Torment: A Novella by H.D. Hunter pulls you in from the first page. The story starts when a boy is waiting to see his older sister for the first time in a while. From the first scene, it’s clear how much he admires and looks...

Moxie and her black horse named Misty are a team. While Misty looks to the rest of the world like an old switchback nag, she really is a stealthy horse with lots of energy and, most important, magic. Moxie has magic too, at least when...

It’s Cool To Be Kind by Linnea McFadden is a story about bullying and what can happen when the situation is approached in a positive way. Things couldn’t have been going better for fourth-grader Beckett Barnes, that is until Porter Reed comes to Rock Hill...

Finding Pegasus by John Pearce is a fast-paced action thriller that would actually make a really good movie or a TV series. This is the third novel in the Eddie Grant series and I have not read the previous two novels. However, this meant very...

The Salem Witch burnings of the late 1600s have long been fodder for both writers and readers. As a result, it’s likely Linda Watkins, winner of several awards in supernatural and horror fiction, has another upcoming winner in the romantic suspense story, The Witches of...

Will Butler, the “Old Man” Dr. Jesse Johnstone, and rebel Malila Chiu continue on their quests for their respective governments in Exiles’ Escape, Book 2 of the Old Men and Infidels series by W. Clark Boutwell. The Unity and the RSA are heading for a...

Bunny and her family are enjoying their vacation in Fort Morgan near the beach. Sudden stormy weather puts a temporary halt to their activities, and an unexpected guest from her past shows up with a disturbing message－her childhood friend Hannah is in trouble. A call...

Author James Anderson captures the tension and beauty of the Utah desert in his novel, Lullaby Road. Lullaby Road is the sequel to his first novel, The Never-Open Desert Diner, featuring series protagonist Ben Jones. In Anderson's sequel, readers follow another of Ben's adventures and...

Doc, the Little Tractor by Debbie Stofer is geared for toddlers and young children. Doc works many years on the farm and never complains. But as time passes, the farm grows and grows until it is too much for Doc to handle. Oh, no! A...

‘Winners are NOT people built with superhuman strength. They are people just like us, who have figured out how to do the exact thing!’ Win: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Destiny by Stephen Baars is an engaging and insightful book that speaks about the topic...

Linda Gosson shares the story of a soldier who serves two terms in Vietnam, returns home to be diagnosed with PTSD and is hit with a second-degree felony charge because of his attempted suicide. Innocence Lost: The Story of a Vietnam Vet will open the...

A dark-humored story, Springtime In Lawrence Park by Arnold Logan follows the life and times of Marie Barnacle as she grows up in an elitist Canadian family. The story opens with the tragic death of the Barnacle’s first daughter which sets the tone not only...

Elee is an adorable baby elephant living on the African plains with her mother. The dry season is causing the slow disappearance of the watering hole, which is crucial to the survival of the plains animals. But Elee's mother assures her that if she follows...

Josephine, or Jo, will do anything for her sister, Isobel, and anything is what she is doing by meeting with a mesmerist. The Graveyard of Forgotten Dreams is set in the late 1800s. Jo and her sister have survived the Orphan Trains, but that is...

Never Let Me Go hit so close to home it scared me. Not because my own life experience was similar to that of Nicole Lowe's, the author of this memoir, but because how Nicole felt, what she did as a teen, and why she did...

Author Hafeez Diwan writes a very much needed and timely book in How to Love Obnoxious People – and Why? This material is essential for the time in which one is living. People tend to think they are entitled to benefits and their way. They...

The Adventures of Gleeson and Cormac: Why Do People Cry? by Molly O’Rourke gives young readers some valuable lessons through the story of Gleeson the frog and his friend, Cormac. It is a glorious day and Gleeson wants to do something. He calls his friend,...

Victor Moody the Mosquito-Boy and Faploom-Japloom by Hafeez Diwan is an entertaining young adult fantasy novel about a young boy that turned into a mosquito. When Tundra Tunnel becomes the new game craze in town, Victor checks the three dollars and five quarters in his...

Another Girl Calls My Dad Daddy is a young adult coming of age novel written by Emma L. Price. Twelve-year-old Portia was beyond excited at the prospect of meeting her big sister. They had been speaking on the phone for a year now, ever since...

When Gemma Ziegler's Ruby Rose: Coming Home begins, we meet Ruby Rose Russo traveling to her childhood home in rural Cornishville, Kentucky, a move necessitated by the loss of her husband and their wealth in the stock market crash. Returning home isn't exactly a pleasant...