"Respect and Enjoy God's Creation," written by Malinda Mitchell with photographs by Ray Ruppert, is a collection of pictures and words to remind the readers of the uniqueness, beauty and wonder of God's creation. Beginning with a few pages about nature in general, there is...

It would be unpleasant if I had to say much negative points about a novel whose protagonist drinks my brand of beer. Fortunately, I don’t have to worry about that. “Matinicus: An Island Mystery” by Darcy Scott, that spans generations, makes it unnecessary. Gil Hodges,...

Craig Ridgway leaves his well-educated home at the age of fifteen because he cannot imagine being in school another year. He moves from Philadelphia to Lancaster where he apprentices himself to the master-gunsmith Jakob Wetzel. When Jakob dies in January 1811, twenty-one year-old Craig loses...

Rebecca and her daughter Wendy have moved back to Rebecca's hometown. A year earlier her husband was killed by a mentally disturbed fan. Now she is renting the upstairs of the home where she met her husband. The garden of the home was the site...

Nancy O'Neill does a beautiful job of telling such a heartwarming Christmas story. She includes so many different elements of Christmas that I am sure a little boy or girl's eyes would jump with joy while reading or being read to. While reading I felt...

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...

Young Danny Firoth was just an average middle school kid, just like everyone else, or so he thought. Then, one innocent school day turned out to be like no other day. Danny’s day started out like any other. But, one fateful event would change the...

In the future society presented in this story, the world has been nearly destroyed and the survivors have to spend all their lives in cramped silos only getting to go outside to do the brutal work of cleansing the earth. What better way to make...

"Lord’s Love: Cottonwood Series Book 2" by Sophie Dawson is a Christian themed, historical fiction book. The year is 1875 and Magdelina (Maggie) Taylor has moved into her own apartment breaking her domineering mother’s heart by leaving home. Sinjon Lytton is a spoiled, rich Lord...

If I had to describe this book in one word it would be captivating! Once I started reading I couldn't put it down! On 9-11-2013, a brazen terrorist attack took place at the Annenberg theater in Center City, PA. Though 290 people were taken hostage this...

This is a book for the individual, group, company, etc., that is trying to become better in that which they are involved in. Saving time, moving forward in greater unity as well as overcoming obstacles, are just a portion of what the reader can learn...

Wendi Gordon has written a book using over fifty scripture verses, and she has added her thoughts at the end of each passage of scripture. She also adds several questions for personal reflection after each verse and devotional. All of the verses in this book...

"Exploring the Garden with the Little Rose," written by Sheri Fink and illustrated by Mary Erikson Washam, is a fun, beautiful, and educational book to share with young children. This book teaches the alphabet and identifies different objects throughout the garden whose names begin with...

"Death Goes Postal" by Rosemary and Larry Mild is a really enjoyable and erudite mystery with some wonderful characters. Gentle, learned Professor Abner Fraume is brutally murdered in Bath, England, for the sake of some of Herr Koenig’s printing artifacts and rare manuscripts, but not...

Sandra thinks that her future is wrapped up in Wesley. That is until he asks her to be his personal assistant. Wesley's tenant Eva tries to warn Sandra away from Wesley, and Sandra begins to think that Eva is stalking her. Then Sandra's ex Carson...

It’s February of 1970 and in South Orange, New Jersey, Seven year old Flynn O'Shea likes living in her parents' apartment which is located above the bar they own and manage. Flynn is the youngest of the three O'Shea children Maeve being the oldest and...

April is a high school history teacher. She lives in the country by a forest and enjoys walking in the forest for relaxation. There is a pioneer woman's grave in the forest that April calls her special spot. She goes there to think, read poetry...

"The Worry Glasses: overcoming anxiety," written by Donalisa Helsley and illustrated by Kalpart, is an excellent way to discuss worries and anxiety and how children can cope with this. MJ worries a lot and her worries interfere with her everyday life. There are also special...

James and Maria Cooper decided that city life was not for them. The couple and their daughter Liza moves to the small community of Walker's Vale. Almost as soon as they move into their house strange things start happening. Jim suspects that Reverend Walker is...

Owen Black has created a first-rate young adult fantasy in "The Realms of Animar". Teenage Thane lives and goes to school in the village of Avryndale in Animar where everyone is called a polymorph for they have two forms, one human and one animal. The...