Wisconsin Logging Camp, 1921: A Boy's Extraordinary First Year in America Working as a "Chickadee" by James Bastian is an interesting tale about an 8-year-old boy, born in Poland, who immigrates with his mother to America. During the voyage, the boy's mother dies, and he...

Garbage Bag Suitcase by Shenandoah Chefalo is a very emotional story about the author’s difficult and lonely childhood. Her alcoholic and drug addicted mother and step-father lacked the adequate parenting skills needed to raise a child. They lived as nomads, always running away from something...

Ghost in the Forest by Sue Cauhape is a story based in a wild and mountainous region, home to lions and deer as well as the human population at nearby Morristown. Dori, in her early thirties, spends most of her time hidden away in her...

Darkview: Psychosis by RJ Bathgate and M.J. Hall is a horror story that will have you shaking in terror. Jack Cyrus has had a tough life. Not only was he a witness to the Rwandan genocide in 1994, he lost his wife to cancer. Plagued...

To Sleep: Book One of the To Sleep collection by T.L. Bishop is a lovely story of fairy tale fantasy. Aisling dreams of things hauntingly familiar and disturbingly comfortable. She knew the lady with the red hair, but had never met her. Every young girl...

Star Hunter: Creating Space by William Welton is a sci-fi adventure that begins with a gathering of disgruntled crew members and passengers that had spent their life's savings to travel on board the luxury cruise space ship, The Golden Dragon; destination New Earth. They had...

Nonno the Wine Maker is a novella written by Phil Scrima. After Antonio invites Natalia to sample some of his grandfather’s wine in Rutherford, the two make their way to test some exquisite varieties that Nonno has made. When they arrive at Nonno’s Vineyard, Natalia...

One fine autumn morning, Little Boy stands with his parents, admiring the tree in their backyard. The tree is bare except for one lone leaf. Later, alone, Little Boy tries to talk to Little Leaf. Surprisingly, it answers, explaining its role in protecting its brothers...

Whoa! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading Blackwater Crossing: The Border Series, Volume One by author David Griffith. This book is exciting and will pull you in from the very first page and will keep you obsessively reading until the very end....

The Girl with the Chicken-House Pony is a novel written by Doris Anderson. Annie Thompson has a secret which threatens to destroy her. Not only is Annie a target for school bully, Ginny, but when Annie was nine years old, she had been molested...

The Whispering of Trees by C.Y. Bourgeois is the story of Aggie Ksisak whose teenage life takes a turn when she dreams of a powerful demon spirit who threatens to destroy her and everyone she loves. Things that happen in her life prove the same,...

Boomer Tales: Hula Hoops, Hippies, Hemp, and Hijinks by LaRue Agresti is an autobiography that will take you places and have you grinning like a fool. I really loved reading this book. You know why? LaRue Agresti told her story with all her heart, and...

Hubris: Luke's Story is a police procedural short story written by Heather Osborne. When the third young woman’s body was found with injection marks apparent on her arms and finger-shaped bruise marks encircling her neck, Detective Luke Thompson realized that a serial killer was active...

Not A Soldier, But A Scoundrel - The Lives and Deaths of George W. Graham by Heidi M. Crabtree is a significant, well researched book, enough to be memorable amongst the plethora of novels and histories I read concurrently. The chief protagonist of this history...

When a character driven by unbridled greed, the hunger for power, and the arrogance to believe he can have it all confronts one with genuine decency, honor, and devotion to his family and country, the results are explosive. The Beauty of Love, a wonderful historical...

Come Again by Rick Novak opens with a puzzling beginning. The anti-Christ believes that he is the true ambassador of God. He is just biding time, waiting for his reign of power to begin. Raymond Cass owns a very successful ad agency. He pretty much...

Pamela Funke’s children’s story, The Turkeys are Coming, is an enjoyable read aimed at young children. This would be a good early reader (ages seven to ten) or a bedtime read for parents with younger children. Whilst in some parts it was a little too...

Devlin's Curse by Lady Brenda takes readers on a mind bending journey to Virginia City, Nevada during 1877 where something evil lurks within the tunnels of the Gilded Bird gold mine, a place where most men fear to go and often don't make it out...

Missing Emily by Gerri LeClerc is Volume 1 of the Knoll Cottage Series. In just a week’s time, Thea will have her hard-worked for law degree. Having struggled for years as a single mum, she will finally be able to take her daughter back home,...

Good Neighbors by Russell C Connor is a horror story. Elliot Jefferson needs to stay away from people. He needs to get sober and stay sober so he moves to the Estates of North Hills, the perfect, isolated place. Or is it? He has some...