In her debut novel, "Where Would I Be", Laura T. Johnson takes us on an emotional journey into the psyche of a survivor of domestic abuse. Lisa Jenson, a successful Investment Banker at Morgan & Peterson, has finally put her abusive past behind her –...

"Funny Dan The Race Car Man" is a very enjoyable book. I was not a race car man, woman or fan, but now this fun book has turned me into a believer. I loved the names of the drivers like Gentle Jim, Cheap Pete, Evil...

"A Vision of Lucy" by Margaret Brownley is the third and last book of the 'Rocky Creek Series'. Not having read the first two books, I can advise the reader that this book stands well by itself as a delightful read. Lucy Fairbanks longs for...

"Muted Grey" by Dianna L.Young is a very compelling novella that will leave the readers contemplative. When Marah Edom chose her path in life to become a doctor little did she know the path it would take her down. She had a reoccurring nightmare...

"Embracing the Lemonade Life" by Sandra Sookoo is a hugely enjoyable and inspiring story with lemonade-loving cancer survivor Carla as heroine, and ambitious city lawyer Jake as hero. Carla now lives each day as it comes, running 'Cute as a Button' bed and breakfast and...

"Chrystallia" by P.M. Glaser was a pleasure to read and review. Glaser has created a magical world brought to life through beautiful illustrations and brilliant writing. Siblings Maggie and Jesse were facing a family crisis; their home was being repossessed and their mother was dying....

This is a great high fantasy novel with many fantastic creatures, which will please many ages and tastes. There is magic, time traveling, quest, and heroes to make it all happen. In short this book has all the necessary elements to make it a fantastic...

"Beyond Life: The Ghost Chronicles" by Daniel Norvell and Sandra Wells is a great anthology of ghost stories that will give the reader food for thought. Have you ever wondered what makes a ghost hang around a place and never leave? Are they happy where...

The story involves a very wealthy family where one brother wants to knock the other one out of an inheritance and tries to do so by having him committed to a mental facility and kept drugged up to hide the crime. But along comes Dr....

I love words. In high school, my favorite class was English when we were learning vocabulary. Sometimes I even open up the dictionary at random to learn a new word and I keep a notepad in my desk drawer of words I have learned and...

I would hate to get into a verbal altercation with Wanda Morrow Clevenger because I think that her knife-sharp wit would kill me. Her last name amuses me because she is indeed a clever Clevenger. Sure, you can start reading this book the old fashioned...

"Better Off Without Him" by Dee Ernst is modern romantic comedy at its best. Heroine Mona Berman is a very successful author whose forte is the historical romance novel. Throughout the book she slips into the author mode to translate a scene that is actually...

I’ve had the privilege of reading one of David McDonald’s earlier books, “There are No Unwounded Soldiers,” and because it was so emotionally charged, I wanted to read another one of his collections of poetry. McDonald is a hero in my view. In “I Never...

Today is Nora’s Birthday and her dad wants to buy her new boots to replace her old ones. The only problem is that Nora doesn’t want new boots, and no matter how hard her dad tries to change her mind by showing her pretty new...

Mortimer wasn’t sure about a monster the bird was telling him about, but Boo Woolly turned out to be a nice monster, taking him to a wonderful colorful place full of fun and candy. Mortimer really liked Boo Woolly and wanted to be his friend,...

Miriam Wolfe was beautiful, gifted, vivacious and eloquent. She was most certainly on her way to a phenomenal career but her life tragically ended at age 20. On December 21, 1988, Miriam, along with thirty other students from Syracuse University, was on Pan Am Flight...

Growing up without his father being involved in his life, Patrick A. Davy is motivated to write his book, "The Right to Belong." Pete is a successful salesman living in New York City with his wife and two sons. He tells his sons that they...

The story in this book is quite original, at least in the sense that I haven’t encountered it before. It includes a whole troop of likeable characters that keep the tale entertaining. The writing, though good, could use some editing to take away a lot...

Author Peter Afrasiabi is an esteemed attorney who has witnessed many injustices, flaws and is frankly baffled by the differences between court systems. As a property attorney, things are cut and dried, equal and just. He sees the constitution being upheld as intended. When he...

"Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble" by D. Robert Pease is a delightful read. Preteens and young teens will love the plot. So will adults. With a play on words and clever imagery, Pease has created a tale loosely based on Noah’s Ark. This is the author’s...