Fifteen-year-old Crystal O'Mally loves to read mysteries and longs to solve a mystery just like Carolyn Keene, the main character in her favorite mystery series. While she hangs out at the police station in Alamo, Texas, hoping for a crime to solve, nothing ever happens;...

Crimes of a Guilty Land by Brooke Stewart follows two families - the Harts and Beauchamps - through the years of the 19th century. We first start with them in 1825 with Robert Hart. Years down the line, just before the Civil War breaks out,...

I thought The Dragon’s Egg (Relics of Mysticus Book 3) by H.B. Bolton was an astounding book that readers of all ages will be able to enjoy over and over. I should mention that I have not read the first two books but found that...

Malled: A Tale of Revenge by Lee Tidball focuses on Hector Chevas, a young street punk with a talent for architectural design who saves a young girl from being raped by a gang. Janey falls in love with him, a love which doesn't fade over...

When the average person considers matters of philosophy or the psychology of the mind...probably one of the last things you think about is Hiphop. However, rapper and author GaKnew Roxwel challenges those norms with his new book, Under the Influence: Where Hiphop Meets Psychology. A...

Most people know the famous tale of the Earp Brothers and the gunfight in Tombstone. Most have also heard of their friend Doc Holliday, the rough and tough gambler and ladies’ man, known to be deadly with his pistols. But what if there was more...

How Do I Keep My Employees Motivated? The Practice of Empathy-Based Management by George Langelett, PhD is a brilliant play-by-play book for business managers. Organized into five easily digested chapters, the in-depth book also comes with a summary of the overarching concept, daily worksheets and...

Scrooge and Marley by Karl F. Hollenbach is a follow-up story to Charles Dickens' novel, A Christmas Carol. The book builds on the story of Ebenezer Scrooge who had made amends for his mean-spirited ways after an encounter with the ghost of his dead business...

In Rejection Sucks: 40 Days To Making It Suck Less, Dr. Jennifer Johnson addresses the issues of rejection, co-dependency, bitterness, self-deprecation and more, while offering answers and hope. Dr. Johnson draws examples from her own life, as well as from fictional, historical and Biblical figures....

The 13th Guest by Ruth S. Daigneault starts with a dinner invitation. Twelve guests are invited to dinner on Halloween and each one is expected to tell a short story at the dinner. One of the invited guests is a clairvoyant and 2 of the...

Betrayed (Angels of Affection) by Carly Fall is an enjoyable Romance/Sci-Fi/Fantasy fiction story, book one of a series about protagonist Liam, an Australian firefighter who dies on the job. Unfortunately for Liam, his life on Earth has been less than noble. Upon arriving in the...

Lethal Conspiracy by Gary Fuller is a fast paced story about an insidious plot by a group of terrorists. These terrorists called themselves the Soldiers of Allah’s Victory. Unfortunately, their leader Zakir Almahdi was connected to the United Nations as he was aide to the...

The Olympus Cloud: Adventures of a Dreamer is animal fiction written by Stephen Randel. The main character in this series of adventures is a white French Bulldog named Maximilian, Max for short. Max lives with his master, an elderly, retired doctor in Austin, Texas. They...

The Astronaut Wives Club is a fascinating, poignant and often heartrending window into the daily lives of the women whose husbands went to work outside of earth’s atmosphere and all too often did not come home. At the beginning of the Race to Space, the...

Blood Gospel by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell truly offers something for everyone. Horror, suspense, mystery, romance, history and the occult all combine to make this religious-themed thriller as read by Christian Baskous for Harper Audio an edge-of-your-seat listening experience. An ancient order called the...

The Crossover Test by Joseph Schwartz features two brothers - James and Rory Conrad, who were found by their adoptive mother, wandering along a road as children. They have no memory of their past or where they came from. Their new mother, however, is a...

I Want to Be an Athlete and a Teacher (Coby's Athlete and Career Series, Book 1) is a children's book written by Garrett Carter and illustrated by Anahit Aleksanyan. It's suitable for children in kindergarten through third grade. Coby is a young African-American boy who...

The Trip Into Milky Way, a historical coming of age story set during the late sixties and early seventies, is written by Gary Paul Corcoran. Clay is precipitously bounced out into the world when he decides to buck authority one day and wear moccasins without...

There’s something going on behind the scenes in the small town of Whitecross. The star of the town has been found murdered and there are too many suspects to even count. But one seems to stand out above the rest, the one who was supposed...

Health reports tell us that the presence of too much stress in our lives is killing us; on the other hand, stress can serve to motivate and make us perform at our best. Susanne Sweeny looks at how stress can be used properly to help...