Just My Life by Charles J. Rouse is an evocative and heartfelt memoir that transports readers back to a simpler time when the joy of life's small moments shone brightly. Rouse masterfully captures childhood innocence, recounting his early memories growing up in Trenton, New Jersey,...

"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending." Elizabeth McCracken courageously shares her pain at giving birth to a stillborn child and the joy at the birth of a healthy child.

Pregnancy was a happy time for the couple. When Pudding was...

In Lincoln, Rhode Island, 1974, Fourteen-year-old Keith Smith was raped and beaten. He broke out the rear window of the vehicle and memorized the license plate. While he did not know the man that victimized him, he could identify him. Smith was constantly looking back, terrified...

Many women face breast cancer. Kimberly Fairchild was only thirty-five years old when she was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. I’d Give My Left Boob For That…Oh, Wait, I Already Did is her story, her pain, emotions, struggle and triumph. She offers readers a very...

This book is set in Edinburgh Scotland during the mid eighteenth century. Lady Majory Kerr has tried to control her family for years but learns that she does not have the power to control her sons or their wives. Like all families, the Kerr’s have secrets....

Jerry Manning was raised by Crazy Annie and her dogs. No one knew the true story about how he came to live with her. She called him Raven. He was about five years old when she sent him to a military school. Could he be...

Well, what young child would NOT want to have his or her way? The little girl in this book had visions of having her way with many things she encountered in life. If there were no insects or worms or if you did not have...

As soon as I read the title of this book I knew it would be special. God's Feet Are In My Sandbox is the inspiring autobiography of Rick Anderson. As a young man Anderson considered suicide. In his deep depression he drove to a pond...

In the last line of her book Graffiti on My Soul, author Johanna concludes: "This is my Last Will and Testament." As an author and reader, I would certainly hope this is not the case. Johanna is a creative and talented writer,...

"And Rainedrops Fall Down My Cheeks" tells of the author's many different life experiences, in which she establish a justification of the reason for them is much more than being human and we have guardian angels. I thought this book was a bit abstract through...

There are many books written on breast cancer, and Heather St. Aubin-Stout's Not My Mother's Journey is an exceptional and excellent addition that should go to the top of everyone's reading list. The author writes clearly, appealingly of her battle against breast cancer, the same...

Mac Kayla, Stephen McBride and Michael O’Conners were best friends in college and spent as much time together as they could. An argument, a flat tire, strong arms carrying Mac Kayla into the cabin led to a night of romance, which led to a pregnancy....

Shirley Roe quickly became one of my favorite authors when I read her previous novels: A Whitaker Family Reunion, Return To Whittaker, and Of Dreams and Nightmares...the latter being my favorite. I was excited to see she has a new book on the market, Now...

Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson, Laura Park, Bryan Kennedy and Chris Tebbetts is a funny look at life in those painful formative years. The story revolves around Rafe Khatchadorian. He begins the new year with a quiet attitude, but...

YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND is a delightful children’s book written by Peter Brown. Lucy, the bear, announces that she is going to make a new friend one morning. There are so many critters in the large forest that surely one of them would like...

While I wasn't in the actual living room in Brentwood, TN, described in the book, the one with the upper middle class well-coifed women during their bible study, one suddenly said, " . . . What I really want to know is this: When will...

"Over My Head" is a clean, innocent story of a high school girl experimenting with love. Sang's father is trying to raise his daughter in the strict fashion his culture demands, but Sang reacts in typical teenage fashion: she rebels. When she becomes infatuated with...

Woody Guthrie’s "Riding In My Car" is a pop-up book. The illustrations were done by talented Scott Menchin. The outside cover begs to be opened with a roadster-looking car filled with “beatniks”. There are four passengers, one with a goatee. The car is 3 dimensional....

Betty Collier's Angel In My Room is a heart warming, emotionally moving story of hope and life. I hardly ever read these kinds of books, but once in a while I will, and this one just reached out, gripped me and never let go. Ms....

Sacramento homicide investigators Anthony Camarelli and his partner Julia Reynolds have worked well together. When, after a boring stakeout, Julia is shot and killed, Anthony thinks his world has come to an end. However, their ‘partnership’ hasn’t ended because she reappears as a ghost. Though...