Bethany Lopez's 7 Months (Time for Love) is the seventh in a series. Ming is a hard worker. All she wants to be is a great lawyer, daughter and friend, but, as she turns 35, her focus must move away from her career. All her...

A Day That God Made by Mike Masi is a true story, although the author refers to himself throughout as “the pilot.” The opening is a dramatic air crash in the frozen wastes of Alaska. Following that, the book reverts to detailing the pilot’s early...

Earnest Hemingway once said: “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” Perhaps Basant Raj, author of When Love Calls, feels likewise. It is obvious this is an author who loves the power of words: he...

The Austrian: A War Criminal’s Story by Ellie Midwood opens with a short prologue entitled “Nuremberg prison, October 1946.” Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a former leader of the Austrian SS, has been tried by the International Military Tribunal and sentenced to hang. He is preparing to meet...

The Ghost with the Green Thumb (True Girls) (Volume 2) by Maggie M Larche is a short preteen story, second in the True Girls series. Beth lost her beloved grandmother six months ago and, although she has learned to accept it and move on, her...

Stepping Up (True Girls) (Volume 3) by Maggie M Larche is the third in a series of preteen novels. Jenna has what seems to be the perfect life. One day something happens to change everything; her father loses his job. That means there is no...

Mystic Tides is a romance novel written by C.J. Godwin. Seventeen-year-old Aden Wilder had just finished celebrating his birthday with friends on the beach. With a bonfire ablaze, Aden bids farewell to his friends. He was also leaving Alaska to live with his Aunt Tess...

Young Jacob is enthralled with the walking stick that he finds. His grandfather tells him to look closer and explains that it's called a praying mantis because its front legs are bent as if it's praying. Only Grandfather notices that there's only one front leg....

Ranger and Keys by Danielle A. Vann is the story of Ranger, the Great Pyrenees, whom Miss Keys, the Skunk, meets on Miss Darlene Doppler Darcy's unique farm. Miss Keys' momma has been around humans for a while and knows how to do a few...

What is the secret that ten women are willing to take to the grave, even if it means their lives? A Secret to the Grave (Detective Parker Bell) Volume 1 by Jane Blythe is a murder mystery that has suspense at every turn. Detective Parker...

That’s Not Hay in My Hair: Big Apple to Big Adventures by Juliette Turner is a children’s book. Juliette lives in a cramped apartment in New York with her mum and her pets. It’s the first day of the summer holidays and she is about...

A Hidden Sicilian History is a Christian historical fiction by Ettore Grillo. A man finds an old scroll in the library in Enna, Sicily and translates it. The scroll was written by a Sicilian named Vincenzino who performed in a drama at Enna’s deconsecrated Church...

Icefall is the true story of Alex Staniforth’s journey to reach the top of Mount Everest. What is remarkable about Alex’s story is that he was only eighteen years old. Alex was also a sick child and suffered from bouts of epilepsy. But because of...

I meet a lot of ex-pats with interesting stories. Most of them can’t tell them very well. JR Ingrisano most certainly can. His well written novel, Captain Jolly’s Do Over, is honestly refreshing and unique. I've heard similar tales here in Thailand and, being from...

Crossing Places by Ernestine Cowalton is a collection of entrancing poems about love, loss, survival, and generally life and its twists and turns. Each of the poems tell a different story, but in a way they all come together to form one captivating read about...

Baby Bird is out collecting seeds when it starts to rain. Worried about the rain, she wonders if it'll ever stop. When she asks Grandma, she's told the story of Noah and his ark and the promise that God made to Noah. As Baby Bird...

Permutation Archives: The Harvested by Kindra Sowder is the story of Mila, whose blood holds a power that is desired by the good as well as the not so good parties of this story. Unfortunately, the bad guys got their hands on Mila first. After...

Oh boy! If you like reading books you can't put down, you just have to read The Calm Before the Storm by Elle Klass. Talk about psychological thrillers that grab you by the throat and with deft strokes, slice into you murder after murder, much...

Blackheath is an enchanting novel by Gabriella Lepore. The story starts with Maggie Ellmes being interrogated by Officer Bryant about the Tomlins family, all of whom are well known in the town of Blackheath for being witches. Maximus Tomlins is a sole parent, as his...

The Mod Code by Heidi Tankersley is about one girl and the twin brothers who love her. The only life Sage remembers is on her mother's farm in Kansas. Her best friend is Beckett. When her world is turned upside down, she learns she had...