A Simple Guide to Socratic Parenting by Laurie Gray is an excellent overview of a Socrates-inspired approach to parenting. For readers who are worried that this book will be complicated due to the philosophical title, there is no need to worry, since Laurie writes in...

A Nashville Woman and Other Sorrows: Music City Poems contains a set list of poems that at first are about a woman, but end up being about Nashville itself -- not the glitzy Hollywood version, but the real, soul-crushing toil of the Music City. Not...

In the fourth installment of the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series, A Twist of Fortune, author Mike Martin continues his excellent mystery series in fine fashion. Follow the experiences of Sgt. Winston Windflower in both his personal and professional life in Grand Bank, Newfoundland in Canada....

A Place in the World by Cinda Crabbe MacKinnon is set against the backdrop of Colombia. Alicia, a young American, marries into a wealthy Colombian coffee growing family. A biologist, she is transported into her husband Jorge's world where she lives on a coffee finca....

In A Vintage Year by author Kate Preston, we are offered almost an insider's look into the beautiful world of a vineyard. Follow the story of Harris Tucker, the former tennis star, as he takes a job as a farmhand after he's been left homeless...

A Poisonous Journey: The First Lady Evelyn Mystery is a historical sleuth mystery written by Malia Zaidi. Evelyn's bored with her life in London, especially now that the city is in its cold, gray and drizzly late-winter weather pattern. Life with Aunt Agnes is predictably...

A Swan's Sweet Song by J. Arlene Culiner is a contemporary romance that takes two seasoned and mature characters who are opposites and asks what happens when they fall in love. Sherry is a hard working, determined woman who pulled herself out of poverty and...

Have you ever thought of taking a journey cross-country, I mean really cross-country as in across the entire country or the majority of it, on horseback? What an exciting trip that would be. What stories you would have to share. But what would you take...

A Place Halfway by K.C. Finn is the third book in the Synsk series. The book focuses on sixteen-year-old Josie who has a lot more to deal with than the average 1960s teenager. She is but one of a school full of psychic children who...

A Little Magick (Magick Series Book 2) by Marie Lavender revolves around a cute little girl, Rosie, who goes to stay with her uncle. Uncle Adam's home is big and he has built a tree house in the yard for Rosie, and has also made...

A Cold Case: Not All Missing Persons Are Lost is a young adult mystery by K.D. Van Brunt. Jake Weathers, a 1985 high school senior, becomes curious when he finds a puzzling note written by Trish Hawthorne who disappeared with Kate Delisle, shortly after their...

A Knight for Kallen by Lauren Linwood is the story of Kallen, a unique young woman with a special gift who was born in a convent and spent the first 18 years of her life there. After the deaths of two people that swore nobody...

A Gypsy's Kiss (The Sectorium Series Book 1) by Susan Griscom is about a girl called Breena, who is at college and makes spare cash by reading tarot cards for people. The thing is, Breena can really see the future. When she touches a person,...

Wow! I just finished reading A Second Daniel, the first book of In The Den of the English Lion series by debut author Neal Roberts, and all I can say is WOW! In this absolutely fantastic story, readers will meet protagonist Noah Ames. An orphan...

Ahh, poetry. The genre of work that with just a few words on a page can truly take the reader to another place, to another time, or simply take their breath away. When reading the new collection by poet Judy Croome, A Stranger in a...

In A Stone’s Throw by Debbie De Louise, librarian Alicia Fairmont has just lost her husband in a hit and run accident. Six months after the unfortunate incident, she travels from her home in Long Island to her husband’s hometown of Cobble Cove, New York,...

In A Superpower For Me, Mariana Llanos has written about a superpower few people realize they have. This superpower is a power that people gain as soon as they turn eighteen. It took me a while to guess the superpower and it may be a...

A Mother’s Day Murder: Mt. Abrams Mysteries Book 1 by Dee Ernst is a quaint novel of the cozy mystery genre. Mt. Abrams is a quiet, lakeside community where nothing ever happens, or so people think. Ellie Rocca, recently divorced freelance editor, lives with her...

What does Sheriff Clay Holbrook, unaccounted for bank deposits, eleven unsolved deaths in Macon, Pennsylvania, the Deerbusters, and the installment of the new Sheriff Chris DeAngelo all have in common? They are the main elements of a great crime, mystery, and thriller novel, A Season...

Life and the act of living one's life is hard work. It has its ups and downs, its joys and its sorrows. And then there are the tragedies, the evil that attacks us all in one way or another. But, no matter how hard life...