"The Final Voyage of the Sea Explorer" is a young adult adventure tale that takes place on a diving charter boat in the Bahamas. Josh and Jimmy have been diving in lakes and quarries in their home state, Kentucky, and, as a graduation present, Josh's...

S. Thomas Bailey continues the saga of the Jacob Murray family in “Shades of Death: The Gauntlet Runner, Book II.” In book one we met Private Jacob Murray from Pennsylvanian and watched as he became a scout for George Washington’s Provincial Militia, in the Ohio...

"The Taste of Snow" by Stephen V. Masse tells the story of Nicole, a young girl in Austria who receives a magical candy cane from a shopkeeper during the Christmas season. Nicole is skeptical at first, but then decides to take the candy cane and...

“Out of Bounds” by Bob Moseley is the gratifying and intriguing story of Jason Jefferson, an injured high school football player who turns to journalism while recovering from a torn ACL. Jason begins writing for the school newspaper after being inspired by a film in...

Little Nani is a witch who likes to help people. However, she is still learning to use her magic and sometimes her spells won’t work the way she wanted them. She accidentally turned her friends into ostriches and made a horse into a bookworm. Will...

“Chronicles of Jongleur, the Storyteller” by Sandra Gallimore is a fictional story based on a family who are the descendants of Mary Magdalene. The story is told to us as Jongleur reports it to Friar Simon at the end of his life. The tale begins...

Ever wonder what you should say when your child says, “Why are we Jewish?” or “Why did Samantha, the goldfish, die?” Ever find yourself stressed out about your role as a parent? Then The Missing Pages of the Parent Handbook by Christina Brockett is the...

The Fourth Queen by Mark Miller weaves fairy tales, magic, and the innocent faith of two young girls together as they are forced to abandon their home and set off in search of the heart of the kingdom of Empyrean. An ancient evil has brought...

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...

I'm Not Talking About You, Of Course… by Barbara Venkataraman is a very witty look at real humor, the kind that we observe every day as we go about our lives. Barbara starts off by taking a look at some of the crazy things that...

While I tend to skip over books aimed at elementary school students, Adventures of a Mad 6th Grader by Stephen Zanzucchi caught my attention and demanded to be read. The book centers around Frank, the mad sixth-grader in question, and the two main problems in...

Blog of a Bully by Stephen Zanzucchi is about Bradley Duncan, a 13-year-old nerd who transforms himself from a nerd to a bully when he is forced to move to another state and join a new school. This story reminded me a lot of Diary of...

Sons of The King - The Complete Series by Mark Miller and Olivia Miller is a fantasy based science fiction woven with a Christian theme. A great king in the land of Mysstira, located in the planet Kaskaya, has three sons. Their world changes when...

Expressions of Poetry - Love, Life & Tragedy by Montice L. Harmon is a beautiful collection of semi-confessional poems that speak about the poet's trials and tribulations. The poems are a kind of motivation for depressed minds and discouraged people to rise above their problems...

Child of Time is a high-fantasy adventure by Bob Johnson. In this tale, readers follow Hossiek, a mysterious hero, on his quest to finally take down the foe he has tracked throughout millennia - the vampire Joswieac. Hossiek is a man of many names: Seeker...

The Audacity of You! by Dominique Wilkins is a series of short stories that speaks about the situations that we face in life. It is a revelation of human behavior and how we act, not realizing the consequences of our actions. The characters of each...

The only thing worse than watching your beloved father take his last breath is to be exiled from your home with the threat of death if you are ever seen there again. That is the fate to Byrn, daughter of Korta, king of Fayen in...

Dust McAlan and the Empire of the Serpent by CK Burch unravels in the mid 1930s in Africa, where Dust McAlan is in search of an artifact called the Mask of Kaang, the African creator god. This is a time when treasure hunters, grave robbers,...

Don’t have the home, the career, the spouse, or the glamour that you have always dreamed of? Well, according to Bonnie Trachtenberg in The Fine Art of Delusional Thinking, you can have all of that and more. Why spend your life fretting in the real...

Dorothy Kozeny, grieving for her son who died in Vietnam, is shocked when she receives a mysterious letter stating the ashes the military sent her may not be Andrew’s. Her investigation confirms this, but the military bureaucrats are tight-lipped. Dorothy decides to go to Laos...