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...

In "The Hunted Hare", Fay Sampson has given us the first book in her new series. Jenny Davison is in end stage cancer and she desperately wants to revisit the place which drew her and her husband Aidan together. The Davisons take their precocious daughter...

Hide and Seek has become a grown-ups game in this mystery thriller book by Paul Brown. Peter, Gavin, Colin, Cheryl, Michelle, Cas, Laura and Steven were best friends as kids and named themselves the Excellent Eight. They are now adults and gathered for Gavin’s funeral....

"The Unraveling of Reverend G" by R J Thesman is a caring, loving Christian fiction story about a woman who has just found out she has dementia and will soon be battling with Alzheimer’s. Reverend G must give up the work she loves: helping the...

Author James Moore has written a gem of a book for all aspiring musicians. "Your Band is a Virus" is a book that should be in bookstores, music stores, libraries and in holiday stocks of potential musicians everywhere. The author explains, in the initial chapters,...

12th Man For Death by Gregory Randall is everything you’d expect from this exciting author. Catherine Voss is murdered while taking her revolutionary new trimaran for a test sail. Her twin brother wants answers so he calls in Sharon O’Mara, Facilitator, to solve the mystery....

Controversial but dedicated U.S. Senator David Kursten, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Crime, Drug Trafficking and Terrorism, is in Peru to see if the cocoa fields which are producing cocaine can be eradicated. As they fly above the Huallaga Valley in Peru, Senator...

It is Victorian times and "lady typewriter" (secretary in modern times), Hattie Davish, arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to work for Mother Trevelyn, the head of the American Women's Temperance Coalition. The AWCT is comprised of women who wish to rid alcohol from homes and...

Forty year old Keene Mason, who describes himself as a "boring engineer", has died. He wishes to have his casket filled with 2005 Saint Emilion wine which costs over 50 dollars a bottle and he wants to lie in his casket, now wine-filled, for a...