Caution to the Wind by Linda K Ford is a powerful memoir that had me spellbound — at first I thought it was fiction — a breathtaking adventure across the seas and a battle against the worst of nature’s tempers. The story begins with Geoff...

When Richard Winters points his Harley away from New York and heads south, looking for peace and a release from the memories of a devastating love affair, he wants nothing more than solitude and an opportunity to find himself again. The small town of Summitville...

The Year of Oceans by Sean Anderson is a novel about the grief suffered by one man after the death of his wife. Hugo Larson, a retired accountant living in North Seattle, lives alone and goes through a gamut of emotions in the aftermath of...

If you enjoyed reading Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, you will love this new children’s book, For Infinity and Beyond. Author Terri Peel Bechtold uses a repetitive—and building—sentence throughout the book. Each time the sentence appears it gets a little longer and longer. The...

After reading the third book in the Director series, I knew I would read anything from this author, so I picked up the fourth book, Chakana, and there is not an iota of disappointment. Zach Fortier understands that it takes a compelling protagonist to keep...

Instant Wisdom: 10 Easy Ways To Get Smart Fast is a nonfiction self-help book written by Beth Burgess, a therapist, coach, and author. She’s also the founder of Wiseism.com, a site designed to assist people who want to enrich their lives through amping up their...

Devyn Rose, The Innkeeper's Daughter: A Romance Novella is an epic fantasy novella written by Ronnda Eileen Henry. Andro’s Nook was not always the thriving village set on royal lands where Devyn Andro and his wife, Rosemary, ran the Queen Marigold Inn and anxiously awaited...

From page one, the reader discovers this is not a typical romantic novel. Annealing is not a common word in the English language, and the author includes the definition: to heat and cool (as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle; to...

I love my trees. My home is surrounded by trees. All kinds of trees. I may not be very knowledgeable about these trees, but I do appreciate them. Perhaps not as much as poet John Benzee. His collection of poems paints a vivid picture in...

Dagger’s Destiny by Linnea Tanner is the second book in the Curse of Clansmen and Kings series. The book picks up immediately after the events of the first book in the series, Apollo’s Raven. Set in the year 24 AD in Britannia, the young Princess...

Boot Language: A Memoir by Vanya Erickson left me feeling sad. In this memoir, Erickson tells about her childhood. She grew up with an alcoholic father, who seemed to hate her, and a mother who refused to seek medical help for her children due to...

Yesterday's Tomorrow: Just A Dream, Part 1 is an historical time travel novel written by Guy Rosmarin. Harvard professor Dr. Anderson Spencer had a theory about World War II and was researching the possibility of an internal coup that was behind Hitler’s disastrous incursion into...

Havoc and Mayhem by Derrick A. Bonner is an urban fiction tale. It’s 1988 and Ronald Reagan is manning America’s helm. Rap music fills the streets and a brand new drug, crack, is causing serious problems in the street of New York City. Tommy Strong,...

The House of Baric: Widows and Weddings is Book 3 in the historical romance trilogy by Jillian Bald. While traveling to Thessaloniki with mercenaries and his fiancée, Ruby, Jero Baric is falsely accused of a crime and arrested. Ruby and the mercenaries leave, promising to...

I’m going to pay The Jasper Creed by William Jarvis one of the highest compliments I can for this type of novel. Throughout the book the voice and tone sounded exactly like the late great Pat Conroy. So if you are a Pat Conroy fan,...

Exploring My Ideas: Ten Short Stories Followed by the Author's Shared Ideas with a Simple and Practical Guide How to Explore and Compose Ideas into Short Stories is a collection of short stories and an educational guide for writers by Fida Abbott. Abbott is an...

Jagdlied by Dolly Gray Landon is a multifaceted novel about a wealthy heiress, socialite, and trust-fund diamond-digger debutante named Melody. Intending for Jagdlied to be acted out and enjoyed with the accompanying illustrations and musical scores, Landon's alter egos - Gary Lloyd Noland and Lon...

Kick-Ass Kinda Girl: A Memoir of Life, Love and Caregiving by Kathi Koll is one of those books that bring tears to the reader’s eyes while warming their heart — poignant, honest, and filled with humanism. The daughter of parents who were the very picture...

Marchiori had seen more than his fair share of murders; in his job it was to be expected. But never before had he seen anything like this. With all the markings of a rapidly escalating serial killer, time is of the essence. And with the...

The Language Thieves is a young adult fantasy by Marc Remus. Sixteen-year-old Daniel is none too happy about his father’s decision to move the family from Arizona to a remote Scottish island, of all places. His mother was stricken by a mysterious illness that has...