In an excellent book by author and Christian speaker and blogger Shannon Upton, Building Your House: A Faithful Mom's Guide to Organizing Home and Family, is a wonderful new entry in the area of books that focus on helping Christian moms. The book focuses not...

Is it murder if you’re protecting your daughter? The day begins like any other, a typical Monday morning. Jeff Blake leaves for work as usual to the investment brokerage firm of Avian Financial Services in downtown Fairfield, where he works as an investment advisor. Unfortunately,...

Inside Room 913 by Bruce A. Borders is a very entertaining mystery. When Cynthia Holt is hired by the Parkview Manor retirement home, she is happy to have a job. The job is easy but the one rule she cannot help being curious about is...

Poisoned Apple by Katherine McIntyre sucks you into the troubled mind of Neve. Neve isn't your typical teenager - she has lost her mother, her father has gone off to be with someone else, and Neve is left with her wicked stepmother. Neve lives a...

Jellybean the Dragon (The Jellybean the Dragon Stories Book 1) by Elias Zapple is a fun and adventurous storybook for children. The story revolves around Emma, a ten-year-old girl who owns a castle and a big spaceship that can fit a dragon inside. One day,...

Running Home by John Caldwell is a story about a young man’s experiences in the path of Christendom. At the tender age of seven, he became aware of his difference and sought to share his faith with fellow classmates. He learned the hard way that...

A Very Good Life by Lynn Steward chronicles a tumultuous period in twenty-nine-year-old Dana McGarry’s life that begins the day after Thanksgiving, in November, 1974. Dana’s a bright and well-liked public relations junior executive at B. Altman, a high-end department store in Manhattan. She’s been...

April Snow (Dana McGarry Novel Book 2) by Lynn Steward is a women's fiction or what some readers might consider chick lit. The story takes place in the 1970s. Dana is newly separated and wants to prove that she can survive on her own. Her...

The 5K Zone by Gary R. Hall is a misleadingly arid but keenly knowledgeable and subtly gripping account of provocative, breathtaking events occurring in the Sudetenland – later known as Czechoslovakia. In 1944, Peter (11) and Trudi (12) two ethnic Germans living in the town...

Holy Smokes! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading Hole in the Day: A Novel by debut author Steven A. Carr. This book is a roller coaster ride of an adventure, and will keep readers obsessively turning the pages from start to finish!...

The Unattainable Shakes Loose My Tongue: Poems by James F. Vickery, Volume Three is an interesting collection of poems that vary in style and tempo. It is a large collection that pays homage to a lot of different things in this man's life, from his...

When Maggie Anderson Davis inherited the Victorian home where she grew up, it was with the anticipation of continuing the family legacy of mingling the familiar with the unexpected. Small town Tilden, Nebraska, becomes ever smaller at Maggie’s table where stories grow, memories are rehashed,...

Mirror of the Body: Your Mouth Reflects the Health of Your Whole Body by James E. Rota, DDS, is a fascinating and eye opening look at the little known ill effects of mercury poisoning due to common dental fillings. This informative guide begins with a...

Wow...just, Wow! How's that for a review? That's exactly how I felt after I finished reading Before Your Next Excuse: A True Story of Addiction, Loss, Hope and the Power of Choice by debut author Ned Barrett. In a wonderful, funny, emotional and at times...

Ramakrishna Michaels was born and raised in a family where expressing emotions was taboo. As a result, he was forced to bottle up many painful emotions, an act that would affect the rest of his life. In his memoir titled Growing Old With Grace: How...

In Follow Me Home, Jen Benjamin has her heroine, Katie Kendall, tell her story in the first person, making it easy for us to understand Katie's doubts, insecurities, and loneliness. When the book opens, Katie has already had her first novel published; it became a...

The Adventures Of Stupid The Cat by Brenda Borders and Bruce A. Borders is a fun and entertaining story for all children, especially cat lovers. Chips is picked up one stormy night by a girl who tells the cat that it's going to live with...

Wow. Just wow. I just finished reading Until We Meet Again: Battling Mental Illness & Suicide - A True Story of Loss and Survival, the personal story of author Lauren Panobianco, and I am still thinking about it. Follow the story of Lauren's brother, Frank,...

Maternal Threads by Frances Susanne Brown is a very interesting read. The author discovers a hidden family secret after her mother’s death. Brown goes on to talk about her own relationship with her daughter. However, I thought the secret that Brown found out came out...

I Want to Write a Story: A Kid's Guide to Writing by Lisa Waters is a guide for children to help them grasp the basics of writing and how to structure a story. It contains links to certain websites where they can find story prompts...