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...

Fairylicious is book one in Tiffany Nicole Smith's Fairylicious Series. It's the story of Bex Carter, a twelve-year-old girl who lives with her little sister, Reagan, and her grandmother, Nana. Bex is big on fairies and has posters and figurines all over her room. Bex's...

Beyond the Storm by Joseph Pittman is a story that begins in the present and also takes the reader back in time. A woman waits for her lover to return on a ship when she is swept away to the sea. We are then taken...

In My Hope is Found, the third book of the Cadence of Grace series, author Joanne Bischof does a quick catch-up with the reader, which both acquaints the reader with the previous two books and also reminds the reader of the critical dilemma facing the...

A Girl's Guide to Making Really Good Choices is written by Elizabeth George. This is an interactive guidebook, journal, and devotional study for young girls. It offers young girls a chance to read questions, answers questions, read scriptures, and become fully aware that each choice...

You Were the First, written by Patricia MacLachlan and illustrated by Stephanie Graegin, is a beautiful story celebrating a child's 'firsts' in his or her life. This story takes the reader through many milestones that a baby and, later on, toddler and young child accomplish...

Susie's Adventure on the Magic Island is written by Susan Valentine. This book is brimming with adventure, magic, mysterious animals, and people. It's an imaginative story line full of excitement and fun. Susie needs to get her homework done. She has procrastinated and waited...

Island of the White Rose by R. Ira Harris is a period piece set in Cuba during the 1950s and the revolution. Father Pedro Villanueva is the conflicted hero of this novel, a lack-luster priest that enjoys his family’s well-to-do lifestyle more than he enjoys...

Audra Tanner thinks she is going to be made an equity partner in one of Arizona’s leading accounting firms, Winscott & Associates. Olin Kemper, the firm's CEO, personally goes through the process of making her a partner, but in a private evening meeting he brutally...

Anne Wilson's psychological thriller, Here Be Dragons, is aptly subtitled A Tale of Mortals, Myths and Mystery. Anna has thrown caution to the wind and decided to leave her teaching position in England to live in her family's summer flat in sunny Mallorca. She has...