Jake is a starry-eyed adolescent, who is so much in love with Erika that he cannot see that they are drifting apart. He is caught up with school and work and planning a life in their little Illinois town, with its bandstand park and its...

Joan Koss has written a Christian devotional entitled "Bowing Before God". There is a separate devotional for a period of forty days. Each devotional details a particular problem or state of mind by the author and it then presents various verses from scriptures to aid...

"Wedding Cakes with Lorelie" is a step-by-step self-help book for the beginner wedding cake maker. It has a comprehensive list of utensils, what baking terms mean, measurements, and where or what you need to buy to start with the business of baking wedding cakes. It...

In "Promised Valley Conspiracy", the third in the innovative series, Ron Fritsch continues to chronicle the social and political turmoil of the unique prehistoric world he has created. Tensions remain high between the agrarian Valley People and the hunting-class Hill People, and whatever truces were...

From the author Jeanette Gordon’s perspective, the book A Message for Mankind is divided into two parts – Part I is Giving Voice and Part II is Pen to Paper. The first part is where the journey begins and tells us straightforwardly that there is...

Alpha Redemption by P.A. Baines allows readers to journey deep into space where they will observe astronaut Brett Denton in total isolation as he searches his soul. Denton lost it all, his wife, sons, his faith in God and himself. After applying to be a...

In Falling Into Place, S.R. Lewis takes us through her life, exploring different spiritual and inspirational incidents that have helped shape her into the faithful and spiritual person that she is today. The beginning of the novel tells the tragic story of a little girl...

T. Nikia Evans in the book Prophetic Wisdom About You does a wonderful job of penning descriptive ways that God desires to speak to an individual and how that individual can respond back to God concerning their calling and purpose in life. When an individual...

Grandma’s Notes on Parenting by Brenda Silveira is about the difficulty of being a parent for the first time and how unprepared all new parents are for the responsibility of another human being's future. It will appeal to parents-to-be as well as new parents alike....

The world is witnessing the end of times, and Symone Carter is right smack in the middle of it when the novel Apocalypsis by Lecon J. Murphy begins. She’s in Chicago, taking supplies for the only surviving people living in the underground. This group of...

"I like thinking that I am a spaceship. I know that I have to take control of my warp speed brain so that I can slow everything down." So says Drake in Donalisa Helsley's My Warp Speed Mind. This journey begins with schoolkid Drake having...

Chunky Sugars by Sara Barnard is a delightful story about a mamma and baby bear. The concept of introducing numbers up to 5 is beautifully done. The pictures are also colorful and attractive and it breathes life into the characters. It's an ideal children's story...

Blog of a Bully by Stephen Zanzucchi is about Bradley Duncan, a 13-year-old nerd who transforms himself from a nerd to a bully when he is forced to move to another state and join a new school. This story reminded me a lot of Diary of...

There is so little we understand about alternative medicine. Yet before we started feeding our bodies with chemically produced pills, people cured themselves with natural substances and they generally lived long and happy lives. Trust Your Intuition by Jenni Wilson is an inspirational compilation of...

Thunder and Lightning is a good romantic story. Camille and her twin brother Ujesh had a black slave mother and their father is the much feared Great Hawk, a famous Indian chief. Camille watched as her mother was killed and then she narrowly misses being...

Isabella's Special Wish is a children's story written by Deborah Belica and illustrated by Elizabeth Karsch. Isabella goes on a journey to have a wished granted by the king. Each page in the book describes her journey and her wish in a series of humorous...

In Four Fiends: Countdown to Dammerung (Book 1), Nikki Bennett introduces four unique and personable youngsters, each of whom has suffered a loss or who believes himself — or perhaps is seen by the others — as lacking in some way, or who has some...

In Dust to Blood: Red Slaves #1 by Tonya Cannariato, Anne Crosby enjoys a relatively free lifestyle travelling the world as a researcher for the Stone Think Tank. A trip to Moscow turns into more of an adventure than she is expecting, though, as she...

Most kids love monsters, and I really like that Mark Adam Kaplan’s Monsters Do Ugly Things not only tells about the bad things monsters do, it tells about the good things too. Each page in this little book has a picture of a monster in...

Native Nights Roxanna is a short romance fiction reminiscent of the smaller and shorter Harlequin or Silhouette Series -- a mini-read that gives you a burst of romance without spending days reading a long, drawn out romance. Roxanna O’Donnell is a widow in the rough...