"Zebulon and Other Short Stories" is a collection of stories ranging from science fiction to ghosts to the very devil himself. One depicts a small town where an unusual arcade game allows a strange little man to claim to be transforming into a god. In...

You may have heard the saying that ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ but it is even worse when the women in question happen to be powerful demi-gods. When close friends Pax and Amara both have their hearts broken, they decide that the...

Seventeen year old Abigail awakens on the morning of November 11, 1990, as she and her friend Emily, who is living temporarily with Abigail and her mother, are to go to work. But Emily's body lies in the room across from Abigail's. She has died...

"Out of the Ashes" by Lori Dillon is a wonderful combination of romance and history with a dash of the paranormal for good measure. It is one of those books you can’t put down. It is a simple yet clever story of love through time....

Fans of Dorothy St. James will be thrilled with "Flowerbed of State", the first book in her new 'White House Gardener Series'. New readers will definitely want to come back for more. In this series we meet Cassandra (Casey) Calhoun, an assistant gardener at the...

James Josue is a poet by choice and a musician by profession. In "Love is Alive", he has bared his soul and spoken to readers about the common and the non-so-common elements of love. He invites his readers to find their places in the sun,...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

In "When a Woman You Love Was Abused" Dawn Jones has written a thought-provoking and up-front book of what it is like to be an abused child and what emotional problems may be faced by those trying to love the survivors of childhood sexual abuse....

"A Part to Play" by Jennifer L Fry is a punchy YA novel. The author doesn’t shy away from dealing head on with difficult issues including bereavement, mental breakdown, uncontrolled anger, emotional insecurity and pressure to conform. Heroine Lucy has recently lost her sister Kate,...

In "Johnny Big-Ears Meets His New Neighbor Suzy", we meet Suzy and Tatis Dancer. Suzy was afraid to meet Johnny because the kids at her last school called her ChunkySaurus. They hurt her feelings. At school Johnny greeted Suzy and introduced himself. He explained that...

“I’m not guilty. I did not kill him.” Khadesia feels like a broken record in her plea of innocence. The implication that she was responsible for the shooting death of her one–time boyfriend, the crime she did not commit, falls on deaf ears for a...

"Promise Me" by Tara Fox Hall is not your usual sort of paranormal romance. Except for the prologue which is presented in the third person, the story is narrated by Sarelle McGarran, Sar for short, a young widow who lives alone with an assortment of...