Claire Croxton's novel, "Santorini Sunset," is a story similar to the movie "The Wedding Date" and yet so much more! Caroline is a beautiful, intelligent woman; however, she does not believe others see her like that as she is constantly criticized by her mother. And...

"Four Girls: A Lot of Choices" by Toneal M. Jackson is an adorable look about the author’s children. Jackson is the mother to four charming girls. She calls them the 3 As and a J. The text is written in a simple and enjoyable prose....

African-American Duane Freeman has served a seven year prison term for assault and now works as a janitor for Sunnycrest Mental Hospital in Dinuba, California. He worked in the mental health buildings both at New Folsom prison and at Mule Creek State Prison. Competent at...

Claire Croxton's novel "Redneck Ex" will have you eagerly turning the pages as you enter into the life of Summer Leigh, a life that just gets turned upside down with a knock at her door. Summer Leigh has moved on in her life, physically and...

In "Delusions: Pragmatic Realism" Stanislaw Kapuscinski takes his well-educated mind and (often) humorously debunks the many delusions that make religion and science easy targets. I share his concerns about the power of each in limiting the freedom of individuals to find their own answers to...

Chessie Madrid wants a sister. She wants to fall in love. She wants her father to pay for what he did. And most of all, she wants to live a long and happy life. But Chessie has a serious disease that has been threatening her...

The Vase with the Many Coloured Marbles is the intriguing title chosen by Jacob Singer for his book on the equally intriguing story of a young Coloured girl in South Africa who crosses the racial barriers in place at that time and passes herself off...

"Reconstructing Eve" is a book that all women, mothers, wives, daughters and aunts should read. It is a great guide for thinking about how to become the “real you”. Eve is a forty-four year old divorced woman. Aidan is the thirty-one year old who has...

Tears course down Sullie’s cheeks as he looks at his once pristine beach now littered with plastic. His granddaughter was left crippled by the abominable stuff. Sullie called a meeting of his bird friends and shared the dreadful acts humans have committed. They bring their...

"Godspeed" by Dan Chabot is many things in one book. There are intrigue, touching but modern romance, anguish, despair, hope and happiness, but above all originality. And it is not often that you come across a book which features funerals and obituaries so centrally. It...

"Taliban Escape! One Woman’s Journey out of Hell" begins with these words: "It would be too dangerous to use my real name so I will call myself Adeela. Nor can I tell you in what country I was born, or in what country I am...

The setting is Compton, California, in 1987 and Edith Hicks and her identical twin sister Edna are about to graduate from high school. Edith has full scholarships to several colleges lined up but Edna does not. Their mother and stepfather, Dave, care about the girls...

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...

This book right here. This is it. This is what a thriller novel should be all about. I loved this book from start to finish. Mr. Di Giacomo has taken a wonderful plot line and mixed it with amazingly captivating characters and threw his readers...

"The Girl from Long Guyland" by Lara Reznik takes us into the world of successful IT executive Laila Levin. Laila seems to have it all; the great job, a great marriage, and overall just a great life. Suddenly life starts to seem not so perfect....

When eleven year old Preston Carter Potsdam, a rich kid from the east, arrives in Nebraska, the lifestyle is so different that he feels as if he has landed on another planet. Befriended by Steve, a confident and outgoing fellow student, "Potsie" as he is...

Atul Uchil has written a self-help book based upon a massive heart attack he experienced. In "Remember Thou Art Mortal", the author tells that he was a corporate workaholic who believed he was physically invincible. He ignored the first signs of his heart attack until...

"What Do You Call a Baby Lion?" by David Chuka is a children's book which may be of more interest to the adult reading it, at least at first, than to the child to whom he is reading it. It starts with a young boy...

"Past the Last Island" begins in the South Pacific Islands about 14,000 years ago. Nulo, born to an island chief, is deformed and cast aside by his parents. He is saved by servant Naia. When it is found that Nulo still lives, Yon is supposed...

"Stay loose." This directive early in the book grabbed my thought process and pervaded every word written thereafter. It is definitely an important directive in this guide to how a beer lover can learn to appreciate the mysterious vino and its people, and perhaps help...