The Dance of the Spirits, by Catherine Aerie, is the story of Jasmine Young who is raised in a well-to-do home in China. Her life is punctuated by experiences of wealth and plenty on the one hand, and family misery on the other. Throughout Jasmine’s...

Gravy, Grits, and Graves by Vicki Blair is a thrilling mystery. Trooper Daniel Brooks, local basketball hero, returns to McWhorter and he is given an assignment immediately. He has to investigate the deaths of the Mayor's Tuesday Club members. This is a secret club controlled...

Dark prophecies, mysterious heroes, and a savior who might be the only thing standing between the depths of hell and those of the light. The Sybilline Prophecy: Lavender's Quest has all of this and more. Carol Linn has created a short, yet powerful novella about...

Casey Carter's poetry is unique. It's not like the classic poetry we learn in school, or even like the "blogger poems" that crop up all over the internet. It's something uniquely different in a good way. Imagery is key in order for me to enjoy...

In Freckled Venom Copperhead, author Juliette Douglas makes her literary debut in grand fashion! Lacy Watson is a young woman with a troubled past. She avoids the healing process while presenting a brash and raucous exterior demeanor. When Lacy meets small town Sheriff Rawley, after...

Knock Knock addresses a tough issue in a gentle manner. Author Daniel Beaty presents a young child who is deeply loved by his father and in return, the father is an important role model for the child. One day, the father simply disappears from the...

Sudha Bhagwat's From Trudeau's Canada to Obama's America is an engaging, well-written book. The author shares with the reader a collection of emails exchanged between Abhi, an older brother, and a younger sibling, who is never named. Abhi emails the younger, unidentified sibling questions on...

In There’s No One Like Mom: Tips, Tools and Strategies for Elder Care, Carole Alexander presents a handy guide that outlines what it takes to care for an elderly parent in your home. In very personal anecdotes from her life with her aging mother, Alexander...

The Christmas season is a time for stories of family, warmth, and togetherness and that is precisely what Kathi M. Nidd delivers in Fuzzball’s Christmas Eve Adventure. When Fuzzball goes out for a Christmas Eve walk with David, happily awaiting and anticipating all the things...

Gotcha!, a novel in Fern Michaels’ Sisterhood series, is a fast-paced story that returns readers to the lives of this group of women who take matters into their own hands and seek revenge and justice. Julie believes there is something more to the death of...

George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That saved the American Revolution was written by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. The audio version was narrated by Brian Kilmeade. Six brave and loyal patriots risked their life to make this a free nation. General George Washington...

The Motor City and Me: Our Story by Mary Anne McMahon recounts the story of a migrant family settled in Detroit. Through the book the author describes, rather flamboyantly, the magnificence of Detroit as one of the foremost industrial cities and hub of cultural and...

Janice Garden Macdonald’s poignant collection of short stories entitled The Plainness of My Fall is well worth the short amount of time it takes to read them. Every story within the collection, six stories in total, is an award winner, including the title story “The...

Shatter is the latest steamy, romantic novel by Joan Swan. It introduces the reader to Halina, a woman who goes by many names and has a seemingly mysterious background. Then we meet Mitch, a government agent who goes through women like cows go through a...

Spirit Immortal by Samuel Scime is a provocative book about one man's quest to find the human soul. The author is a ophthalmologist who believes he witnessed the soul entering the body of a baby at birth. He also recalls seeing what he believed to...

The Eye of the Dragon by Rio Guzman is an interesting look at a Native American style spiritual journey. Guzman states that he attended a workshop on the teachings of Carlos Castaneda, the author of several books on his experiences with a Mexican sorcerer, Don...

It was an honor to review Outlaw written by Ted Dekker, read by Nicola Barber. Julian Carter and her two-year-old son traveled from Atlanta to the Northern Coast of Australia in answer to a recurring dream. What began as a dream soon turned into a...

All the Angels Stood by Laura J. Marshall is a story that revolves around Staci Schofield. Staci is going through an unhappy phase in her life which makes her want to end it on her birthday, which falls on Monday. Rush, a school mate becomes...

The Outcasts by Kathleen Kent takes us back to the 19th century. On the Gulf coast of Texas, Lucinda Carter has just escaped a destitute life within a brothel to find her lover and gain the life she has been longing for. With a desperate...

Caught in the Current, the debut novel by Daniel Hryhorczuk, is a bildungsroman that explores the identity which Alec, a Ukrainian-American college student, struggles to create for himself throughout his journey through Europe and the places he grew up in. On the “Offbeat Europe” tour...