Christmas stories and novellas are some of my favorite things from the Christmas season. They are right up there with gingerbread cookies and Christmas trees and, for me, date back to a time when my mom would read fun stories about Santa and reindeer all...

The Wreck of the Rachel Marie, written by Reginald J. Thorne, is an exciting, adventurous, and suspenseful short story that tells the tale of pirate Simon Daggett, first mate Tom Smythe, the beautiful Rachel Marie, and the rest of the scurvy pirates of the "Brotherhood...

Ghosts of the Queen Mary is a humorous novel written by Karen Truesdell Riehl. Toots and her husband Max are having a romantic weekend aboard the historic, and supposedly haunted, Queen Mary, which was turned into a floating hotel after its last voyage. The two...

In a unique and inspiring story that takes readers to the childhood of the famed Mary Magdalene, The Birthright of Mary Magdalene by author Joan Riise is definitely a book that will keep you reading from the very first page. At seven years old, Mary...

“A friend in weed is a friend indeed!” No one knows this better than Mary Drummond in C.M. Albrecht’s humorous adventure, Hail Mary. Mary stays with her son, Craig, and his family after her husband’s death. Her close friends, Gracie and Maudie, visit to offer...

Proud Mary: A Georgian Historical Romance by Lucinda Brant is the fifth book in the Roxton Family Saga, a historical romance that is every bit as dramatic as it is entertaining. This is a story that will transport the reader into the exciting world of...

Queen Mary’s Daughter by Emily-Jane Hills Orford is a book that explores the possibility that there could have been another heir to the Scottish throne, and follows the life of a powerful, well-developed female protagonist, her work, and unusual adventures that bring history to life,...

Hail Mary for Peanut by Heather Nelson is an emotional true story about going through fertility problems and a miscarriage. The author shares the journey she and her husband had to go through to try for a child. The author chronologically tells the story from...

Mighty Mary by Max Davine is one of those stories that will bring tears to the eyes of readers and that powerfully illustrate man’s inhumanity to animals. It’s the story of Mary, a circus elephant, the star of the West. Captured during the British Raj...

It’s 1929 and the gangs are ripe for action in Chicago. Al Capone’s Chicago outfit is expecting a delivery of illegal whiskey and the bootleggers are planning a bloodbath which will include some corrupt cops. John McQueen is one of those cops, but he doesn’t...

How much junk food do you eat in a day? Is there a cupboard in your kitchen devoted strictly to junk food? Mari Lou’s mother is determined to break her family’s junk food addiction. One day, she cleaned out the cupboards of all the junk...

The Adventures of Mari Lou:The Legend of the Dungeon Man is a cute children’s book by Rose St. Paul. Mari Lou’s mother had the family eating only healthy foods. Mari Lou’s father wanted to give them a special treat, but it had to be a...

In The Discontent of Mary Wenger, Paper Dolls Book 1, by Robert Tucker, the author has taken a subject and an era that is very difficult to analyze and has written about it with compassion, understanding, humor, and unending love shown in different ways. The...

The Abyss of St. Marie by Jason Hubbard follows Tyler Stanford, a human boy with an amazing aptitude for magic. Tyler always dreamed of escaping his tiny little world to go off to the magic academy. He did, but in the process, he lost his...

Kalliope Brooks, a bartender at a local bar in Owhiro, Florida, had a hard time coming to grips with the events of that fateful spring Saturday night. She had finished her night shift, only to find a dead body in her car. The police had...

Spanning a lifetime of seventy years, Dawn Beecroft Teetzel’s My Mary: A Story of One Barnardo Home Child is a heartbreaking and emotional story, but also a deeply moving tale of enduring love. Mary Thistle, the titular Mary, was a Barnardo Home Child. Like thousands...

I Hate You, Mary Sullivan is a unique and thoughtful memoir about inherited trauma, complex family history, and religious guilt. In it, Barbara Jean Williams talks about her immigrant Irish grandmother, her family, and how her Irish Catholic heritage impacted her life. Barbara's grandmother, Mary...

The Lost Diary of Mary Magdalene by Johnny Teague explores the possibilities of what if? What if Mary Magdalene had written down her adventures with Jesus and we could get a greater feel of her life and what meeting Jesus and his apostles had done...

The Reincarnation of Marie by Jim Woodman is a captivating story that follows Yann Roussel, a French lieutenant obsessed with Marie Bashkirtseff, a Russian aristocrat who died young. Yann develops an unusual romantic connection to Marie after reading her journals, which highlight her impending death...

There are but a few short sentences in the Bible concerning Mary and Martha, yet those sentences pack a message that still cries out to people today. These two women opened their home to Jesus Christ. Mary sat at His feet listening to Him while...