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....

Tobe and The River Is by Micah Sanger is an insightful and thoughtful story with a profound spiritual message. After finding a strange book that tells of extraordinary things, Tobe sets off on an adventure to find The Great Fish, The River Is, and the...

Jack Lilly needed a job, something to tide him over after college graduation, and his father had just the right idea to keep his son close by his side. Jack could and would work at the car lot. It was the perfect opportunity for Jack...

Blood Master: Book 1 of The G.O.D.s Series by Kirsten Campbell is a paranormal fiction story with dystopian and science fiction elements. The story starts in 2052. After a Great War, the Earth’s population was broken into different factions who fight among themselves for food...

Jane Sunley brings a warm and intelligent view to people management in The People Formula: 12 Steps to Productive, Profitable, Performing Business. There are textbooks and research books on human motivation, often told in a scientific and dry manner. The People Formula is a...