Putting out fires, literally, wasn’t exactly what Grace Harkins had in mind for her first summer after retiring from teaching school, but that is exactly what happens in Fresh Start Summer by Beverly Nault. Her friend, Maggie Elmsley, informed her before movie production hit town...

Alzheimer’s: Dutiful Daughter (A Liz Roberts Mystery) by Don Canaan and Shawn Graves is a fast-paced 23-chapter mystery/sleuth fiction story about Laura, an accountant, who is the caregiver for her parents. Laura has endured a lifetime with an unloving schizophrenic mother and a controlling father...

Born In A War Between Dark and Light (He Is Coming) was written by Vivian Gendernalik. God allowed the author to witness the coming day of wrath; the day when God has had enough of mankind and their rebellion. Thirteen-year-old Vivian Gendernalik was allowed to...

In the Mescalero Project, Doug Buchs introduces his readers to a secret waiting in the desert. Once it was isolated and heavily guarded. Now it appears mysteriously abandoned. Or is it? The Mescalero Project was created as an experimental prison colony, housing the type of...

Maggie has lost her father, but is he really gone? That is the question in The Weeping Willow Sings by Billie Grable. With a history of mental illness and a rough experience in the Gulf War, John is never quite the same and his daughter,...

The Heart of Hannen is Book One of the Atriian Trilogy, an epic fantasy written by Fawn Bonning. Christine Clavin has a history that haunts her sleeping and waking life and has her whole high school treating her like a freak. When she was a...

The Leader of Lors is Book Two of Fawn Bonning’s romantic epic fantasy series, The Atriian Trilogy. Christine is home with her family, with the exception of her brother Sam, whom she misses terribly. Christine’s had a baby, which was delivered by Caesarean Section; she’s...

Flowers and Stone by Jan Sikes is a historical fiction and romance rolled into one enticing true story. It shares an intense love story that takes place in the loud and fun Texas honky-tonks in 1970. Darlina Flowers isn't prepared for any man to come...

A delightful book of proverbs, Zarbul Masalha: 151 Afghan Dari Proverbs by Captain Edward Zellem is written in a language and culture little known to English language readers outside of Afghanistan. (It also includes helpful comments on pronunciation and the Dari language) Unlike the typical...

Walking into a facility where the doors are outside of your control, where you’re locked in small hallways with no way out, where your every move is viewed and recorded can be a terrifying experience. It’s all in a day’s work when you’re in a...

The Very Best You!, written and illustrated by Kathryn L. Novak, is part of the EZ As 1-2-3 Access Your Child’s Abilities series, and it is one that will encourage and help each reader to appreciate and like the features about him or herself. The...

EZ as 1-2-3 Come Learn About Bugs A-Z, written and illustrated by Kathryn L. Novak, is a book for children that is adorable and fun to read. Each page is devoted to a letter and a bug or a few bugs that begin with that...

Rescue Me by Val Silver is a remarkable book about rescue animals, primarily dogs. The book focuses on several true stories which are each very different. In most cases, each dog rescued and saved comes with a lot of baggage. Yet, it is the dog...

Ready or Not ... Out I Come by Raechel Bull is her own incredible story of the journey which she undertook to have a child. From conception to birth, this book covers everything. The author had many hurdles to overcome before she finally became a...

What do you do when the mediocre life you've been living is no longer enough? Roy Tarantino decides to end said life by jumping off his apartment building, until a solitary scream dramatically changes the trajectory of his current plans. Crimes in Little Italy isn’t...

Ted Wants to Rock! by Quaid Leckey is the delightful story of Ted who daydreams of being a rock star. He dreams of performing on stage, his music being popular on radio, being successful, travelling in a limousine and signing autographs. These thoughts dominate Ted's...

The Mind's Eye is a young adult historical, coming of age novel written by K.C. Finn. It's set during WWII. Fifteen-year-old Kit Cavendish and her younger brother, Leighton, are on their way to Wales when we first meet them. They're part of a massive evacuation...

Vampyric paranormal romance is delivered in verse in Elfineness by T.K. Varenko. This epic poem of over 300 pages recounts the life of Luella, an elfin maiden transformed into a vampyress during her struggle to find her one true love. Gods and monsters from various...

I read and reviewed the first novel in the A Prayer Series. I loved A Silent Prayer and since its ending was an unqualified cliff-hanger I just had to read A Prayer Heeded. This second book of the Prayer Series opens with Adam and Rania...

Atticus Finch said it is the nature of the law that every man will get at least one case that will affect him personally. For lawyer Max Gildea, that case is Sophie Suriano. Sophie’s husband died when the Chinese freighter, Nereus, hit the Suriano yacht...