianson, the reader finds retired Recon Marine Brandon Colson comfortably entrenched in suburbia in Southwest Florida. When a home evasion occurs putting Colson, his wife and three young daughters at death's door, Colson springs into action, using his substantial...

The question of believing is one that author Barbara Briggs Ward brings to life in her book, "The Reindeer Keeper." She enables the reader to experience that when one truly believes there is an unending list of possibilities that can occur. The reader is taken...

"Hip Hip Hurray We Found Teddy" by author Silvia Sullivan allows the reader into the life of a mouse whose life is very orderly and tidy. Mouse enjoys his routine and finds it fulfilling, even the town he lived in was called "Everything Has A...

"Destiny" by Karen Wiesner is a very good book. As a Christian I could relate to this book on many levels. As humans, when we are on a spiritual level sometimes we find it hard to forgive ourselves when we feel that we have done...

This short tale is about Juan and why he can’t sleep. Everything disrupts his slumber: every little sound from noises under his bed to his sister getting a drink from the bathroom. The author, Beckstrand, intersperses poetry and alliteration within this story to elaborate on...

"Stealer of Horses" is a novel featuring Jeff McQuede, a sheriff who lives in a small town in the Black Mountain Reservation. A beautiful, engaging woman called Susan Spence goes missing and is presumed dead. She is in possession of a large amount of money...

Horace Helfin's "Horrifying Halloween" is John McCarthy's second book in the 'Horace Helfin series'. Horace Helfin is a magical elf who comes to little Sally Connors and her friends in times of need. Together they fight any evil which comes to their community of Somertown....

This is a sweet tale about a group of three children who spend a year with their grandmother on her farm. The book is filled with imagery throughout and simple, yet beautiful illustrations. The children spend a year with their grandmother and learn about farming...

Alex and Leslie Twisden had it all except a child. They had tried everything they could think of except adoption. Leslie had had enough and so she wanted to stop trying. She wanted to adopt a child but Alex would not hear of it. When...

Andy wakes up in the morning to discover that he is nine years old again. He takes in his old familiar surroundings and is astonished how young and happy his mother is. When he finally decides to go downstairs to the living room he notices...

"The Amish Family Cookbook" by Jerry S. Eicher and Tina Eicher is sure to become a family favorite. The physical aspects of this book are very good. It is spiral bound. Every cookbook should be spiral bound so that it lies flat for easy use....

"A Killer in the Rye" is the next in the Delia Rosen Murray's Deli series and it is every bit as entertaining as its predecessor. Gwen Katz is recently divorced and in charge of her Uncle Murray's Kosher Deli in Nashville, Tennessee. Gwen is lost...

What a wonderfully written book by Michael W. Palumbos! His book "Your Family Legacy" gives the reader 32 ways to preserve your family's 'wealth' for generations. Palumbos remarks that having money isn't as important as knowing how to make it; therefore; if one should lose...

"From Now On" by Louise Brooks revolves around Jo Mitchell and Mark Rutledge who are coworkers. From the second they meet, they both know that they have a connection. But as both have been burned in the past, they have sworn off love and have...

Have you ever drifted off at work thinking about that super hot Ferrari, conquering Mt.Everest, or sailing the open sea? To your Wonderland of charming princes and princesses? Kat Young does too! Unfortunately she does so not only at work but everywhere she goes, with...

For Troy Tandem, things have just taken a very strange turn. First of all, he wakes up on the beach of a small Island with no memory of how he got there. His last memory was that he was trying to help a young lady...

“The Cycle” by Jay Amberg is a very different, but very interesting, type of book. I am not sure how to classify it, but I think it should be required reading for a lot of people, from students to corporate CEO’s. The 'Cycle' Jay is...