Diffusion by Stan C Smith is a fascinating and intriguing adventure novel that takes place deep in the jungles of Papua, a province of Indonesia. Quentin and Lindsey are school teachers from Missouri. Together they escort seven of their students, including their son, Addison, and...

Savage by Stan C. Smith is an exciting adventure that takes place in 1868, Dutch New Guinea. Samuel Inwood is a naturalist and is fascinated with the research of Alfred Russell Wallace on the Papuan cultures. After meeting Wallace, Samuel executes his dream and makes...

By reading the synopsis of God's Sacred Plan for Life: Volume 1 by Ronald Wyenn, I thought this would be a religious book, but I was pleasantly surprised. Yes, there are some religious themes that often appear, but the actual gist of the book is...

A Magical World Becomes the Night is a colorful children’s picture book, written in rhyme and illustrated by Lori Chown. During the day, we see many different animals, but some animals only come out when it is night time. The landscape comes alive with fireflies,...

The Great PJ Elf Chase: A Christmas Eve Tradition by Judy Voigt and Karen LoBello is an endearing story for small kids with Christmas as the backdrop. The Christmas Eve tradition at the Taylor household is that when the boys go to take their baths,...

Winning a cruise was just what Belle Evans needed after losing her fiancé, her so-called best friend and her job, all in one fell swoop. But then she finds out that two of those three things have followed her to the middle of the ocean...

Then She Roars by Vanessa Evetts is a wonderful story that explores emotions of pain and joy, of hope and despair. Avery Bishop has an enviable job, a great body, and a very good life. That is until a routine checkup offers disturbing revelations: She...

Christmas at Mistletoe Ridge by Angie Ellington is a sweet and clean cozy Christmas story that is beautiful to read during the holidays. Cole Stevens is in the small town of Birch Falls for only as long as it takes to make a land deal....

The Humbling and Other Poems is a mesmerizing poetry collection by Robert J. Tiess. The poems delve into the various aspects of life's journey, such as humility, love, apathy, time, hope, and much more. The collection follows a person in the prime of life, wondering...

“Food is more than sustenance, it’s a shared language of love, history, and community.” I love these opening lines in the Introduction to Lana Taylor Stuart’s My Southern Table. Food is much more than what we eat to survive: it defines who we are and...

In The Quest For Freedom by Matthew Devitt, six species inhabit planet Affer: humans, demons, angels, elves, the dammed, and the hybrids. All the species coexisted in peace, but after a while, the other five species attacked the humans and enslaved them. Hundreds of years...

In Blackwood Crossing, the second volume of the British Agent Novels, the reader will find themselves on an absolute thrill ride of a mystery, a ride they won't want to get off! Author MK McClintock has done a fabulous job in writing a fantastic romance,...

Nicu - The Littlest Vampire: Fangless (Nicu - The Littlest Vampire Series Book 1) by Elias Zapple is a spooky story with a good message for children. Nicu is a fangless vampire and lives in a house in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. He is...

Elias Zapple's Book of Slugs by Elias Zapple is an adorable book that has a lot of slug facts. Young readers can meet slugs named Steve, Selina, Gina, and Akira the Ninja Slug and many more. The author's love for slugs and his sense of...

Murder at Broadcast Park is a murder mystery/thriller written by Bill Evans. John was getting used to his position at the station as the assignment editor. It always did seem rather odd to him that he, the new kid who had just finished college, would...

This historical nonfiction work is extraordinary and heartrending. Author Kay Carroll details the story of her great-grandparents in Alex’s Eyes: A True Story of Hidden Roots. Although Alex had Choctaw Native American, as well as African-American ancestry, his name was not on the Native American...

Megan Lawrence cannot escape her troubled past. She was only 15 when she accused Sam Marshall a friend of her brother of something that never took place. Sam was run out of town by her father. He has returned for the funeral of his best...

“Lost and Found” by Lorhainne Eckhart is a heart-rending tragedy of grand magnitude, faced by one innocent family against whom it seemed the whole world had rallied. It is Book 2 of the “Walk the Right Road” series; Book 3, “Bounty”, is due out any...

Escape From Nuur by Kathy Porter is the second episode in her Gray Guardians series. In Escape From Nuur, we learn that the Grays have returned to Earth. A year earlier, half a million humans had been abducted and transported to the planet Nuur, ostensibly...

In Chances and Choices, Ann Omasta brings us two books that follow the complicated love story of Abigail Brown and two manly hunks, Sam and Seth. Abby is not your run-of-the-mill girl. She is 28 years old and is already divorced. Some bad decisions of...