The setting is post 9/11. Bio-terrorists have unleashed multiple viruses including anthrax, small pox, and a virus so evil that we can only begin to imagine the implications. RAPAIDS (a cross between the Parvovirus and AIDS virus) began by destroying livestock, causing a famine throughout...

The introduction to this book reminds us that the first few years of a child’s life are spent playing and discovering. We can make that play intellectually stimulating. An intellectually stimulating environment is “child focused, and physically and verbally engaging, as well as, emotionally supportive.”...

Dilara Kenner was an archeologist searching for Noah’s Ark. Sam Watson brought sad news to Dilara concerning her father’s death. Her father had been missing for three years. He’d found the ark but, before he could make it known, he was murdered. Sam was murdered...

Feisty, lovable, and sometimes downright aggravating describe the ladies of the Shooting Club! But watch out as you'll be hooked from page one of this story. I loved book 1, 'The Sheriff's Surrender,' in this series. But this second book, 'The Gunsmith's Gallantry,' is,...

Three bishops stand trial in Federal Court, charged with complicity in the abuse of hundreds of children over a period of years. It is an old story with a different twist. The author is a former priest who develops a string of damaging evidence against...

The Purples is the fictional story of an actual group. The Purple Gang was a pack of bootleggers and hijackers. They operated out of Detroit during the Roaring 20s. The group was led by Abe Bernstein. The majority of the members were young Jewish immigrants....

This YA tale of mystery and magic is read with a clear and pleasant voice. The CD’s were packed nicely in individual pockets. The story speaks about a family with a very particular father who, one day, told the family to pack because they were going...

The setting is the Vietnam era. Randy Thayer joined the military so that he could fly. He did not seek to go to war but that was the price he paid to fly a helicopter. Andrea Tremblay is Randy’s girlfriend. Randy’s being a soldier does...

This story is about eleven-year olds in the summer of 1941. Mark and Swede are best friends who are swimming in the river, experiencing a lazy and delicious summer day of do-nothing-ness when Swede takes a dive and finds a submerged car. AH! ...

The Chester County Boys is a country western band. They are 'has beens', playing at the same bar for the past 15 years, in Lubbock, Texas. Merle and Cletus are two brothers that are wannabe Elvis’. Quaid is the fiddle player, Randy is the drummer,...

The life of any sports professional can be hectic and hard on the family. "The Education of a Tennis Player" is the account of Rod Laver, the only tennis player to have ever won all four major tennis titles. With two Grand Slams and a...

The Gettysburg Approach to Writing & Speaking Like a Professional by Philip Yaffe offers a common sense, easy to understand approach to expert and scholarly writing and presentation. He uses the Gettysburg Address as his basis. This book should be required reading in high school...

Abby Greene, assignment editor at WWNY-TV in Watertown longs for more than just sitting at a desk and working the computer. She dreams of become a reporter out in the field of broadcasting. When a local girl commits suicide, she becomes involved with news reporter...

This is a story of abuse. The family was happy and loving until the widowed mother remarried. The new husband, Warren Tucker was a pastor. He tortured and raped the girls. Amy and her brother Lee return to the beach house to scatter the ashes of...

The Beauty and Wonder of Transcendent Truths puts Christianity together with Science. It shows today views of the world, the philosophies and the differences between religions, from Christianity to Islam to the Jewish faith. The author compares evolution with creation and discusses the truth about...

Do you believe in ghosts, haunted castles, or hidden passages that may lead to nowhere or to some place you do not want to go? For centuries untold the castle, once owned by William Randall, had a secret chamber hidden within it. Upon his death,...

If you were a fan of Sam Spade, Mike Hammer or Columbo, then you will enjoy Michael Greer,an underpaid and under rated local private eye who works and resides in Altoona PA. Business is quite slow; all he can afford is a little office in...

The premise of this book is that the Witness Protection Program hides people in the past, "The Janus Project". Veteran John Callan witnessed something he wished he hadn’t. It cost him the lives of his wife and daughter. He wanted revenge on Morgan Ropp, instead...

Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton is the wife of a Knight family descendant. She took on the task of tracing the family roots back to the early 1830's before the civil war. The book takes readers from the civil war through the death of Major John Knight...

The "Daughters" introduces us to the life of 3 freshman girls that are trying their best to figure their lives out; to explore just who they are, and what they want to become. Lizzie Summers' mother is a super-model, Carina Jurgensen is the daughter of...