Discovering Your True Worth by Gordon Van Namee is a Christian book introducing readers to the concept of worth with the presence of God. Christians are too often lead in the wrong direction when it comes to the meaning of self worth. In this instance,...

In introducing Happiness Anywhere Anytime, Bruce Wells states, unswervingly, that everyone has the seed of happiness within them and that happiness doesn’t happen by chance but comes about as a result of conscious and deliberate decisions to become responsible for one’s emotions and feelings. With...

Nowhere for Christmas by Heather Gray is a laugh out loud funny story that kept me reading long into the night! Imagine getting an assignment that will take you on a road trip to Nowhere for Christmas? Well, that's actually Nowhere, OK. Avery Weston had...

In Caterpillar Wants to be a Cow by Regina Puckett, Tiny Caterpillar is learning about the world around him. He sees all kinds of other creatures: a puppy, a kitten, a horse and a cow. He wants to be all of them because each one...

Tucker’s Story is a lovely book by Bobbie Asad. Tucker is a Shepherd who lived with a family until he was three years old. One day his owner deliberately left him at the park, and he was sad, confused and hungry. Luckily, there were kind...

How to Stay in the Priority Zone by Lisa Landtroop will grab your attention! Most everyone can say that at some time in their life they were bored or felt there was something missing. Thinking it may be their job, their weight, their relationship,...

Hidden Agenda (Tales from the Robbery-Homicide Division Book 1) is a police procedural written by Peter S. Berman. Jeremy Hart is a criminal prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. He’s been seeing Dr. Shari Bauer, a grief counselor, since his wife died...

Web of Betrayal is a terrorist thriller written by Peter S. Berman. Anne Magruder is the daughter of a high-ranking IRA officer, who’s been involved in the past with Liam Cassidy, a young IRA extremist. Her father sent her to study at UCLA to get...

Scarred Hearts is a historical western romance written by Billi Tiner. Claire Montgomery lives in a little house outside of town with her old friend and mentor, Tobias, and James, a young orphan. She had been raised on a Southern plantation; her parents were wealthy...

Goalden Sky is a short novel by Tracey Morait which is the sequel to the young adult tale, Goalden Girl. Set in the UK in contemporary times, the novel’s young protagonist is Gemma Sutherland, a keen female footballer who has already fought for and won...

Wherever You Are by Ci’Monique Green describes a wife’s struggle to cope with life following the unexpected tragedy of her husband’s death. Aven withdraws into her private world of torture as she endures the funeral and the well-wishes and innocent gestures of concerned friends and...

It Happened in the Cottonwood Library Parking Lot by Ann K. Metlay is a book of twenty short stories centered around the library’s parking lot. The Cottonwood Library is an actual place in Arizona. The stories in this book are all fiction, but each has...

Fearless Joe Dearborne is a story for preteens by Lisa Whitney Mitchell. Joe Dearborne earned the nickname “Fearless Joe” because he often does brave, but dangerous deeds, like rescuing a dog from a burning house. His father goes away, hiring the strange, intimidating Mrs. Chill...

Wait for Me by Janet K. Shawgo is fiction, but a wonderful historical tribute to the women who served in World War II. It is also a romantic story following Susan, Larry, Dealer and Frank and their families through the horror of war and the...

To be honest, when I selected this book for review I was expecting a somewhat "been there-done that" book. Author Katie Sparks pleasantly surprised me with her well-written prose and spunky characters. Reality Natalie is about a young girl, Natalie Greyson, who has high ambitions...

Where Snow Leopard Prowls: Wild Animals of Tibet by Naomi C. Rose is a very informative and educational book that throws light on the Tibetan plateau and the wild animals that live there. The plateau provides diverse habitats that range from deserts, rocky cliffs, snow...

Space Invaders! by D.J. McGhee is an illustrated book for children about an alien invasion in the UK that would mostly appeal to boys, I feel. Two boys come across aliens who have landed in town. While the boys are scared of the aliens, they...

Carbon Monoxide Not Only a Killer is a frightening look at something so many people take for granted. Carbon monoxide is quite common in our environment, and many people are aware of the dangers due to car exhausts, gas fires, appliances, fireplaces, water heaters, dryers,...

Unlucky Double: Part One (Volume 1) by Darryl R. Breland is subtitled Mafia, Nazis and Time Travel and it lives up to the description. It begins in the year 2046, where Giovanni “Johnny” Cado, a 20th-century New Orleans gangster who was just mysteriously found alive,...

I Ate The Cosmos for Breakfast is a beauty from cover to final page. Melissa Studdard has such a passion for life. She quite literally breathes a world of color into the sometimes drab world of poetry and seems to have such vigor that I...