I liked The Zeta Grey War: New Recruits by DF Capps. It has a lot of the elements necessary in a good, action based science-fiction, military style novel. The science is good. The aliens are believable. They are not monsters but intelligent beings who happen...

The Northeast Quarter by S.M. Harris is a historical event novel laced with drama and built around a powerful political and historical setting. The story starts in 1918 with little Ann Hardy, ten-year-old daughter to Colonel Carson who runs an agricultural empire. She is watching...

Tina Clough writes an unforgettable story in The Chinese Proverb. While taking a break and relaxing at his cabin in the New Zealand bush, Hunter’s peaceful retreat is interrupted by an unbelievable discovery. Enjoying their evening walk, Hunter and his loyal dog, Scruff, find a...

Dawdledale is a very mundane, dreary town. Everyone does what they’re supposed to do: they go to work, they go to school, they take care of the house. Everything is very neat and orderly and everything happens exactly when and how it should. That is...

The Red Racecar is a turbo-charged racing novel written by Thom Ring. While tossing up between going to college or joining the army, Jimmy Pearson passes a garage on the way home which catches his eye. What he sees inside lures him in like a...

A husband is shot and murdered in front of his house, and the killer is walking free in the thrilling sleuth mystery, The Big Weekend (A Stella Reynolds Mystery) by Libby Kirsch. Stella is covering a story live at a home, where a mother...

The Crows of Ticklewick by Phaishonne Danzie is a charming story about a family of crows. The family consists of the parents, and two young crows named Toolie and Forteist. The father is concerned that they may not survive the big freeze, and they have...

Slim as it looks, The Rebel's Guide to Recovery by Jost Sauer is a gem for anyone living in the claws of addiction, a book with groundbreaking techniques for achieving freedom from drugs and other addictions. Here is a book that offers a holistic, revolutionary...

The Illusion by Patrick Garry is a very fascinating story about an ambitious man, a man who is keen on his rise up the corporate ladder. An investment banker in a boom period for the stock market, Luke Sellmer’s ability to make money is uncanny...

Mason Night is a fairly typical eleven-year-old boy who knows he is loved by his mother and grandfather, even though his dad abandoned the family many years ago. Now, Mason’s mom has a boyfriend and, although he is not happy at first, Mason comes to...

The Edge of Farallon by Peter Skinner is about finding your real happiness, it is about family, and it is about finding your place, especially when you have lost all hope. Wow, this was a quick read, but that does not mean this novel (or...

The Ghost of Vincent van Gogh: A Love Story by Candice Petrocova combines art, drama, and romance in a spellbinding story that is a sheer delight to read. Sheehan Xavier Donovan is a renowned Irish pianist with a promising future ahead of him. But things...

Finally, here is a book I can confidently describe as the psychology of the body, The Body Image Blueprint: Your Go-To Guide for Radical Self-Reverence by Jenny Berk, a book that brilliantly traces the path that allows readers to master the art of body image...

Deep in the forests of Washington state, a blood-thirsty psychopath is on the hunt in The Sage Wind Blows Cold (Mac Crow Thrillers Book 1), a chilling thriller by Clint Hollingsworth. In his youth, Mac Crow went to a wilderness survival school and learned how...

The Baljuna Covenant by Tim Pelkey is a historical novel that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who enjoy historical fiction thrillers and archaeological mysteries. James Andrews has dedicated years of his life to locating the tomb of Genghis...

The Fountain of Youth (A Wryte and Wong Adventure) by Jonathan Tindall is an intriguing adventure novel that would appeal most to a diverse audience ranging from teenagers to adults who enjoy tales of mysterious thievery and lost legends. Patricia Wong was a successful career...

The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness by Lolly Daskal is a book that every leader needs to read, one with the advice that many growing leaders never have the chance to hear. As I read this book, I thought about all...

At only ten years of age, Princess Adele of Iden loses the father she loves in The Spirit: Awakening by K.M. Riley. Her uncle, Lord Myson, lovingly takes the king’s place, but something drives Adele to search for more. Far off in the woods, Adele...

Paul Alfred’s gold-digging wife and her unscrupulous lawyer lover have fabricated a cast-iron divorce case and Paul must see his business, home and marriage slip away into history. The Girl from Tir-na-nOg by Gary Hope tells how Paul, unwilling to be beaten into the dust,...

A little boy and a folding circus tent is the focus of The Travelling Circus – a new children’s book by Mark Watson. As the little boy begins to have fun folding and unfolding his perfect gift of a circus tent, an imaginative story begins...