Wow...just, Wow! How's that for a review? That's exactly how I felt after I finished reading Before Your Next Excuse: A True Story of Addiction, Loss, Hope and the Power of Choice by debut author Ned Barrett. In a wonderful, funny, emotional and at times...

Wolf Wood (Part One The Gathering Storm) by Mike Dixon is an excellent period piece set in 1436-1437 in late medieval England. The story is based upon the conflict over ownership and use of a baptismal font, with the two sides being All Hallows Church,...

Breast Cancer Mardi Gras: Surviving the Emotional Hurricane and Showing My Boobs to Strangers by Dawn Bontempo is Dawn's journey on the road to breast cancer remission. From the initial pain that she just wrote off, to the Facebook post announcing her cancer, to the...

Author Darrell Mangum really likes jokes. Having studied them and collected his favorites for many years, in You Must Be Joking he now provides readers with the best of the jokes he has found as well as advice on how to properly tell them. Mangum...

In an interesting and well-researched book, Jehovah's Witnesses Exposed!: What Really Goes On Inside the Kingdom Hall Walls, author Eugene Walker has provided his readers with a compelling argument against joining the Jehovah's Witness religion. Following a well organized and clearly laid out style, the...

Cold War III: How the U.S. Navy Can Defeat Putin and Halt Climate Change by W. Craig Reed is a non-fiction book that talks about Reed’s prediction of what will factor in the ever looming Cold War III. The book discusses the economic condition of...

Promoting Positive Character Among Institutionalized Children by Arun Paul speaks about the role of children in current society and how each country is responsible for giving necessary help to improve the lives of their children, beginning by understanding their life situations. Childhood is the most...

In an interesting and thought-provoking new book by debut author Dr. Jay Faber, Escape: Rehab Your Brain to Stay Out of the Legal System puts forward the idea that those who have repetitive issues with the legal system have "bad brains" and, with consistent work,...

Children of Pride (Into the Wonder) (Volume 1) by Darrell J. Pursiful is a young adult fantasy that dumps Taylor right into an incredible world. She is kidnapped from her normal human life by the Fair Folk and taken to a completely surreal world. This...

In a fantastic new book by authors Jason Miller and Mark DiSanto, Foundational Weight Training: A Practical Guide for the Trainer, Coach and Barbell Enthusiast, readers are treated to a practical, useful and highly intelligent guide when weight training. Divided into six understandable chapters that...

Yearning to Breathe Free: My Parents' Fight to Reunite During the Holocaust by Murray Jack Laulicht and Peter Weisz is a sad yet inspiring Holocaust true story. On February 1, 1940, thirty-three-year-old Jewish Ernestyna Goldwasser traveled to the United States while pregnant with her first...

Angels Club by Courtney Vail and Sandra J. Howell is a whole lot of fun. This is due to the fun, sassy main character, Jacinda Gonzalez. This kid is full of life and energy that almost leaps up from the page at you and I...

Stem Cell Battles - Proposition 71 and Beyond: How Ordinary People Can Fight Back Against the Crushing Burden of Chronic Disease by Don C Reed is a moving account of the journey that brought the California Stem Cell Agency (CIRM) into existence through the tireless...

Dirt: Evil In The Heartland is a thriller novel by author John P. Goetz. In Goetz’s familiar, darkly psychological style, the story begins in a tiny backwater town in North Dakota, where three unfortunate boys – Danny, Booger and the title’s Dirt – grow up...

Autumn Harvest: A Celebration of Halloween and the Macabre by Mark Kasniak is a collection of spooky tales set around Halloween. Some friends spend the night near a train wreck and experience a night of terror, a demon which speaks through a radio, raising the...

Wow! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading Mayflower, the first book in debut author Linda Smigaj's Fly on the Wall series. This was simply a fantastic read; fun, adventurous and rooted in history with quite an interesting protagonist, a cheese fly named...

A Zombie’s Guide to Being Dead by Bruuuggghhhhh is a book written by a zombie for zombies. A handbook of sorts. The former Cassidy Heart, now known as Bruuuggghhhhh, provides an excellent resource for the undead. She defines the term zombie, explains how they keep...

North to Freedom by Karen Meyer is the story of the escape of two young slave boys, Moses and Tom. The boys take their chance to flee from their cruel owners in Kentucky and make their way to the freedom of Canada. Relying on the...

In A Second Chance, Christina Paul immediately introduces readers to how women's lives were so easily controlled by men. In the beginning, not only was one woman forced to be with a man she didn't love, but so was that one man forced to be...

Money for Love by Peter S. Berman is a riveting and thrilling suspense novel. The setting is Los Angeles, where Shari Thompson and Jennifer Donahue are partners in the Robbery-Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department. A string of murders happens within a short...