"Days of Blood & Starlight" is a part of a series and probably the second book. Not knowing what the first book was about, I picked this up. Here we see Karou being held captive in the desert by her enemies who have killed her...

"Four Points in Time and Place: Delights and Dilemmas of a Global Traveler" is a memoir of an American named Shirley traveling to the four points of the world that she loves the best. With her long road trip with friends to Mexico City in...

The book “It’s All in Your Mind” by Lyndsey Sharratt is written for everyone who has a goal in life he or she would like to fulfil but needs some advice on how and where to start. Written by a psychologist and coach, the language...

“Voodoo Intersection” by Yonie Richard is a book about Voodoo, its history and its influences in Haiti. In the various chapters, the author who grew up in Haiti leads the readers through the basic points people need to know about the history of Haiti and...

A middle-aged woman looks back at her time in the past: married, trapped in a loveless marriage while she compensates for her loneliness with food. Suddenly Anne finds herself attracted to a new workmate, David, who shows her the kind of affection she has not...

thy Smith for Readers’ Favorite “Connor Johnson & the Sorcerer’s Pence” is the debut novel and the first in a series written by Michael Smith for young adults. In this book we are introduced to Connor Johnson, a 12 year old nerd that loves to watch...

Joan Theriot-Broussard writes about the death of her husband at 51 years of age, and her process of grieving. She makes the point well that grieving is a process, as the book was published 13 years after his death. We will all deal with the...

By mixing together the world of finance, organized crime and savants, Marc Brem has come up with one thrilling potboiler in ‘Rain Fund’. Owned by Olivier van Dijk, this hedge fund is raining money on the investors; the savants use their mathematical genius to predict...

All I had to do was take a look at the cover of "7 Diets You Can Stick Too: after your NY Resolutions FAIL" by E. Adams and John Burr to know that I wanted to read it. The expression of the woman on the...

Jeffrey Royer’s “The Mercy Project” is a well-planned, suspenseful, political thriller that doesn’t cut corners on detail. Henry Pendelton is the carefree college-aged son of famous Senator Daniel Pendelton and his family has been prestigious D.C. area socialites and political figures for years. One surprise...

If you even remotely like poetry, you will LOVE “From These Eyes” by Robyn Budge. The poems in this book are written with a spiritual perspective incorporating all aspects of life including aging, death, heartbreak and love. The author writes with an aspect of humor...

"The Year of the Horsetails" was first published in 1967. It is a brilliant historical novel that is most probably set in the vast Eurasian steppe, during the early Dark Ages, or late Middle Ages. The novel unfolds as Bardiya, a Saka tribesman, escapes from...

Ethan Compton has worked hard to overcome his past, and now he is poised to reap the rewards of his labors. As an ambitious and aspiring lawyer engaged to the gorgeous and wealthy daughter of “the boss”, Ethan is ready to step away forever from...

"Christmas Beneath a Frozen Lake" by Darrel L. Hammon is one in the series “The Adventures of Bob the Bullfrog”. It is well-written and well-illustrated. Bob is concerned that Santa won’t be able to penetrate the thick ice covering the lake where Bob and...

Carolyn Kane and her friend Kacey are scouring Roswell, Georgia, in the hopes of finding the perfect location to open a restaurant. When Caroline is told about Greyson Manor, one of the original plantation homes in the area, it sounds perfect. When her realtor approaches...

Hampton Road is a psychological thriller written by Michael Segedy. When we first meet Billy, he's in some sort of institution and being given medication by an orderly. Billy's not sure why he's there and hates the medicine which makes him tired and mentally confused....

“Very, Very Short Stories” by Mike Spears is a small collection of six very, very short stories. Several of the stories have some merit to them, but they are all similar in ending very abruptly. I realize flash fiction tends to do that; something about...

“Weeds” by F. Whitney Harrington is a remarkably entertaining work of science fiction, well worth reading by any and all fans of that genre. The premise is a simple one: an alien ship lands in a field on a remote farm, telepathically requesting permission to...

Twenty-year-old Xander Sirocco belongs to an age-old group of beings, but he doesn’t know it, at least not until he unwittingly saves a man from being hit by a bus while fresh out of a class in the college he is attending. He discovers that...

Kelly is your typical blonde bombshell news anchor struggling to make it to the big time. Not that Atlanta's number two news station isn't big time, it is just not big enough. So when a chance to get some real reporting done comes around she...