I’m going to be honest here. I loved Afghan Mirrors: Stephen Connor Cold War Spy Novels Book 3 by Michael Connick. I loved it because, though it is a novel about the C.I.A., a lot of the story involves military training and Michael Connick gets...

Kringle is a brave cat and he loves adventures. Every time he goes on an adventure, Kringle gets lost. One day he spins the globe and checks where his claw is stuck. It shows New York City. In this bilingual story - Kringle Cat Gets...

The Fairfax Fix features ex-cop Mike McBride. Author Dorothy May Mercer jumps into the story with a brief résumé about his life before he arrives in Washington D.C. as the Junior Senator for New Mexico. He is married to Juliette – Juli – who supported...

In Death & Other Lies by Carol L Ochadleus, Matt is the hero, the villain, the guilty one and has to overcome them all. As the story opens, Matt is living happily with Kate, having finally found love and yet he is finding it hard...

In his sophomore novel, Pres Maxon sweeps the reader into high jinks and mystery the moment the story of Pigeon begins. We are introduced to Luc Martin, a French busboy working at his parents’ bakery. Luc isn’t a fan of change, he likes things the...

Readers of all kinds will fall in love with Love Letters by Tamika Newhouse, Jasheem Wilson, Phoenix Williams, T.J. Hope, and Shawn Thompson, and which left this reader speechless. Love Letters is the most original anthology ever. Structured like an R&B album from the '90s,...

In Another Color's Shoes by author and illustrator Regina Puckett is a short children's picture book that comes with a very large message attached to it; acceptance and enjoying the differences that each person has. The tone is very easy to read and friendly. The...

Miguel Traveler #1: The Man From Texas by Daniel McFatter takes us on a broad, sweeping science fiction/dystopian/philosophical/contemporary literature journey through the past, the present and the future. Miguel Morgan wakes up in the womb of a machine that he instinctively understands is his new...

People are being murdered in an alarming fashion and a man and his ghostly sidekick race against time to stop a young boy from becoming the next victim in the chilling murder mystery novel Inspectre by D.W. Rigsby. When Lucius Stockhelm witnesses a woman being...

I started the series Two Images of God by Brian P Sheets with the second book. And, thrilled by the depth of the story, I decided to pick up the first to read as well. Quest is the introduction to the series, and it is...

Discontent is the second book in the Two Images of God series by Brian P. Sheets, a wonderful meld of terrorist and political thriller with monumental religious conflict. I was thrilled when I read the first book in this series, and in this new installment,...

No Country to Call Home: My Journey with 44 Million by Wali Kanani is a non-fiction book on the history of the Kurdish people. No Country to Call Home is a historical account of the Kurds since ancient times and starts with a brief introduction...

The Coven Murders: The Inspector Sheehan Mysteries Book 3 by Brian O’Hare is another murder mystery with a twist in the DCI Sheehan series set in Northern Ireland. The bodies begin to pile up and all of them are connected although no one is admitting...

The strange visions started on that fateful summer day when Benjamin McTish locked eyes with a mysterious woman named Mrs. Longpotts in Benjamin McTish and the Door through the Grandfather Tree by June M. Pace. Then, Benjamin found a peculiar looking key, hanging from a...

Curves in the Road: The Southern Devotion Book 2 by Amy K McClung is the story of Derrick and Mary Jane. He’s been a single dad since he was a teenager and has his life laid out just the way he wants it. His daughter,...

Miss Poly Loly and Her Gifts is a children’s picture book, written by Karen Avril and illustrated by Michelle Dybing. Mason misplaces one of his soccer shoes at the same time that his sister, Ellie, loses one of her ballet shoes. Dad has lost his...

Over A Barrel: The Phalanx Blood Series, Part 2 is a young adult thriller novella written by Bruce E. Arrington. Time usually seems to go much too slowly when you’re sixteen, but for Bernard the last ten weeks or so had flown by with nightmarish...

Sunny Flower and his Fairy Good Friend is a children’s book about bullying, written by Martha Reed and illustrated by Gail Maguire. As a tiny sprout, Sunny awakens to the warmth of the sun. Above him, large flowers frown and taunt him, calling him a...

Lucy and the Tunnel is a children’s book written and illustrated by J.S. Rumble. Held hostage at a wake after her Aunt Bessie’s funeral, eleven-year-old Lucy tries to think of a way to save her family from Clarinda – a gun-toting distant relative who demands...

The Prison Book: Alcoholism/Addiction - A Life Sentence by Tamara Segars Ott is the story of an alcoholic who is stuck in the endless loop of a battle with her addiction and her need to recover. This is the story of Marley Thomson Marx, a...