The "Tide of Destiny" by Nigel Patten is as excellent an example of historical fiction as you are ever likely to get. Set in the Napoleonic era in southern Switzerland and then north-eastern Italy, it is the story of Damien André Berry, one of the...

Kitty Klepaki is originally from Saint Augustine, Florida, but after her parents and two college age brothers, Andrew and Arnold, are lost at sea in her father's 49 foot ketch, Kitty is traumatized and goes on the run. She ends up as a card dealer...

I was eager to delve into "101 Hymn Stories: The Inspiring True Stories Behind 101 Favorite Hymns" by Kenneth W. Osbeck because I grew up in a traditional church that sang hymns. Today I admit I enjoy worshiping with contemporary music but the old favorites...

"Mahinder’s Grand Tournament: The Jade Blade Legacy" by Thomas J. Black reads much like an ancient Chinese story. The setting is The Kingdom of Jade (aka the Ninth Kingdom of Ruby) which had been conquered by The Kingdom of Ruby. For many years the people...

Hidden secrets, the ones that never escape, would explain a lot of things if only shared. But then again, those same secrets could make matters even worse. Cousins Jenny and Jade endure a hell on earth life as they battle real monsters on a daily...

Marci is scared. Her father is home, and yet another time he is drunk, mean, and beating her mom. So Marci decides it is time to climb out of the window to keep from getting in the firing line of her dad. She runs to...

"View from the Edge" by Michael Kasenow is the sort of novel that smacks you in the face. It is an immensely powerful book, yet the hero is a gentle, damaged academic, who adores his son, and just wants one adult in his life to...

In Dr. Jerome Schulte's book, "The Immortality Complex", he lists three things that are the philosophical theorems of his book: the essence of humanness is need, the essence of need is feelings, and the essence of feeling is growth. Need is the continued growth through...

"Winds of Redemption" draws the reader back in time to the days shortly after the Civil War, but before many of the western states even had a name, instead they were still called territories. Men sometimes had to be their own law, and justice was...

"Out of the Shadow of Poverty: Living the American Dream through Faith" by R. Jenkins-Oliver with Lakiesha Oliver is a memoir about a girl and her family making the most of what life handed to them. This family stuck together during the good and bad...

"Parrot & Sweeney" by Alan Roberts is a humorous 'whodunit' novel containing three separate short stories. The main characters Detective Chief Superintendent George Parrot and Detective Daniel Sweeney are called into action to help solve a kidnapping that turns out to be the result of...

Author Elizabeth Kimmel has another winner for mid-grade children. In "ParaNorman", seventh grader Norman Babcock finds himself a loner and an outcast in the small New England town of Blithe Hollow. The area is known for its history of witch trials and Blithe Hollow has...

When Olivia and Joel Cameron invited their family to spend the weekend at their new country home, little did they know that it would be twelve long years later before they would host the family again. Joel’s wild and sexy brother Scott was found dead,...

Six Arizona-based authors present an anthology of poetry, essays and short fiction from their collective works. They are all compiled in the book “Under Sonoran Skies”. I am sure readers will be taken away with these writings about a lot of different situations and places....

Jack Miller, a seasoned FBI agent, and Ross Fruen, who he quickly nicknames Junior, are assigned to the case of a series of bank robberies. Things change considerably when during the latest robbery a pregnant woman is killed. The thief has never killed before, so...

"Hopping Roller Coasters" starts with Rachel being diagnosed with cancer, but the story goes back in time, where a bipolar Rachel falls in love with her daughter, Marina, a small bundle of pink weighing three pounds. "Hopping Roller Coasters" takes readers on a journey from...

In wondering about her German roots, J.J. and her cousin Sophie decide to take a trip to Europe to see what they could find out. The trip started off with flight complications, and then they find the village of Hummersen, a tiny little place sandwiched...

Janice Baylis, Ph.D. has complied a vast amount of information and exercises pertaining to dreams in her book "Dream Dynamics and Decoding: Personal, Practical, Powerful Messages." Baylis begins with a brief introduction to dreams and dreams analysis and then jumps right into the fascinating world...

"Wishbones and Miracles" is a book by Bobbee Cere about her life as a professional piano player in many different restaurants. She writes with a funny sense of humor about all the things that can and do go wrong and how she has become attached...

"My Pop-Up Bible Stories," written by Juliet David and illustrated by Daniel Haworth, is a treasure for young children! There are five well-known Bible stories included in this book. Each story is told in a brief paragraph and then the passage where the story can...