“I’ve only known two men’s souls in my life, one the devil, the other the bird's wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being.” This quote from Kiss on Her Wings is a powerful statement of love and trust...

Victim of Circumstance by Douglas Rappaport is an introspective book analyzing, among other things, the possibility of love. Conceived as a memoir, the author recollects defining moments in his life, from his relationship with his mother and her death, to his two failed marriages and...

Aundy, by Shanna Hatfield, takes readers back to 1899 and introduces us to twenty-one-year-old Aundy Thorsen. Aundy's life in Chicago hasn't been the same since the death of her beloved fiance, Gunther. She longs for a change so when she reads an ad in the...

Kyra Halland's The Lost Book of Anggird takes the reader on a journey to a world in which magic exists - but the magic is a complicated balancing act, and something is not right with the balance anymore. The scholar Roric, and his new translator...

Philip Roth – The Continuing Presence: New Essays on Psychological Themes is chock-full of psychological analyses of the main author Philip Roth. Sometimes life imitates art or vice versa. In the case of Mr. Roth, art really imitates life. His written works, including “I Married...

The novel, Black Hawk Day Rewind by Dominick Fencer and Baibin Nighthawk, centers on the life of Barnett Cooper, a reluctant British agent who finds himself being hunted by the beautiful CIA agent, Anaïs Degann. Barnett’s father was a military man and he grew up...

Big Honey Dog Mysteries: A Secret in Time by H.Y. Hanna is the second full-length novel in this enjoyable series featuring Great Dane sleuth, Honey, and her multifarious gang of dog friends. A Secret in Time takes place at the Royal Dog Show, returning to...

The Executioner's Hood by Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton is a tale of intrigue, mystery and murder. Phil Grayson, respected judge and collector of Old West memorabilia, is found dead with an executioner's hood over his head – a hood that has come from his...

Immortalibus Bella by S. Figuhr takes us to a broken world where an unknown cataclysm destroyed everything modern. With technology all but lost, the world has been plunged into a second Dark Age, bandits, thieves and thugs have the run of the world and the...

The First Madam President by Kenneth J. Kerr shows us what it is like for the President of the United States when she is the first woman leader of the country. Like any man, she is charged with having to work with the party across...

Questioning Protocol: How One Mom Dispensed Equal Doses of Humor, Humility, and Corporate Smarts to Help Her Family Navigate Their Health Care Crisis by Randi Redmond Oster brings you health care solutions from a mother's point of view. No parent wants to think about a...

Children are naturally curious but sometimes the attention span doesn't match the subject. Aurelia Tan and Nicholas Liem (illustrator) have mastered it all in their wonderful book, JJ's Science Adventure: Magnets. Through a cartoon adventure, magnets and how they work are explained in the story....

Barbara Lopuszynski’s book, Angel and Brie, is a sassy, heart-warming yet sad story of two young teen girls from very different backgrounds: each dealing with being in foster care. Each one is experiencing rejection, lack of love and parental care, and dreams of the day...

Love! Laugh! Panic! by Rosemary Mild is a delightful memoir about life with a vibrant but controlling Jewish mother. The author's mother was a talented journalist who had high expectations for her two children. The author, Rosemary, was a child who had a very difficult...

Francesca and Drew met under unfavorable circumstances when Drew splashed Francesca while on her way to work. But for these two lonely people, unfavorable slowly turns to pleasant when they start going out with each other. Growing up with a hateful mother, Francesca closes off...

Cell Wars: In the Beginning by A. Miles is a unique theme chosen by the author to introduce kids between the age group 6-9 to all that they need to know about white blood cells and the rest of the blood cells that help the...

The Way Back: A Soldier’s Journey by S.K. Carnes tells the story of John Chapman, a World War I veteran with PTSD and a poet’s soul. He finds work as a farmhand with a dairy farming family who, in their own stalwart, beholden-to-no-one way, help...

Everyone looks different and behaves differently too. It’s what makes us unique as individuals. That is what Sarah Curry Rathel shares in her children’s book called There’s Something Different About My Hair. This fun story does not have an action or drama setting like other...

Above the Darkness by Sarah Morrisette is a fascinating read. I am not usually attracted to books with fantastical content, but this book has an endearing character by the name of Elizabeth. Elizabeth Murphy is a child, but a child with adult discrimination. While her...

Corky Gives the Whole Scoop on the Facts of Life by Terri Shearer Trenchard is a humorous take on girls and their growing stages which covers menstruation, pimples, bras, and much more that girls of the age group 9-13 experience. This lighthearted book guides young...