The Spanish Memorandum by Guy Southwick is very interesting, to say the least. Set at Christmastime in the 1930s, it's a retro "whodunit" that will make your head whirl. It seems like every possible different aspect of the '30s is represented here. We've got...

No matter how bad something is, something else could be worse! That is what 12-year-old Jessie Maison discovers when she becomes friends with the new boy next door, Chris Ketra, in The Raystone by C.L. Gristwood. Jessie is lonely since she is bullied and feels...

The Girl in Black Pajamas is a mystery by Chris Birdy. Bogie McGruder and Rose Jones are partners of R&B Investigations. When Tommy, an employee, is shot and his laptop disappears, they discover a hacker is trying to infiltrate their network. Rose’s uncle Walter, a...

The Bridal Contract (Darrington Family Book 3) is a historical romance by Sandra Sookoo. Eloisa Hawthorne is furious that her reckless brother gambled away their inheritance and promises their younger sister to a priggish peer to avoid debtors’ prison. She desperately needs money to save...

The Wish List Addiction is the story of compulsive list maker Rebecca Matthews. Rebecca has a list for everything and she will desperately need those lists when both her marriage and career blow up spectacularly. Coupled with her two biggest failures, Rebecca must figure out...

The Little Tin Box is a tale full of twists and turns that will leave the reader surprised. The tale starts out with a violent attack on Arthur Sprigwell in Fulham, a newly industrialized part of London by the Thames River. Arthur has his tongue...

The Cat’s Maw is a fantasy/mystery for preteens by Brooke Burgess. Billy Brahm is a lonely young boy who lives with his parents. He is extremely accident prone and always manages to seriously injure himself. This frustrates his parents who think he is just as...

The Courtesan by Killarney Sheffield is a short but sweet historical romance. Rachel Sholis leaves her home in Germany with her family on a ship bound for England. On the way there, their ship begins to sink and Rachel believes her family has perished. She...

The Human Process of Self-Evolution by J.M. Tessey explores the ongoing transformational change of human evolution and how Homo sapiens diverged from mammals long ago. In ten detailed chapters, Tessey differentiates between two behavioral systems: instinct and reason. Research is garnered from genetics, psychology, neuroscience,...

The World is My Drum by Amber Richards is a delightful little picture book. A small boy, Hudson, loves to play with his drums. In fact, he loves to play more with his drumsticks, creating rhythms on all kinds of different surfaces around the house,...

The Christmas Bargain: (A Victorian Holiday Romance) (Hardman Holidays Book 1) by Shanna Hatfield introduces the reader to Luke Granger, owner and manager of the Hardman bank. In the small 1890s Eastern Oregon town, Luke calls in a long overdue loan from a farmer who...

The Shattered Shoe by Erin Evans is a story about Morgan. This young woman grew up while her father was always too busy on his adventures to remember birthdays and other important events in their family’s life. One day she gets a package in the...

In The Stone Thread: Second Chronicle, a post-apocalyptic tale by J.R. Evangelisti, what remains of humanity live protected under a bubble. Their needs are met as long as they follow a set of Catch-22-like rules and they're reminded constantly that they are lucky to be...

The Video Effect is an excellent book which covers several aspects of video marketing. It’s an extremely thorough guide and I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in video marketing, which is nowadays a key tool for internet marketing. It is full of facts...

The Feud of Lovelace Court is a preteen story by Margaret Pearce. The residents of Lovelace Court dislike their new neighbours, the Morris family. The kids are dirty, wear old clothes and fight a lot. Gerty and her twin brother Phil are upset when Robbie...

The Onyx Seed by R.W. Harrison is a supernatural thriller set in a small town in New York, after World War II. Larry McConnell drowned under mysterious circumstances in a local lake, leaving a pregnant young wife behind, but his body is never found. A...

The Purple Girl is a wonderful fantasy by Audrey Kane. Violet was born with purple skin, eyes and hair. Everything she touches turns purple, but the color eventually disappears. She lives with her parents in a cottage surrounded by a protective wall. Violet is shunned...

Life isn’t always easy and when you have secrets, even from your closest friends, it can be even more difficult. For the seven women of The Two Bits Club, life isn’t what it appears from the outside. These women have suffered in life and some...

The Cocktail by Theresa Schevis is about a group of friends in an upper-middle-class area of the North Bronx who have known each other since high school and have stable relationships and successful careers. Their comfortable world is shattered, however, when the narrator, Linda, wakes...

There once was a little bear named Cubby who had big, big dreams. Bigger than he could ever imagine! You see, Cubby Bear wanted to learn to fly. He could do it, couldn’t he? As he sits high on his tree branch, looking out through...