A Black Sail (Coleridge Taylor Mystery) by Rich Zahradnik is a beautifully written crime story; absorbing, fast-paced, and laced with literary gems that will make the overall reading experience fun and enjoyable for fans of mystery and murder. Coleridge Taylor is a police reporter covering...

Poison Heartbeats by Temple Emmet Williams is a very real-to-life story of terrorism. ISIL wants to poison the water network in America and their target is the Jackson River, located in Northwest Virginia. If they succeed in their mission, they will have the blood of...

Finding Claire is a contemporary romantic suspense novel written by Pamela Humphrey. She didn't know her name nor she did remember anything except the nightmare of regaining consciousness in the back of a van, of being bound and then imprisoned in a disgusting and stinking...

Erase and Rewind by Annemarie Musawale is an interesting science-fiction anecdote about a young girl's lives and her alternatives. Rosemary and Russel are twins. Their mother, Celestine, had been a jazz singer when she married their father. Bored with family life and regretting her decision...

Hitch Your Wagon to a Star by Terri W. Majors is a beautiful and compelling biography, set against the backdrop of the turbulent years of the 1920s, a period that witnessed the rising oil market, the Great Depression, the aftermath of the First World War,...

Hidden Magic by Stephany Wallace is filled with romance and magic. Cynwrig is an immortal Druid, living his life to protect his people and keep them hidden. Guilt over the loss of the High Priest has kept him distant, even from his brother. Protecting his...

Amanda Kelly witnesses the murder of her father in Iron City, Dakota Territory, and then the burning down of her father’s store immediately afterward. As if that weren’t bad enough, the person who probably committed the deeds—an evil, vengeful banker and jilted suitor named Baldwin...

Nature's Confession by JL Morin combines a variety of genres and sub-genres into an interesting story of two teenagers fighting to protect nature. It is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi read, but a book that carries an empathic voice and strongly castigates the mindless practices and...

Can a Princess Be a Firefighter? is a children’s book written by Carole P. Roman and illustrated by Mateya Arkova. When a child asks her parent if a princess can be a firefighter, she is offered many occupational suggestions, some of which are roles usually...

Rocket-bye by Carole P. Roman is an enjoyable picture book that takes young readers on an exciting journey. It is about two people in outer space. They soar above trees and see cities look small. They see stars make up constellations, and soar past each...

One to Ten: Squirrel’s Bad Day is a fun storybook for children, as well as providing a coping mechanism for learning to deal with problems. Ranking a problem on a scale of one to 10 will help them to understand that bad things happen and,...

"Kobee Manatee: Shipwreck Sea Friends" is a fun underwater adventure written by Robert Scott Thayer and illustrated by Lauren Gallegos. Kobee, a bold manatee, along with his friends Tess, a brave seahorse, and Pablo, a fun loving hermit crab, head to Puerto Rico to explore...

Twice during the 1980s, Gilda Morina Syverson traveled to Italy in search of her parents’ roots. In October 2000, Gilda’s parents and husband, Stu, accompanied her. The journal that the author religiously kept now gives her readers the trip of a lifetime in My...

Deadly Serious: Terror is no Laughing Matter by A.J. Thibault is a dark comedy that follows “poor little rich boy”Jon Goodis as he tries to come to terms with what his role in life should be. With his father being a wealthy and successful CEO...

Jujutsu in Japan to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in America, written by the avid supporter of various types of martial arts, Daniel DiMarzio, is a highly personal account of the two approaches to the martial art in which the author compares the histories, the techniques, and the...

Woobee's Journey by Antwinette Scott is a fun, heartwarming children's book about a young boy named Isaiah. When Isaiah was really young, he received a handmade blanket, called Woobee, from his grandma. Isaiah takes the blanket everywhere. But then his grandma dies, and the blanket...

That Deadly Space: A Civil War Novel by Gerald Gillis is a novel with a powerful historical setting, a Civil War novel with characters that are solid and wonderfully developed. Conor Rafferty joins the Confederate army as an Infantry Officer, even though his Irish father...

Spirit Quest by poet Bob MacKenzie and illustrator Sharlena Wood was a beautiful book of poetry. Throughout the book were gorgeous illustrations that matched the written poems perfectly. The poems themselves told stories of mountains, lakes, cabins, woods, and other serene settings. You can’t help...

Rise and Decline: Where We Are and What We Can Do About It by Bruce D. Thatcher is a timely book that explores the political crisis in the US. As the saying goes, “What goes up must come down,” so every nation that rises must...

Young female medical students are victims of sinister and aberrant crimes with an unnatural aspect in the sleuth mystery novel, F. O. X. (A Jessica James Mystery) by Kelly Oliver. Who is behind them? What is their agenda? Psychology student Jessica wakes up behind a...