Living Mollusks is an educational book written by Charles E. Rawlings, MD, JD. Seashells are created from extracted calcium carbonate by the mollusks which live, or had at one point lived, inside the shell. Photographing a living shell (shell and mollusk in its natural habitat...

Emerge: The Awakening is a young adult story by Melissa A. Craven that is a paranormal and a romance all rolled into one. Allie is used to people acting aloof around her. She knows she is different, but she doesn’t understand why until she meets...

Reverberations: A Compendium of Haikus and Photography by Charles E. Rawlings MD, JD is a thoughtful collection of Haiku and photography that anyone with a bit of the poet or artist in their soul will enjoy immensely. Haiku is a traditional poetic form from Japan....

To be honest, I didn’t know quite what to expect from Echoes in the Walls by Katrina Morgan. I was expecting an essay type book about the funny and aggravating experiences you will have when you attempt a huge project like renovating an old house....

Good Money Gone by Richard Kilborn and Mario Acevedo is an adventurous tale of greed and loss. Steven Mackay wants to start a new life, a life of easy money and fast ambitions. He heads to Panama where he is drawn into working for an...

I grew up on Western movies and TV shows, as did most Baby Boomers. For a long time, I bought the version of how the West was won that I saw in those movies. Then I started reading and grew up. The real people of...

Cowgirl Up! A History of Rodeo Women by Heidi M. Thomas captures a small piece of American history that might otherwise be forgotten. I’m talking about the contribution of women to the world of rodeo. Cowgirl Up! specifically concentrates on the contribution of women from...

Dare to Dream: A Novel by Heidi Thomas is an inspirational book for women. The story is set in the 1940s and is about cowgirl Nettie Brady Moser. Nettie has dreams of riding the big broncs, but since she is a woman she is not...

In The Wizard of Kharathad: Tales of Dogalas, the young author Matia ben Ephraim provides her readers with an engrossing and absolutely intriguing story of fantasy fiction that will have them reading way longer into the night than they had ever planned. Follow the story...

Priced to Kill by Catherine Bruns is an exciting sleuth mystery that will keep the reader on the edge of their seat. Cindy York, a struggling real estate agent, receives an unsettling phone call from an estranged friend from her past. She is invited to...

Signs of Passing by Owen Thomas is a collection of short stories about life and its meaning, and how to inspire yourself and others to live life to the fullest extent. Signs of Passing contains ten stories that are loosely connected, but each can be...

Ostensibly an alternative history book, 602 Brigade: If Honda Betrayed Japan by Musashi Miyamoto, which offers a fictional answer to the question: Could a manufacturing company such as Honda inadvertently betray Japan, and if so, would a consequence be war? is, in the most complimentary...

Slanted by Diane Paley is a unique novel that manages to tell a coming of age story of both a teenager and a forty-something aunt. Slanted follows the life of teenager Sam as she maneuvers the insanity that characterizes every girl's early teen years to...

Spirit Woman by Debra Shiveley Welch is a magnificent combination of fiction and reality. Nickie, tormented by her troubled childhood, shuts herself down to her surroundings. She does not share the details of her past with anyone. Her low self-esteem forces her to believe that...

I really liked Swinging Bridge: An Anthology by Debra Shiveley Welch. In this memoir, Welch shares both good and bad memories about her life. She also includes some of her poetry and photos throughout the book. From the very beginning, Welch captured my attention with her...

The Vitamin Solution by doctors and co-authors Arielle Levitan and Romy Block is fantastic! How can yet another book on vitamins be “fantastic”? Aren’t there hundreds of books on that subject, and with all the information now readily available on the net, why would The...

Communication Skills for Community College Students by Linda O'Connor, Thomas Cheesebro, and Francisco Rios is a useful guide that caters to the needs of students enrolled in technical and career-oriented college programs. This book will enable readers to develop their communication skills to ensure their...

Rooster Tale is a short story for preteens by Linda Lee Greene. Freda Fowl, second generation of chickens on the Gaffin farm, narrates. She reminisces about stories told to her by Grandmother Hen who lived during the Great Depression 1937-1938. One of these was about...

Blind Spots by Patrick M. Garry really starts in earnest when the report of multiple murders is broadcast. The scale of the atrocity is huge in the local community. A mother and her three children are dead. Rumours abound as to who the perpetrator could...

The Graham Quartet and the Mysterious Strangers by Rebekah A. Morris is written in a form of omniscient voice. It opens with a brother and sister, Matt and Selena, creeping cautiously towards a cabin owned by their father, deep in the woods of northern Minnesota....