"Deconstructing the Food Pyramid: Balance and Moderation in Food Consumption" by Frank J. Ferrin is a very educational experience. Dr. Ferrin explains the true meaning of the food pyramid and how it relates to me in great detail and with non-medical words. "Deconstructing the Food...

"The Enchanting World of Garden Irene McGeeny" by Concetta Kennedy tells the story of a young girl who lives in a secret underground castle. Garden McGeeny is a little girl who has moved recently into town. She lives in a secret underground castle that her...

Mary McDonough began playing the part of Erin Walton on the TV program "The Waltons" when she was just ten years old. She shares her memories and experiences from that period of her life in her novel "Lessons From The Mountains". It also explores the...

"Relocated" by Margaret Fieland is a very different approach to the standard sci-fi concept of extra-planetary settlement. That places "Relocated" in a class by itself. In this book, Terrans from Earth maintain a military presence on Aleyne, where the residents look very much like humans,...

The family dinner table is lacking participants. Etiquette is unknown. Hospitality is a forgotten pastime. But it doesn’t have to be that way. "Welcome to Our Table" by Shirley and Danae Dobson is a guided tour into dining and socializing with friends, family or just...

Our tale begins in the years before the Civil War. River Hunter is the son of a Cherokee mother and long-disappeared and probably dead Scotch-Irish father. Despite his Native American looks, he pursues reading and an education in Alabama. River's goal is to become a...

After Rose ran off with Ian her family disowned her. Life with Ian was not what she expected; he was a drunk and a gambler as well as a wife beater. Ian was killed working in a mine in Nevada. At only nineteen, Rose was...

Katie Reed is reeling from the death of her husband, as well as her young son Kenny in a house fire, and is unsure how she will go on. Drew Richards has just lost his beloved wife Rachel during the birth of their second child,...

In her latest cat-sleuth mystery book entitled "Cat Telling Tales", Shirley Murphy has clever feline Joe Crey smack in the middle of a murder in the coastal town of Molena Point. There is a fire and an alcoholic woman is dead, leaving her 12 year...

"Poppy and the Stranger," written and illustrated by Eli Jay, is a children's book that takes the reader on an adventure that results in discovering the mystery of shadows. Poppy is a balloon and one night when he is floating along in the night he...

Sally Edwards was convinced that her husband’s death was not suicide and not accidental either. One year after his death she contemplates having the case reopened, despite her son’s objection, so that she and her son can finally have closure. Relying on her husband’s appointment...

"Phoenix Rising: Firebase Freedom" by William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone is an interesting book. It is fiction but in today’s political climate it seems it could be very real. The President of the United States, Mehdi Ohmshidi, won the election with the promise...

It is a difficult time in the US and there is a growing sentiment that the government is protecting the rich that comprises only 1 per cent of the population against the 99 per cent who are steadily losing their jobs and homes. Young American...

"If No One’s Looking, Do We Have to Try as Hard" by Mary Hemlepp is a look at women’s lives once they reach fifty. It is compulsive reading, and should probably also be compulsory reading for everyone since it gives such insights into the more...

This is the first book of a trilogy, hence it has a certain amount of introductory material. As at the end of "The Fellowship of the Ring", the ending of this book finishes something, but it clearly leads into the next book. One sign of...

Everyone has a story, but there are few quite as stirring as "Fierce Joy", a memoir filled with huge life struggles. Ellen Schecter begins experiencing physical symptoms of an unknown origin in mid-life that interrupt her normal lifestyle. With grit and determination she...

"A Giant Pencil" by 9 year old Connor Wilson is the story of a young boy, Billy, who feels grumpy all the time. Why is Billy so grumpy? Well, he is the youngest of seven siblings, and always being picked on. His parents fuss at...

Do you ever wonder why people spend so much time, energy and money on themselves just to please someone else? We are all guilty of this at some time or another. The Bible tells us that we are made in the image of God, so...

We all are used to praying at the usual times such as before meals, at church, at bedtime, or during our devotions, but did you know we can pray any time, about anything? Have you ever prayed while doing the laundry or washing the dishes,...

When you open one of the books from Stefan Vucak's "Shadow Gods" series, you know you are going on an exciting journey through an alternate star system."Immortal in Shadow" is the 5th book in the series. Vucak wastes no time in grabbing the reader’s attention....