“Food is more than sustenance, it’s a shared language of love, history, and community.” I love these opening lines in the Introduction to Lana Taylor Stuart’s My Southern Table. Food is much more than what we eat to survive: it defines who we are and...

Flight of a Lifetime by Philip Watling describes his early childhood and development. Philip was 23 when his accident happened. He was thrown headfirst into the side of a bus, a fraction of an inch away from death on arrival at the hospital in London....

Dead Fish Jumping on the Road is a hard-boiled detective mystery novel written by W.L. Liberman. Joe Simpson had worked for the Applewood Gazette for three years now, but Norma Jennings's drowned body was the first death the twenty-six-year-old reporter had covered. She had been...

“The Art of Planning Allergen-Free Events” by Stephanie Courtney is a very informative book for those who are looking for information on food allergies, especially as related to event planning. For those who do not have food allergies on their own, this is a wonderful...

Time-Marked Warlock by Shami Stovall is a riveting urban fantasy. Adair Finch is more than just a great private investigator. He is also the world’s most powerful warlock. Everything was going well for Adair until one case went wrong, and he lost his brother. Retiring...

When Reality Hits by Arthur Berm is not one of those stories where one says, as the author tells it, “Oh! That reminds me,” and bores some poor soul with its narration. The book begins with a quote from Einstein: “The world will not be...

Kubrick's Game starts out with a nerdy, socially awkward college student, Shawn Hagan, attending a film class at UCLA. He proceeds to argue with his professor, beginning with the professor's pronunciation of Stanley Kubrick's name. The disagreement goes downhill from there, but Shawn is later...

The Accidental Pilgrim is a contemporary women's fiction novel written by Stephen Kitsakos. The plot revolves around the historical discovery in 1986 of the Jesus Boat in the Sea of Galilee. However, the story actually begins a number of years before that, in the early...

The marital struggles of a young couple become inconsequential when tragedy strikes in the poignant romance novel Family First (The Friessens Book 7) by Lorhainne Eckhart. After six months of newlywed bliss, eighteen-year-old Katy is happy and contented with her life. She is finally married...

The Black River Chronicles: The Ursvaal Exchange by David Tallerman is the second book in the Black River Academy series, a compelling story that features magic and characters that are as genuine as they are relatable. Student ranger Durren Flintrand has been through much trouble...

Wild Hunt by Erik Henry Vick is the kind of stuff I love to read; bold and wild, the kind of fantasy that creates worlds in the reader's mind. Hank Jensen sets out to save his family, and that is all that matters. At least,...

Natasha felt lonely in the orphanage. It was Christmas in Russia and Natasha danced in her dreams with Father Frost. She wished for him to bring her mommy and daddy back. Father Frost heard her wish and sent her picture to the perfect family...

Soul Survivor by Philippa West is a memoir of the author’s journey through mental disorder, one only diagnosed after twenty-nine years of suffering. It wasn’t until after her training as a Mental Health First Aider that she began to identify her symptoms and unearthed a...

The small town of Kecking Horse in Montana needs a teacher. An advertisement is placed, and T.I. Morgan answers the advertisement. Both the placing of the advertisement and T. I. Morgan answering it lead to an enthralling series of events. The Man Called Teacher...

Paper Forests by Tegan Anderson is a fascinating story that follows the journey of children caught in a place that exists between life and death. Parents in a therapy group talk about their ailing children and the counselor advises that the children are in Paper...

"Stunned by Grief" is a self-help book written not by an expert, but by a so-called grief traveler who has experience with her husband tragically dying unexpectedly of a heart attack. The book is split into various parts so that the reader has many options:...

TooToo Goes on a Field Trip is a book for young readers. There is nothing to read, only pictures and a word that goes along with the pictures. There is a picture for just about every letter in the alphabet. TooToo Fish takes small children...

Mia Balducci dreams of having a big, loving family like her own big Italian brood in small town Massachusetts. As a teenager, Mia leaves Massachusetts for sunny Los Angeles and although for years it never feels like home, she eventually adjusts and makes her life...

In Hope by Joyce Mitchell, we meet Cassie and Cody Ritchie, sister and brother. We realize early on that they are a highly religious family. A typical Sunday for them always begins with church service. One Sunday, the two teens decide to go to church...

Plateau - Beyond the Trees, Beyond 2012 by Tina Frisco is a book with spiritual undertones. The protagonist is a 15-year-old tribal girl, W'Hyani. She is born as the keeper of the Crystal Heart which is the key to the Great Mosaic of Life. This...