The Ridge Walker is an historical Southern fiction novel by Jack Hemphill, set in the 1940s. Mac Davis was on the prowl for Indian legends and lore concerning the settlers in the Blue Ridge Mountains. While he owned an apple orchard and farm, which he...

I discovered Jack Young through the breathtaking novel, Hail, Cigaros! I was instantly drawn to his exceptional craft, so when I took Faraway Green I was expecting a stellar work, and my expectations were met. Jack Young comes across to me as a master of...

Hail, Cigaros! by Jack Young combines humor and the masterful art of storytelling to offer readers a delightful ride. For years, the father of Prescott Bullard Jr. has paid exorbitant sums of money to support the island Republic of Cigaros where he has consistently bought...

The Girl Who Hated Australia (Not So Serious Jack Series Book 1) by Jack Thompsen revolves around seven-year-old Jorie who is going to Australia. Jorie is unhappy and she tells her mother that she hates Australia. Her mother tries to convince her otherwise, saying that...

The Little Big Girl (Not So Serious Jack Series Book 2) by Jack Thompsen revolves around a little girl who lives in a little city. She lives in a little house and has little shoes. Her family is big, Mom, Dad, Sam the cat, and...

Readers get to see Emma coming back from school in a bad mood in The Listening Story (Not So Serious Jack Series Book 3) by Jack Thompsen. Her father wants to know why she is so angry and she tells him that no one in...

Ben and the Bullies is a children’s book of courage, written in rhyme by Not So Serious Jack (aka Jack Thompsen) and illustrated by Ignacio G. When at home, Ben loves to cook, read and spend time with his family. But when at school, Ben’s...

The Grumpy Kid is a children’s book, written in rhyme by Not So Serious Jack (Jack Thompsen) and illustrated by Oliver Kryzz Bundoc. Arin is a young boy whose first day at his new school is not so bright. When his new classmates - Dan,...

Jack Meacham’s Talking Sense About Politics: How to Overcome Political Polarization in Your Next Conversation is an enlightening journey though American history to the present in an effort to help the reader find a little "perspective." Meacham utilizes historical characters to demonstrate the four “American...

Appetite for Risk by Jack Leavers is a story written on a very touchy topic, but the author does it justice. It is a fast-paced novel that takes the reader on a roller coaster ride that they don’t want to get off. Simply put, this...

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Jack Young proves this in his suspenseful story, The Lost Men of St. Aldo’s. Retired detective Gil Conroy agrees to help Kanada, a psychology teacher, locate her missing brother. His last known address was St. Aldo's New...

Take the Late Train by Jack Messenger is a novel based on the life of Stephen Ketley, a professor whose marriage begins to fray at the seams on his tenth wedding anniversary. Problems with his wife's infidelity is only one of a number of issues...

If you’ve ever seen the Yin Yang symbol and wondered what it’s about, Yin Yang: The Elusive Symbol That Explains the World by Jack Rasmussen with a foreword by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is for you. Framed by the author’s interest in Asian...

When Dillard was a wee little dragon, his brother was very mean to him, hitting Dillard over the head or throwing water up his nose when he was practicing his fire breathing. Dillard had to always dodge his older brother to keep from getting hurt....

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project by Jack Mayer is the biography of Irena Sendler who was instrumental in saving the lives of 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Though her contribution was first suppressed by the Polish...

Wow! I’m not sure if that’s an appropriate way to start a book review, but that is definitely what I thought when I finished reading CLUB MEDicine by debut author Jack Kinsley, following our lead character, Travis Martin, as he continues to live a dual...

I’m usually, but not always a little disappointed with faith based fiction. At some point, something is lacking or not quite up to par with their mainstream contemporaries. That is one of the biggest reasons I enjoyed The Devil’s Work by Jack McGugart so much....

I have always known that there is a state named Virginia, and a state named West Virginia. But in all my reading of American history, even Civil War history, I had never found out when this happened or even why it happened. Now I know....

Life for seventeen-year-old Abby Renshaw has not been easy. Her father died when she was young, her mom moved her from Florida to New Jersey away from her Granma, and she started having vivid dreams and visions. Of course she was treated by a psychiatrist...

A young man travels through space and time to fulfill an obscure mission imposed on him by an alien artifact in the eerie science fiction novel, My Remembered Tomorrows by Jack van Brunschot. Trevor Hall, an encoder for Synthetic Consciousness, travels to the International Space...