Kathleen Rehl has created a little gem of a book in Moving Forward on Your Own, A Financial Guide for Widows. She was widowed suddenly and shares with the reader the grief, blankness, and the symptoms of widowhood in an easy-to-read format with colored photographs,...

A truly wonderful and well written novel! I am highly pleased to say that I really enjoyed this book. Chloe Jon Paul chose a setting and a plot that is superbly detailed and well written, threw in some really great characters and turned out a...

People often say, “Lord, I need a miracle,” or “It will be a miracle if that happens," or "That was a miracle!” What does one think of when thinking of miracles...healing of the body? surviving a disaster? In Everyday Miracles, A Devotional Workbook and Journal,...

I have always loved sci-fi books and the detail in this book is phenomenal. A young man awakes in a “Big Brother” type future and must discover his world and himself. These circumstances really drew me in right from the first chapter. The dialog...

The Strange Life of Walenty Karnowski has a lot of good history in it, both of Poland and the Catholic and Jewish Religions. Sorted by date rather than by chapters, the book begins on August 30, 1841, in Prussia, where a young girl, Marta Nering,...

My Journey to Know the Truth by Tony Kent is first and foremost a personal account of a depressed and angry man who went to Jerusalem to study with Sidi, a guide in the religion of Islam, at a time when his wife had left...

The Golden Pathway is a heart-gripping children’s story written by Donna M. McDine with illustrations by K.C. Snider. This story takes place during the dreadful days when people were allowed to own slaves and abuse them. A boy named David lives on a farm with...

For me a sign of a great author is one who is able to evoke compassion and sympathy when normally there might be none, and that's just what the author does for me in this story. He creates a serial killer who I actually felt...

Working as a researcher in the Vatican’s Secret Archives, Father Garbaldi finds an ancient papyrus hidden in a codex from Alexandria. He has no idea about the imminent events that will turn his world upside down, making him a fugitive from his own church. What...

What a pleasant surprise that there were actually three stories in this book! I was not expecting that when I first picked it up. Just 59 pages long, I would encourage author Tim Kizer to add several more short stories and make it a larger...

Diane Dettmann writes of her long-lasting grief at the death of her first husband, John Hohl, after twenty-eight years of marriage. John and Diane never parented children, but their marriage was a testimonial to two people bonding together completely and the devastation that the surviving...

In the fairy kingdom of Solandia, Queen Magenta and King Godfred punish the king's brother, Prince Thorkel, for attempting to steal the sun orb which gives power to the entire kingdom from the sun. Years pass, Thorkel's survival is unknown, and Queen Magenta gives birth...

The Great Bellybutton Cover-up is a delightful children’s book written by Susan Ross. Violet is a beautiful and wooly sheep who wins first place at the County Fair in the sheep beauty pageant. She is devastated when Farmer Shepherd sheers her glamorous wool coat leaving...

In the five-hundred years since the Pulse caused the Great Collapse ending the Golden Age, civilization has digressed to the point of basic existence. The survivors have been told of an ancient prophecy about an artifact, said to be powerful enough to dramatically change the...

In 1910, before World War I, the Germans plans were to build a railway connecting Berlin to the Persian Gulf. But the British wanted to block those plans, so they send out army officer Lord Leighton to spy on the progress of the Baghdad Railway...

"Revenge" (a Travis Mays novel) by Mark Young is a spine tingling page turning mystery that will keep the reader up way into the night trying to figure out who the killer is. After a stake out goes wrong and an innocent victim is killed,...

What a fabulous book! In "They Stood Alone: 25 Men and Women Who Made A Difference," author Sandra McLeod Humphrey presents people who started out ordinary but accomplished extraordinary things. She explains in the beginning that she chose these particular men and women based on...

This novel is geared for Young Adults but it's superbly written in a way that is perfect for adults too. Ms. Chand brings the reader instantly into the heart of the story. She sets us down next to vivid and complex characters. The ride that...

"The Doll Violinist" is an inspiring and magical book written by Mayra Calvani and illustrated by Amy Moreno. Five days before Christmas, an orphan girl named Emma is in love with the violinist doll in the store window. One of five dolls, the violinist doll...

"Stay Tuned" is the story of Melissa Moore, a producer for the six and ten o'clock news, who has to step in and anchor the last few minutes of the news after the female anchor punches her co-anchor on the air. When Melissa's boss asks...