What vision comes to mind when you think about helping others? When you give a helping hand, it should be based upon the premise that you expect nothing in return. Help can come in several forms. Uncommon Heroes: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Changed...

Bullied: It Begins With The "I" by Jason Lalli is a book that deals with the vicious cycle of bullying. It touches the roles of the three people in the scene: the bully, the one being bullied, and the bystander. The book covers the perspective...

A rekindled love is a beautiful thing, but what happens when your lover has already found someone else? For the characters of Never Too Late by author Harold J. Fischel, this is exactly what occurs. Meet Clint and Sharleen, two star-crossed lovers whose different ambitions...

It was clear to me when reading Rampage: A Jason Scarsdale Novel by Alan Brenham that this author truly knows his stuff. Written as a gritty detective novel, Rampage follows Detective Jason Scarsdale as he transitions back to the homicide division from the sex crimes...

In Canyon Bound by Jon Messenger, people across the world begin disappearing one by one. They call it the Rapture. Even though it isn’t the best description of what’s happening to the world, it’s a name that seems appropriate at first to the religious mind...

Hammock Bound by Barbara D. Gaylor is a historical debut like none other. It's the best of 'opposites attract' when a socialite falls in love with a farmer. Their ensuing plight, and struggle just to remain together and in love, is timeless, dynamic, and a...

Nail It: Breaking into the Black Elite (A Novel) by Shonette Charles is a good read that revolves around the black fraternity. Noah and Sahara are well educated and when they move to North Carolina, it gives them the opportunity to make a breakthrough into...

A man used to always being in control, Fred was very much disturbed by the unknown or by what he could not manipulate and/or control. The root cause of his latest troubles lay in four coded pages he had recently discovered in a book written...

Can you say love? That’s the way I felt about the novel Yonder, the newest offering by author LeeAnne Hanson. Set in pre-WWII Southern Mississippi, this story is the perfect balance of spooky, romantic, fun and heartwarming, and I truly could not have enjoyed it...

The White Death by Daniel Rafferty is an exhilarating race against extinction. The human race is dying. Genetic mutations are multiplying. Genetic hatred floods the hearts and minds of mankind, society is decaying. The battle of pro-life advocates versus pro-evolution supporters rages. The future...

The Quiet Way by Robin Melhuish is about a mega scale catastrophe like the Twin Towers, but this time it is happening in modern England. The authorities suspect an Al Qaeda member in the country, but they have no way of finding out who that...

The Lost Tribe is a historical sports novel written by Matthew Caldwell. It's 1939, and Harry Pike is working as a sports editor for the New York Daily Benchmark. He's enjoyed a close relationship with the publisher, Horace Greenacre, and is saddened but not surprised...

Global Warming Navigation: Through the Fog Toward Our Safe Harbor is a non-fiction essay on the environment written by Edward T. Prell. Prell is a retired engineer who decided a year ago to investigate what he calls the disconnect between the global warming crisis and...

In C. Edgar North’s second book of the Nighthawk series, Nighthawk: African Ice picks up the saga of the criminal dealings of Russian arms dealer Igor Romanoff and the ex-Navy Seal gone bad, Chief Joseph Branson of the Midlake Canadian Indian Tribe. These partners in...

Private Antal USA by Anthony Halasz is a pile of his recollections, but for the ones he ‘forgot, decided to forget or were beyond his ability to describe.’ It contains his early memories, marrying his high school love, surviving the Nazi scare, and escaping from...

“Ahhhh…” That’s the sound I made when I finished reading Bhajan, the debut work by author Tim Garvin. That’s the sound I make when a book satisfies me, not just for entertainment purposes, but for emotional and spiritual reasons as well. The novel follows the...

Whispers From The East is a dramatic and realistic novel by Amie Ali. This culture clash novel begins in August of 1947, at the time when the partition between India and Pakistan is established, and millions of Muslims find themselves on the wrong side of...

The Small Matter of the Death Cult of Katahdin, The Shabby Realm, Book 1 is a contemporary fantasy written by Lennox Brown. Winston Lamb is a private investigator who's not above doing a little bit of breaking and entering. These are tight times for the...

Margin of Eros is a humorous urban fantasy novel by Clare Hawthorne. The story combines the modern day mayhem of human life in California with the busybody lives of the Greek gods of Olympus, who are feeling a little forgotten amid the hurly-burly of contemporary...

The Legend of the Burning Lake by Kayla Swanson tells the story of a community living in fear of magic and fire. Any talk of magic is frowned upon, and the community focuses on the basic means of survival under the leadership of a rather...