In Contact Us: A Jake Corby sci-fi thriller by Al Macy, two alien craft approach Earth. One hovers ominously near the orbit of Jupiter while the other descends boldly into the atmosphere and commences to encircle the planet from pole to pole. Within days, seventy...

A Kiss Before Strangling by Douglas Sandler is a psychological thriller about a killer who wants revenge against the cops whom he thinks killed his fiancee, but all is not what it seems. The story was creepy in a good way. I liked how there...

Every parent’s worst nightmare comes true in William Mark’s gripping new police thriller, Lost in the Darkness. When Detective Curtis “Curt” Walker’s son, Josh, is kidnapped, he leaves his entire life behind to search for his only son. While he’s desperately looking for leads on...

The Game Is Playing Your Kid: How to Unplug and Reconnect in the Digital Age by Dr. Joe Dilley confronts a perennial problem: how to keep children away from playing recreational electronic games while the parents want them to study and get better grades. This...

I thought Faraway by R.K. Kline and Daniel D. Maurer was a great story. Kline and Maurer offer a glimpse into the life of Kevin, a teenage male prostitute. The story takes place near St. Louis, Missouri, in the seventies and tells how Kevin got...

Mia Mitns has crafted a unique, out-of-this-world science fiction story in Naya's Invasion, which is the second book in the Fall Invasion series. Death and terror open this story as Naya lures James Smith to his death with an apparent promise of sex. Yet,...

Genesis Unzipped is a non-fiction religion and philosophy work written by Lucio Licciardello. The author presents the results of his research into the links between science, speculation and history, and the Book of Genesis. He shows parallels and correlations between the words of the bible...

The Magic Straw Hat by Karen Jonice Bricker is an exciting story that will take young readers on an adventure, along with Caitie Faye and her great-grandmother's straw hat. The story connects three generations of family and conveys the message of family bonding in a...

Mustang Summer by Mr. Leif N. Gregersen II is a collection of short stories. He begins with his take on Hitler, an entirely new look at one of the most fearsome despots of all times. He examines the blow-cold, blow-hot attitude of a gentleman called...

Teddy Cool Cleans Up by Paul Merry and Jan Merry is the delightful story of Teddy Cool who lived in the Land of One Hundred Hillsides. He was someone who always handled his problems very well. There was a Soap Mine where he lived and...

Scholar: Chronicles of the New Realm, Book Two by Dmitri Talanov is a magical story wrapped in adventure and fantasy that will keep readers glued to the pages till the very end. Phale Fe begins his education at the Alexa. This was earlier a government...

Fun, fun, fun! That's definitely how I would describe Alice in Monologue Land by author Amy Gettinger. following the story of Alice Chalmers, adjunct English professor, single mom, and basically all around stressed out woman. And when she's 'encouraged' or, more aptly, 'required' to read...

Weaving A Tapestry of Dreams boggles the mind. Jess Fulton pens a uniquely imaginative novel. This is a story, about a story, within a story. Opening with a beginning writing class, the speaker challenges the students in the audience. “You have an obligation to the...

Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Saturn Surprise by Oneeka Williams is the delightful story of Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo, a nine-year-old girl with supernatural powers that enable her to fly around in space and help other planets. Saturn has lost its rings and Dee Dee Dynamo...

Sunbaked (Pineapple Cay Stories Book 1) by Junie Coffey is a light reading mystery, blending strange characters and a Caribbean vacation into a fun story. When Nina finds out her husband has been cheating on her, she does the unthinkable and buys a house at...

Abuse. Betrayal. Escape. Freedom. Those are the themes at the start of Margel’s Madness, the newest book by author Darcy Scott. Margel Matthews, a thirty-year-old single mom of a precocious and delightful four-year-old daughter, is living in Mosquito Harbor, Maine. An outsider to the town,...

Unbreakable Bonds by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson is one of the best mystery/ sleuth novels that I have read. Her novel realistically portrays the real life of a family. The parents struggling to get their eldest daughter to behave, the wife suffering through menopause, and the...

Uncharted Territory by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson is a tale of how one woman has a connection with the paranormal world. Angela Panther is a strong, lovable, and courageous character that many will fall in love with. She can see and communicate with ghosts. It wasn't...

Many Wolves and his hunting companions, a red wolf and a hawk, have spent eight winters in the wilderness avoiding capture by Thorn Bird. The forest is his home, and his companions are his brothers. On one of his hunts, he spots a white man...

With a name like Jesse, you would think the character might be something awe-inspiring like the great Jesse James. This Jesse, however, is a High School senior, who has to walk his greyhound albino dog in the early hours of the morning, only to get...