I am no stranger to Jenny Cote's books. I have been on adventures with Max and Liz before, and I knew Jenny's new book, The Prophet, the Shepherd and the Star, was going to be another fantastic adventure. Jenny's books feature Max and Liz, a...

Indemnity by Paula Wiseman is book #2 in her Covenant of Trust series. Seven years after Bobbie forgave her husband, Chuck, for his affair with Tracy Ravenna, she thought everything was behind them. That is until the new school year began and Jackson Charles Ravenna...

Meet Robby the C-130 is a delightful book, written for children with parents in the military, that will be loved by all children. It is an easy book that helps a child cope with his/her feelings resulting from the absence of one of the parents....

I have always loved sci-fi books and the detail in this book is phenomenal. A young man awakes in a “Big Brother” type future and must discover his world and himself. These circumstances really drew me in right from the first chapter. The dialog...

The Healings is a funny tale of a man's journey to self discovery and enlightenment, peppered with a lot of humor. It is, in short, a very funny collection of many, many stories about a single, very depressed man who has "lost his way." The...

Sometimes, in the midst of reading fiction, I enjoy reading poems for a change, so I chose Nadia Brown’s book of poetry to read. As I read each poem, I enjoyed sensing her personality as she puts her beautiful creations in writing. Some of the...

Was it caused by a war as the government claims, possibly an accident or even natural disaster? No one remembered, but many generations later, the descendents of the North Americans, long in exile in South America, return to the devastation of what was once their...

"An Affinity for Shadows" by Liz R. Newman centers on the life of Kate Theodore, a talented and focused broadcast journalist who has made it to the top, only to find that office politics as well as national events may force her out of her...

"The Doll Violinist" is an inspiring and magical book written by Mayra Calvani and illustrated by Amy Moreno. Five days before Christmas, an orphan girl named Emma is in love with the violinist doll in the store window. One of five dolls, the violinist doll...

This tale is a very good portrayal of a boy who can travel between two worlds to be able to protect one of his relatives. It is written in the first person, is light, and develops with a good pace. He is also witty and...

Simple, straight, and to-the-point, "Doc’s First Aid Guide" by Kathleen A. Handal, MD, is an easy-to-use reference book that you could keep handy in your glove compartment, a kitchen drawer, or your office desk drawer. She emphasizes that the steps taken during the first few...

Launch Out Into The Deep is a spiritually touching book of devotions written by Author, Acacia Slaton Beumer. Beumer writes from her own life experience and has included inspirational essays, divine poems and quotes from the holy scripture in this book that truly touches the...

Eliana Davis is no stranger to moving house a lot as her dad is in the army and she has never lived anywhere for more than a few years. She has grown to love her current home in California, however, and is devastated to learn...

Bobby, an author by trade faces his greatest writing challenge to date as he struggles to pull his characters out of a dangerous and suspenseful situation. Nothing out of the ordinary for your every day author, except Bobby is anything but ordinary. Bobby is in...

Mercy Jean Diamond was born to African-American heart surgeon Fred Diamond and his wife, Maggie, a reformed prostitute, on July 12, 1928. Ten years later to the day, Mercy's sister Roxy Ann is born, and Mercy loves her baby sister. She reads to her and...

Taylor Wilson owns her own landscaping business and is filling a wheel barrow with pumpkins in her own backyard in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she lives quite happily with artist/sculptor husband Phil. Phil has driven away from the house after answering the telephone. His instructions...

Author Gary Goldstein was 37 years old, college educated and a former employee of New York City broadcasting, when he was arrested for armed robbery of three Chinese dry-cleaning stores in 1998 while he was high on valium and Tylenol with codeine, which he washed...

As a child, and growing up, Katherine Mayfield suffered in a way that children should never suffer, yet it happens repeatedly to so many. My heart ached for Katherine as I read the different accounts throughout the book about how her mom treated her, not...

"Werewolf Descent" by Elizabeth J Kolodziej is the second in the 'Last Witch' series, following on from "Vampyre Kisses". Faith, the last witch in the world, and Trent, her loving Irish vampire boyfriend, have moved to live near New York for peace and quiet after...

"Have Fun & Get It Done: Graduate From a Top University in 3 Years or Less Without Being a Genius," written by Jenee Ariel Dana, is a must-have for all high school juniors and seniors who are college bound! Split into short chapters focusing on...