Here is another great story from Karleen Bradford. It is as good as the other two I have read from her, although I found this one a bit slower paced than the others. It took me a bit longer to get immersed in the pages....

The plot of "The Lure of Shapinsay" by Krista Holle falls heavily on the myth of the selkies. A selkie is a marine creature that looks like a seal but can shed its skin and become human-like. A human male that finds the skin of...

"The Little Gnome" was written by Sheri Fink and illustrated by Mary Erikson Washam. This children’s story begins by introducing the Little Gnome to readers. Little Gnome was happy as he enjoyed the beautiful flowers, the singing birds, the whispering wind and the warm sunshine...

In The Fingerprint of Destiny, Elena Borgias Sinclair is a struggling reporter and editor of The Hope’s Point Gazette, a small-town newspaper. A series of landmark homes are destroyed by fire and the community believes that the Latino immigrants are the culprits. It is supposed...

Appealing to the masses and especially to the youth of the world through the promise of adventure, education, and a future with endless possibilities, an alien force has easily began to overtake Earth without shedding a drop of blood in The Fight for Immortality by...

In 1945, after Germany surrendered, the American army sent soldiers there, but not to fight. Their job was to find art stolen by the Nazis and return it to the rightful owners. They were also sent to rebuild German monuments, thus they were called the...

The Crystal Key by T.L. Howard is a captivating story about a young girl named Mirah, whose life was disrupted by a man named Rasmun, a man searching for the girl with the crystal key that will help his Lord come into power. Though he...

With The Clock Strikes Midnight, Joan Curtis has written a true page-turner. The plot follows a successful business woman named Janie as she takes a journey back over her life. The diagnosis of terminal cancer (given on the opening page, so no plot spoiler there)...

In The Seamstress of Jamestown by Barbara Hettwer, Emma has a dream. She's had this dream since she was a young girl and she read her brother's book about the wild west. Emma's dream becomes her life's ambition, to venture west and create a life...

In The Amber Conspiracy by Gil Cope, a fast paced, action packed novel much in the vein of the Da Vinci Code, Jake Monroe is a treasure hunter acquiring priceless works of art for museums and art collectors. A bit of a maverick, Monroe is...

The Magical Tales of Dr. Baer: Emily's Miracle - A Story of Hope by Christopher Lombardi introduces us to Emily Sweet, a ten-year-old who finds out that the price of a miracle could possibly be her very life. Emily has a life like many of...

The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer by Laxmi Hariharan is a YA dystopian novel set in the city of Mumbai. Soon after a terrifying encounter with a subway pervert propels her out of the hustle and grind of her everyday life, Ruby Iyer, the titular...

When we are young we view things differently, everything seems to go slowly, especially when it pertains to time. You often hear children say, “I can’t wait to grow up,” or “Are we there yet?” So what happens when, in The Marshmallow Test by Michelle...

The Mystery at Darcy's Discount Store (Gracie's Mysteries--Super Spy Series Book 1) introduces readers to ten-year-old Graceanne Faith (Gracie). She is a ten-year-old girl who loves to solve mysteries, even going so far as to investigate around her apartment complex every Saturday. While she has...

The Final Conflict is a science fiction novella written by Colin Duffy. The story takes place in the distant future. It’s main character is a lifelong historian and scholar who has been accepted into the government’s historical research program. His task is to try to...

The Tall Tall Giraffe by Le'Marqunita Lowe is the cute little story of Ringo the giraffe. Ringo is very tall and he finds it impossible to play indoors. James comes up with the idea that they should play outdoors, have a picnic on the grass,...

Have you ever read a book, that upon finishing, you just knew would be a story that would stay with you for a long, long time? Well, that certainly was the case for me when I finished the last words of The Painting and The...

The Mystery In The Window by Angie Wilson is the second book in the Gracie's Mysteries--Super Spy Series and I think this book is even better than the first one, if that is possible! Ten-and-a-half-year-old Gracie loves nothing more than a good mystery to solve....

The Kingdom of Oceana by Mitchell Charles is a tale of fantasy, a tale that happened five centuries ago. Prince Ailani is just 16 years old when he and his brother Nahoa find themselves in deep trouble. On one adventurous day they step on forbidden...

What an interesting book I just finished! The Gatekeepers of Democracy, a new work of fiction by author Bill Lewers, provides a peek into an aspect of the political process that many readers might not be familiar with; that of the work of an election...