The First Singers by Kat Doughty introduces us to the rapidly changing world of Teena, who on her 18th birthday receives a piece of cake, a watch, and an opportunity to implement a survival strategy since it’s a tradition to be hunted by the other...

Home at Last is the third book in author Jan Sikes’ autobiographical ode to the enduring love story between her and her husband, told through the story of Darlina Flowers and Luke Stone. It’s most definitely a three-hankie read, but quite frankly, any good book...

A Secondhand Lie is the first book in Pamela Crane’s Killer Thriller Series. The story is a murder mystery mixed with family secrets. Twenty-two years ago, Landon Worthington finds his little sister’s body in their home. During that same time, his loser of a father...

In this truly inspirational memoir, author Elizabeth Gross details the agonizing reality of learning about terminal cancer. As an active mother and loving mother, Gross is thrown into the debilitating world of chemotherapy, multiple medical procedures, humiliating diagnoses, and trial and error testing. Forced to...

Cindy McKinley and Patti Trombly's 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents: Fun Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in Elementary School is a useful tool for parents, especially of elementary school kids to help children improve not only their attitude towards school, but also their academics....

Population of Loss: Four Tales of the Martian War (Martian War Chronicles Book 1) by Michael and Shell DiBaggio is an interesting dystopian collection about the Martian wars. It features four separate stories about various characters who are important to this setting, and each of...

House of Refuge is a nice military fiction by Michael DiBaggio. Justin Agnarsson is the lone station-keeper at House of Refuge #49, a floating sanctuary for mariners in the Plata Raft region. He gives shelter to a man and his daughter after an Argentine warship...

Salamander Six by Michael DiBaggio is a short adventure story. St Martin is a beautiful island in the French Caribbean, the Caribbean in the Ascension Epoch universe, that is. The Colonial Administration has fallen, after seventy years of corrupt, dominating rule. And now, when the...

Flayed is an epic fantasy novel by author Louis Puster III and the third volume in the continuing Saga of Ukumog. The action continues to center around our unlikely hero, Wrack, who has had much to discover about his dark heritage since crawling out of...

One Voice by Cindy McKinley is a heartrending story which highlights how small acts of kindness can make a difference in people's lives. Jacob's acts of kindness towards people in the bus help him get donations for his new project. In the same way, readers...

One Smile by Cindy McKinley is a wonderful book about paying it forward. It starts with a little girl named Katie who notices a young man on a park bench - he looks like he’s having a bad day, so she smiles at him. The...

It Happened on Munger Street: A Spiritual Journey into Awakening by Victoria Hartland is an uplifting and motivational book that chronicles the journey of a single mother whose marriage comes to an end after seventeen years. The author's financial and emotional struggles after a divorce...

Trading Places: Becoming My Mother's Mother, A Daughter’s Memoir by Sandra Bullock Smith is a true story. Sandra finds herself in the position of having to look after her mother, a role reversal she hoped would never happen. Looking after anyone is a challenging process,...

Glenn Starkey’s Mr. Charon is set in the quiet town of Thornton, Texas, 1962, where best friends Eddie, Andy, Cooper, Caleb and Herschel are trying to find some jobs in the summer. Old Mr. Nesbitt agrees to pay the boys $50 a week for yard...

Dirt: Evil In The Heartland is a thriller novel by author John P. Goetz. In Goetz’s familiar, darkly psychological style, the story begins in a tiny backwater town in North Dakota, where three unfortunate boys – Danny, Booger and the title’s Dirt – grow up...

“I crossed his tracks not far outside of Stonehaven, and I followed them out of curiosity, nothing more. By the irregularity of his trail, I imagined he was some foolish city boy caught out in the cold and that he might want some help ......

The Mystery In The Window by Angie Wilson is the second book in the Gracie's Mysteries--Super Spy Series and I think this book is even better than the first one, if that is possible! Ten-and-a-half-year-old Gracie loves nothing more than a good mystery to solve....

Receiving Financial Blessing: How to Walk in Truth, Righteousness and Honesty With Money by Stephen R. Kirkendall is in itself a blessing. It informs readers of the curse or favor one could potentially receive if they are obedient to God with their finances. Tithing is...

A great, fast paced memoir, Some Way Outa Here: A Personal Story of a Time That Transformed America by Mark Lauden is a coming of age account of his life growing up in the late '60s and early '70s, along with two female friends. It's...

Dancing to an Irish Reel by Claire Fullerton tells the story of Hailey, an American who lands a job at a music centre in Ireland. Hailey helps local musicians organize their careers at the music centre, but she also has friends at the centre as...