Harriet always thought she had her simple life planned out. She would grow up on Riduna, marry and raise a family, never leaving her tiny island home. Sometimes dreams aren't enough to face the realities of life, and the harsh realities of life can change...

Ancasta is the continuation of the family saga that began in Riduna. Harriet is now a widow with four grown children. Edward is still traveling the seas, enjoying his freedom. As the world starts to change and a war looms, we follow the former...

Author Tom Payne takes the reader along three types of feasts in his book entitled A Guide To God's Perplexing Path. These feasts are: The Feast of Passover, The Feast of Pentecost and The Feast of Ingathering. The path that leads the believer into an...

Willow, by Lori Roberts, is the story of Cordelia Barlow, who was born in 1844 in Fairview Plantation in Gallatin, Tennessee. Losing her mother at a young age, the little girl finds solace in the arms of her late mother’s black slave, Priscilla, and her...

Chloe Gunn is in so much pain that even alcohol cannot seem to drown it. It all feels too much for her and she thinks the only solution to her agony is death. A saving grace falls into her lap when she learns about a...

Thieves of Elysium: Risen from Ashes combines the Knights Templar and the Freemasons, then ramps it up times ten, and you might just have the Guild. The Guild is the name for the Thieves of Elysium, and Elysium is the hidden city where they live....

Grain by Doug Bentley is an erudite, insightful, and provocative poetic journey through the mystical regions of the human psyche. From first word to last, this thought-provoking volume of sonnets and free verse begs to be pondered - to be mulled over and savored like...

Raising a special needs child seems to be like nurturing a rose with many thorns. Holding onto the stem is painful, but the bloom can be spectacular. Michele Gianetti, R.N., writes I Believe In You and she shares her worthwhile, but sometimes painful journey. Michele...

Up and In by Steve Kubicek is a book of keys, a book which explains and details the ways in which any individual can turn to God and to their own internal self and achieve more than they ever have before. It’s all about getting...

Jack and Maddie are ready to celebrate their 13th birthday. Their parents are a little nervous because they have a great deal to tell them. When the day comes, just as they are about to find out and their parents start to talk, evil magicians...

Agency Rules: Never an Easy Day at the Office, by Khalid Muhammad, unravels in tumultuous Pakistan, a country that is constantly rocked by violence caused by gang leaders and common criminals. Kamal Khan, son of a wealthy Pakistani industrialist, opts to serve his country. Chosen...

Author Joyce M. Carter, M.D., takes the reader into her thoughts and life's experiences, advising one to not dwell on the negative and past, but rather to look with a positive attitude toward the present and the future. Let Me Give You A Peace of...

In Bitter Nothings, Vicki Tyley presents another complex and thrilling tale of dysfunctional families, determined women, and mysterious deaths and disappearances. Graphic designer, Dervla Johns, and her brothers, Gabe and Emmett, are still missing their mother, following her suicide two years earlier. Several years before...

Fatal Liaison by Vicki Tyley is a good story. Dinner for Twelve is a dinner dating agency and the heart of this murder mystery. Megan, at the insistence of her best friend Brenda, attends a dinner against her better judgment. Brenda thinks it is a...

Essays on the Classics Volume 3 by Jason R. Goetz carries readers through subjects such as war strategies, the role of leadership, American politics during the Clinton administration with a focus on homosexuality, love and war concepts from the time of the Greeks, through Judaism,...

In The Fairies of Turtle Creek, Jill K. Sayre has cleverly painted Claire Collins as a little girl on the threshold of something new. She is in the hiatus between girl and womanhood, in that last summer before high school and at her most impressionable....

A Message from God by Terri Kelley is the story of a young boy and his faith in God. Children are always taught to pray to God from a very early age, but there are times and moments when they question their own faith and...

The loss of a loved one is unfortunately something that touches everyone’s life at some point. In this compassionate and endearing children’s book, Thank You, Shadow, Terri Kelley broaches this painful, yet important, subject. The story starts with the direct and poignant lines, “Today is...

Skating with the World by Joanne Vassallo Jamrosz is an interesting collection of stories of past Olympians in the world of ice skating. The author takes us from contenders and winners in the 1970s through the past Winter Olympics in 2010. We hear about the...

Poetry and Short Stories by a Bipolar Girl by Melissa Burke is at times beautiful and at times frightening in the vivid descriptions of the deep melancholy and self-destructive feelings of a teenager living with bipolar disease. The pain that she is feeling comes through...