Isabella & Penelope by Maggie Grinnell is the story of the bonding between Isabella and Penelope, a caterpillar. Isabella has lost her father in a plane crash. She is sad about the loss but the timely entrance of Penelope into her life helps her overcome...

Kevin J. Anderson has mastered the witty, tongue in cheek kind of humor that makes you emit a dry chuckling laugh, as opposed to the "rolling on the floor" moments of a lot of slapstick humor. I haven't read his previous two books in the...

The once powerful Alliance of Azimuth is greatly threatened by Hideux and his Nightlander army. Rostand, spy for the Alliance, infiltrates the enemy’s base of Cistern on the moon Andromeda. While scouring the base for information, Kira Chand, a prisoner on the base and one...

When Sarah Flies by Terri Kelley is the story of Sarah is is affected with autism. The topic of the story is the behavior related to autistic children. Autism is a disorder that exists in the society we live in. Autistic children can be around...

My Name is Rapunzel, by K.C. Hilton, is an entertaining twist on the classic fairy tale. It is a story that has been told hundreds of times and in many different ways, but one thing has always remained true: the lonely young girl with the...

Art from Uranus by Rob Coxon is a book containing images with the author’s paintings and descriptions of what they represent. The book starts with a humorous written foreword by Ms. Denise Gold, followed by an introduction in which the author presents his journey from...

The Volcano That Changed the World, by James W. Mercer, is a fascinating amalgam of Geology, Archaeology, the legendary city of Atlantis, and World History. All this occurs within a milieu of attempted murder, marital infidelity, and the underhanded shenanigans of a Professor doing everything...

Self-Sabotage? What Is It, Why We Do It, When We Do It, How to Overcome It? by Cris Baker is a self-help motivational book that guides the reader into the all aspects of the self-sabotage mechanism. It is something that we all have and its...

Mary Carter's latest novel, Three Months in Florence, offers the reader a breathtaking glimpse into the potential for marital disaster. Lena Wallace has been married to her husband Alex for sixteen years. They have seemingly been kind and gentle years of love, children, and commitment....

Because most people in today’s society believe that beauty is only skin deep, I Am Beautiful by Terri Kelley and illustrated by Ana Zdravkovic, is a way to start children off right, believing that their worth and their beauty is found in the many things...

The Fountain of the Earth is a dark, science fiction novel by H.L. LeRoy. At fifteen, Terra should be worrying about marriage and moving into her role as an adult woman in her clan. But on the day of the wedding party, the tribesmen’s...

Sir Laurence Dies is a detective mystery, written by Christopher D. Abbott, featuring Dutch psychologist, Dr. Pieter Straay, who has a keen interest in crime. He's on his way to England from Amsterdam when he's approached by Sir Laurence Gregson, a retired Lieutenant Colonel. Sir...

Many people use the phrase ‘getting lost in an image’ but what if it really happened? In The Photo Traveler by Arthur J. Gonzalez, that is exactly the position Gavin finds himself in when he finally locates his biological grandparents. Living with adoptive parents after...

World War II had all but destroyed Sicily and Domenico's family needed to get out. His father promised the family that things would be better for them in America. It is that hope which set Domenico and his family on an irrevocable course in Finding...

In The Devil's Playground, book one of Cynthia Sens's Sapphire Staff Series, we meet Mel Taylor. Mel is your average, middle-aged man living in the 21st century and working as a genealogist. But with Mel, what you get on the surface isn't all that is...

The importance of language is not overrated and that point is very well communicated in Auntie Maim, Revenge of the Homophones by David Tish. When Sheldon Beasley sends in a letter for a part in the play Auntie Mame, he misspells the word without even...

Greenburg is a bankrupt northeastern town. The ones that have the means to move to a better place are long gone, leaving behind the ones that could not. Businesses struggle. To make do during the tough times, people turn to an experimental program: housing non-violent...

The Tapestry of Life - The Lost Prophecy by Vincent A. Gonzalez is a fantasy story. Urnarld is a young sorceress. She has lost her mother and that makes her eager to know what the future has in store for her. There is an empty...

A Big Sky Christmas by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone is an adventurous, exhilarating Western novel, which introduces readers into the lives of American Frontier men and woman. A rough and tough frontiersman-drifter stumbles across a town in Kansas City, Missouri, only planning to...

The Employer: A Novelization by Frank Merle is a very different psychological thriller. The Carcharias Corporation is a company that people know very little about. Five people are interviewed by 'the Employer' for a job with no description and each one is thrilled to be...