Having a bad hair day? Perhaps a day in the kitchen planning a dinner party will soothe the frizzes. So, “whip out your whisk, snatch up your spoon, and prepare your palate.” And, while you’re working your way through another great set of new recipes,...

A Greek Cat by Moshe Karasso follows the story of a Jewish man growing up in the idyllic Greek islands to adulthood and old age. Although generations before him had acquired much wealth, the generations that followed became complacent and lazy, leaving the family poverty-stricken...

The consequences of substance addictions – opioids, prescribed medications, alcohol – are well-portrayed in this contemporary novel. The focus is on how these addictions affect the Wasson family – father, Emmitt; mother, Maggie; and their daughter, Lindsay. On baby Lindsay’s Baptism day in 1994, Emmitt...

Eight-year-old Reagan is different. Everyone around her is also different. She loves to dance but the other children do not like dancing with her. Reagan loves a special place she calls rocks-water. She feels safe there. She does not feel lonely sitting on the rock....

A B Sea Creatures: An Astonishing Aquatic Alphabet by Craig Macnaughton takes young readers on an enchanting journey underwater and introduces them to the creatures living there. Be it the Angler Fish, the Blue Crab, the Cuttlefish, or the Dumbo Octopus, children will have fun...

A Trick of Fate by Stella Riley will delight its readers as Lord Max Brandon and Lady Frances Pendleton trek through the country, all the way to Scotland, following the scoundrel who has slandered his name and stole her grandfather’s watch. A note in one...

Cooper and Daddy are excited about the game. Every night around the same time, Cooper perks up to play the game. Daddy throws a treat into the next room and Cooper goes after it. The game begins then. Once Cooper is out of sight, the...

A Thousand Miles to Nowhere: An Apocalypse Thriller is a work of fiction set in the dark supernatural genre, and was penned by author David Curfiss. Playing with the usual tropes of the zombie genre to create something truly unique and more intense, Curfiss’s dark...

A Prison In The Sun is a work of mystery fiction with plenty of intrigue and was penned by author Isobel Blackthorn. Forming the third book of the Canary Islands Mysteries series, this installment focuses on the difficulties facing ghostwriter Trevor Moore. Desperate to find...

When San Francesco travel nurse Allison Jamison becomes concerned with the surgical failings of medical colleague Dr. Gary Tamarino, she is not prepared for the disastrous outcome. Fortunately, Allison is the creator and owner of Critical Cover-Up, a private business that investigates the faulty actions...

Lady Doris Fitzhugh is celebrating her eightieth birthday, surrounded by friends, family, and important members of the English countryside where she lives in her inherited Fitzhugh Manor. The day is hot, bloody hot, but that doesn’t deter from the celebratory confusion of the day. As...

A Place of Rest by Robert E. Kearns is the story of a man who is not happy about his current situation. Tuck is a man of habits and he hates to break them. He doesn’t like mornings, he doesn’t like the cold and he...

A Weight of Reckoning: Sequel to The Seven Words is a work of fantasy fiction with strong Christian themes, and was penned by author C. S. Wachter. After the epic adventure of The Seven Words series and its many trials and tribulations, Wachter returns with...

A Version of You by April Fields is a memoir that beautifully blends travel and adventure and with vivid clarity captures the experiences of a young woman who allows herself to be transformed by the experience of the road and contact with new cultures. It...

A Hole in the Apple by Harley Carnes is a terrorist thriller that is pulsating, to say the least. A devious, criminal mind is determined to sink New York City, and this means doom, not only for the city but the economy of the country....

A young man discovers a chilling secret hidden within the grounds of the seminary he attends in the eerie paranormal short story, A Ghost for the Holy by Robert E. Kearns. Since he was eleven, Fergal Kane knew he wanted to serve humanity as a...

A Simple Lie by Mary Bush is a fantastic thriller that kept me guessing and turning the pages until the very end. The main character, Valentina Knight, gets a job as a death scene investigator after she can no longer practice dentistry due to an...

When you’re confined to barracks, as most of us are right now thanks to COVID-19, it sure is nice to have a good book to take your mind off all the bad news...even if that book is a thriller conspiracy with some nasty stuff going...

A Goddess Among Men is a work of fiction in the family saga and interpersonal drama sub-genres and was penned by author Daniel Davidsohn. Set in varying and juxtaposing landscapes, from the wilds of the Amazon rainforest to the cut-throat world of high society in...

Charles Dickens’s classic story, A Christmas Carol, is as popular today as it has been for almost two centuries. There have been movie adaptations and numerous retellings of this story about greed and the true meaning of Christmas. Scrooge, visited by the three ghosts of...