Author Bryna Kranzler writes of her remarkable grandfather's life as a young man in "The Accidental Anarchist: From the Diaries of Jacob Marateck". In the early years of the last century, a young Jew, Jacob Marateck, goes from his yeshiva onto enlisting in the Russian...

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...

"Patchwork of Me" by Gregory G. Allen begins with Sara’s odd dream, in which she was married to Carol and they had a child that died from a shark attack. The recurring dream caused her to question her sexuality although she was very sexually active....

"The Wicked Passage" by N M Singel is an inventive mix of fantasy and history for young adults. Blake Wyatt just wants the school day to end but then his very odd substitute teacher has to go and reveal that Blake and his sister Erica...

"Dreams and Expectations" by Wendi Sotis is a new take on Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice". We have the same characters and much of the same action in the Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwiliam Darcy love affair, but we see it in much more detail. We...

“The Last Seer and the Tomb of Enoch”, the debut novel by Ashland Menshouse, is a wonderful story about several youngsters, which begins the night before they start their first term of High School. Aubrey, Buzz, and Adriqa have been neighborhood friends forever and soon...

In the last few years I have heard more and more about the VP Virus. HPV is a virus transmitted by having sex with an infected partner. The virus can go away on its own or can result in cervical cancer. Michelle L. Whitlock shares...

Tom Ufert begins his book "Adversity Builds Character: A Second Chance" by discussing his birth and childhood. Like most of us growing up in that era, he was exposed to the viciousness of war on the television. Parents did not censor children’s viewing habits in...

Have you ever wondered what it is all about? Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we heading? Given the chaos, crime, pollution, and society’s troubles, are the old biblical prophecies correct and does the hellfire and damnation scenario await us...

In "Silent Think Time: How to Bring Virtues Back into Our Home, Schools, Counseling and Work" Karen Zalubowski Stryker cleverly uses her expertise as a teacher, systems analyst and business owner. Ms Stryker has five college degrees: in psychology, computer science, art and two in...

Terry Ayrault, author of "Hoist Up Your Muffin Top and Show Me Your New Belt" proudly proclaims that his book is not politically correct. That is what makes his book so entertaining. I enjoy a book where the author doesn’t take himself too seriously. I...

Former sports writer Suzy Beamer Bohnert is the author of "Game-Day Goddess: Learning Baseball’s Lingo". She has dedicated her book to her mother who taught her to play ball. What a wonderful tribute to her mother and what a wonderful legacy her mother has passed...

Baseball is an extremely popular sport with a large following; from T-ball to Major League, the stands are filled with cheering fans. Former sports writer Suzy Beamer Bohnert explains the game in easy to understand terms. In her book "Game Day Goddess: Learning Baseball’s Lingo"...

Nathaniel, Orah, and Thomas, best friends since childhood, live a peaceful, bucolic existence in Little Pond, a place as small as its name suggests. Their lives are simple, governed by the teachings from the Temple, and the ministrations of the Vicars and their squadron of...

"Bountiful Creek" by Steven B. Weissman is a beautiful love story. Martha Somerville is the main character and I loved her from page one through the tear-jerking last page. It is the spring of 1861 in Bountiful Creek, Virginia, and we find Martha living with...

Rising from nothing, Harry Leonoff is the defender of the underdog. His Jewish family lived in the squalor of New York where he was subjected to horrid racism and oppression. Victimized by polio as a child, he not only has to get through the hatred...

Dr. Robert Elgar's specialty is debunking the belief that aliens exist. He meets with abduction victims and help them see that they really were not taken to the skies with little people, but rather that their subconscious was pulling something from their past. He is...

Shelley Hitz and S'ambrosia Curtis have written "A Christian Woman's Guide to Breaking Free from Pornography: It's Not Just a Guy's Problem" discusses the problems of pornography focusing on its negative effects on women’s (not just men’s) uses of it. Shelley is very honest about...

“I’m not guilty. I did not kill him.” Khadesia feels like a broken record in her plea of innocence. The implication that she was responsible for the shooting death of her one–time boyfriend, the crime she did not commit, falls on deaf ears for a...

In "Twin Bred" by Karen Wyle, twins fascinate scientist Mara and have done all her life. Her own twin Levi died as a baby but he is a constant imaginary companion for her. Set this against a background where you have two species living together....