The Journeys of Bumbly Bear is a wonderful children’s book written by Jacqui Kelley-Kinnie. Julie is all grown up now and doesn’t need her stuffed animals any longer, so while she is away, her mother puts all the stuffed animal toys into a big black...

The Dragonfly Prophecy by Jacquelyn Castle is a wonderful book for young adults that takes you on a journey to another universe! As we begin the book and meet Lexi we are taken on an adventure into another dimension. As we get to know Lexi,...

"The Boy Who Flew With Eagles" is an inspiring and soulful children’s book written by Ben Woodard. As Naa’ki is enjoying the beautiful scenery of the great salt water lake, a giant mother eagle swoops down and snatches him away. Naa’ki must find his...

What if you were shown how to lift the thin barrier that separates our world from a secret and magical civilization that exists alongside ours, but this knowledge endangers not only yourself, but everyone you love? It is Addy’s seventeenth birthday, and the mundane and...

In The Queue we face a world that I hope I will never see in reality. The Leader has mandated that all elderly be rounded up and herded to an unknown destination. They walk in a queue many miles long as soldiers continue to force...

Do you believe in Santa? In an alternative universe the North Pole is not the enchanting frosted Christmas card place everyone would like it to be. In this reality, the North Pole is an industrial complex of dingy factories, churning out masses of toys. Elves...

This is an interesting tale that is well done and entertaining. It will enhance any family library. The writing is easy to read, clean and engaging. This is the first book in a series and the end shows this clearly. I enjoy this style of...

On October 16, 1907, J.P. Morgan received a note while attending Sunday church service. Speculators tried to take over the United Copper Company but their bid fell apart, leaving the mining company in ruins, and a bank and two brokerage houses destroyed. Morgan offers to...

"The Liffey Flows On By" written by Niki Phillips is a well-written book with great characters spanning four generations. It is a saga of Irish brothers, their families and their friends starting in 1893 and ending in 1946. As the reader becomes acquainted with the...

Nine year old Jeff is homeless and is busy getting food to eat from the dumpster behind his favorite Chicago restaurant when he finds himself watching a man in a strange rubber suit destroy three men in the alley below him. Those three men were...

“The Colony” by Blaine C. Readler is a thriller of a different flavor. In this fascinating tale, a handful of farmers and one hitchhiker defend themselves from a vicious alien attack, in an isolated area of rural Wisconsin farmland. As events unfold, this alien species...

In Dr. Jerome Schulte's book, "The Immortality Complex", he lists three things that are the philosophical theorems of his book: the essence of humanness is need, the essence of need is feelings, and the essence of feeling is growth. Need is the continued growth through...

Five women, each with their own tribulation, walk through life with their dreams that mean everything to them. The Visitor comes to make changes, to provide each a gem that, if things go well, will be the pivotal point that they yearn for. The plot...

"Walkers of Legend" by Miles Allen is a double first: it’s this author’s debut novel and it’s also the first in what promises to be a very exciting series. The world is ruled almost entirely by the Empire, but this is starting to falter. It...

"The Time Travel Storm," written by TC Booth and illustrated by Juan Carlos Colla, is a fun, educational book to share with children. It will teach them about going to school in the 1800's. Alex and Scott become separated from their class on a school...

Olly Oogleberry made his first appearance in 1981 through the dawdlings of a restless seventh grader, Lou Hughes. Now after thirty years, Olly has resurfaced in the new children’s book “The Fabulous Adventures of Olly Oogleberry.” Olly is going on an adventurous mission to save...

'The Six Saviors' is a new series focusing on six men on a mission to retrieve twelve murderers that escaped planet SR44 to Earth. Noah, Hudson, Talin, Cohen, Rayner and Jovan were handpicked for their training and special abilities. Noah is the lead in "The...

In 1975, Darwin McClain finds an old Civil War era breastplate buried in the ground while he is readying the fields of his home in eastern Tennessee for planting. His wife Marty cleans it off and puts the breastplate in a drawer in their home...

If you are a poetry fan, this will be a book to give you substantial food for thought. "The Suns Snow and the Sands Move" by C. JoyBell C. is one of those books in which certain of the poems will hit home and perhaps,...

The year was 1944 and twenty year old Rudolph Meier was a Nazi POW working in local cotton fields while he was held at Camp Papago Park near Phoenix, Arizona. He was serving as a radio operator on a German submarine stationed near the eastern...