The Havana Papers by Michael Daly is the author's narration of the exploration he did during his one-week stay in the city of Havana, discovering different parts of the city brought to its knees by the revolution. Michael Daly had traveled to Havana to write,...

Secrets Mothers Keep by Linda J. Bettenay is a well-written, fascinating fictionalization of a real-life murder in rural West Australia in the late 1920s. The plot brings together two people who couldn’t have had less in common. One is Harold Smith, landowner, businessman, devoted husband...

Federico was a good artist but he was more troubled than he was talented. He had been hired and fired from several jobs over the years due to his unreliability. As he settled in at his latest job, his ghosts followed him and soon he...

Avra's God is the first book in the New Smyrna Beach series by Ann Lee Miller. Revolving around the lives of a handful of college students, this book explores the complexities of love and family, of school and one's future, all while maintaining the complex...

Tattered Innocence by Ann Lee Miller is her second jaunt into the lives of the young adults in New Smyrna Beach and, if anything, the second time around is even better! Rachel is dying to escape her life and troubles. When she sees the ad...

All Rainey ... wait ... Raine wants to think about is Africa. It's been her goal to get there and she has a one-track mind. All she has to do is get through a session of summer camp and she will be on to bigger...

Seducing Excel Volume 1: Ooh la la, Quickies! Enjoy the Sexy Features of MICROSOFT EXCEL 2010 That Men Wish Women Had Too by Sofia Santiago is a fun reference guide to some of Microsoft Excel’s special features. Learn shortcuts or quickies in easy to follow...

Be Thou My Vision is an old hymn that Faith Blum actually blends into her inspirational, historical romance that easily pulled me back to the mid-1800s. Thirty-year-old Anna Stuart has lived on her father's farm, cooking and cleaning for him and her older brother Caleb,...

In the Sanctity of Revenge by Brian Schnoor begins in a middle class neighborhood in Chicago where Jack Hanlon is living an ideal life with his wife and sons. Across the street, Irene Kelly is an elderly widow who has adopted, and been adopted by,...

Angels Dawn by author Komali da Silva is a refreshing and thrilling young adult paranormal read. The story follows a young girl named Dawn Huntington. At the start of the story, all is right with the world as Dawn looks forward to having an amazing...

The Beltway Beast opens with a depressing summary of the American political system that is subject to corporate lobbyists and focus by Congressmen to get reelected rather than serve the interests of the people and the country. It is an interesting approach as it reinforces...

Yummy Stories: Six Stories to Stimulate Your Mind and Appetite is a children's book written by Lil L. Alexander and illustrated by Anda Cofaru. Each story is a fairy tale or fable. The Pea and the Princess may remind some readers of Jack and the...

The Death You Deserve is the first book in Wither The Waking World, a fantasy series by Jonathan Techlin. Its central character is Theel, a lowly squire who desperately wants to be in control of his own life. For now, at least, the orphaned Theel...

The Pilgrim is a coming of age memoir written by Dennis Bieker. Dennis was 17 in 1968, a time of turmoil and change. He was within that youthful age group that witnessed the political assassinations that destroyed a generation’s hopes and dreams, and he was...

Love and grief, good and bad, wealth and poverty. The true yin and yang of life is at the heart of Fated and Fateless, the newest novel by Alice Poon. Spanning four decades in colonial Hong Kong, Fated and Fateless follows characters Wendy Kwan and...

Quantum Confessions by Stephen Oram is a futuristic, metaphysical novel that follows the lives of the two main protagonists, Aled and Grey. The book starts with an introduction to both of them and then continues to describe their life experiences and how they intertwine. Aled...

Joshua's Island by Patrick Hodges is the story of Joshua and Eve, two 13-year-old kids who face something many kids have to deal with in real life, too: bullying. And not just verbal bullying, but bullying that includes physical violence. Joshua is a small boy,...

Three Quick Steps: An Inspiring Account of Struggle and Recovery is a memoir written by Robert Emmett. Emmett was your typical kid living in the early 1950s until he contracted polio at the age of nine. It was paralytic polio, a severe form of the...

The Trouble With Dying by Maggie Le Page is a novel of suspense with a touch of humor. Faith Carson wakes up to find herself looking down on her own body from a hospital ceiling. She doesn’t know it’s her, of course; she doesn’t even...

Robin McGee’s The Cancer Olympics is a memoir of her battle against not only cancer but inadequate healthcare that she unfortunately received. The negligence of her delayed diagnosis – no thanks to Doctors One, Two, Three and Four – cause a late stage tumor that...