Once in a while, a good women's book sets the bar for a highly original plot that doesn’t fall into the typical boy-meets-girl trope. A Medical Affair: A Story That Must Be Told by Anne McCarthy Strauss is one such story. Thirty-eight-year-old Heather Morrison is...

Relative Consequences by Jody Herpin is a sweeping novel about haunting secrets, redemption, racism, and forgiveness. It follows Jessy Tate as she struggles to cope with her husband's death, guilt, anxiety attacks, and nightmares. After a call with her psychiatrist, Jessy learns that her nightmares...

Life Tree is a young adult drama by Martha Amabile. While preparing himself for the next day's funeral, Peter McKinney starts thinking about his childhood. His memories transport him back to the year 1964, just days before Christmas, when he was a mischievous eleven-year-old living...

Book 1 of the Camilla Lee series is about a formidable avenger and assassin wanting payback. In Unleashing the Tiger, author Jerry Furnell shows an effortless and ingenious command of the action-thriller genre, much like a gifted painter whose brushstrokes glide smoothly onto the canvas....

The Light Reapers: End of the World by Gary Hickman is a terrorist thriller that meets all the qualifications any reader looks for in the genre. An elite team is out to stop one of the most dangerous threats that humanity has ever faced. It...

Over the past few years, we have survived earthquakes, terrorism, and even a deadly pandemic. I believe this explains why most people fear that the world has not yet seen the worst tragedies and disasters of the twenty-first century. If humanity does face devastation, will...

In his historical study, History As I See It and Others, Hafiz Sheriff examines various major historical events and shares his perspective on them. He also includes his viewpoints on political, family, and religious matters. The work covers Jewish history before and after the...

The Paper Route, by Jacqueline Cayer Nelson McDonald, is an engrossing mystery set in the 1960s that follows a clever little girl whose deeds transcend her years. Jackie is a natural-born observer whose curiosity leads her to notice details that adults would miss. Her inquisitiveness...

Karma Rising by Rita Graham is a paranormal mystery novel centered around Ceeoni Jones, the new theater manager of a venue with a long-established and rich history. Ceeoni takes a leap of faith when she is offered the position at Starcross Theater, picking up her...

Tabitha Sprunger’s Hart Street and Main: Metamorphosis is the second installment in the series and picks up where our heroes left off. Skye finds herself alone in the First World as Olli decided to stay in the Second. Trying to forget Olli and navigate her...

Having friends helps children develop emotionally and socially. Interaction with other people serves to test our different ways of relating to others. By connecting with friends, children learn to set standards, evaluate alternatives, and make decisions. Friendship Rules explains the characteristics that every friendship should...

The Landlord's Inheritance by Terry Joe Gunnels is an action-packed and impossible to put down story. Mickey and Darcy are siblings who were faced with the sudden loss of their parents. There had been an automobile accident killing their mother and leaving their father with...

I Was A Foster Carer is an insightful and very informative book in many ways. The stories of Adrian Hawkes’s and his wife’s experiences of child fostering are told in a light-hearted and fascinating way. From the child’s best interests in mind and at heart,...

In Silver Vixen’s Between HER Pages, Allison thought she finally had everything figured out. She’d found her dream home, the perfect fortress of solitude in which to write her next book. Sure it needed some work, but she had some time before her deadline, and...

As a fifteen-year-old boy in Germany, Rolf Harms decided to leave school and travel the world by sea to satisfy his burning desire to visit foreign lands and support his single mother financially. He went on to fulfill his dream of traveling to many different...

What a life-changing and inspiring journey. When I finished Double Helix, this was the feeling that stuck with me the most. The co-memoir of Ed and Diane Reed spans 50 years of a volatile interracial love story tested by addiction, loss of trust, failure, eyes...

Los Angeles, 2075 where everything uses technology. Algorithms are running to make decisions for people. Physical contact between humans is prohibited, and humans have robotic partners to satisfy their every need. Adam tries to go against the system but finds himself with more problems. Luckily for...

Maybe in Monaco by Kaya Quinsey Holt reveals that It’s been ten years since Charlotte Levant had last been home. Ten years since leaving behind her biggest secret. Ten years since last seeing Freddie Ridgeport. The familiar smells bring Charlotte back to reality as she...

If you are raising children, you can benefit from reading Andrew McKinney’s How I Lost My Hair Raising Teenage Girls: And the Lessons I Learned. While the names and places are changed to protect privacy, the anecdotes and situations are authentic. The author and his...

The legacy of The Belly Button Express wagon has passed from one generation to the next. The special children that enjoyed adventurous rides on the wagon got cuts and bruises from the rides, but they still had a good time. The man in the blue...