Set in upstate New York, teenage Aurora "Rori" Mason loves her neighbor, Nathan Jovanovich, but when he returns from a family vacation linked with another neighbor, Jenna, Rori is destroyed. Her minister father loves her, but distantly, since the death of her mother years before;...

In Queen Vernita Meets Sir Heathybean the Astronomer, Queen Vernita sent an invitation to Sir Heathybean and Cora the Teacher to come to her castle for one week a month, Monday through Saturday, for the whole year in order to teach her visitors about astronomy....

Author Martin Lewis offers the reader a fantasy delight in Parallel Lives. Richard Jones is a pathologist who is recently divorced and has just lost his job. He is contemplating taking his own life when a double appears to him from a parallel universe, telling...

Honor’s young daughter discovers a sick man lying in the backyard of their rural home. As Honor runs out to help him, she realizes, within moments, that this is simply a ploy for him to get into her home. Terrified, she allows him into...

30 Days To Taming Your Fears by Deborah Smith Pegues helps shed some light on most fears. Everybody in one way or another is fearful of something, and this little book covers most anxieties, fears and phobias. The book is written in four parts: health...

Wow! Reading Douglas A. Jacoby's Your Bible Questions Answered made me feel a little bit like one of the contestants on the television game show who isn't smarter than a fifth grader. While I've only been a Christian for 11 years, I thought I...

When my husband and I got married four years ago, even though we are both middle-aged and had both been married previously, we went through a twelve-week marriage class before we got married. We believe that it has made the difference between starting into a...

Three in Avadar starts with a handsome and very experienced warrior, Bengar, who comes upon a woman named Ariadne and her two escorts who are under attack by highwaymen. After Bengar saves Ariadne from capture, she convinces him to take her to her kingdom where...

As an adjunct business professor, I am intimately familiar with and have taught the DISC personality profiles for years in both undergraduate and graduate courses. That is what drew me to this book - a curiosity to see what authors Rosenberg and Silvert had to...

The Second American Revolution by Glenn Neal is a thought-provoking book that should grab the attention of every eligible voter in America. The author's contention is that the United States Supreme Court has, without any authority, assumed the right to make laws and to amend...

Change Your Conversation, Change Your Life by Malinda Dowsett and Lani Barna is about listening to your inner voice and changing the way you talk to yourself and others in order to create the life you most want to live. Everything starts with a thought,...

The Blue Wand-Deliverance, set in London England, is an adventure and fantasy story about a quest of two friends, James and Joey, who are both 14 years old. James and Joey love to have adventures, and when they both get the chance to stay the...

YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND is a delightful children’s book written by Peter Brown. Lucy, the bear, announces that she is going to make a new friend one morning. There are so many critters in the large forest that surely one of them would like...

A Stranger's Gift by Anna Schmidt is a novel about two different individuals: Hester Detlef, a Mennonite woman and John Hafner, a shunned Amish man. Hester, the daughter of a Mennonite minister, is a registered nurse and head of the Mennonite Disaster Service. That she...

The priest, wearing the green cassock which means he is sanctified, climbs to the top of the Citadel, a mountainous religious retreat that towers above the city of Ruin in Turkey. He then opens his arms and stands in the form of the Cross, or...

Guardian of the Dead draws on Maori mythology but is set in modern day New Zealand. Main character Ellie Spenser has enrolled in Mansfield College in southern New Zealand while her parents are on an extended cruise to celebrate her mother's being cancer-free. Ellie is...

In this futuristic thriller, spunky Nettie Matterville is off to begin her training to become a soldier for the Alliance, training for war at Europa Site G against the Union forces whose planets are ruled by a brutal dictator. The Union planets have no independence;...

This is Karen Kingbury's Forever Faithful Series of three books all in one volume. I read this series years ago when it first came out, and when I saw this book, I had to read it again to write a review. This book is awesome,...

Ward McNulty's family lived for years on Timuqua Island near Jacksonville, Florida. Ward's father led a citizen's revolt against the financial backers who wanted to buy out the residents, knock down their modest homes, and build an exclusive resort called the North Beach Project on...

Lucy Stone and her friends Sue, Pam, and Rachel are on a trip to England, organized by Professor George Temple of Winchester College. To her horror, Professor Temple dies of an allergy attack on the flight. Getting beyond the shock of Temple's death, Lucy and...