Compass: Creating Exceptional Organizations: A Leader’s Guide was written by William F. Brandt, a man with an exceptional skill in strategic planning. In his book he shares his expertise for creating a successful company. As the name suggests, this book is a compass pointing leaders...

The Apprentice by M.L. Hall is about Artamos De'spada and his trial mission with his mentor Adrian Rizzo and Black Knight Falita Kain. The mission is simple: escorting the king's betrothed safely from the Cromanian border to Caltania. This book, like any fantasy tale, takes you...

You Are Mine by Janeal Falor introduces us to Serena who knows she will always be owned by a warlock and she will never be free. Serena also knows that no matter what her warlock wants -- if it’s cruel, inane or anything similar --...

The Last Time by Elodie Parkes is a hot and romantic story about lonely Bethany Snow and actor Seth Carbery. The two meet on a movie set and fall head over heels in love. Seth Carbery had sworn to stay away from relationships and Bethany...

Biblical Experiences by I. Daryl Pressley is a deep and profound treatise on Biblical living. Mr. Pressley presents multiple sound examples of how reading and following the Bible can enrich one’s life. It would be difficult to argue against any of the points presented in...

This is a review of the audio format of The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorsensen, read by Leslie Bellair. Callie was raped on her twelfth birthday by her brother’s best friend. Her personality changed; she started wearing baggy clothing, chopped her hair...

In Wicked Souls by Sabrina Samples, Spencer Bishop’s husband, David, dies due to the head injury he sustained in an accident. Strange things take place in no time, with the appearance of a man named Aiden who warns Spencer about an angel called Zaapiel. Spencer...

The Not Wholes by Giovanna Pezzulo is about an Italian teenager who has been castrated. The story deals with how a certain strata of the society accept him and how the rest do not. The backdrop of the story is a music conservatory in Italy. For...

Take the time each day to read a Bible verse and memorize it phrase by phrase. Rachelle Ayala suggests this spiritual devotion in Your Daily Bible Verse: 366 Verses Correlated by Month and Day. She notes that a difficult time in her life inspired her...

Express Cafe and Other Ramblings by Heather Crouse is a collection of stories dealing with human emotions and the path life takes. All the stories are different from one another but the theme is the same. Some of them are inspiring and some are ones...

Intelligent Life on Earth? The Search Continues by Barbara Cohea is FUNNY! This entire book is a collection of short essays about… well, about almost everything. All the way through this book, I kept thinking, “This woman should be a newspaper columnist.” After the conclusion...

Captain Pegleg and the Greatest Treasure by Graham Austin-King is a book apparently meant to entertain children, without teaching anything… and that’s just fine. Entertainment, after all, is the reason most adults read what they read. However, there IS a lesson to be learned from...

When the world-wide war stalemate causes other military equipment manufacturers to fail, Acme remains flourishing. The company aids near bankrupt industries with loans, buying unrealized technological innovations, and providing jobs to the once dying city of Corinth. The company utilizes its massive repository of technological...

Applause for this ultra-creative time travel story! In My Two Lives by Jan Hunter, main character Jill Woods is a lovely Brit school teacher in her early thirties, who keeps her life as simple as possible and her heart well-protected -— she’s had her fill...

When we start Elodie Parkes’ The Winter Girl, we meet the winter girl, Lily, fresh from a painful breakup and new to the small town of Belvedere. Intending to take a break from men, from work, and from her old life, Lily was not expecting...

After reading Michela O’Brien’s Playing On Cotton Clouds, you’ll not only wish you were a child of the 1980s, you’ll reconsider everything you thought you knew about coming-of-age during this era of fluorescent clothing and punk rock. Told over two and a half decades of...

In The Jewish Ninja, Allegra Coleman has given young adult readers a taste of living and growing up in a Jewish community. Following the death of her parents in an automobile accident, twelve-year-old Alexia is forced out of her comfortable world of friends, family, and...

Karin Gunderson's book Encounters with Heaven is a lovely collection of stories to inspire those undergoing daily stress as well as those about to make the passage from life to death. The book consists of personal stories related to the author as well as those...

Henri Duval’s The Ambition of Madame LaFargue is a witty, amusing story set in a tiny village in France. Celestine LaFargue, like a modern day Madame Bovary, is bored with her comfortable life as the wife of a wood merchant in a sleepy rural community....

The Apple of my Eye by Christine McGreggor is about Michelle and her grandmother with whom she shared a special relationship. When her grandmother dies, she leaves the house to Michelle. The apple trees in the yard remind Michelle of her times with her grandmother...