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...

Marike is Prussian, but after World War II ends, she and her four children, Heinz, Elisabet, Helena and Edel, her sister Agathe and her children, and their elderly mother and father seek refuge in designated camps in Denmark. Marike's husband, Horst, has been missing in...

In "The Devil's Garden" by Brady Christianson, the reader finds retired Recon Marine Brandon Colson comfortably entrenched in suburbia in Southwest Florida. When a home evasion occurs putting Colson, his wife and three young daughters at death's door, Colson springs into action, using his substantial...

The question of believing is one that author Barbara Briggs Ward brings to life in her book, "The Reindeer Keeper." She enables the reader to experience that when one truly believes there is an unending list of possibilities that can occur. The reader is taken...

"Hip Hip Hurray We Found Teddy" by author Silvia Sullivan allows the reader into the life of a mouse whose life is very orderly and tidy. Mouse enjoys his routine and finds it fulfilling, even the town he lived in was called "Everything Has A...

"Destiny" by Karen Wiesner is a very good book. As a Christian I could relate to this book on many levels. As humans, when we are on a spiritual level sometimes we find it hard to forgive ourselves when we feel that we have done...

This short tale is about Juan and why he can’t sleep. Everything disrupts his slumber: every little sound from noises under his bed to his sister getting a drink from the bathroom. The author, Beckstrand, intersperses poetry and alliteration within this story to elaborate on...

"Stealer of Horses" is a novel featuring Jeff McQuede, a sheriff who lives in a small town in the Black Mountain Reservation. A beautiful, engaging woman called Susan Spence goes missing and is presumed dead. She is in possession of a large amount of money...

Horace Helfin's "Horrifying Halloween" is John McCarthy's second book in the 'Horace Helfin series'. Horace Helfin is a magical elf who comes to little Sally Connors and her friends in times of need. Together they fight any evil which comes to their community of Somertown....

This is a sweet tale about a group of three children who spend a year with their grandmother on her farm. The book is filled with imagery throughout and simple, yet beautiful illustrations. The children spend a year with their grandmother and learn about farming...