When Charity Ashlyn’s parents divorce, she learns that neither men nor relationships can be trusted. Initially Charity refuses to allow her father’s bad behavior to affect her future, but after she witnesses her first boyfriend Michael’s betrayal, her distrust of men has been cemented. In...

“From the flames of Cerraco five will arise, Saplings of Aegis, the bearers of light...” In S.S. Segran’s Aegis Rising, sixteen-year-old Tegan Ryder was enjoying a smooth flight in northern Canada with her four best friends; Mariah Ashton, Jag Sanchez, Aari Barnes, and Kody Tyler....

Prophase, A Present Tale, is a young adult contemporary fantasy novel written by Mitchel Street. Piper is a senior in high school who lives with her father and younger brother. When her mother died, her father seemed to shrivel and become an angry and bitter...

Dennis definitely seems as if he’s in over his head when he begins working in a business unit called BLM. It’s a job he’s highly unprepared for, but luckily he has the support of someone who knows what he’s doing and can help immensely. Together...

Measure of Danger: A Kade Sims Novel by Jay Klages is a thriller revolving around a young former intelligence officer, Kade Sims. Kade Sims finds himself removed from his job because of a behavior termed hypomania. Sitting at home he is bored, but at that...

The tales in The Princess Fables have a special meaning. Author Marc Clark’s young daughter did not want to go to school, so he told her these stories while getting her ready for school. It was later when he wrote the stories down that this...

Diane Gilbert Madsen has given readers another winner in the DD McGill Literati Mystery Series. The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper is a marvelous tale of DD McGill who is an investigator for insurance fraud and her bookseller friend, Tom Joyce,...

Imagine growing up in a world that has always been at war. In fact, at war so long that no one actually remembers why they are at war in the first place. This is the world that Ann Denton has created in Kiah's Soul-Shifting Journey:...

Crowns and Kingdoms Book One: Tarshish is a children’s fantasy adventure penned by Norris Bloom. Across many kingdoms, a group of kings agree to preserve their next-born children in order to protect them from Judoc and his vicious Night Invaders who threaten to wipe out...

A Comprehensive Step-By-Step Guide to Internet Marketing by Ryan Yung is precisely what the title says. Written for both start-up and established business owners who didn't grasp the internet marketing concept yet, the book is a step-by-step manual that teaches readers how to gain exposure...

The coal mines in the town of Worksop, England have closed, leaving the local economy in a downward spiral. The spirit of the population has decayed; crime and drug abuse are on the rise. Vincent McLean, a former resident of the town, who spent several...

A Detoured Life by author Bethany Mackin Baxter made me tearful by the time I finished reading. It tells the very poignant story of George Fisher, a former millionaire who blames himself for the tragic accident which killed his family. He gets parole and becomes...

Fifty Shades of Pain: How Obama Care Will Slowly Strangle America by Christopher L. Markham is a collection of fifty points of socio-economic doom and gloom which the author contends could become reality if The Affordable Health Care Act is not drastically revised before full...

Alinka Rutkowska and Konrad Checinski have done it again in Maya & Filippo Separate in Skagway. Maya and Filippo travel all over the world with their mom, dad, and their cat named Otello on a ship called the Fun Princess. They see many wonderful sights...

Invisible by Bruce A. Bracken is about the non-existent life of Campbell Hayden. The protagonist in the story is a person who leads a very ordinary life and who is unnoticed and unseen by the world in general. But a series of events changes the...

Desperate times leave most people feeling hopeless but in A Burning Hope by Mathias G.B. Colwell, a weary Slayer discovers friendship and the desire to aim for something different. Maeze has been a Slayer, a hunter of underwater creatures that prey on the blood of...

Authors Carol McCloud and Caryn Butzke do a beautiful job of weaving a story of how an individual can be happy using the letters A to Z as bucket fillers. They carefully explain at the beginning of the book that people fill others’ buckets every...

All Are Family: Celebrating the Diversity of Our Global Family by Marissa Bloom is an amazing kid's story book that talks about the beauty of the different ways of life enjoyed by people around the world. The book emphasises the importance of family by looking...

Jenny and the Hummingbird Faeries is a middle grade adventure to remember. Jenny is a tomboy, and is always trying to compete with - and beat - her older brothers at sports, games and competitions of all sorts. After a terrible accident, which may not...

Georgia and Pierce first met at a church convention and they were immediately attracted to each other, they had each found their soul mate. As they spent time together, everyone thought they were the perfect couple, a couple who shared the love of God. That...