"The Wicked Passage" by N M Singel is an inventive mix of fantasy and history for young adults. Blake Wyatt just wants the school day to end but then his very odd substitute teacher has to go and reveal that Blake and his sister Erica...

"Dreams and Expectations" by Wendi Sotis is a new take on Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice". We have the same characters and much of the same action in the Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwiliam Darcy love affair, but we see it in much more detail. We...

Not having read the first two books in the '13 Treasures Trilogy', I feared I might be left behind or racing to catch up with the "13 Secrets". But Michelle Harrison has done a masterful job in giving just enough information from the previous book...

Poor Max. All he wanted was to have a fun-filled summer, a summer of fun with his friends. Instead, Max’s mom sends him to spend the summer with his grandpa in a town where he has zero friends. Max gets thrown head first into an...

“The Last Seer and the Tomb of Enoch”, the debut novel by Ashland Menshouse, is a wonderful story about several youngsters, which begins the night before they start their first term of High School. Aubrey, Buzz, and Adriqa have been neighborhood friends forever and soon...

"Miner’s Haven" by Elaine Sharshon is one of those rare books that come around so often that it is impossible to put down. Revolving around the coal mines in Pennsylvania from the early 1900’s to the end of WW II, this majestic story pulls the...

Deborah H. Bateman does an excellent job of explaining the Beatitudes for all who wish to incorporate religion into their daily lives. "Beatitudes" is an insightful and thought provoking devotional written in a manner which delivers God's word to the reader. Definitions of words are...

Partha Bhattacharya (PB) has written an ebook teaching others how to create an e-learning website that is in the best educational formats. As a teacher for 50 years I have been involved in what could and should be and PB has proven he understands what...

Xamorus had waited centuries for the return of Lord Vearios. At last he had returned and was dwelling in the body of Raven, Xamorus’ dog. Vearios knew that this time he was up against a more advanced population of humans. Lumina had defeated Vearios before...

"Walking Fish" by Joanne Bodin is gritty yet touching contemporary fiction. Artist Talia, a nonconformist by any standards, has had a difficult life. Losing custody of her daughter Sophie when she was five following an unpleasant divorce, Talia has been shut out of her child's...

"The First Apostle" by Katherine Pym is gripping historical fiction. Set in Paris, it relates the story of journalist and pamphleteer Camille Desmoulins during the period of the French Revolution. He was an active and outspoken revolutionary, a close friend of Robespierre and other influential...

"Chef ReCee Jay & Friends" is a charming tale of a young girl and her friend Carb, the monkey, as they plan a day of sugar-filled fun. From cupcakes to cookies to lemonade tea, the two fill their basket with tempting snacks. As ReCee and...

In the last few years I have heard more and more about the VP Virus. HPV is a virus transmitted by having sex with an infected partner. The virus can go away on its own or can result in cervical cancer. Michelle L. Whitlock shares...

Author John D. Spooner is a well-traveled and highly successful business man whose grandchildren are obviously the apple of his eye. This book is a compilation of the letters he had sent to both of them while they were in their college years. He keeps...

Karin Schaeffer has become a private detective after serving as a police woman. She has had a rough past but her life as the wife to Mac and mother to young Ben seems blissful. But now her husband Mac is down with the flu. Karin's...

Bailey Jordan has adored her husband, Brad, since they were children together. Now, they are married and approaching their late thirties. Bailey has stood by Brad as he has had one not so successful investment scheme after another. She knows her home life was a...

Corrie Saunders loses her beloved husband Jarrod in Iraq as he pulls a suicide bomber away from a crowd of people. Jarrod and the suicide bomber are blown to bits. Now it has been six months since Corrie buried what was left of Jarrod's body...

"Fission" by Tom Weston is based on a true story. Our tale centers on Lise Mietner, a Physicist. Women were expected to get married and raise a family, not to dream or pursue a career and especially not in a field like Physics. The year...

Dakota Blackwood's name means "friend and ally" and he is just that throughout the years with childhood friend Ray, college friend Dirk, and Dakota's brother Dallas. Dakota meets new girl Daisy Forester at the beginning of their senior year of high school and they fall...

"The Bride Wore Blue" is the third story in the 'Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek series'. The youngest Sinclair, Vivian, comes West from Portland, Oregon, to Cripple Creek, Colorado, to join her happily married older sisters, Kate, Nell and Ida. Vivian stays with her aunt...