“Martin McMillan and the Secret of the Ruby Elephant” by Elaine Russell is the second book in the author’s middle-grade adventure series. It follows “Martin McMillan and the Lost Inca City”. Ms. Russell seems to have made a great deal of research in the writing...

Nathaniel, Orah, and Thomas, best friends since childhood, live a peaceful, bucolic existence in Little Pond, a place as small as its name suggests. Their lives are simple, governed by the teachings from the Temple, and the ministrations of the Vicars and their squadron of...

"The Prince of Graves" by W. E. Linde is an exciting fantasy novella that plunges us into the long-raging conflict between the Necromancer Kings and the remaining humans in the Remnant Kingdoms. Ever since the demise of the realm of Maladine a millennium ago, nations...

"I'm 5" by Alva Sachs describes a little girl turning five. We are treated to a party with her friends and the excitement of the age milestone. But then, little Julie realizes that the act of turning five years old is not simultaneous with the...

“Out and About at the Zoo” by Jo Linsdell is an ideal little book for use as a bed time story as well as for beginning readers to practice their reading skills. It is very colorful, charmingly illustrated, and written in rhyme which, I have...

Olly Oogleberry made his first appearance in 1981 through the dawdlings of a restless seventh grader, Lou Hughes. Now after thirty years, Olly has resurfaced in the new children’s book “The Fabulous Adventures of Olly Oogleberry.” Olly is going on an adventurous mission to save...

When an undergraduate student steals an ancient ceremonial dagger to pay a gambling debt, all hell is unleashed on an unsuspecting and unprepared populace. Found under the ice in Antarctica, the dagger has been found to be many millions of years old. This is no...

Yvonne Pat Wright opens her cupboards, her kitchen, and her heart. She gives the reader descriptions and uses (historical and present day) of herbs and spices. The use of the spice or herb reminds her of a story about people she has known, places she...

Have you ever had a dream that you just wanted to stop everything and chase? Or perhaps you chased that dream only to reach a different destination along the away? That is what Peggy Strack's new novel "A Stop in the Park" is about. This...

Author Marc Brackett talked with a friend who had undergone divorce and found that (as he writes in the preface to this delightful self-help book) "It (divorce) has worn him (the friend) out mentally, physically, and spiritually. There are things in life that cannot be...

"Ode to Icky" written by Maranda Russell and illustrated by Nicolas Peruzzo is a cute story about a girl making the best of a bad situation and teaches children to think about the consequences of their actions. Icky is like most cats, except for the...

Rising from nothing, Harry Leonoff is the defender of the underdog. His Jewish family lived in the squalor of New York where he was subjected to horrid racism and oppression. Victimized by polio as a child, he not only has to get through the hatred...

In "Exit the Wilderness: Enter God's Promises", author Sharon Hurkens has given the reader much food for thought. She takes a somewhat unusual approach in equating the problems readers face in everyday life with the problems encountered by Moses as he led the Israelites to...

'The Six Saviors' is a new series focusing on six men on a mission to retrieve twelve murderers that escaped planet SR44 to Earth. Noah, Hudson, Talin, Cohen, Rayner and Jovan were handpicked for their training and special abilities. Noah is the lead in "The...

Dr. Robert Elgar's specialty is debunking the belief that aliens exist. He meets with abduction victims and help them see that they really were not taken to the skies with little people, but rather that their subconscious was pulling something from their past. He is...

Author K.E.Pottie continues his fabulous World War II story about the bravery of those in the French Resistance with this episode that sees Henri, Madeline and Charlene escaping Nazi-occupied France even though World War II is drawing to its ending days. OSS's Lieutenant Robbie Robertson...

A Horse Named Viking is the tale of the life of one horse, whose future seemed doomed from the beginning. His mother was an intractable mare whose temperament was vicious and unmanageable. It was so vile that she was put down after she killed a...

Shelley Hitz and S'ambrosia Curtis have written "A Christian Woman's Guide to Breaking Free from Pornography: It's Not Just a Guy's Problem" discusses the problems of pornography focusing on its negative effects on women’s (not just men’s) uses of it. Shelley is very honest about...

Author Juanima Hiatt was raped and molested repeatedly as a young girl, beginning with abuse by her uncle when she was only seven years old. Molested and then threatened by her stepfather Ron when she was a young teenager, and then sexually assaulted by both...

To truly get the most out of "Soul Journey to Love: 100 Days to Inner Peace" by Irene A. Cohen, the reader must take their time and meditate on each entry. This is not a book to read in one sitting nor is it a...