The Adventures of Charlie and Kaylee by Terri Callsen is an adventure story about Charlie and Kaylee's hunting experiences. They are always learning skills that enhance their penchant for wilderness exploration and hunting. I enjoyed the book thoroughly because it is adventurous. I thought the...

The Ten Commandments: Ancient Words - Timeless Truth by J. Rodman Williams is an in-depth look at the Ten Commandments that will deepen one’s understanding of these timeless laws. The text from the Bible containing the Ten Commandments is shared at the beginning of the...

Bobby Valentine is sitting in a comfortable recliner, watching Fox News and feeling sleepy. His granddaughter Lynn comes in with espresso and doughnuts, and a lot of questions about a story from the previous day. Thus the novel The Starlight Club II, by Joe Corso,...

The Diary, by Edward Stambaugh and J. Conrad Stambaugh, provides an interesting theory regarding the discovery of a secret diary believed to have been written by Jesus of Nazareth. The story's protagonist, Dr. Nathan Forrester, disillusioned and discouraged with his field of psychotherapy, switches gears...

The Face of Fear, authored by R.J. Torbert, introduces the character of Ghost Face in Long Island, New York. The story mainly revolves around the perspectives of two detectives dealing with public fear and pressure to resolve a kidnapping. This incident occurred on the Cross...

The Silent Swan by Lex Keating is the story of a family of seven children fighting to stay together despite being thrown into the foster care system after the sudden deaths of their parents, one of whom was a major league baseball player. Tam Swann...

We begin The Portrait by Hazel Statham during the Spanish battle of Salamanca where a young Edward Thurston, Earl of Sinclair, was grievously injured by a cannonball. The only companionship he seeks when he returns to Fly Hall is that of a miniature portrait of...

The Apprentice by M.L. Hall is about Artamos De'spada and his trial mission with his mentor Adrian Rizzo and Black Knight Falita Kain. The mission is simple: escorting the king's betrothed safely from the Cromanian border to Caltania. This book, like any fantasy tale, takes you...

The Last Time by Elodie Parkes is a hot and romantic story about lonely Bethany Snow and actor Seth Carbery. The two meet on a movie set and fall head over heels in love. Seth Carbery had sworn to stay away from relationships and Bethany...

This is a review of the audio format of The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorsensen, read by Leslie Bellair. Callie was raped on her twelfth birthday by her brother’s best friend. Her personality changed; she started wearing baggy clothing, chopped her hair...

The Not Wholes by Giovanna Pezzulo is about an Italian teenager who has been castrated. The story deals with how a certain strata of the society accept him and how the rest do not. The backdrop of the story is a music conservatory in Italy. For...

The Romanian Connection by Richard Roche is a work of fiction that reads like non-fiction. I had to check more than once to make sure the author had correctly listed this book. The prologue hints at the intrigue that lies ahead. The setting is 1995;...

When we start Elodie Parkes’ The Winter Girl, we meet the winter girl, Lily, fresh from a painful breakup and new to the small town of Belvedere. Intending to take a break from men, from work, and from her old life, Lily was not expecting...

The Gift of Life by Keily J. Adey is a lovely accounting of one woman's struggle to conceive a child. After multiple miscarriages, the author and her husband decide to find out what is "wrong". This involves medical testing which reveals that basically, everything is...

In The Jewish Ninja, Allegra Coleman has given young adult readers a taste of living and growing up in a Jewish community. Following the death of her parents in an automobile accident, twelve-year-old Alexia is forced out of her comfortable world of friends, family, and...

When a recently deceased cheerleader clambers out of the grave, the small town of Krapper, Kansas, becomes the center of media attention. Is it a miracle? Lazarus Syndrome? Sorceressi? Everyone's interested and harboring a tiny hope that maybe their own dead loved ones will do...

Henri Duval’s The Ambition of Madame LaFargue is a witty, amusing story set in a tiny village in France. Celestine LaFargue, like a modern day Madame Bovary, is bored with her comfortable life as the wife of a wood merchant in a sleepy rural community....

The Apple of my Eye by Christine McGreggor is about Michelle and her grandmother with whom she shared a special relationship. When her grandmother dies, she leaves the house to Michelle. The apple trees in the yard remind Michelle of her times with her grandmother...

Herb Marlow has written a provocative and in-depth story about material values from a Christian point of view. In The Laughter of God, Marlow gives the reader an ordinary guy named Bill Harmony. At first glance, Bill is simply a factory worker who does his...

Simon Guthrie lives alone in a beautiful estate with his dog Jeremy. His beloved wife, Gail, died in a car accident, whilst Simon struggled for months to recover from his injuries. His country estate is his retreat and his second chance to live again. Unfortunately,...