Tony is just an ordinary boy. He goes to school, he has friends, and he has a family. However, his family seems somewhat incomplete as he only has a mother, no father, and his mother’s parents and siblings. It’s as if his father never existed....

The Thing Speaks For Itself by A.S.A. Durphy is a thrilling suspense novel about a State Department agent who is trying to find a missing friend while recuperating from multiple injuries and a brain trauma. After her mother's death, Gracie's father goes on a downhill...

I put off buying a book on this subject for years. Yes, I am a procrastinator. Not all the time. I’m very punctual about a lot of things, especially the necessary things of daily life. But when it comes to writing, I find myself procrastinating...

The One that Got Away And Other Short Stories is a collection of three different but engaging stories written by Margaret Lynette Sharp. The entire book doesn’t take long to read, and the stories can literally be read in one short sitting. I certainly believe...

A story that begins with a man waking in the middle of the night, feeling cold and uneasy, to find an ugly woman lurking in his room and telling him she’d waited many years to face a certain Mr. Hardwycke is a good promise for...

In The Eyes Have It by Julie Allan, readers who have gone through troubled marriages or who have been to a funeral lately will develop an immediate connection with the main character, Lizzie Long. Going through a divorce from a husband who merely used her...

There is a fine art to Asian cooking that many of us never realize. To create the perfect dish requires time and effort, something not many of us have in this mad-rush era. Take-out seems an easier option, but a good home cooked Asian meal...

In The Painting by Kathleen J. Shields, the author has taken one of the most controversial topics and written the most inspiring, heartfelt story I have had the privilege to read in a long time. As simple as the story is, it will hold the...

The Jade Lion by Kenneth R. McClelland is the story of a man named Fallon and his pledge to kill the King of the Northern Province in an act of retribution. When he was young, several villagers, including his mother, had been killed when the...

Whew. The Taste of Air by Gail Cleare caught my attention from the moment I began to read it. What begins to unfold from page one is a captivating story filled with mystery, suspense, love, longing and family. As I write this review and begin...

The Policewoman by Justin W.M. Roberts is a military fiction story set in the year 2026. Sarah is a policewoman with a lot of ambition. She works for Densus-88, an anti-terrorist unit, set up to fight the narco-terrorism sweeping the world. The Irish Drug Cartel...

The Beast of Tsunam: Rev Smalley: Galactic P.I. Book 1 is a detective story told in the classic pulp fiction style of the thirties. But it just happens to take place in the far future. Reading as much as I do, I have come across...

The Before by Ben Jackson takes readers into a dystopian future in which a virus has wiped out most of humanity. The tragic part is that the virus was originally meant to benefit mankind. But all it did was leave a world in pieces. Small...

Super cute! How could you not pick up a book with this fun title? The Day My Fart Followed Me Home hits all marks of childhood silliness. Authors Ben Jackson and Sam Lawrence begin a unique tale with Timmy, whose little fart follows him home...

The Oxford Photograph by Tony Thistlewood is a tantalizing mystery featuring terrorism and intense drama. Prime Minister Nancy Melville is under fire after receiving a handwritten note that suggests an impending nuclear attack. In a climate where numerous murders are being committed and no one...

The Travel Mate (Death In The Caucasus) by J.A. Kalis is a riveting thriller about what can happen when traveling alone through Europe. Sandy arranged a trip to Georgia to go hiking through the mountains and surrounding areas. None of her friends or family could...

The Baiji by D. Marie Prokop is a short children's story about the culture of China, the environment that the Chinese people live in, particularly along the Yangtze River, and a friendship found and lost. To the outside world, Ai Bao and Shu Rui were...

English grammar, spelling and sentence structure are certainly not easy. One is definitely not born with the knowledge to overcome the many pitfalls the written form of English presents. With the public education system continually cutting back on what it does teach, sadly, grammar has...

The Intimacy of Strangers by Lynne King tells the story of Rebecca Jones who found herself at the age of eight living in a strange country, and all her security and everything that had been familiar to her was left behind in England. Her memories...

The Mysterious Package (A Hanna and Tamar Mystery) by Christa Nardi and Cassidy Salem is a YA whodunit about two sisters who stumble on an adventure while on a train ride to their grandparents' house. Hanna and Tamar are on Thanksgiving break and looking forward...