Playing in the Rain: When All That Matters is Freedom by Sandra J. Jackson is the first book in the author's Escape Series. It starts with an awakening in a sterile hospital after the teen protagonist, A2, is kidnapped. Unable to even recognize herself in...

Girl on the Right: Memoir of a Life Upside Down is an autobiography written by Tina Truax. The author knew she was not the brightest, most wonderful child in the world. Her father had made sure she realized those facts, first in the way he...

Letters to the Pianist is a historical fiction novel written by S.D. Mayes. The East End of London was not a happy place for a child, or indeed any living creature, in 1941. Fourteen-year-old Ruth and her little sister and brother were among the few...

In Well Beyond The Grace Period and Excerpts from Other Collections by Paul L. DeVore, each work delves into the aspects of old age and aging gracefully. Sometimes frank, sometimes tongue in cheek, DeVore manages to invite the reader with him on a journey through...

Tess the Princess Dress by author Lia Brent is a charming tale about a princess dress. The pages are bright and full of color. There is a definite kind of energy that jumps from page to page, a kind of vitality that will be recognized...

Rosie Sees the Light is a contemporary fiction novel written by Carol Fogel. One look at the tired visage of Jesus waiting for her on the other side of the White Light had persuaded Rosie that no, it wasn’t time for her to enter the...

Riley the Brave is a children’s picture book written by Jess Sinarski and illustrated by Zachary Kline. Riley’s a pretty happy-go-lucky bear cub who enjoys having fun with his friends. He races on his scooter with his buddy, Travis; indulges his artistic side by painting...

A professional reviewer should not use the words “a page turner” to describe an interesting book. It reeks of hyperbole. Unless, of course, said reviewer finds himself rapidly turning the pages in a novel as gripping as We Follow the Dying Light by David Donaldson....

Finding Heaven in the Dark by William L. Ingram is the author's compelling and insightful story of personal struggle filled with nostalgia and faith in God, which makes him believe that God has a plan for everyone. Though each one of us has a different...

Bella the Umbrella: The Chronicles of the Clothes Mind Series Book Two by Lia Brent is the delightful story of Bella the Umbrella who lives in a house down the street. She has shiny rainbow stripes and, like any other umbrella, likes the wet chill....

A Magical World Becomes the Night is a colorful children’s picture book, written in rhyme and illustrated by Lori Chown. During the day, we see many different animals, but some animals only come out when it is night time. The landscape comes alive with fireflies,...

In Wrath of the Fury Blade (A Constable Inspector Lunaria Adventure) by Geoff Habiger and Coy Kissee, Constable Inspector Reva Lunaria from The Royal Tenyl Constabulary is trying to enjoy her day off when she is urgently summoned by her superior. First Magistrate Lavalé fey...

There is much wisdom and humor in Tom Hoffman’s final installment of the Orville Mouse Adventurer series: Orville Mouse and the Puzzle of the Sagacious Sapling. But it’s hard to tell the difference. “Sophia says the things you’re used to never seem weird.” “Anyway, how do you...

In Sins of the Fathers by A.J. McCarthy, Charlene/Charlie Butler, on the outside, seems to have it all. She is a strong, single and independent woman who runs a bar in Montreal, inherited from a late family friend, Jim. Then strange, anonymous letters begin to...

“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” is one of the revolutionary messages of Jesus, one on which hope for humanity should hang. The problem is that few people actually understand Jesus’ paradigm of the fullness of life...

Meet the Imaginative Joe Dreamer (Joe Dreamer series Caribbean Adventure Book 1) by Karlene Stewart is a delightful storybook revolving around Joe Dreamer who lives with his parents in the Cayman Islands. He likes to think that his drawings are real and he draws almost...

Steve the Mule by Shanna Hatfield is a book in A Pendleton Petticoats Children's Book series. Steve is a mule who has a very important job. And that is to keep Willa out of trouble. She’s a curious little girl who likes to pull the...

Bold, charming, and inspirational, this is a memoir on a loss that we so often neglect and that leaves a void in many lives - the loss of a family member - and for the protagonist, it’s a dog called Roo. In To the Moon...

In Smoke on the Mountains by Sam Knupp, the year is 2018 and a Coalition, including Antifa and Black Lives Matter, has arrived in Timberville, Virginia from Charlottesville. Tensions are high as people have had enough of the uncertainty and feeling that they are not...

It is not often that I stumble upon a book with a title such as Dolph the Unicorn Killer & Other Stories. It isn’t often that the covers of such books feature a man built like a bull, holding the freshly severed head of a...