There is a new literary force in the world of children's books. In her first children's novel, author Michelle Lovric has written The Undrowned Child, a preteen book which will also appeal to the imagination of older children and adults. Eleven-year-old Teodora "Teo" Gasperin has...

Author Michael Sortomme has written a complicated, but highly readable, story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. It is the story of Giles Corey, an elderly farmer who refused to admit that he was a witch and was pressed under stones, then beaten to...

Contact Mr.Delgado by James Pattinson reminded me a whole lot of James Bond. It seems trouble is one step behind Harvey Landon no matter where he goes. Arriving in South America to meet up with Don Diego, he is quickly arrested. Although he was told...

The first thing that I liked about this book was the Affirmations for Wealth Building found on the first pages. I know them to be true, for I have used them in my life. They are powerful views of the changes we can implement in...

The Battle for Tomorrow opens in Seattle, Washington. Sixteen-year-old Ange is pregnant for the second time and is facing another abortion on her own; her distant, unsupportive mother Diane is paralyzed from a stroke, and Ange oversees her care. Ange's former, much older boyfriend introduced...

The Keane children, Clare, Mick and Tom, hadn't had an easy life since their father died. Their mother did the best she could to support them, and Clare, her fourteen-year-old daughter, worked along side her to earn what money they could; but when their mother...

A murder, a suspect, a nuclear plant with a spent fuel reactor that no one wants to discuss, potassium, a terrorist plot and two stolen truckloads of fertilizer, plus a couple of Mongolian goons, makes for a thrilling race-against-time plot in this novel, The 19th...

There's a new guy in town, and he's a musician. Author Colin Meloy has written a wonderful debut novel entitled Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I. The best part of the title is that there is a promise of more to come! Eleven-year-old Prue McKeel...

Red White and Boom by Karl Puttlitz is a novel dealing with espionage, terrorists and murder. With stockpiles of highly enriched uranium scattered over more than 30 nations abroad, Russia has enough to create a vast supply of nuclear bombs. When a theft of plutonium...

Throughout his teenage years, Native American Fred was one of those guys who was always playing pranks on his friends and classmates. In their little town of Granite Falls, everyone knew everyone else and of course their business, too. Jobs were in the logging industry,...

The House by Anjuelle Floyd is about Anna Manning who stayed with her husband for thirty-five years, through the birth of their four children, and now all she wants is to be free...free from the years of infidelity, the years of spending weeks on end...

A movie buff's must have, It Came From the ‘70s is a book you have been waiting for. With over 45 movies produced in the 1970's, this book is one you will cherish for years to come. The ‘70s era brought such films as Rocky,...

Fishing North Carolina is a guide consisting of a culmination of many years of background research and on-the-water personal fishing experience of the author, Mike Marsh. The guide is broken down into the following sections: Introduction, telling how to use this guide, the weather conditions...

Jack Scott, not always a happy private detective, would prefer to be at home in the north of Wales making his miniature toy soldiers. However, Jack and his love interest/partner, Sian Laidlaw, are now located on Gibraltar and are faced with Jack's younger brother Tim...

Tribulation Point by Ricci Lane reminds us that, ”Sometimes Just Making It Through Another Day Isn't Always Easy.” This is the story of Precious Evergreen, named for the orphanage where she was raised, and her son James Anthony Blackmon. Abandoned at birth on the steps...

The Wise Man's Fear began in an inn where Kvothe, the owner, was dictating his story to Chronicler. Kvothe’s story moves back in time to his days at the university and then progresses to his adventures tracking bandits. The summary may seem vague but I’m trying...

Lady Katharine Kirby has been sent to marry Lord Philip Charlesworth, the person she had been arranged to marry as a child. After the death of her father, her uncle took over the family estate and decided that either Katharine would marry Philip or she...

Life In Retirement By Ike Moran is his Tenth Group of Assignments Book. Ike, who has been the hero throughout this series, is ready to go into retirement. After years of cleaning out the underworld of druggies, the mafia, and all the villainous thugs, he...

Secrets of the Vine for Women by Darlene Marie Wilkinson is a very small book based on John 15 where Jesus uses the vineyard analogy to bring Christians to spiritual abundance. The book, which is close to the version written by her husband called Secrets...

Main character Lauren Vancouver, who heads HotRescues, a private pet shelter funded by wealthy business man Dante DeFrancisco, is visiting a puppy-mill and rescues four beagle puppies who have been stuffed down a drain pipe. At this same substandard facility, Lauren also meets up with...