"The Diary of Arnmore" by Loulou Szal is a timeless fantasy. Life is orderly and calm for Rebekah and her brothers in Torellin until an intimidating stranger looms out of the darkness one night demanding shelter at their inn. But this is only the first...

Lemony Snicket has trained in a very special place to be a very special person. In "Who Could That Be at This Hour" by Lemony Snicket, Snicket has chosen a bottom-of-the-line mentor so that he can pretty much do his own investigative thing. In order...

Sarelle had been with vampire Danial for several months. She had oathed to him but did not know that the potions he was taking could make her pregnant. Then she miscarried and she could not endure his betrayals, and the knowledge that he would not...

Parker was a reporter for a magazine. One day, as he was leaving for work, he found a homeless woman named Cleo asleep in the back of his car. Later he tried to find her and got beaten up. He wrote an article about her...

Dr. Robert Rose shares his most challenging role in life, that of a caregiver. Robert and Marie Rose had been married almost forty years when they heard the diagnosis. Marie had scored 18 out of 30 on the test administered by the neurologist; anything under...

"Death Comes in Pairs" by Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton is a true “Cowboy Caper”. The story takes place in 1888 in the small town of Ellis Crossing. Jack Liege is the cowboy hero and the suspected bad guy. Jack arrives in town after being...

"In Deep" by Michael Segedy is a political thriller with romance woven into it, but at its heart there is a very stark message about the dangers of corruption within corporations as well as governments. When a light plane carrying a US Senator and an...

"Moon Castles" is a cute story, mostly narrated throughout the tale. It is a story that will be enjoyed by boys and girls for years to come. This book contains a well-written tale of a boy who dreams that he can build castles of snow....

Ramona Wilkins Randal has lived a sheltered life. She comes from a conservative, upper class family where appearances mean everything. She has lived in the same community, even after she married a socially acceptable Graydon Randall III, and lived next door under the watchful eye...

"Bird" McIntyre is a Washington DC lobbyist who works on the nation's most secret goings-on. Married to a gold-digging Equestrian Olympic hopeful who lives at their ranch (not in D.C.), Bird seems to have two lives. One life is the underbelly of the government while...

Although this book is fictional up to a point, too many of the incidents in it are too realistic, and this book would seem to have been written by a real fireman, describing incidents in which he was involved. The book is effectively "A few...

"Iron Hearted Violet" by Kelly Barnhill is a beautifully written story about a princess who lacks exterior beauty but has a heart of gold. Little Violet was born into a kingdom which was not as it appeared. Most of the residents of the Kingdom believe...

"Starry River of the Sky" by Grace Lin is truly one of those books you want your young readers to read. It is a book whose messages will stay with the child long after the story has ended. The moon has been missing in the...

The young Countess of Thorne covertly runs away from her husband in the opening pages of this story. She has a good reason but the readers are left in the dark, compelling them to keep reading to discover what precipitated her drastic move. However, there...

“There Were Dinosaurs Everywhere” written by Howard Temperley, and skillfully illustrated by Michael Kline, is a fascinating, objective and appropriately inquisitive discourse on the rise, evolution, and ultimate demise of dinosaurs and other life of the Mesozoic Era. Throughout this book the author frequently remarks...

"Soo Thankful: A Book of Thankfulness," written by Dryade Fontenelle and Paul Schlarman, is a perfect book to teach young children the importance of being thankful each and every day in our everyday life. It is such a cheerful book that children will want to...

Yuki and Larry are hummingbirds living in the backyard of Mr. Ernest Wayne, a nice gentleman who truly enjoys the creatures that often visit him. Even though Larry and Yuki appreciate the nectar that Mr. Wayne provides them, they really want to invent something. Like...

When you begin to read "Big Sound Temple" by Ben Stevens, it takes a few pages to acclimatize yourself to deciphering the seemingly awkward voice of the main character, Hiro. Hiro’s narrative begins with the death of his father, who is the gardener and caretaker...

Tran McClintock (Mr Major League Baseball himself) is very rich, lives in an enormous mansion, parties hard and wild, picks up women everywhere and can do and have anything he wants. But, he has fallen head over heels in love with Angelica-Negrete, and he wants...

"Gospel of John: The Daily Devotional Series" by Kristi Burchfiel is a concise, easy to understand interpretation of one of the most important and popular books of the Bible. One can wake up each day to a new truth and focus on it. Each day’s...