The Charmed Life is a mystery novel by John Miles. Following the buddy genre of detective stories, the plot centers on quirky private eye Gene Harlow and Pinkton ‘Pinky’ Finkelstein, his new police lieutenant sidekick. The unlikely pair go about their business against the backdrop...

The Heart Has Its Reasons: Looking Back Looking Ahead by Ignatius Fernandez is an uplifting and philosophical book that helps readers reflect on life and God. The book speaks about the importance of relationships in one's life and reminds readers of the things that really...

The Little Ladybug is a rhyming, illustrated storybook by Amelia May. It tells the tale of a lonely ladybug who is looking for a friend. The ladybug meets a lot of different bugs on his journey, but most of them are too busy or self-important...

Readers are reunited with Gideon Crew in The Lost Island. This is the third book Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have written in the Gideon Crew series. Gideon Crew is a brilliant scientist and a master thief. Gideon’s employer, Eli Glinn, has given him what...

In The Silken Web by Sandra Brown, we meet Kathleen, a very naïve and innocent camp counselor, and Erik, a videographer. Erik and Kathleen are attracted to each other and while she attempts to resist the attraction, he is determined to seduce her. After only...

Iris Brave's world turned upside down when she learned that what she thought she knew of souls was entirely untrue. When Iris heard of her father Micah being alive within another person's body, the whole thing seemed unreal and impossible. Iris was taken to a...

The Way We Move by Terri Kelley is a sweet book that does a wonderful job conveying an important concept. It will catch the hearts of those who “move differently” or know of those who do. The main character falls and skins his knees. Even...

The Silence is a paranormal thriller set in the late 1970s, written by Monty Helfgott. John Mackenzie is a self-made man, an expert in finding gems and minerals and developing mines. Mackenzie has a strict policy of only dealing with countries and companies who will...

The Shaker of Worlds is a dystopian fantasy written by Karl A.D. Brown. There's a special area near Kirkwood, New York, that was once sacred to ancient tribes and has since been the site of much violence and death. In modern times, it is the...

In The Herb Gardener by Maris Morton, after a painful divorce, Joanna is leaving the city with her daughter, Mia, to spend some time cooking at a farm for her new love interest. It is a sort of trial run to see how things go,...

The Dalhart Pursuit by Randall Jarmon is an awesome book. Greg Dalhart has written a brilliant software program that can cause amazing changes to the United States by finding any fugitive or missing child. Dalhart has sold this program and he has now become the...

Life is a story. It's amazing how these stories are stored inside inanimate objects like buttons. A tin full of buttons can easily be associated with different items of clothing worn by specific people to which there is definitely a story attached. These stories are...

The Deputy is a mystery by C.M. Albrecht. Deputy Wayne Terwilliger hires Willis, an escaped convict, to help his wife Janie on their farm. Willis is happy he has found refuge and works willingly, hoping the deputy does not discover his identity. Wayne is having...

The Last Eucharist: A True War Story, set in the quotidian town of Jackrabbit, Arizona, features an amputee Vietnam veteran, Thomas, who earns his meager living doing headstands for the sneering common masses outside of a theatre. While Thomas spends his earnings from these "atrocity...

The Princess in Pink: A True Tale by Samantha Michael is a true story written in fairy story style. Samantha was horrifically injured when the car she was in was in an accident. The driver was drunk. Samantha tells the tale of her journey from...

The Millionaire Within Us by Chris Carley is an easy-to-read primer on how Carley made herself a millionaire in network marketing. The premise of this book is that "you are what you think about." If you think positive thoughts about your goals - and if...

The Firedragon: A Flynn Nightsider tale by Mary Fan is a fast paced dystopian novella centered around Aurelia Sun. She is a fourteen-year-old 'Norm' determined to prove elitist 'Enchanters' wrong by being the first Norm to win the Challenge and show the world that they...

Christian believers are familiar with or at least have heard of the works of the four gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Christians study each gospel by reading, or listening to it being read to them, or preached to them, but do they really live...

The Skeletons of Birkbury by Diane J. Febry is a classic whodunit. A storm fells a tree, unearthing a skeleton. Forensics and investigation determine the body has lain there for 20 years. At the time, a car accident and a disappearance are not tied together...

The Testament of Mariam by Ann Swinfen is a beautiful story with a distinctive voice that will haunt readers for a long time after finishing this book. The story takes you back in time with Mariam reminiscing about her youth and how it was to...