Following the termination of an emotional affair with a co-worker, Simone, Jonathan turns first to a bottle of Jack Daniels and then to the maternal security of his wife’s sister Joan in order to dull the pain of a loveless marriage to Claire and his...

I’ve enjoyed preserving food for many years, from canning, to freezing, to dehydrating. However, most of the things I canned were rather basic: green beans, potatoes, and tomato juice. I was excited to receive a copy of this book to expand my abilities from the...

The Lonely Lake Monster: The Imaginary Veterinary: Book 2 is written by Suzanne Selfors. This book contains adventure, comedy, excitement, magical creatures, and a creative, mysterious environment. You've heard of mystical creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, and leprechauns in fairy tales and...

In Ready to Die by Lisa Jackson, the fifth novel in the gritty Grizzly Falls series, Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli return to track down a serial killer targeting the town's law enforcement. As the clock ticks and time runs out, the two women...

Looks like there's a new kind of Mad Cow Disease running around. Sure you want to eat that burger? Zombie Baseball Beatdown by Paolo Bacigalupi (Shipbreaker, The Drowned Cities) is an awesome, fast paced zombie/apocalypse yarn that tackles issues like racism, immigration, and factory farming...

The Newbie is written by Roderick J. Robison. The book is filled with lots of emotion and feelings such as sadness, happiness, hopelessness, shame, disappointment, joy, excitement, and awkwardness. As a student approaches a school that they have never attended before, they can become quite...

The Road Home is another in the Amish series by Patrick Craig. In this book, Jenny Springer is a young adult and intensely serious about trying to find her roots. She was adopted by an Amish couple after having been found in a snowstorm. Although...

Lisa Jackson has given readers a chilling story to ponder in her suspense novel, The Morning After. There are multiple murders and no one seems able to connect the dots in order to solve the mystery of people being buried alive, on top of rotting...

Cooper is dead. He's currently being weighed and measured in front of the panel of saints/angels/beings so that he can go to heaven or...down there. Luckily Lucy, Lucifer's sister, is on his side and wants Cooper to live up to his potential. He gets gets...

What happens after we die? For most of us, that question is still a big blank, but for Tegan the answer is a whole new life. Tegan is ripped from her world during what should have been the shining moment of her young life. The...

For whatever reason, I've become a huge fan of audio books lately. I think it comes from starting a new job where I'm working 10-12 hours a day, and there just doesn't seem to be enough time to settle down and actually spend time reading....

For Antonio Amaya, his entire life was dedicated to his family's one goal: getting to the United States. Then the dream comes true, and his family is ecstatic! Yet for Antonio, the United States isn't the golden land of milk and honey that the rest...

La Fee Verte by Samuel Clark is a dramatic and compelling fairy tale and almost legend about how the green fairy ended up “living” inside a bottle of absinthe. The story is told via various characters through letter format, and you almost get a sense...

Photographing Water by John Doornkamp is a book, as the title suggests, on how to photograph water. It is a stunning book with many beautiful images of water. The myriad moods, colors, shapes, and shades of water are perfectly captured. The author also throws some...

Xterra Conspiracy: Book 1 by Ivis Bo Davis begins with Todd as a child suffering a nightmare in which a ship filled with colonists is hit by an asteroid, killing everyone on board. The Earth’s magnetic field is weakening and the survival of the human...

Unexpected Places by Karen A. Williams is a collection of personal poems where the poet throws light on human relationships, emotions, personal experiences, the complexities and joys of life. The expressions are simple, yet very elegant. The author gets her messages across to the reader...

The Secret to Permanent Happiness by Tony Davis is a guide on how to end your misery and suffering, and find happiness in your daily life. Everyone has some problem or other which cannot be resolved quickly. Some of these problems linger and they are...

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, written by Peter Brown, is a cute children's story with an excellent message and beautiful illustrations. Mr. Tiger lives in a world where everyone is proper all the time and, well, a tad boring. There's a lot of gray instead of...

Underwater Dogs: Kids Edition, by Seth Casteel, is a must-have for any dog lover and for children who love rhyming books. The book begins with the line: "When I look underwater, what do I see?" and from there takes the reader on an underwater journey,...

Ghost of Widdecot Manor by Hazel Eggleton is a ghost story with a lot of mystery and adventure. Joshua decides to attend football camp when he finds out that the manor where he is staying is haunted. Everything is going fine until the ghost starts...