Where is Language?: An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance by Ruth Finnegan is a book on language and how it is used in the common world. It may sound boring to you, but if you have read Why Do We Quote by Finnegan,...

Trials and Tribulations by Liv Kalay Hernandez is a 24-page collection of poetry and is a diary in verse about anger, rage, disappointment, and hard times as demonstrated by such poems as Walking Through Hell, Bleed, and Snake Eyes. But then a few poems of...

A Day with Grandpa: Little Island Sunshine by Dallacey E Green is a cute little children’s story. Novie is excited to spend the day with her fisherman grandpa on the island of Antigua. Grandpa shows Novie the beauty of the island as they explore it...

“Our gifts are our curses,” is a statement that can aptly be used to describe the predicament of November Snow, a young woman with extraordinary psychic gifts, whose tragic story is narrated in the first book of the November Snow series, She Dies at the...

I am an American. To be more precise and more politically correct, I am an African-American. For the most part, this is just a phrase or term that someone else made popular and now most of us use. In truth, I know very little about...

For me, as a reader, there's nothing more satisfying than picking up a book that I just can't put down. That usually only happens if the book is a thriller or a mystery written by a very skilled writer. It rarely happens when I read...

The Man in the Blue Fez: A Birth of an Assassin Novel by Rik Stone is set in the 1970s during the Cold War. Pavel Rostislav, battling hypothermia in the sub-zero winter of the Russian mountains, spots his quarry and aims his sniper rifle. Jez...

Lexicon Chase and the Riddle Song by Jonathan Fore is a fast-paced fantasy novel with a lot of strong and evocative characters. We are introduced to Lexicon Chase, the princess, at the beginning of the story as she recounts her companions from previous adventures and,...

Private investigator Luke Rizzo is hired by a wealthy, highbrow married woman to locate a father she has never known, which leads our main character into a fascinating if somewhat byzantine tangled scheme of German history and revenge, FBI intrusions and evasions, impersonal sexual liaisons...

The Raging Torrent (Star Sapphire and the Land of Gems, Book 2) by Anthony Pardoe is an imaginative fantasy story. Trapped in the Land of Gems with a little pebble friend Jasper, ten-year-old Star must avoid being captured (again) by the pitchblendes and get to...

In a wonderful new work in the genre of adventurous fiction for children, Things on a Tree by author D.L. Finn is a book that will pull readers in from the very first page. Following the story of our protagonist, Aimee, readers will be taken...

In an intelligent and intriguing new installment in the Heroes of Distant Planets series, Return to Lan Darr by Anderson Atlas is a book that readers will have a hard time putting down after they start reading. Follow the story of 15-year-old Allan Westerfield, a...

Girl in the Air by Tyler Pike is a brilliant opening to the series featuring Alice Brickstone, a teenage girl with unusual skills. Alice knows what it feels like to have a twin brother and to live for years wanting to know what he looked...

What an adorable book! The Ride of Doom: Star Sapphire and the Land of Gems by author Anthony Pardoe is a children’s book with a fun protagonist, a cute talking pebble, and an action-packed tale from start to finish. Ten-year-old Star does not quite get...

In Star Sapphire and the Land of Gems: Book Three – The Crystal Cavern by Anthony Pardoe (in collaboration with Suzanne Pardoe), mythology meets geology in a delightful adventure unlike any other available to young readers. All of the familiar components of the quest are...

World-Mart (Volume 1) by Leigh M. Lane takes place in a not so distant future - and some aspects are not even that far fetched. George and his family have to face some serious issues after his wife ends up in hospital after a suspected...

When Shepherds Dream: The Flight of the Shepherd Kings by Peter Stuart is a masterpiece, a mesmerizing and epic tale of a man’s pursuit of his dream, a tale packed with manifold lessons of courage, love, brotherhood, and the quest for self-actualization... What does it...

Lost: The Field Researchers Book 2 by A.E. Hellstorm is one of the best books in its genre I have read for some time. Carl is a field researcher and child interviewer for the FBI, but when his partner Mira goes missing, presumed dead in...

Nessa's Nuggets: 30 Days of Wisdom, Inspiration & Encouragement by Manessah L. Willis is exactly what it declares itself to be; a book of wisdom, inspiration and encouragement. Manessah Willis' illustrations and stories are vivid and real and she encourages us as she teaches us...

A Fitting Finale by Tracy Gorman is a chilling crime thriller that will hold you captive once you pick it up. The notorious crime boss, The Boss, has been in prison for almost five years and there has been a dramatic transformation in Debden Estate....