The Twin by Kevin St. Jarre tells the story of the missing years of Jesus’s life before he began his ministry and goes beyond his death. It is told from the translated writings of St Thomas, who meets Jesus as a small boy, then called...

I Am Cuba: Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution by Matthew Langdon Cost offers an accurate and detailed historical account of Cuba’s people's revolution (26th of July Movement) that began in 1953 and ended on December 31, 1958, with the overthrow of military dictator Fulgencio...

After the Civil War ended, New Orleans, like many Southern cities, experienced almost insurmountable challenges with its diverse population of wealthy plantation owners, newly freed Blacks, Creoles, and Native Americans. Some citizens fought to return to their previous power while others sought a new way...

A friend asks Tom Bridger for a favor. Bridger, the investigator protagonist in Cary Watson’s second novel, The Skeleton Palms, tells us that he cannot refuse—because he is both a house guest and sleeping with his friend’s wife. This brutal honesty tinged with idiosyncrasy is...

Danny and Olly's Trick-or-Treat Night by Silviya Rankova is a Halloween-themed picture book for young children. Little Danny, his big brother Alex, and their cat Olly are all dressed as policemen and are excited for their night of trick-or-treating around their neighbourhood. They visit lots...

Silviya Rankova, the author of The Very Stubborn Camel, knows a lot about camels. She has a page at the end of the book with a list of nifty details about camels: how strong they are, how fast they travel, how much water they can...

Nerve Attack: A Kolya Petrov thriller by S. Lee Manning is a suspenseful thriller featuring Russian-Jewish immigrant and former American intelligence operative Kolya Petrov on a mission to stop a unique and dangerous terrorist attack. The only person who has the key to stopping the...

Wrestling with Tradition by Dale Stopperan is a sports drama that takes readers to a small town in Iowa called Cresco. It follows Tom Kilmer, who comes in to replace the renowned wrestling coach who had brought a lot of success to the town. Can...

John Darque and Carl Henderson, a lethal pair of snipers for a special security unit in the United States, had been deployed by their superior Curt Smith on a small mission. Perhaps if John, alias Chadeux, had known the whole operation was a setup, he...

Butch & Louie's Book of Poetry is a clear example that poetry is everywhere; you just have to know how to see it. The book begins by speaking in general of what poetry is, and that anyone can enjoy it. It succeeds very well with...

Two of the most important spiritual disciplines in Christian life are prayer and Bible reading/study. Lee Ann Rubsam is very experienced at both and shares her wisdom on these two matters in How to Pray and Read the Bible. The first three-fourths of this book...

Time is Eternity by Annette G. Anders is the third book in the Full Circle romance series. Luca Harrison and Josephine ‘Jo’ Alberts have close family ties and a friendship spanning over two decades. Luca has gotten the promotion he always wanted but that means...

The Bond is A.M. Grotticelli's memoir that contains a heartbreaking story of a group of eight foster kids who longed all their childhood to belong to a family. A.M. Grotticelli lays out his struggles growing up in an abusive orphanage and a foster care home,...

Unbreakable: Readings That Inspire and Motivate by Carolyn D Vincent is a collection of inspiring texts devised to give us hope. Yes, all of us, whether we have been hurt, are suffering, or have had to overcome terrible trauma. The introduction and acknowledgments are extraordinarily...

Deadline Rome: The Vatican Kylix by Sari Gilbert is an intriguing story set in 1980 in Italy. Clare Phillips is a young freelance journalist living in Rome, struggling to make a name for herself in the profession. While Clare, an archeologist turned journalist, and her...

Bibliointuitive is a work of women's fiction by author Amy Q. Barker. What is intuition, and where does it come from? Riley wants to know. She doesn’t understand it other than knowing it started right after the car accident that seriously injured her and killed...

Walk With Me, My Son: You and I Have Some Stories to Tell by Richard Asmet Awid is a look into the Lebanese migration to North America more than a century ago from a personal perspective. The author's father, Ehmid Alley Awid Amerey, was 19...

Electric Green Mambas is the third book in the Scott Brody Thriller series by Bryan Cassiday. I knew I couldn’t miss this third installment in the series after reading Murder LLC, in which a woman enlists the services of the private detective to find a...

Child of Fear and Fire by G. R. Thomas is a book in the horror genre. The protagonist is a sixteen-year-old girl called Eliza. She is a servant in the Norlane household. She was rescued from a possible life of prostitution by Mrs Embrey, the...

Dire Redemption by Ishmael O. Ross is an engaging story developed against the backdrop of a dystopian setting. Set in 2058, the novel introduces readers to a social conflict where those in the organized part of society prosper while those outside the Federated States of...