A sweet and lovely story. Those are the words that I would use to describe Catherine Lanigan’s book, A Fine Year for Love from the Shores of Indian Lake series. The story follows Liz Crenshaw, the beautiful vintner who loves nothing more than spending time...

Robert Joseph’s Ominous Obsession is the second story in the Raff Rafferty Mystery Series. Raff is a police officer who has moved with his 18-year-old daughter, Fati, from slower paced California to New York, and is assigned a murder case. Exquisite model Maricarmen Mora has...

Do we really need another book about the famous French painter, Paul Gauguin? Author Jean-Louis Saquet asks that very question in his introduction. "Everything has been written about Gauguin and his work, so why start again?" the author begins. Why indeed. But, whilst Gauguin has...

Wisdom on How to Live Life (Book 3) by Dr. Tommy S.W. Wong is about the spiritual wisdom that can transform earth into heaven. It is in fact a conversation that, Tom, a common man, has with Guru Harry about life, when the Guru remarks...

The Girl Immigrant by Patricia Ruiz Steele is a wonderful biography of the author's family, specifically Manuela, the author's grandmother. Manuela's family comes from Spain, and they were promised a new life, education for their children, homes and jobs, if they immigrated to Hawaii to...

Convergent 9.0 by Paul H. Landes is an exciting corporate espionage thriller. One of the things I liked about it most was the variety of interesting settings. We start at a huge ranch in Montana but quickly find ourselves in locales like San Francisco, London,...

A Firefly Life by Linda Shew Wolf is a novel set in the late 1960s that follows a girl named Melanie as she navigates the waters on her journey from twelve to thirteen. This age is a difficult time for nearly every child, and Melanie...

A Rabbit’s Tale: An Easter Story by Diogenes Ruiz is an eclectic mix of genres that you will come to love. Juan always wanted to be a professional photographer, but life happened and then his personal preferences and desires took a back seat. As time...

Two of a Kind by Celesta Thiessen is a futuristic children’s story with a Christian theme. Faith has been removed from her family and placed in an orphanage, along with other children who have a special ability that the government wishes to suppress. A boy...

Spooner the Bear is a children’s animal/picture book written by Jake Willers and illustrated by Lainie Bazzoni. Spooner is a young bear who lives quite close to a small town. The other local bears have gotten used to the idea of getting their food from...

Saved by the Bang: A Nuclear Comedy by M.J. Neary is the story about one woman's life in Belarus before, during, and after Chernobyl in the 1980s. Antonia is a pianist for the Gomel Music Academy and she loves flirting and fooling around with...

101 Pocket Writing Tips & Techniques: To Inspire Your Fiction and Strengthen Your Craft is a non-fiction Writing/Publishing guide written by Ronda Hinrichsen. Hinrichsen is an established author who writes traditionally published romantic suspense and speculative works. In this guide, she discusses setting, character development,...

The Girl with The Blue Umbrella is Heather Awad’s debut collection of observational and thoughtful poems. A very readable collection that covers a whole variety of themes around everyday life, and what it is to live and be human. Relationships, the passing of time, memories,...

The Last Days of Adam by Tim Dalgleish takes place during the Holocaust, and not only demonstrates the role of Adam Czerniakow as helping the Jewish population of Poland in his role as Chairman of the Judenrat, but effectively follows the terrible decline of Poland...

An evil priest in service to the Lord of Chaos is performing gruesome experiments on children and animals, yet a nameless young girl seems to rise above it all in Sorrow’s Heart by G.S. Scott. As this innocent child develops into a young woman, she...

Wow! Just, wow! How's that for a review? That is definitely how I felt after finishing the wonderful novel, The Day to Eternity: A Novel of Love and Survival in the Korean War, by author Joanne Monte. Set in 1950s Korea and Japan, the story...

In Margaret A. Millmore’s What Haunts Me (Ghost Killer, Book I), ghosts and demons do not haunt the living in the traditional sense, but plague the innocent with diseases, physical deformities and deadly addictions. They will haunt their victims for a lifetime or kill them...

Elise always thought life was simple; there was nothing extraordinary out there, just regular people living the same as she was, until the day her world was turned upside down. Her husband Dalton was murdered, and what the police didn't admit, but Elise had seen,...

A Drop in the Ocean is a brilliantly well written novel, one that will instantly pull readers into its deepest depths. Jenni Ogden has beautifully woven a story that readers won't easily forget. A story of one woman's journey to life, love, and loss, A...

In Arine's Sanctuary by KateMarie Collins, Arine returned home from a supply run to the most devastating news; her mother had sold her 14-year-old brother off. Arine searched high and low for the caravan that had taken her brother but in vain. She moved from...