Wrenn Grayson is the Foundling Museum’s archivist. She works with a team to prepare the museum for opening next year. It's an old mansion that belonged to a family with many secrets. Wrenn finds a map showing a curious structure called a folly. Amazed, Wrenn...

St. Aster’s Grave Secret by Connie Chappell masterfully blends mystery, history, and human drama into a compelling narrative. The story centers on Wrenn Grayson, a historian and archivist, who is thrust into a web of secrets following the sudden death of Pastor Andrew Mead. As...

Death of a Billionaire by Tucker May is a marvelous cozy crime mystery. It is June 8, 2028, in Silicon Valley. The world’s richest person, tech mogul Barron Aloysius Fisk, is shot dead in his office. Detectives Tanner and Reyes discover evidence pointing to Alan...

Teenage Runaway by Ronald Schulz is the true account of his departure from home at age fifteen in 1967 and his subsequent journey through Illinois and the southern U.S. Schulz details his methods of evasion, travel by bus, and brief encounters with locals while navigating...

Josiah Reynolds, a former art history professor, was once a celebrity with wealth, social position, and a famous husband. Now all of that is gone. She finds her circumstances drastically altered. Retired, Josiah is now a full-time beekeeper, trying to stay afloat by selling...

Isabel Lindley and Tripp Macauley have been friends for seven years. Isabel is the practical one, and Tripp is always coming up with different things to try. Normally Tripp's quirkiness doesn't bother Isabel, but Tripp's newest hobby of Witchcraft and performing spells is something Isabel...

Mika Dika: Foster Kid is a well-written children's book by T.L. Blythers. Mika Dika as a very young child is taken into custody and placed in many different foster homes as she is growing up. This book details her experiences in foster homes and the...

Rhonda Fischer is a name you will want to remember. She is the author of the Randy Kazandy series. Randy is an adorable little boy who needs glasses. Although Randy sees two of everything without his glasses he still does not want to wear them....

Meet Harry Brennan, CIA officer and go-to guy on Afghanistan. When his mission in Afghanistan is aborted and he finds himself back in Washington, Harry starts digging until he finds out what everyone doesn’t want him to know. And it comes as no surprise to...

"Wedlocked" begins at the wedding of 36 year old Rebekkah Ross who recently returned to her NY home after following her dream to Hollywood and into the arms of casting director Evan Shayes. As the unfortunate and unforgettable events of her "wedding of the century"...

"Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble" by D. Robert Pease is a delightful read. Preteens and young teens will love the plot. So will adults. With a play on words and clever imagery, Pease has created a tale loosely based on Noah’s Ark. This is the author’s...

"No Weapon" is a book that shows how easily jealousy and gossip can destroy the life of a person, a church and even a community. Young Sidney Lyons is doing well and the Lord is preparing her for His use. Several visiting preachers notice this...

In "Delusions: Pragmatic Realism" Stanislaw Kapuscinski takes his well-educated mind and (often) humorously debunks the many delusions that make religion and science easy targets. I share his concerns about the power of each in limiting the freedom of individuals to find their own answers to...

Tom Ufert begins his book "Adversity Builds Character: A Second Chance" by discussing his birth and childhood. Like most of us growing up in that era, he was exposed to the viciousness of war on the television. Parents did not censor children’s viewing habits in...

Who hasn't wished for the impossible? To be in someone else’s shoes? To have what someone else possess? Life is always greener on the other side, right? But how many people get their wish? When Darcy and Cybil wonder what it would be like to...

"Hammer Come Down" begins in Alabama in the 1830's. President Andrew Jackson has ordered Native Americans to relocate from their eastern and southern American locales to the Western territories. Jason, an African-American bondsman to Tolin Cobb, returns with Tolin from the Seminole wars in Florida...

“Strength Like Yours” by Maurice McFadden is an eminently human collection of poetry which serves as a timely reminder that there are certain conditions, fears, and joys that we all share, regardless of our heritage, social status or life path. Being alive is the only...

One Tin Cup by Bonnie Sinor is a wonderful story of believing in God, learning how to survive in the wilderness, family love, and friendship. One Tin Cup takes place in the mid 1800s when Matthew, Hannah, and their two children Darren and Kathleen leave...

The premises of the book "Corporate Escape: The Rise of the New Entrepreneur" by Maite Barón begins with the tale of the eagle who, in order to live beyond forty years, has to go through a process of change. This implies flying to a mountain...

Episode 1, Crash Landing of the Aurora Conspiracy series, is an ideal example of an authentic attention-grabber for the first episode of any type of series. In Crash Landing an unidentified, cigar-shaped metallic object, flying through the air, crashed into the windmill belonging to Judge...