Jeanie recently made a move away from the city to a small town in order to mend her broken heart. Taking her camera to explore the countryside of a nearby place called Owlswick, Jeanie stumbles upon a bird of prey that she is keen to...

Talking Walls and Cigarettes: And Other Dark Tales is a decidedly wicked horror short story collection by Erin Beck and Kelli Beck. For these dark tales, you'd better remember to read with the light on. One thing of note was that the entire book was...

AFS Paper Airplanes: Incredible Designs You Can Make at Home, by Andrew F. Scharhag, is an informative, instructional book which introduces readers to the art of paper airplanes. There aren't many readers out there who haven't at least attempted to make a paper airplane and...

The plot of Jesse James and the Secret Legend of Captain Coytus by Alex Mueck begins in the present day. Ulysses Hercules Baxter wrote a thesis paper set in the era of Jesse James. When the Harvard professor looked at the paper, he suspected one...

I have to admit that I've never heard of Frontotemporal Dementia, although after reading the book I believe my great-grandmother may have had either that or something similar. This disease is a slow killer, first crumbling away cognitive and thought abilities before eroding away the...

The Adventures of Fugaru by Raji Abuzalaf is a story about a young boy, disfigured and alone, and how he makes his way in the world, eventually traveling to and living in the Secluded Forest. Fugaru is a very unlikely hero. He's skinny, disfigured because...

If you ever had problems with remembering how to tie a tie or if you'd like your kids to have a head-start with it, then Learn To Tie A Tie With The Rabbit And The Fox: Story with Instructional Song by Sybrina Durant is the...

Set in the Sixties, author John Bayliss introduces us to J.F. Springer, a private detective in Five and a Half Tons. He is not the usual noiresque, suave kind of sleuth, but his bumbling personality and lucky streak will keep us amused. It all starts...

Passage at Delphi: A Novel of Spartan Valor by A. K. Patch takes us to ancient times via a modern events. When a terrorist attacks modern Greece, Apollo the god of the sun and prophecy foresees the collapse of the western world as we know...

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything, by Chris Hadfield, was an extremely detailed look at life on Earth and beyond. Through his description of the process of selecting a career,...

Astrology has always fascinated me. Steeped in mysticism like almost no other science, Astrology attempts to make predictions based on the movements of the stars and their relation to us. This belief and practice is very cool and full of creative promise for those who...

Back in the day, Jesse loved to celebrate Christmas with his family. Then one year, his dad had to go to war and it didn't seem as happy as the previous holidays. But when he met Ardella, one of his new paper delivery customers, and...

Murdered on the Streets of Tombstone by Joyce Aros is an intriguing book about one of the most controversial events in America's late 1800s. Readers are transported to a Midwest lifestyle of cowboys, frontier men and women, farmers, raiders, saloons, gambling, and of course gunmen....

Kid Ninja and the Notorious Nine by M. L. Hollaway speaks about bullying and the pain and hardship it causes to the person who is undergoing it. This is the story of Kevin, a fifth-grade student who is bullied in school every day. Kevin...

Molly and the Magic Suitcase: Molly Goes to Thailand (Volume 3) by Chris Oler is about the adventures of Molly and her brother Michael. Both Molly and Michael love traveling and exploring the world using their magic suitcase. In this story, they discover the beauty...

How to Defend Yourself in 3 Seconds (or Less!): The Self Defense Secrets You NEED to Know! (Self Defense & Martial Arts) by Phil Pierce is a no-nonsense guide on how to defend yourself. Unlike other books in this category, Phil Pierce does one great...

David Tish's book Madame Charmaine (The Sheldon Beasley Series) takes an all-too-familiar story line and adds some interesting twists that make the book enjoyable. Nebraska youths Sheldon Beasley, Jimmy Blaze, Bull Evenshot, and Tabby Moore discover a rusty old padlocked trunk and assume they have...

From Grief to Glory an "Otto-Biography" by Otto Rieke is an amazing story and one that will pull you in from the first sentence. Rieke, in his author bio, says it better than anyone else could. "Whether by circumstance, disposition or both, Otto Rieke has...

Peter is not just the boy who never grew up. In fact, he’s a young boy who has been treated badly. Tinkerbell, on the other hand, is not just a fighter as she’s always been known. Instead, she’s a flighty debutante with not much of...

Civil War in Colorado has only been over for a short time, and Leah is through with anything that has to do with the war. And especially anything medical, since she helped her father, who was a surgeon, take care of the medical conditions of...