Connie Mansfield Carter has created a wonderful Christmas poem based on the old traditional “The Night Before Christmas." In “The Night Before Christmas in Bethlehem,” Ms. Carter starts the story off as this: Twas the night before Christmas in Bethlehem town. All of the townsfolk were settling...

Men and women can really mess up relationships, can’t they? Sometimes it is an inability to understand the opposite gender and sometimes it is unrealistic expectations. Whatever the cause, authors Roy and Nazira Barry answer the question about whether finding Mr. or Mrs. Right is...

The mark of a good work of fiction is how it can mirror reality so closely as to confuse the reader about whether it is real or not real. Author Bolko Zimmer has created a delicious piece of fiction with "Angelic Warfare: The Stones of...

Grab a box of Kleenex before you start to read “If There’s a Mailbox in Heaven” by Celeste N. Bowers because it is so beautifully moving that you are going to cry. Don’t even try to pretend you are too strong to cry – it...

In his latest book, Chuck Swindoll moves through ten steps for public speaking. Using a bit of autobiographical material and explaining how he plans and writes sermons, he shows preachers and public speakers alike how to create an effective sermon or speech. In the first...

"The Thriving Child," written by Erica Reid, is an excellent resource filled with information and tips for parents. The first section of the book focuses on helping children who suffer from allergies and asthma to thrive in all areas of life. This section includes tips...

There are two Gilly sisters, Jo and Claire. Jo stays much to herself on the salt farm. She was strong, stern, hardworking and loyal to the family’s tradition of farming salt. Claire was outgoing, egotistic, attractive and popular; her desire was to leave the farm...

Faith Fairchild is a caterer but like a modern day Miss Marple, she has a knack for solving mysteries. Husband Tom is a pastor who himself is troubled by a large amount of money missing from the a church fund. An elderly friend tells her...

Enthralling. Intriguing. Suspenseful. These are only a few of the words that I can think of to describe this book. "The Vatican Knights" is one of those pieces of literature that captures your attention immediately and carries you through to the very end. I found...

Attention all avid romance readers: here's a red-hot summer romance for you all! In Barefoot in the Sand, Roxanne St. Claire pairs single mother Lacey with architect Clay and she manages to weave in several subplots in the process of bringing them to some sort...

Once I started reading “Lost Edens” by Jamie Patterson, I couldn’t put it down because I kept hoping I’d turn the page to read that she’d figured out that Ben was a dirty rotten scoundrel and punch him in his cheating face. After all, the...

Alexandra is 17 and getting ready to start her senior year in high school. She and her best friend Taylor are in for a wild ride. With 3 new mysterious men in her life, her crazy dreams keep her from sleeping well through the night,...

"Waking up Emily" is about the Anesthesia Department of a hospital and includes doctors, assistants, nurses, and the infamous coin counters that drive the anesthesiologist cranky when they try to cut cost, possibly causing the doctors to not have the supplies when they desperately need...

Meet Professor Joe O'Loughlin, a clinical psychologist/ criminal expert residing in Bath, England. He is undergoing the painful dissolution of his marriage, and missing his two daughters, and he is also losing a battle with “Mr. Parkinson,” a progressive neurological disease that is gradually gaining...

Julianna Baggott’s "Pure" is set in a post-apocalyptic endless wasteland of a world, populated by mutants who will stop at nothing to survive. They are scarred and deformed, often fused with other humans, parts of other humans, or objects which were nearby when the Detonations...

"How to Become a Successful Black Man" by Hillary Drummond Simpson is a guide book that is filled with inspirational stories of successful black men who have succeeded in life, with hard work and guidance from one or both parents, and or a father-like figure...

Mingmei Yip's latest novel "Skeleton Women" is a fascinating and provocative story about an orphan girl named Camilla who was raised to be a performer and companion to a most notorious Chinese organized crime leader named Lung. She is programmed by the leader's rival Big...

Gillian Cooper and brother Luke ran a detection business, not as Luke would say, a detective agency which meant they did all sorts of jobs people wanted them to do. Luke learned of a detective job that needed doing and asked Gillian to go to...

Dessa Halom's family is poor, Jewish, and living on very little when Dessa meets Leo on a California beach near where her father's car has broken down. Leo sells her a cog stone to make a wish, and suddenly Dessa finds her lost sandals and...

In "Oxford Messed Up", Andrea Kaufman has presented the reader with a fascinating and realistic glimpse into the mind of a woman with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. As with many such diagnosed individuals, Rhodes Scholar Gloria Zimmerman is a very intelligent individual whose daily life is highly...