“Harley and the Egg” by Malinda Mitchell is an educational tale about a red dachshund puppy named Harley, and his response to discovering an egg in the yard. Harley asked his mother if he could keep the egg, incubate it, and raise whatever hatched from...

Fans of Jeffery Deaver will be thrilled with his latest offering “Triple Threat: 3 Original Short Stories.” Fans will be thrilled with the return of Kathryn Dance, a police officer with a special talent for reading body language, in 'Fast'. In this short story she...

"Monster Hill" tells of Boston and the crime bosses and their followers who trafficked in whatever brought them power and money. Years ago, in 1963, Angelo Garguilo ran all the local crime except for that of the Irish, better known as the Winter Hill gang....

"Unintended Consequences" by Marti Green is an excellent read. Dani Trumball is drawn into solving an old murder case. One man, George Calhoun, is in death row, and maintains he is innocent of killing his daughter, Angelina. There is a body, but it is badly...

Birmingham, Alabama, was a hot bed of trouble in 1963. There had been fifty unsolved bombings of black people's properties in the last twenty years. Black adults wanted no part of protest marches as they knew there would be retaliation. They watched over their children...

On the day Lewis Nash turned twelve, he expected to feel a bit different, maybe a bit older and wiser. He didn’t expect to turn into the shape of anything that popped into his head, like a stick insect or a dinosaur. It is all...

"A World Apart" is a very long fantasy. It is essentially about the fate of a family and three friends — Demetrius, Eleyna, and Halcyon. The book starts with the stories of Demetrius’s grandfather, who was a great soldier, and Demetrius’s father, who was content...

For second-generation Goth princess, Emylene Stipes, life is anything but normal. Born to first-generation Goth parents, Vandy and Theo Stipes, Emylene, their only child, is rebellious and is revered by the Goth community. "Perverse" by Larry Rodness is a story where myths meet legends, and...

Andrea Collins meets Lans Mulder when she is fourteen years old. She is staying on her grandparents' farm when Lans' family arrive from the Netherlands. Andrea and Lans find that they enjoy being together, riding horses across her grandparents' vast land. Lans even loves it...

Life was good for Jamie Matthews at age five. His family closely held his mom, his dad, his twin sisters Rose and Jasmine, and of course him. That wass until September 9th, when a series of terrorist bombs were set off and Rose happened to...

Maggie Stevens has been a faithful wife to her husband, Carter, for twenty years. But she finds he has cheated on her for five years and now has the audacity to divorce her, leaving Maggie for an older, wealthier woman. Poor Maggie! Carter has taken...

“Straw,” a book of poems written by Carol Moscrip, deals with a wide array of subjects and yet each poem is well-imagined and well-written. There are thirty-one poems that make up this collection and they are divided into three sections. The poems address serious issues...

Make it Short, Make it Simple by Luis Rousset is the story of Alan Leary, a detective from New York who goes to Macae, Rio de Janeiro to investigate the sudden death of an engineer. Once he gets there, he realizes that this case is...

Carefree Clement Scheutz and his girlfriend Samantha love to roam the Caribbean wherever their schooner will take them. But they are out of money and head to Culebra, an island with few tourists and easy living. Clement is offered a shipping job of taking a...

Kara Knight has been accepted at the University of North Carolina to study nursing, something she has always wanted to do. She has worked the night shift in the power plant where she lives in Williamsport, Maryland, and has just moved into her own...

The setting is smalltown Hollyhill, Kentucky, in the summer of 1964 and thirteen year old Jocie Brooke has had one of her prayers answered. The family dog, Stumpy, had been killed years before and Jocie wants another dog as her own. She finds ugly, hungry,...

“Life After 50: The Road to Longevity” by Dr. Paul M. Valliant is a comprehensive guide for each and every person who is approaching the age of fifty. Based upon the author’s experience of turning the age of fifty along with some of his friends,...

In "Friends Forever, Facing Whatever," Lori Stebert gives the reader glimpses of the various facets of friendship. She offers friendship quotes and then explains how laughter, tears, adventures, special moments, fears, life changes and lasting memories all tend to bind a friendship. The author suggests...

“Small Hangers” by Amy H. Fraher is something of an enigma; it is a children's book written for parents. Not unlike the 1986 classic “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch, “Small Hangers” is destined to draw out a veritable flood of tears from the aching...

Tim Dorsey writes humorous thrillers that are off-beat and amusing, and in his "The Riptide Ultra-Glide" he has written another goofy but well-written novel featuring Serge and his sidekick Coleman. Serge and Coleman are in Florida hoping to create a reality TV show rivaling what...