April is standing at the edge of a pond on the day of her husband's funeral, wondering why she didn't talk him out of joining the Marines, and why God didn't keep him safe for her as she had prayed for time and again. Her...

White Walls and Straitjackets is the name of the book Harry and Crystal read together as they plan their escape. They've just murdered critics who gave them poor reviews and want to begin fresh with new lives. At first, they think the book is interesting...

We are all nervous at one time or another. It's not surprising that children are nervous, too, even when they put on a front and look brave. Going to a new school, meeting new friends, trying out for baseball ... the list goes on. Everything...

Mandarin Chinese: An Explanatory Guide to Key Language Issues is written by Orna Taub. This is a resource for Mandarin students by someone that has painstakingly sought the help of native speakers and masters, and seeks to impart her knowledge to anyone that can benefit...

Professional Patient: A Memoir of Bipolar Disorder by author Leesa Abbott, Psy.D, is an intriguing take on mental disorders from not only a professional psychologist, but also someone who has personally suffered numerous mental disorders. The book presents a candid, raw and motivational look at...

The Beast of Seabourne by Rhys A. Jones is a fast moving fantasy story set in Britain. It is the second in the Artefact Quintet, which follows three school children as they attempt to solve a centuries-old mystery. The children, Oz, Ruff, and Ellie, are...

YOUR Heart & Mind: Your Greatest Decisions is a motivational self-help guide written by C.J. Maritz. This title follows the author's first book in the series: YOUR Heart & Mind: 11 Tools to Improve Your State of Being, for Yourself & Others. The author shows...

The screen door was a status symbol in the South back in the '70s. Families took pride in having a nice screen door, and it was symbolic of growing up Down South. Damaging it in any way led to punishment. I liked the life description...

Whispering Wind by David E. Scott is a short story about a boy named Whispering Wind. Whispering Wind is in pursuit of a buckskin mustang named Twister. Twister is a wild mustang with its own personality and he refuses to be caught. Despite Twister’s wildness,...

Five Steps to Enlightenment: Awakening to Divine Love by Mark Aspa is an uplifting book which reiterates the presence of God in everyone's lives and His healing power, and the author's voyage into the spiritual world which changed his entire existence. The author speaks about...

Banana Chronicles: Fishing For Bananas by Timothy Brower is a delightful and creative children's pictorial and early reader book, introducing its young reading audience to the concepts of fairness, accountability within a public community, and an introduction into the world of economics. The author has...

In an absolutely glowing introduction to Lacland, the fictional Midwestern town that author Tara Woolpy uses to loosely tie her books in the Lacland series together, Releasing Gillian’s Wolves is an absolute joy to read. The story follows our protagonist Gillian Sach, the long suffering...

Sometimes, when I read a book, something about the words on the page, the story, or just the feelings that the story evokes in my heart make me realize that a part of the book will always be a part of me. So is the...

Blowing Sandstorm by Horace Crenshaw Jr. is an account of the author’s military unit, and its deployment in support of Operation Iraq Freedom (OIF). After a delightful narration of the entry of Horace Crenshaw Jr. into this world, a rather panoramic description about his growth...

Mount Rainier had stood like a towering dormant sentinel, watching over the Puget Sound area for millennia. Then, on a clear September morning, something deep inside the heart of the sleeping volcano shifted. For the Brock family, and the millions of residents who lived in...

Love, Lies & Consequences by Natasha D. Frazier is a story filled with love, lies and romance that will keep readers glued to the pages. Raegan is happy with the life she is leading until she meets Rico. Though she does not believe in sex...

The Mystic High Adventures of Fannie Flame & Crew by Claudia Hagen introduces ballooning as a ‘form of flight where the destination is irrelevant and the journey is everything.’ How the author developed an instant liking of this costly game, what difficulties she had to...

Year of Jubilee by Peggy Trotter is a story that grabbed me from the beginning pages and wouldn't let go! We first meet Jubilee Stallings on her eighteenth birthday, and it isn't a happy celebration at all. Instead I found my heart aching for this...

Where Death Speaks is a horror novel written by Ronnie Stich. Richard Ravestone has been fascinated by the occult from the moment he first peered into the occult and parapsychology section of the public library as a young boy. He still gets that forbidden thrill...

Years of Autistic Creativity by Joseph D. Smith is a unique book of "lyrics" written for the reader to peruse and enjoy at leisure. It is a whimsical book about love and how best to express that love or understand that one is in love....