“I was destined to take root in France. I know that now, even if I didn't know it back when I had the dream.” Seventeen-year-old Jennie Goutet has a dream that she will one day marry a Frenchman. When she turns 19, she sets off...

A lot of military men will love South China Sundown! A Flagship Novel! It is a tale of the modern American Navy. The protagonist is a female navy captain and I can’t remember any other books I’ve read where that is the case. South China...

When a comet was found to be headed straight for a collision with the planet Kriel, two spacecraft were created to save selected people who would propagate the race wherever they landed. One of the spacecraft landed on Rukana and the other on planet Earth....

Twenty-year-old Jennifer Nolan is a junior in college, unlucky in love, and also a virgin. The one thing she is looking to change is her virgin status, in other words she is trying to lose her V-Card. With her 21st birthday looming around the corner,...

Scepter by Scott L. Collins is the story of Daniel and his younger brother Aidan. King Argyle's soldiers are on the move, taking parents and older children into slavery and forcing them to work in the mines. Having come of the proper age, Daniel knows...

I was pleasantly surprised to see Scepter: The Emerald of Phaunos by Scott Collins turn up on Reader’s Favorite list of available books. It hasn’t been that long ago since I read and reviewed the first episode of Scepter. This is a great YA story...

Don’t have the home, the career, the spouse, or the glamour that you have always dreamed of? Well, according to Bonnie Trachtenberg in The Fine Art of Delusional Thinking, you can have all of that and more. Why spend your life fretting in the real...

Ella Minnow Peed by John D. Avera is about a little fish named Ella. She is dreading her first day of school. She is convinced that she is going to have a horrible day and the other fish will laugh at and make fun of...

Hit the Knee and Other Sage Advice is a humorous look at a serious subject. Dennis Gwin has suffered a few heart problems in his life and has had stents fitted on more than one occasion. Unfortunately, his problem becomes too serious for stents and...

There’s a Lion in the House by Mary Esparza-Vela is fifteen pages of excellent drawings, and a cute story with a moral. Young Robby Rabbit loves to tease his three brothers by playing tricks on them. One day he hid from them, and they all...

The Adventures of Flapjack: The Collar of Courage by Dan Cohen is about a dog named Flapjack, who is being bullied. Flapjack loves going to the big green park where he can play with his friends, but there's one dog that he hopes will stay...

Hacking Kickstarter, Indiegogo: How to Raise Big Bucks in 30 Days by Patrice Williams Marks comes with a warning: Do not launch your crowd-funding project before reading this book. No one should entertain the notion of funding a project with any crowd-funding group before they...

Upon Your Honor by Marie Lavender starts with a little girl, Chloe, being comforted by her father after the death of her mother. Chloe is told that her mother fell, but she soon learns that her mother took her own life. Chloe grows into a...

Gary D. Conrad is a brilliant storyteller and Oklahoma Is Where I Live is his masterpiece. Conrad shares heartwarming stories of what it was like for him growing up and being an adult in Oklahoma. Whether it’s the story of his first crush and how...

Numerous pathways collide and different cultures become blended into one odd reality in The Lhasa Trilogy. Gary D. Conrad has drawn several cultures together into one destiny in these three books. Book one chronicles the roots of Matthew Walter Johnston from life on a Davidson,...

A Tale of Two Soldiers by Max Gendelman is a thought-provoking memoir about a Jewish-American sniper and a German soldier during World War II. Gendelman finds himself lost during the Battle of the Bulge and he elects to run to the forest in hopes...

The Adventures of Poppy and Lu by Victoria Elledge is a story of friendship. Lu is a little girl who wants to have a pup. She tells her parents about her wish to own a pup. She goes through pictures of many dogs with her...

Beyond Omega's Sunrise by Eleni Papanou is an intriguing novel about what will happen when things go wrong with the sun. In this book we see an increase in the output of the sun, which leaves half the universe destroyed. The other half of the...

Over the past several months I've read many books that ranged from very badly written to excellent. Fortunately, the very bad were only 2% of the total and the good to excellent made up the next 97%. Division of the Marked by March McCarron exceeds...

Cluck The Undercover Chicken by G. Eric Francis is a funny story involving a rooster and a hen. Cluck is a police chicken and the theme of the book is a humorous dialogue between Cluck and the narrator, who happens to be the last human...