Strange Times in Yeehaw Junction: A Bizarre Journey Born of Unforeseen Circumstances and Questionable Decisions by Rick Sanders points out that the line between sanity and being just flat-out nuts is indeed a thin one. The best friends of the story, Thomas and Lee, find...

In the novel Open Source, author M.M. Frick offers the reader top-notch international intrigue. A cargo ship is hijacked and it is assumed that a ransom demand will be forthcoming. Instead, vending machine deliveryman Casey Shenk becomes intrigued by the short television report of the...

How To Draw Cool Stuff: A Drawing Guide for Teachers and Students by Catherine V. Holmes is a useful guide for students, teachers and self learners which will make them look at drawing in a unique way. The book gives interesting and informative lessons that...

The Book of Ezra: A Story of Provision and Protection (Daily Bible Reading Series) by Deborah H. Bateman is an ideal book for Christians who are more familiar with the Bible. This is a daily Bible reading aid for the Book of Ezra in the...

Mirrored Time by J.D. Faulkner is the story of a young woman’s incredible journey of discovering herself. Gwen believes she is a normal woman who decided not to go into law school because her aunt is fighting cancer. Instead, she answers an ad for a...

A brilliantly written, extremely well conceived and superbly researched book about the struggles of an ordinary man caught in the crossfire between a greedy, despicable politician - one of the kind whose only aim is to get rich, thoroughly corrupt and morally way past dead...

In It’s Raining Men by Beate Boeker and Gwen Ellery, Grandma Charlotte is close to the end of her life and needs to ensure that her grandchildren are cared for. She has property and numerous collectibles gathered from a life well spent; however, the only...

Hardt’s Tale: A Mobious’ Trip Novel by Gwendolyn Druyor takes the fantasy genre to a new level of sophistication that is reminiscent of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin. Protagonist Hardt starts his life in tumultuous circumstances, eventually settling for a peaceful...

The Great Adventures of Peter the Fish by Glenn Thorpe is a fun little book. Peter is a small fish who lives with his parents in a pond surrounded by a beautiful forest. Although tiny in size, he is a super fast swimmer and often...

The Directive is the report the Federal Reserve releases upon the completion of their regular meetings. The one that determines the fate of the economy. If someone had advance knowledge of that report... In Matthew Quirk's latest novel, The Directive, attorney Mike Ford just wants...

If you have a child with autism spectrum disorder, you may well find some helpful hints in Learning to Dance in the Rain. Author Melanie Bennett described her three years as an assistant to an autistic child in which the child went from being unable...

Peril in the Park (A Jamie Quinn Mystery) by Barbara Venkataraman is the third in the Jamie Quinn Mystery series. In this novel, Jamie Quinn, a lawyer who gets involved in unlikely murder mysteries, is once again the somewhat unwilling participant in two mysteries. A...

Cherringham - Murder on Thames: A Cosy Crime Series is a joint writing project by US-based novel and games writer, Matthew Costello, and UK-based producer and writer, Neil Richards, to produce 12 mystery novellas over a year, based in the fictional English town of the...

In Love on the Lido Deck, Barbara Oliverio tells the story of Kiera, of how she quit a high-powered systems analyst career and turned to event planning instead. As her business begins to take off, she learns that her mother, recently widowed, has a new...

Downfall by Brian Lutterman is a well-constructed thriller that moves along quickly. The main character is a female paraplegic lawyer, who is pulled into a maelstrom of evil manipulation. She is gritty and determined, a complex and believable character. The heroine must use her brains...

Murder by Misrule: A Francis Bacon Mystery by Anna Castle is a murder mystery, as the title suggests, set in a historical background. Francis Bacon has assigned his protégé Thomas Clarady to do all the legwork for investigating the murder of Tobias Smythson, a fellow...

Pagan Justice: A Karl Pagan Crime Thriller by Jags Arthurson introduces us to a group of people who have had life's hard knocks thrown at them everywhere. You have members like Karl Pagan himself, left an orphan when his parents were killed; Lydia who has...

Higgledy Piggledy: A Tale of Four Little Pigs is a retelling of the classic tale of the three little pigs written by B. Seymour Rabinovitch and his granddaughter, Rebecca S. Treger, and illustrated by Mari Gayatri Stein. Curly, Twirly and Whirly liked to tease their...

Picture! Picture! is a delightfully charming children's story that uses many repetitive words for learning vocabulary - a big parental plus! Before beginning the review of the text, I want to point out that, unlike many self-published children's books, author Scott Ferrell did not use...

The Final Dawn by Alice Catherine Carter is a short but very powerful and interesting story about the historic time period of the early 1930s when Stalin ruled Russia. The Final Dawn is about the life story of Valeyria and Alexei Yolkin. Three young children...