Nick Wittier has recently taken up residence in the central Illinois town of Starside. He is a research doctor at the local hospital and is on the verge of making a stunning medical breakthrough that will bring an end to a deadly scourge. Nick Whittier...

Susie And The Missing Children (Susie's Adventures) by Susan Valentine is the second book of this series. Susie is a very talented girl. She is contacted by two aliens who need her help in tracking some missing children. Lord Botanica is an elderly man who...

Every now and then, people remember their dreams. Twenty-five-year-old Lettie, however, has the same dream that seems to unravel something important to her night after night. When the dream starts to become real, the young photographer’s life begins to take a different turn, and she...

Tales of a Rookie Rancher Volume 2 by Robert B. Hamilton is an interesting book about the experiences of the author living on a farm with his family. He is content with cleaning the stalls, spreading the manure in the garden, and giving the evening's...

The imagination and inexhaustible humor of a 14-year-old boy is not to be trifled with. Derek Adie Flower in The Weird And Wonderful Adventures Of Tim Wessurp introduces us to a British hero boy named Tim or Twerp. This exceedingly tall tale begins oddly enough...

No longer lonely — with friends like Sunny, Aneta, and Vee — Esther hopes to be one of the S.A.V.E. Squad girls forever. But when mean girl Melissa Dayton-Snipp returns, intent on pushing her way into the squad, Esther begins to worry. While helping injured...

Stumbling Through The Dark: A Husband and Wife's Final Year of Life Together is written by Thelma Zirkelbach. This book gives a front row view of a husband and wife's final moments together; a story of a married couple's journey down the road of terminal...

Leveling Up! From Playing Games to a Stellar Career in Silicon Valley is a short memoir of author Elbert Lai who gave up the path to a medical profession after he graduated from U.C. Berkeley, and embarked on a life adventure that would take him...

The thriller Hoke, by Vivien Braslau, opens with Hoke and his lovely wife, Maria, who are visiting with Hoke’s best friend, Bobby, at Bobby’s estate. Hoke and Bobby have known one another since they were just boys, but ultimately the two made very different lives...

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....