"When I met her for the first time, I knew straight away that she was the woman of my life." So states Tommaso at the beginning of Her Name Was Aprile by Elisa Barbaro. Tommaso is certain Paola is the woman he is destined to...

Travel with Number 10: New York, Boston, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. by Ronit Tal Shaltiel is the third book in the series, The Adventures of the Numbers. Numbers 1 to 9 and Number 10 traveled together and when they reached New York, Number 10 liked...

Being Bree: Bree and the Loose Tooth Worries is a story book for children, grades K-3, written by Christine Sromek Laforet and illustrated by Lisa Rush. Bree was about to lose a tooth. Her mom said it was hanging by a thread which made Bree...

Same Starry Sky by Erin Christie is a beautiful story about the challenges faced by the families who have a parent deployed in the military. The child in the story feels sad when her father goes away on duty. His presence is missed because there...

Heir of Ra is a young adult action and adventure/historical fantasy novel written by Maciek Sasinowski. Alyssa was enjoying a moderately challenging climb in Peru and was at 358 meters of elevation when she got the call she had been waiting for. Her dad’s appeal...

The Island Dog Squad: Book 2: Another Crazy Mission is an animal adventure novel for preteens and young adults written by Deb McEwan. Life for Sandy and her Dog Squad friends, Lola, Obie and Chip, was pretty idyllic, especially after the struggles they had endured...

Froga Yoga: At the Pond by Hannah Rose Roswell is the story of Froga, a young frog who lives in a pond. Froga is different from the other frogs. He admires all the creatures in his pond and tries to move like them. Whether it...

Pushing the River by Barbara Monier is a family drama that highlights many of the difficulties we all face in our busy lives as we try to hold our families together, especially as our children grow up and leave the nest to spread their wings....

Hail Mary for Peanut by Heather Nelson is an emotional true story about going through fertility problems and a miscarriage. The author shares the journey she and her husband had to go through to try for a child. The author chronologically tells the story from...

When I was a kid, World War II movies, books, and TV shows were everywhere. I learned about the war through entertainment media before I was old enough to study it in school. A few years ago, Tom Brokaw wrote a bestseller called The Greatest...

Quest of the American Dream: A Guide to Culture Shock Encounters among Immigrants and American Visitors by Dominic Charles Okero is a charming first-person account of a man from rural Kenya who immigrated to America in search of a better life. After giving some brief...

Years ago I was captivated with detective stories, following Travis McGee, Lew Archer, and others as they meted out justice in their search for the truth. I loved the independent characters and the twisting, convoluted trails they followed. Saint George's Children by Dennis Ecklund falls...

Watch Hollow is a dark fantasy novel for children and preteens written by Gregory Funaro. Lucy and Oliver Tinker had had to grow up rather more quickly than most other children their age, ever since their mom passed away after a debilitating illness. As she...

The present is not kind to Indian half-breed John Dyer when demons from his past catch up to him in His Father’s Blood which is Book 2 in the Legends of the Family Dyer series by David W. Thompson. Trying to make a living and...

Precious Cargo is the second book in The Cargo Series by Linda Sands, a novel with mature themes and a striking relevance to our time, featuring sex trafficking and drugs. A frightened young girl flags down their truck in Austin, and Jojo Boudreaux and her...

The British FrontLine by Thomas J Eyre is a thriller, a crime novel that should sit on the shelves together with Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels and David Baldacci’s The Simple Truth, an electrifying romp that is action packed, dark, and characterized by its strong...

Saving Tir na nOg by Kimberly S. Ruff is the first book in The Chosen Ones series. Madison's family sticks together no matter what. When her dad goes missing on a trip to Ireland, her family packs their bags to set out in search. Matters...

Sophie the seagull is afraid to fly. She can feel her heart pounding and as she flaps her wings her frustrated smile turns to a shiver. She is scared she will fall into the river and she wonders if she will ever be able to...

In An Uncertain Accomplice you will find that author Donald Levin has spun a mystery around one death that led to another death which led to yet another death. Private Investigator Martin Preuss decided to take a case after the prospective client died. His curiosity...

The world around us is often starkly divided between good and bad, black and white, vice and virtue, but is it truly all that clear? In truth, there is more gray area than there is black or white, and there is more average than good...