Not having read the first two books in the '13 Treasures Trilogy', I feared I might be left behind or racing to catch up with the "13 Secrets". But Michelle Harrison has done a masterful job in giving just enough information from the previous book...

"Miner’s Haven" by Elaine Sharshon is one of those rare books that come around so often that it is impossible to put down. Revolving around the coal mines in Pennsylvania from the early 1900’s to the end of WW II, this majestic story pulls the...

Xamorus had waited centuries for the return of Lord Vearios. At last he had returned and was dwelling in the body of Raven, Xamorus’ dog. Vearios knew that this time he was up against a more advanced population of humans. Lumina had defeated Vearios before...

"The First Apostle" by Katherine Pym is gripping historical fiction. Set in Paris, it relates the story of journalist and pamphleteer Camille Desmoulins during the period of the French Revolution. He was an active and outspoken revolutionary, a close friend of Robespierre and other influential...

Author John D. Spooner is a well-traveled and highly successful business man whose grandchildren are obviously the apple of his eye. This book is a compilation of the letters he had sent to both of them while they were in their college years. He keeps...

Karin Schaeffer has become a private detective after serving as a police woman. She has had a rough past but her life as the wife to Mac and mother to young Ben seems blissful. But now her husband Mac is down with the flu. Karin's...

Bailey Jordan has adored her husband, Brad, since they were children together. Now, they are married and approaching their late thirties. Bailey has stood by Brad as he has had one not so successful investment scheme after another. She knows her home life was a...

Corrie Saunders loses her beloved husband Jarrod in Iraq as he pulls a suicide bomber away from a crowd of people. Jarrod and the suicide bomber are blown to bits. Now it has been six months since Corrie buried what was left of Jarrod's body...

Dakota Blackwood's name means "friend and ally" and he is just that throughout the years with childhood friend Ray, college friend Dirk, and Dakota's brother Dallas. Dakota meets new girl Daisy Forester at the beginning of their senior year of high school and they fall...

"The Bride Wore Blue" is the third story in the 'Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek series'. The youngest Sinclair, Vivian, comes West from Portland, Oregon, to Cripple Creek, Colorado, to join her happily married older sisters, Kate, Nell and Ida. Vivian stays with her aunt...

"The Farm" by Charles C. Anderson gets its name from a huge Virginia farm handed down through generations and now in charge of our hero, Andy Carlson, an ex-Navy Seal who is now working in the emergency room. He had found out about wrong doings...

“We All Fall Down” by Nic Sheff picks up where Sheff’s New York Times bestselling memoir “Tweak” left off. “Tweak” leaves Sheff having completed treatment, writing his memoir, and living a rather tedious life of sobriety in Savannah with a friend and two cats. In...

A few years ago I was at a book fair in Bowling Green, KY. I repeatedly walked past the guest speaker, David Baldacci’s booth hoping to catch a glimpse of him and possibly to speak to him. Though I did finally get that glimpse I...

"Patriotic Gamble" by Ken Gorman is a tale fraught with politics, intrigue, possible conspiracy, suspense and romance. The plot of this book could be ripped from the headlines. The focus of this book is the Presidential Reelection Campaign of President Herbert Atkinsen. The main character...

"Many Blessings: A Tapestry of Accomplished African American Women" is a highly well-written collective biography that should be in public and school or college libraries everywhere. The author, who is not African-American, felt driven to interview and then write the stories of the many women...

In wanting to keep the life and legacy of her late father-in-law alive, Brenda Ballard creates the "The Boy From Granite Falls" series. This series follows Fred Ballard’s life starting in the 1930’s. Fred and Rudy are up to their usual adventures. At supper one...

Can a marriage work when two people are thrown together just because someone else thinks they would make a sensible match? Well, this is what happened to Abby and Edwin. Being shy around the opposite sex, Abby seemed quite content being a spinster. But Abby’s...

“The High-Tech Gooseneck Putter” by Samuel DiMatteo & Kristin Johnson is perfectly illustrated by James Borgett. The book is written for children, but not for children to read. Rather, this is a chapter book suited to being read TO children, perhaps as a bedtime story....

"Change Your Life Not Your Wife: Marriage Saving Advice for Success Driven People," written by Tony Ferretti, Ph D and Peter J. Weiss, M.D., is an excellent book for both husbands and wives to read. So often individuals get wrapped up in their own lives...

In "Grace" author Greenwood gets hold of the teenage mind and she just doesn't let go. "Grace" is the poignant story of a young boy who literally develops overnight and he has no comprehension of the mysteries of his own body and mind. He perceives...