Like many male and female friendships in high school, Jill Hale found herself in love with her lifelong best friend Brian McConnell. As graduation rolls around, Jill finally gets up the nerve to tell Brian how she really feels. However, as these things tend to...

In Dust to Blood: Red Slaves #1 by Tonya Cannariato, Anne Crosby enjoys a relatively free lifestyle travelling the world as a researcher for the Stone Think Tank. A trip to Moscow turns into more of an adventure than she is expecting, though, as she...

Queen Nzingha (The People's Queen) by Akua Agusi and Donnette Black is the biography of Queen Nzingha of Africa. Nzingha was the daughter of N'Dambi Kiluanji, the chief of Ngola. She was different from his other daughters. The ancestor priest told him that she would...

Madam C.J. Walker (formerly known as Sarah Breedlove's story) is a rags to riches tale. Madam Walker worked hard every day. Sarah Breedlove was the daughter of former slaves, although she herself was not born into slavery. Sarah's life had hardships. She suffered the loss...

The Tinfoil Girl is a fable written by Olivia Miller. It's the story of a girl who's modeled out of tin foil, and the adventures she has when she's whisked away from her home by a gust of wind. Being made of tin, she's impervious...

Who is Marcus Garvey? Some people who have studied civil rights would know. Others who are from Jamaica would also know. If you were around in the 1920s and ‘30s, there’s a strong chance you would have heard of Mr. Garvey. I had no idea...

Hikernut’s Canyon Land Companion: A Guide to the Best Canyon Hikes in the American Southwest by author Brian J. Lane is an indispensable book for hikers. It contains six chapters which cover everything a hiker will need to know. The book begins with a list...

Divorce: a Survival Guide for Men is a masterpiece by Gary Huerta. This is a guide geared toward divorced men. Mr. Huerta uses his personal experiences to counsel his peers on what to do and not to do during one's divorce process. As a matter...

Dragon Daily News: Stories of Imagination for Children of All Ages written by Gene Twaronite is a delightful collection of short stories that introduce young readers to a creative mindset where imagination has no limits. This collection has within it secret life lessons to be...

Orphaned girl Fiona Thorn, along with her talking horse Manzy, sets out to save her best friend Jaydin Rowan, who had wrongly been put in prison. But Fiona finds that the rescue is not as easy as she was hoping it would be. What she...

In A New Perspective on Race-Related Problems in Corporate American Companies, author Jermal Shim explains that most problems between persons of different races and/or cultures are interpreted as racial problems when, in reality they are problems involving lack of understanding in the workplace. The author...

Greg's daring rescue of Cassie during Hurricane Amy was all caught on camera. And the scorching kiss Cassie gave Greg made all the TV viewers think they were an item, but they couldn't be more wrong. Greg came to Texas to investigate an organization that...

King of the Mountain by P.J. Dunn introduces readers to the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The novel also introduces readers to the actual account of Major Patrick Ferguson who commanded the British Loyalist...

Eriq La Salle has carried over his characters Phee and Quincy from the last nail biter, Laws of Depravity, to Laws of Wrath. Phee and Quincy are on a well-earned leave after their last thrilling case, only to be called back from their brief vacation....

At first, I was a bit put off by the stilted style of the writing in Dead or Alive Agent Orange by Mary Rincon. Everything is so short and clipped that I felt it was jarring. However, as I thought about how this kind of...

Lucy's Big Mess by Kim Yannayon is the story of a little cat who has to stay indoors due to rain. She finds umpteen ways to keep herself occupied on that rainy day. She becomes a construction worker, a doctor, a mum, and a princess....

Peter is not just the boy who never grew up. In fact, he’s a young boy who has been treated badly. Tinkerbell, on the other hand, is not just a fighter as she’s always been known. Instead, she’s a flighty debutante with not much of...

The Family That Wasn't: A Novel by Gene Twaronite is an ideal story for teenagers. John Boggle always wanted a dream family; rich and perfect and a family that appreciated and respected him for what he was. Then he finds his dreams coming true. His...

Seven-X by Mike Wech follows reporter Eddie Hansen on a journey into a mental facility in search of truth, but finds him on a soul-searching journey inside himself and leaves him questioning everything he knows to be true. Convinced that death row inmates are being...

Literary Legends of the British Isles, The Lives and Burial Places of 50 Great Writers, by Michael Thomas Barry, is a wonderful look at great writers of the late medieval and early modern periods, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Little known information about their...