Though it is likely that you have never heard of an engineering diver, it has been around since World War II and is an integral part of the engineering profession, primarily in coastal areas, but in any area where building structures and bodies of water...

Most of us have heard of “Mad Cow Disease” but few of us are familiar with Creutzfeldt- Jacob Disease, or CJD. In Kingston’s Project by Carrie Beckort, readers will learn of the devastating effects of CJD on victims and their families. The “mad cow” form...

This is the story of Odie the stray kitten. Odie is an orange and white boy cat now, but this is what happened to Odie on a cold winter night when he was a kitten. Odie lost his mom and family in the woods. He...

The King of Casinos – Willie Martello and the El Rey Club is the story of how one small casino became the blueprint for thousands of others. Andy Martello came across one photograph that prompted him to look into the history of the El Rey...

When we first meet John, he is a paramedic working on a patient. Upon arrival at the hospital, he sees a nurse that he thinks he knows; in fact he is sure she is someone from his past. Very quickly we find out that when...

E.L. Schoeman’s Isabel is a medieval love story about a noble girl, Isabel, who falls in love with a stable boy, Matthew. Refused to be bound by her noble status, Isabel rides horses, engages in sword fights, sleeps in the stables and often speaks her...

The Beauty of My Shadow is Samantha Michael’s story. It’s the story of how her entire life changed in an instant. At just 18 years old, Samantha was involved in a horrific car accident, caused by a young drunk driver. Pulled from the wreck, Samantha...

Stu the hippo is excited for his birthday party and he’s even more excited to see all of his friends there, having fun. But when a storm rolls in and the lights go out, he realizes that his friends are nowhere to be seen, at...

It’s not often that a bride and groom and family members get arrested on the couple’s wedding day. But that is exactly what happened to Abigail and Zach on what should have been the happiest day of their lives. The newlyweds both come from dysfunctional...

Little Jimmy Says, "Same Is Lame" by Jimmy Vee is an entertaining book for children. Jimmy is just five feet tall and unusually small for a man. He tells us how every individual is different from each other and each one has their own special...

The title of book one is The Scrolls: The Missing Eighteen Years and book two is The Volcano that Changed The World. In The Tsunami That Reshaped America, Dr. Mark Malloy, a geologist, is kidnapped by a militia group connected to a religious organization called...

Every once in a while, a book of poetry comes into my possession that forces me to share it with others, whether they consider themselves poetry readers or not. Sherry Rentschler’s book, Paper Bones, is one of these books. As I read her poems, I...

I was quite impressed with Steven Weaver’s The Vault: A Journey of Discovery as I found it an unexpectedly well-written story with distinctive characters, realistic dialogue and a fairly solid plot. While the book is targeted to a younger audience and contains a lot of...

Aria Robbins doesn't really care for the new youth minister Corbin Bishop, who has come to Angel Falls. As the church secretary and praise team leader, she is hard-pressed to avoid him, and when he moves in next door to her at Heart's Haven Apartments...

New Psalms for Old Sorrows, as it promises, is a collection of prayers based squarely on biblical foundations and containing relevant scriptures. It examines, through a series of prayer and personal musing, the relationship between God and human beings and also that of a person’s...

In this third book of the Destiny trilogy, Destiny's Dance by Rosemary Gard, we see the main character Katya leaving Europe to escape the gypsies who are after her and her fiancé Ivan. Ivan is blamed for the accidental death of a gypsy, which forces...

In Gwen Dandridge’s novel, The Stone Lions, history, mathematics, magic, and intrigue combine to create a fascinating read for preteens. Twelve year old Ara lives out her life under the watchful eye of Suleiman in the harem of her father’s palace, Alhambra. Ara’s life is...

Fire by L.B. Gilbert is the first book in The Elementals series. Diana has a job as the Fire Elemental to find and kill monsters, whether they be supernatural or human. When a little girl from her past goes missing, she travels to Boston to...

The clan members of the MacIain-MacDonalds of Glencoe, Scotland, were forced from the comfort of their beds, homes, and lives when the Campbells of Glenlyon, Scotland, under the order of the king of England attacked them, ending in a brutal massacre. Dory MacDonald was...

Seth Jacobs grew up in a modest Jewish family that was one of many families to emigrate from Germany during the Nazi regime to the United States. Working hard to establish a successful life as entrepreneurs, Seth Jacob's mother and father opened up a deli...