Sea Trials: Around the World With Duct Tape and Bailing Wire by Wendy Hinman is the true story of the Wilcox family. In 1973 they took to their 40-ft sailboat and started on a journey around the world. Just over a year on and they...

The Crystilleries of Echoland by Dew Pellucid begins as thousands of children disappear with only one child ever having returned. Will Cleary returned with a falcon and a wolf to watch over him, but his twin sister remained behind in Echoland, another world filled with...

Escape from Doubting Castle (Abigail and Her King) by Mary E. Laders is a great tale of deception and adventure. Abigail has been sent away from the only place she could call home, banned forever. Or at least until she can escape from Prince Beelzebub,...

''Melody'' (not her real name) survived a relationship with a man she believed to be a psychopath. In Breaking Free of Manipulation, she offers us a brief but useful combination of a personal story of her experience and advice for those who may face a...

Angelina Bonaparte (pronounced Bon-ar-par-tay) is a female private detective working out of Milwaukee. Six years ago Marcy Wagner hired Angie to find out what happened to her school teacher husband, who just disappeared from her life and that of their three children, cleaning out the...

Zegar Mazel: It All Started in 1951 is a collection of autobiographical adventure stories for children written by Marc Zegar. Zegar was in his forties when he finally started his family, and, due to his personal circumstances, he had to raise them without their experiencing...

Letters to Eula by Michael Bussa tells the story of Sesame who has been living in the attic and has lost count of how long it has been. She has been writing letters to her sister, Eula, about the goings-on in the house she is...

Lindsey Casselton was cleaning out her mother’s house when she found a photograph that changed her life. Her father had died, and her mother, suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s Disease, lived in a facility. The photograph was dated nine months before Lindsey’s birth – and her...

I have read past titles from Nikki LeClair and enjoy her creations, so I was looking forward to Reuniting Reality. Chick lit plus a reality TV show – I am there! Our main character is Julie Duncan, who once had it all. A solid career,...

Relationship Resuscitation: The Juniper Court Series is a sizzling contemporary romantic comedy written by Jennifer Theriot. Phillip and Jayne Miller seemed like they had it all. His law career was a successful one, and her blog was wildly popular and personally fulfilling. As the first...

Mark W Sasse's A Man Too Old for a Place Too Far: The Forgotten Child Trilogy Volume 1 is an adventure novel set in contemporary times. Francis Frick, 72, a self-made millionaire, owns a Manhattan consulting firm. He is ruthless, mean, demanding, and self-centered. Ruthy,...

The Tell: A Memoir by Linda I. Meyers is a gripping memoir in expert hands, a heartrending, yet sobering tale written with psychological and emotional acuity. We encounter Linda I. Meyers as a child who can’t make sense of the inevitable fights between her parents...

The Society of Imaginary Friends by Kristen Pham is the first book in the Conjurer series. Valerie knows how to go unnoticed as she's bounced between various foster homes and the streets. She loses her current foster home after a visit from Sanguina, a woman...

Wolf Hollow by Nikki Jefford is Book 1 of the Wolf Hollow Shifters Series, set in a post-apocalyptic world. Sasha, the alpha of the pack, is under huge pressure. As a pureblood, it is her duty to choose another pureblood to help repopulate the pack....

Things Fall Apart: A Mother’s Plight by Sharon Brownlie is the story of Mandy, the thirty-five-year-old mother of teenage twins and Jakey, eleven. Divorced from an abusive husband and working hard to stay independent of welfare benefits, she thinks she has life licked. Her youngsters...

We are living in a fallen world. If you did not realize it, look at some of the movies that are playing in the theatres or on TV. A point we are missing is that what we are seeing and hearing is affecting us. Especially...

Melt by Michele Barrow-Belisle is a Faerie Song Saga novella. Venus destroyed everything in her path during her last trip to Drearyton Cove, but now she knows her greatest enemy is her sister so she returns to find the mother who abandoned her. She has...

My Love Affair With Italy by Debbie Mancuso is an engaging memoir that takes readers along with the author on her travels in Italy. She speaks about her passion for Italy where she has stayed in farm houses, monasteries, a 1000-year-old converted wine cellar in...

Pemberley: The Next Generation by Margaret Lynette Sharp is a short story that chronicles the happenings surrounding twenty-one-year old Fitzwilliam Edward Darcy’s birthday. His mother, the Mistress of Pemberley, is ecstatic and carefully plans for this beautiful day. Among the guests invited is Emily Collins,...

Jake, Lucid Dreamer by David J. Naiman deals in a fictional, heart wrenching manner with what occurs after the death of a parent and how children can handle such a loss. Twelve-year-old Jake is grappling with the loss of his mother who passed away 4...